New Theatre. The managers respectfully inform the public, that Mr. Booth, Of the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, and Covent Garden, is Engaged for a few nights, and will make his first appearance in this city on Monday Evening, February 17, 1823, In the Tragedy of Richard The Third. Richard, Duke of Gloster, Mr. Booth. ... : After which a favourite Farce, called the Spoil'd Child. Old Pickle, Mr. Burke. ..

Alternate Title:

Richard The Third; Spoil'd Child

Contributor:

Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1823

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Richard III.; Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812. Spoil'd child; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 29.9 x 18.5 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Printed area measures 22.2 x 14.9 cm.; Performance date: February 17, 1823.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 60 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 18 no. 60

Collection:

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)