Theatre. The public is respectully informed that in consequence of the unprecedented success of the Drama of The Rent Day, By the request of numerous parties, it will be repeated this Evening. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack. Fifth Appearance in America of Mr. Wilkinson, Of the Theatre English Opera House and Haymarket, Doors Open at 7, and the performance will commence precisely at 1-2 past 7. Private Boxes are retained for the use of the Public, and may be had nightly on application at the Box Office - where Season Tickets may likewise be obtained. Saturday Eve'ng, Sept. 8, 1832, Will be performed, the petit Comedy of Amateurs & Actors, David Dulcit, Esq. (a musical Dramatic Amateur, who employs Mr. O.P. Bustle, and attached to Theatricals and Miss Mary Hardacre), Mr. Richings ... : After which 3rd time at this Theatre, the serious Drama of The Rent Day. As performed at Drury Lane Theatre upwards of 60 Nights. Grantley, Mr. Jackson ... To conclude with the Farce of Agreeable Surprise. Sir Felix, Mr. Blakeley ..

Alternate Title:

Amateurs & Actors; Amateurs and actors; Rent Day; Agreeable Surprise

Contributor:

Wallack, Henry John, 1790-1870 (actor); Wilkinson, James Pimbury, 1787- (actor); Kennaday, James, 1804 or 1805-1852 (printer)

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1832

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Publisher:

James Kennaday, Printer, 2 Dey-street over the Court

Subject:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. Amateurs and actors; Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857. Rent day; O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833. Agreeable surprise; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; broadsides (notices); playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 33.6 x 14.2 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 31.5 x 11.9 cm.; Performance date: September 8, 1832.; Printed on both sides.; Print Collection 8 copy is torn at top.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 28 no. 2 in a collection of playbills bound together.; Print Collection 8 copy has Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate which reads " The Horace Howard Furness Memorial donated by Horace Howard Furness, Jr. and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness."

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 28 no. 2

Collection:

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