New Theatre. The Curtain will rise, for the future, at 7 o'clock, precisely. Mrs. Tatnall's Benefit, And Last Night of her Engagement. Saturday Evening, April 12, 1823, Will be presented the Tragedy of Pizarro; Or, The Death of Rolla. Spaniards. Pizarro, Mr. Wood. ... : To conclude with the favourite Melo-Drama of The Falls of Clyde. Written by George Soane, Esq. Author of the Innkeeper's Daughter, Bohemian, Peasant of Lucerne, &c. and performed in London with great applause. General Wilford, Mr. Hathwell. ..

Alternate Title:

Pizarro, or, The Death of Rolla; Pizarro; Death of Rolla; Falls of Clyde

Contributor:

Tatnall, Sam, Mrs., -1843 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1823

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. Pizarro; Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826. Pizarro; 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; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 33.3 x 19.1 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 32.7 x 15.1 cm.; Performance date: April 12, 1823.; Pizarro, or, The Death of Rolla; libretto by Richard Sheridan (adapted from August von Kotzebue's Die Spanier in Peru), music by Michael Kelly.; Print Collection 8 copy imperfect: closely cropped at bottom margin, with some loss of text.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 86 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. 86

Collection:

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