New Theatre. Mr. Booth's Benefit And Last Appearance here. Mrs. Duff's first appearance these 6 years. Monday Evening, April 7, 1823, Will be presented the celebrated Tragedy of The Distrest Mother. Translated from the Andromaque of Racine, by Ambrose Philips. Orestes, Mr. Booth. ... : After which the favourite Farce of the Mayor of Garrat; Or, the Henpeck'd Cockney. Jerry Sneak, (in which he will introduce a Comic Song,) Mr. Booth. ..

Alternate Title:

Distrest Mother; Mayor of Garrat, or, the Henpeck'd Cockney; Mayor of Garrat; Henpeck'd Cockney

Contributor:

Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852 (actor); Duff, Mary Ann, 1795-1857 (actor)

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1823

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Philips, Ambrose, 1674-1749. Distrest mother; Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. Mayor of Garratt; 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); 30.9 x 19.1 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 27.4 x 15.3 cm.; Performance date: April 7, 1823.; The Distrest Mother is a translation, with alterations, of Jean Racine's Andromaque.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 18 no. 83 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. 83

Collection:

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