Philadelphia Theatre. A New Comedy, Never Performed Here. Saturday Evening, Feb. 26, 1820, Will be performed a new petite Comedy, (Translated from the French) called A Short Reign, and a Merry One. Performed in London this present season with the greatest success. The Chevalier de Morange, Mr. Wood. ... : After which, (for the only time this season) the Grand Melo-Dramatic Romance of Blue Beard; Or, Female Curiosity. Abomelique, (Blue Beard) Mr. Hughes. ..

Alternate Title:

Short Reign, and a Merry One; Blue Beard; Or, Female Curiosity; Blue Beard; Female Curiosity

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1820

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Poole, John, 1786?-1872. Short reign and a merry one; Colman, George, 1762-1836. Blue Beard; Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826. Blue Beard; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 35.1 x 15.7 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 34.2 x 13.8 cm.; Performance date: February 26, 1820.; Print Collection 8 copy has ms. hatch marks through various lines.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21B no. 7 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 21B no. 7

Collection:

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