Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

EG became a member of the London stage community when she joined the Covent Garden theatre company.

Actor Charles Kemble , father of Fanny and AK , took on the share of his brother John Philip Kemble in Covent Garden Theatre . Within a couple of years he took on the major...

EF arranged for her daughter Eliza Anne to give lessons in the Mocatta household in drawing and singing. Eliza Anne had already embarked on an acting career. She was performing in private theatres in...

ML formed a friendship and patronage relation with John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden , when he made a visit to Reading, on which occasion he lent her five guineas within half an hour...

The Paine book was Rights of Man. The kangaroo was the first ever brought to England. In the Polygraphic Exhibition Joseph Booth was displaying mechanical reproductions of oil paintings at Schomberg House, Pall Mall...

While the siblings were neither connected to the upper ranks of society, nor dining with figures such as Beau Brummel , Frances soon exhibited the wit favoured by dandies and other members of the monied...

John Stede , the Covent Garden Theatre prompter, in his judgement later printed by the indignant author, said the play was of a preposterous Length, with many over-long speeches. It was a mere collection of...

Covent Garden imitated Drury Lane one month later.

AK made her English operatic debut at Covent Garden Theatre , London, again singing the title role in Bellini 's Norma.

MR , under a heavy cloak of anonymity, opened her last theatre season, at Covent Garden Theatre (playing in the mainpiece but apparently not in Frances Brooke 's Rosina, which followed it).

AK sang the title role in Rossini 's Semiramide at Covent Garden Theatre in London.

MR made her last known London stage appearance, as Victoria in Hannah Cowley 's Bold Stroke for a Husband at Covent Garden .

She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay

Garrick proposed to charge full price, instead of half, for arrivals after the third act. Riots followed at Covent Garden (the other licensed theatre) the next month.

EG 's comedy The Double Mistake opened at Covent Garden Theatre : in contrast to her first effort it ran well, bringing her several benefits and a royal command performance.