New Theatre. Nights of performance this week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Wednesday Evening, December 4, 1822, (By Desire) An Occasional Address, Written by Charles Sprague, Esq. of Boston, and to be Spoken by Mr. Wood. After which, the popular Historical Play of Damon & Pythias; Or, the Test of Friendship. Performed last season with the most distinguished success. With New Dresses And Decorations. Damon, a Senator, Mr. Wood. ... : To which will be added the Farce of Where shall I Dine? Sponge, Mr. Jefferson. ..

Alternate Title:

Damon & Pythias, or, the Test of Friendship; Damon and Pythias; Test of Friendship; Where shall I Dine?

Contributor:

Wood, William B. (William Burke), 1779-1861 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1822

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Banim, John, 1798-1842. Damon and Pythias; Rodwell, J. Thomas G. (James Thomas Gooderham), -1825. Where shall I dine?; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; broadsides (notices); playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustration; 32.6 x 19.3 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 30.1 x 14.7 cm.; Performance date: December 4, 1822.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 16 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. 16

Collection:

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