City Museum, Fifth And Callowhill Streets. Lessees, Messrs. Sherzer & Zulich; Stage Manager, Mr. Lewis Baker; First Appearance This Season Of The Eminent Tragedian and Comedian, Mr. J. E. Murdoch, With whom an Engagement has been effected for a limited number of nights. He will appear in his Great Character of Benedick, In Shakspere's Comedy Of Much Ado About Nothing, With a Splendid Distribution of Parts, headed by Mrs. Alexina Fisher Baker As Beatrice. This (Monday) Evening, Nov. 19, 1855, The performance will commence with Shakspere's Comedy, in 5 Acts, called Much Ado About Nothing. Benedick, Mr. J. E. Murdoch ... : To conclude with the Capital Farce of the Lottery Ticket, Wormwood, Mr. T. B. Johnston ..

Alternate Title:

Much Ado About Nothing; Lottery Ticket

Name:

City Museum

Date:

1855

Language:

English

Publisher:

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

Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing; Beazley, Samuel, 1786-1851. Lottery ticket; 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); 55.9 x 24.4 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 52.8 x 20 cm.; Performance date: November 19, 1855.; Print Collection 8 copy is oversize no. 10 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. 10

Collection:

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