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.
New Theatre, Haymarket
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Leah Sumbel | Mary Wells (later LS
) announced that the Haymarket Theatre
would present, for her benefit, a one-act piece by herself: Mrs Nonsuch's Nonsense. |
| Textual Production | Leah Sumbel | LS
was granted a licence for a play and entertainment (not identified) to be performed at the Haymarket
. Nothing more, however, was heard of it. 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. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
's comedy The Married Man (adapted from Le philosophe marié by Néricault Destouches
) was published as acted at the Haymarket
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 68 (1789): 157 |
| Reception | Sarah Gardner | George Colman
pursued his enmity against SG
for almost twenty years, twice staging at the Haymarket Theatre
farces in mockery of women dramatists which aim at her, and for each of which he was able... |
| Publishing | Sophia Lee | |
| Publishing | Sarah Gardner | SG
submitted to George Colman
, new manager of the Haymarket Theatre
, her three-act comedy The Matrimonial Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband. In her manuscript, SG
uses The Matrimonial Advertisement... |
| Publishing | Jean Marishall | Marishall then turned to Edinburgh's Canongate Theatre
, only to have Foote
(who had become manager there in November 1770) waste a whole season promising to put it on soon. In the end, after... |
| Performance of text | Sophia Lee | |
| Performance of text | Sarah Gardner | SG
's comedy The Advertisement, or A Bold Stroke for a Husband had its single, disastrous performance at the Haymarket Theatre
(the word Matrimonial was absent from the title on this occasion). The manuscript for... |
| Performance of text | Mariana Starke | MS
's first original play, The Sword of Peace; or, A Voyage of Love, a prose comedy in five acts, opened at the Haymarket Theatre
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1080 |
| Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | CH
's comedy Just to Get Married opened at the Little Theatre
in London, directed by Gertrude Kingston
. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 192 |
| Performance of text | Christopher St John | The Theatre of the Soul, a translation by Marie Potapenko
and CSJ
of Nikolai Evreinov
's expressionist play V kulisakh dushi, was first performed by the Pioneer Players
at the Little Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 893 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell. 119 |
| 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... |
Timeline
29 December 1720: A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket,...
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29 December 1720
A new playhouse, the New Theatre in the Haymarket
, opened with a company of French comedians providing the entertainment.
25 February 1729: The Haymarket Theatre, hitherto occupied...
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25 February 1729
The Haymarket Theatre
, hitherto occupied by temporary foreign troupes, opened as a mainstream theatre.
30 March 1730: Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce opened...
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30 March 1730
Henry Fielding
's The Author's Farce opened at his Little Theatre in the Haymarket
, which was currently presenting its first season.
9 October 1738: The audience at the New Haymarket Theatre...
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9 October 1738
The audience at the New Haymarket Theatre
rioted against the appearance of a company of French comedians.
1766: At the previously unlicensed Haymarket Theatre...
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1766
At the previously unlicensed Haymarket TheatreSamuel Foote
was awarded a licence to put on plays during the summer, when the patent or fully-licensed theatres were closed.
16 January 1777: George Colman the elder bought the Haymarket...
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16 January 1777
George Colman the elder
bought the Haymarket Theatre
; he subsequently authored more than thirty plays.
2 July 1781: At the Haymarket Theatre the final performance...
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2 July 1781
At the Haymarket Theatre
the final performance was given of The Genius of Nonsense, a play which mocked James Graham
, health-and-sex pundit, as the Emperor of Quacks.
8 August 1781: At the Haymarket Theatre, a transvestite...
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8 August 1781
At the Haymarket Theatre
, a transvestite Beggar's Opera (in which most of the male parts were played by women and the female parts by men) garnered such favourable audience response that its performance was...
1944: The Old Vic Company began its season at New...
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1944
The Old Vic Company
began its season at New Theatre
in London with Laurence Olivier
and Ralph Richardson
in Ibsen
's Peer Gynt, Shaw
's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare
's Richard III.
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