New Theatre. Performance Every Evening This Week. The managers respectfully state, that for the better accommodation of the public, the office for the sale of Box Tickets, is now placed within the Vestibule, the nearest door to Sixth Street. 4th Night of Mr. Wallack's Engagement. Tuesday Evening, January 21, 1823, Will be presented, (by particular desire) Shakspeare's Comedy of Much Ado about Nothing. Don Pedro, Mr. H. Wallack. ... : After which, the Comic Opera of The Children in the Wood. Walter, Mr. Wallack. ..

Alternate Title:

Much Ado about Nothing; Children in the Wood

Contributor:

Wallack, James William, 1795-1864 (actor); Wallack, Henry John, 1790-1870 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1823

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing; Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. Children in the wood; Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802. Children in the wood; 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) : illustration; 31 x 19.2 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 27.1 x 15.3 cm.; Performance date: January 21, 1823.; Children in the Wood; libretto by Thomas Morton; music by Samuel Arnold. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera.; This performance features two members of the Wallack family.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 42 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. 42

Collection:

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