New Theatre. Mr. Mathews' Second Night. Wednesday Evening, February 26, 1823, Will be presented George Colman's admired Comedy, of the Poor Gentleman. Ollapod, Mr. Mathews. ... : To which will be added, the admired Farce of The Sleep Walker; Or, Which is the Lady? Somno, Mr. Mathews, in which character he will introduce the Comic Song of "The Humours of a London Play House;" And will give his Imitations of the following celebrated performers'. Mr. Kemble as Penruddock and Cardinal Woolsey. Mr. Cooke as Sir Pertinax M'Sycophant. Mr. Munden as Sir Abel Handy. Mr. Fawcett as Job Thornberry. Mr. Blanchard as Sir Simon Rochdale. Mr. Bannister as Walter, in Children in the Wood. Mr. Kean as Richard the Third. Mr. Young as Hamlet, &c. &c. Sir Patrick Maguire, Mr. Burke. ..

Alternate Title:

Poor Gentleman; Sleep Walker, or, Which is the Lady; Sleep Walker; Which is the Lady

Contributor:

Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1823

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Colman, George, 1762-1836. Poor gentleman; Oulton, Walley Chamberlain, 1770?-1820?. Sleep-walker, or, Which is the lady?; 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); 30.9 x 18.9 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 30.1 x 15.3 cm.; Performance date: February 26, 1823.; Print Collection 8 copy imperfect: closely cropped at bottom margin, with some loss of text.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 64 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. 64

Collection:

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