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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Ann Thicknesse | Ann Ford (later AT
) gave the first of a series of five concerts, by subscription at the Little Theatre
in the Haymarket. She had left her father's house and declared her intention of... |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | LS
did imitations at the Haymarket
(where she had made her London stage debut) for the benefit of her eighty-four-year-old mother. 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 | 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. 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 | 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. |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Lennox | |
| 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... |
| Performance of text | Sophia Lee | |
| Publishing | Sophia Lee | |
| 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. 323 |
| 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. 5: 717 Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 31 |
| 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. 5: 813 Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 31 |
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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