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Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket

Connections

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Occupation	Frances Brooke	FB and Mary Ann Yates ended their reign as managers of the Haymarket Opera House . Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlix
Performance of text	Susanna Centlivre	SC 's next comedy, The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil to Do about Her, opened at the Haymarket . Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 117
Performance of text	Clemence Dane	CD 's stage adaptation of Max Beerbohm 's The Happy Hypocrite was first performed at His Majesty's Theatre , London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133
Performance of text	Elizabeth De la Pasture	Elizabeth De la Pasture 's one-act play The Unlucky Family (based on her children's book of the same title) was first performed in a matinée at His Majesty's Theatre , London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 604
Performance of text	Catharine Trotter	CT 's final tragedy, The Revolution of Sweden (again in verse), opened at the Haymarket , having been announced but deferred four days earlier. It ran until the 16th. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 117 Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 258
Performance of text	Mary Augusta Ward	It ran for only a little over two weeks. A second play by MAW , Agatha, was produced at His Majesty's Theatre around March 1905; it also failed. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 414-15
Performance of text	Delarivier Manley	DM 's tragedy Almyna; or, The Arabian Vow was produced at the Haymarket Theatre . Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 393
Performance of text	Emmuska, Baroness Orczy	Having begun with The Scarlet Pimpernel as both play and novel, EBO wrote a number of further plays, including the eighteenth-century highwayman story Beau Brocade (produced at the Queen's Theatre under Frank Curzon , Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson. 109
Performance of text	George Paston	This popular play saw two West End revivals the following year. First it had thirty-nine performances at His Majesty's Theatre alongside Bernard Shaw 's The Admirable Bashville, and this was followed by ninety-eight performances...
Performance of text	Hannah Brand	She had apparently submitted plays to the London theatres before this, but had them rejected. This was the only one of her works to be staged. It was successful at Norwich, going on to two...
Performance of text	George Paston	The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
Performance of text	Mary Pix	MP 's The Conquest of Spain opened at the Haymarket ; it expired on the sixth day. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 93
Performance of text	Mary Pix	MP 's final play, The Adventures in Madrid, opened at the Haymarket . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 126
Performance of text	George Bernard Shaw	GBS 's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre , Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree 's Henry Higgins. This...
Performance of text	Susanna Centlivre	SC 's comedy The Platonick Lady opened at the Haymarket . The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 132 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 83

Timeline

13 November 1858

Lady Clara Cavendish 's melodrama The Woman of the World premiered at Queen's Theatre .

26 December 1867

Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first of many stage appearances together when they played opposite one another in Katherine and Petruchio (better known as The Taming of the Shrew) at the new...

31 January 1880

Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, was reopened by Marie Wilton and her husband Squire Bancroft after extensive restructuring.

1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the writers Viola and Iris Tree ) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

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