Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Full Prices. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: Benefit for Obrien. Afterpiece: By particualr Desire, being the last Time of Performing in this Season. No Building on the Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: [This month published Observations on the Use of Theatres, their present regulations and possible improvements. Price 1s. Printed for Cooper. See review in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 232). Proposal is that the "conduct of theatrical entertainments be for the future taken under the care of the goverment, and a person of judgment and integrity appointed by the name of comptroller, or conductor of the stage, who alone shall determine what old plays shall be acted, and what new ones received; and who shall take charge of the money received, and defray the necessary expenses, accounting for the remainder to the public. The author seemingly Dr John Hill, lately (see 21 Dec. 1758) upset by the failure of his farce, The Rout. (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #108 (Cross); #122 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vernon and Rooker. Receipts: #140 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges #63. (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: Receipts: #108 (Cross); #108 (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: Subscriptions for the fall season may be taken at Andrew Drummond's, Bankers, at Charing Cross

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilkinson. Receipts: #130 [Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney (Housekeeper). Observations on the Importance of Theatres, with computation of the Sum they might raise by Taxation, published at 1s. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough, Raftor, Shawford, Walker. Tickets deliver'd by Mr Danny, and for Friday the 18th will be taken. Last time of performing the afterpiece this season. [Moody's actual first appearance was in Antony and Cleopatra, 12 Jan.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bride, Dunbarr, Smith, Goodwin. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: We borrow'd Clarke for Osman. #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: & a new P a new +Prologue upon the Prince Wales's birth-day, being now 21. So ended the Season. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: For one night only. Never acted before. By particular desire. An Historical Play, taken from Holinshead's Chronicles, and written by the late Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell. Tickets for Boxes and Pit to be had of Mr Cross, at his House in Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. 7 P.M

Event Comment: N.B. We have engag'd Mr King; & Miss Baker from Ireland, one Mr Moody, a Stroler,-Mr Beard is gone to Covent Garden, 'tis said to be manager Mr Mossop to Ireland. Receipts: #120 (Cross). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places from Mr Varney at the Stage Door. No admittance behind scenes. [The customary note about prices and admittance will not be noted further here.] [At the opening of the theatres this season appeared an essay in Goldsmith's Bee, giving close observations upon actors, and deploring the relative stiffness and formality of English actors in comparison with the French. Advised English actors to travel abroad. Yet (Vol. 1759, p. 12) commented on the magnificnece of "our theatres as far superior to any others in Europe where plays only are acted. The great care our performers take in painting for a part, their exactness in all minutiae of dress, and other little scenical proprieties has been taken notice of by Riccoboni." Complains of the convention of laying a rug before a dying scene and of the vacant expressions of mutes on stage.

Event Comment: Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Not acted in 9 years [but see 14 Nov. 1753]. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As Written by Shakespeare. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Event Comment: AA Letter to Garrick on Opening the Theatre, published at 1s. [See 1 Nov. for answer. This is Edward Purdon's 33-page criticism of Garrick, on his repertoire, his personnel and casting, and his secondary position to cg in the matter of decoration.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross)