New Theatre, Haymarket

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Performance of text Eliza Haywood
A ballad opera, The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great, by EH and her lover, William Hatchett , was performed at the Haymarket. It was published the same day and the...
Performance of text Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
Among the later plays written in England as by Lady Craven, The Silver Tankard, or The Point at Portsmouth (Larpent MS 564, acted at the Haymarket on 18 July 1781) is a comic opera with...
Performance of text Eliza Haywood
Transactions of both EH and William Hatchett involving theatre tickets now make it seem certain that she was indeed the Author of an adaptation of the sixteenth-century tragedy Arden of Feversham (as Arden of Feversham...
Performance of text Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
EMA resumed play-writing when she and her second husband were re-settled in London, opening their first season at Brandenburg House in Fulham in autumn 1792.
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii.
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In 1794 EMA performed The Yorkshire Ghost—which does...
Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
EI 's The Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon (her first play to reach the stage) was produced at the Haymarket under the pseudonym Mrs Woodley.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Performance of text Elizabeth Inchbald
I'll Tell You What, a comedy by EI , opened in the Haymarket summer season and proved to be her second success.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Occupation Charlotte Charke
This was the opening of this piece, which, contrary to custom, the Little Haymarket Theatre kept almost uninterruptedly on the stage until the season ended in early May.
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62.
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But next month the Licensing Act...
Occupation Charlotte Charke
She resumed acting in London with her brother Theophilus's illicit Haymarket Company .
Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62.
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She made her last stage appearance in the season 1759-60—not long, therefore, before her death.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Occupation Elizabeth Inchbald
EI performed in both winter and summer seasons, at Covent Garden and the Little Theatre, Haymarket (under manager George Colman ). During the season 1780-1781, the Covent Garden theatre paid her two pounds a week...
Occupation Maria Theresa Kemble
Maria De Camp (later MTK ) caught the public eye in the male role of Macheath in the Haymarket 's production of The Beggar's Opera.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Occupation Sarah Gardner
SG apparently had some success acting during summer seasons (15 May to 15 September) with Samuel Foote at the Haymarket Theatre .
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 464
Gardner, Sarah. Colyton MS.
Occupation Sarah Gardner
SG acted at the Haymarket Theatre while her husband did not; this was probably when the marriage broke down.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
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, pp. 7-25.
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Occupation Sarah Gardner
SG appeared at the Haymarket Theatre in a play called The Female Dramatist, by her old adversary George Colman .
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Gardner: "Such Trumpery" or ‘A Lustre to Her Sex’?”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
7
, pp. 7-25.
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The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Occupation Charlotte Lennox
CL acted Almeria in Congreve 's The Mourning Bride at the Haymarket ; the performance was a benefit night for her.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Occupation Charlotte Lennox
This seems to have been the first of her few and scattered stage appearances. She played at Richmond in 1748 and at the Little Theatre, Haymarket , as Almeria, heroine of Congreve 's The Mourning...

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