Theatre. The doors will be opened, in future, at a quarter past 5 o'clock, and the curtain will rise at a quarter past 6, precisely. Saturday Evening, December 8, 1821, Will be presented, (first time these 5 years) a celebrated Comedy, called The Clandestine Marriage. Written by George Colman and David Garrick. Lord Ogleby, Mr. Jefferson. ... : To whole to conclude with the Comic Opera of the Poor Soldier. Captain Fitzroy, Mr. Wheatly. ..

Alternate Title:

Clandestine Marriage; Poor Soldier

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1821

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Colman, George, 1732-1794. Clandestine marriage; Garrick, David, 1717-1779. Clandestine marriage; O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833. Poor soldier; 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); 26.6 x 17.7 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 25 x 15.1 cm.; Performance date: December 8, 1821.; 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 is box 21A no. 95 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. 95

Collection:

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