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4117 results for: Keyword - Will Richards
We found 2031 matches on Author, 1812 matches on Roles/Actors, 696 matches on Performance Title, 668 matches on Performance Comments, and 470 matches on Event Comments.

1826
16 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Related Works
Related Work: Henry VIII Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: MMinuet-Destrade, Mrs Duval

1827
22 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bridges, Blakes and Cross, prompter. Afterpiece: By Desire. Mr Garrick's Indisposition continuing, we have, at the particular desire of several ladies, chang'd our play. Tickets deliver'd out for the Stratagem will be taken. [On this Day appeared the Daily Advertiser a full column presentment by the Court of Westminster to the Justices of the Peace against unlicensed players]: This court being inform'd that common Players of Interludes have for several years...assembled...in Mayfair to erect Booths and exhibit Drolls and Shews...whereby numbers of His Majesty's subjects have been encouraged to assemble and commit riots and other Misdemeanours in Breach of His Majesty's Peace, and to the disturbance of the Neighborhood, and that some of the players are and now contracting for ground in order to erect Sheds, Booths and other places...for shewing and acting plays...&c, &c, &c...for the more effectual suppressing of the evils aforesaid, it is hereby recommended unto his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to meet together at such time as they shall appoint in order to proceed according to the law against all such offenders as shall be brought before them by the peace officers, who are required to be aiding the Justice of the Peace. [The gist of the Presentment lies in the statement]: that they [the Justices] shall apprehend all and every other person and Persons who in any other place or places within the said City and Liberty shall act or represent for gain, any Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Play, Interlude, Farce, or any other Entertainment for the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II: Lowe; V: Nanny O (By Desire)-Lowe

1828
25 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Related Works
Related Work: Henry V Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

1829
30 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Song: I: a Cantata-Lowe

Dance: II: Muilment; III: Sga Bettini

1830
30 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17450201, but Isabella-Mrs Bland; in Act III TheCharm of Polly Willis-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: in Act III TheCharm of Polly Willis Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Cast
Role: Goodwill Actor: Rosco

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17450423

1831
27 September 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1832
04 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: Cooke, Picq, Villeneuve

1833
05 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Song: II: Mrs Arne

Dance: V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

1834
11 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1835
16 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Song: As17451014

1836
28 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1837
31 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Massacre Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1838
06 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

1839
11 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: As17451109

1840
19 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake Or The Lovers Quarrel

Related Works
Related Work: Every Body Mistaken Author(s): William Taverner

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1841
20 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: TThe Peasant-Cooke

1842
02 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

1843
10 December 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

1844
20 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ladys Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1845
30 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Related Works
Related Work: Timon of Athens Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Beard; A New Occasional Ballad, as17451203

1846
14 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

1847
16 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

1848
27 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

1849
28 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Never acted there but once. Tickets that could not be admitted last night will be taken this night. [Prices as 27 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

1850
07 February 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Song: TThe Flocks shall leave the Mountains, as17460125; Occasional Ballad, Over the Hills and Far away-Beard

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni, Sodi