Theatre. Mr. Philipps's Last Night but Two. A New Melo-Dramatic Opera, Never Performed in America. Monday Evening, March 25, 1822, Will be presented a new Operatic Romance, called the Russian Impostor; Or, the Siege of Smolensko. Performed at the Theatre Royal, English Opera, with unbounded applause. Written By Henry Siddons, Esq. With New Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. The Music and Overture composed and selected from the Russian and Italian by Mr. Addison, of the Italian Opera House, London. Risberg, Colonel of Hussars, Mr. Philipps, ... : After Which The Farce Of The Ghost; Or, the Affrighted Farmer. Sir Jeffery Constant, Mr. Hathwell. ..

Alternate Title:

Russian Impostor; Or, the Siege of Smolensko; Russian Impostor; Siege of Smolensko; Ghost; Or, the Affrighted Farmer; Ghost; Affrighted Farmer

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1822

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Siddons, Henry, 1774-1815. Russian impostor, or, The siege of Smolensko; Addison, John, 1766?-1844. Russian impostor, or, The siege of Smolensko; Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723. Ghost; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

broadsides (notices); playbills; Castlists; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 44.5 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 41.1 x 15.3 cm.; Performance date: March 25, 1822.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21B no. 27 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. 27

Collection:

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