Philadelphia Theatre. Wednesday Evening, Dec. 29, 1819, Will be performed, (for the first and only time this season) a celebrated Tragedy, called George Barnwell; Or, the London Merchant. Thorogood, Mr. Warren. ... : After the Tragedy a new Comic Spanish Ballet, called Love among the Roses. Leander, Miss K. Durang. ... After which, the Comic Opera of My Grandmother; Or, the Living Picture. Sir Matthew Medley, Mr. Francis. ..

Alternate Title:

George Barnwell, or, the London Merchant; George Barnwell; London Merchant; Love among the Roses; My Grandmother, or, the Living Picture; My Grandmother; Living Picture

Contributor:

Warren, William, 1767-1832 (actor); Francis, William, 1756 or 1757-1826 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Durang, Julia

Date:

1819

Language:

English

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Lillo, George, 1693-1739. London merchant; Storace, Stephen, 1762-1796. My grandmother; 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); 27.5 x 18.4 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 24 x 13.8 cm.; Performance date: December 29, 1819.; Miss K. Durang - Juliet Catherine (Katharine), Julia, one of six children of John Durang.--Cf. John Durang, Man of the American Stage.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21A no. 60 in a collection of playbills housed together.; Print Collection 8 copy 2 is box 21A no. 61 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. 60; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 21A no. 61

Collection:

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