New Theatre. Performance Every Evening This Week. The managers respectfully state, that for the better accommodation of the public, the office for the sale of Box Tickets, is now placed within the Vestibule, the nearest door to Sixth Street. 4th Night of Mr. Wallack's Engagement. Tuesday Evening, January 21, 1823, Will be presented, (by particular desire) Shakspeare's Comedy of Much Ado about Nothing. Don Pedro, Mr. H. Wallack. ... : After which, the Comic Opera of The Children in the Wood. Walter, Mr. Wallack. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Contributor:

Wallack, James William, 1795-1864, actor.

Wallack, Henry John, 1790-1870, actor.

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Print Collection 8 ; box 18 no. 42.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing.

Shakespeare, William.

Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. Children in the wood.

Morton, Thomas.

Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802. Children in the wood.

Arnold, Samuel.

Playbills--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Specimens.

Playbills.

Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Theaters.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Specimens.

Broadsides.

Playbills.

Castlists.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustration ; 31 x 19.2 cm

Other Title:

Much Ado about Nothing

Children in the Wood

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified], [1823]

Notes:

Printed area measures 27.1 x 15.3 cm.

Performance date: January 21, 1823.

Children in the Wood; libretto by Thomas Morton; music by Samuel Arnold. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera.

This performance features two members of the Wallack family.

Local Notes:

Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 42 in a collection of playbills housed together.

OCLC:

951215160