Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

EW 's second comedy, The Ton; or, Follies of Fashion, opened at Covent Garden the season after her first. It was printed, without revision, by May the same year.

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...

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

MS 's three-act verse tragedy The Widow of Malabar opened at Covent Garden ; it was printed with her name that year.

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).

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

Thomas Harris of Covent Garden Theatre visited AMP to compliment her on a play, The Runaways, which she had apparently submitted to him.

AMP 's musical drama The Fair Fugitives suffered an unsuccessful performance at Covent Garden . This piece was The Runaways re-written, rather than a new effort.

JP 's next play had a long gestation. Nearly finished in November 1817, it was accepted by Drury Lane in January 1818, then postponed to accommodate Kean 's revival of The Jew of Malta...

The Count of Burgundy, based on a work by Kotzebue translated by AP , opened at Covent Garden : this was the last stage appearance of the great comic actress Frances Abington .

EP 's two-act comedy The Intrigues of a Morning (adapted from Molière 's Monsieur de Pourclaugnac) was produced at Covent Garden . It was printed the same year, dedicated to Mary Champion de Crespigny .

HM had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick at Covent Garden .

Three months after the death of John Rich , licensee of Covent Garden Theatre , ML finally lost hope of staging of her blank-verse tragedy The Siege of Jerusalem, by Titus Vespasian.

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...

Theatre manager John Rich enabled ML to make a ten-week visit to London, staying at his house near Covent Garden Theatre . She was back there again for a second, shorter visit at the...