Theatre. Saturday Evening, January 19, 1822. Will be performed, (for the only time this season) the Comedy of Speed the Plough. Sir Philip Blandford. Mr. Wood. ... : After which, the new Melo-Drama, in 2 acts, called The Falls of Clyde. Written by George Soane, Esq. Author of the Innkeeper's Daughter, Bohemian, Peasant of Lucerne, &c. performed in London with great applause. General Wilford, Mr. Johnston. ..

Alternate Title:

Speed the Plough; Falls of Clyde

Contributor:

Wood, William B. 1779-1861 (actor); Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865 (actor)

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1822

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. Speed the plough; Soane, George, 1790-1860. Falls of Clyde; 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); 26.8 x 17.4 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.6 x 15.2 cm.; Performance date: January 19, 1822.; The Chestnut Street Theatre was destroyed by fire on April 2, 1820. While the theater was being reconstructed, the players performed at the Walnut Street Theatre.; Print Collection 8 copy imperfect: closely cropped at right margin, with some loss of text.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21A no. 102 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 21A no. 102

Collection:

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