City Museum, Fifth And Callowhill Streets. Lessees, Messrs. Sherzer & Zulich; Stage Manager, Mr. Lewis Baker; Benefit Of The Eminent American Tragedian and Comedian, Mr. J. E. Murdoch On which occasion he will have the honor of appearing in Two Of His Most Popular Characters, Mrs. Alexina Fisher Baker As Mrs. Haller and Katharine, with a Splendid Cast in the other Characters. This (Friday) Evening, Nov. 23d, 1855, The performance will commence with Kotzebue's fine Play, in 5 Acts, of the Stranger: Or, Misanthropy and Repentance. Stranger, Mr. J. E. Murdoch ... : To conclude with Shakspere's beautiful Comedy entitled Katharine & Petruchio Or, The Taming Of A Shrew. Petruchio, Mr. J. E. Murdoch ..

Alternate Title:

Stranger: Or, Misanthropy and Repentance; Stranger; Misanthropy and Repentance; Katharine & Petruchio Or, The Taming Of A Shrew; Katharine & Petruchio; Taming Of A Shrew

Name:

City Museum

Date:

1855

Language:

English

Publisher:

Brown's Steam-Power Job Printing Office, Ledger Buildings, Philad'a

Subject:

Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819. Menschenhass und Reue. English; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Taming of the shrew; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Specimens; Broadsides; Playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 55.8 x 24.6 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 53.1 x 19.7 cm.; Performance date: November 23, 1855.; Print Collection 8 copy is oversize no. 9 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 oversize no. 9

Collection:

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