Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket

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Occupation Viola Tree
Her father began soliciting her for the role in October, but she repeatedly refused him, largely because her Italian voice instructors felt her voice was too untrained for the role. He cast an American singer...
Performance of text Ethel Smyth
ES 's opera The Wreckers had its first full performance in English under conductor Thomas Beecham at His Majesty's Theatre , London.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
430, 431
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
342
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
GBS 's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre , Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree 's Henry Higgins.
This...
Performance of text Susanna Centlivre
SC 's comedy The Platonick Lady opened at the Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 132
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
83
Performance of text Mary Pix
MP 's The Conquest of Spain opened at the Haymarket ; it expired on the sixth day.
qtd. in
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 93
Performance of text Susanna Centlivre
SC 's next comedy, The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil to Do about Her, opened at the Haymarket .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
117
Performance of text Mary Pix
MP 's final play, The Adventures in Madrid, opened at the Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 126
Performance of text George Paston
This popular play saw two West End revivals the following year. First it had thirty-nine performances at His Majesty's Theatre alongside Bernard Shaw 's The Admirable Bashville, and this was followed by ninety-eight performances...
Performance of text Clemence Dane
CD 's stage adaptation of Max Beerbohm 's The Happy Hypocrite was first performed at His Majesty's Theatre , London.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 133
Performance of text George Paston
The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
Performance of text Emmuska Baroness Orczy
Having begun with The Scarlet Pimpernel as both play and novel, EBO wrote a number of further plays, including the eighteenth-century highwayman story Beau Brocade (produced at the Queen's Theatre under Frank Curzon ,
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947.
109
Performance of text Elizabeth De la Pasture
Elizabeth De la Pasture 's one-act play The Unlucky Family (based on her children's book of the same title) was first performed in a matinée at His Majesty's Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
604
Performance of text Mary Augusta Ward
It ran for only a little over two weeks. A second play by MAW , Agatha, was produced at His Majesty's Theatre around March 1905; it also failed.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
414-15
Performance of text Catharine Trotter
CT 's final tragedy, The Revolution of Sweden (again in verse), opened at the Haymarket , having been announced but deferred four days earlier. It ran until the 16th.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 117
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
258
Performance of text Delarivier Manley
DM 's tragedy Almyna; or, The Arabian Vow was produced at the Haymarket Theatre .
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
393

Timeline

13 November 1858: Lady Clara Cavendish's melodrama The Woman...

Women writers item

13 November 1858

Lady Clara Cavendish 's melodrama The Woman of the World premiered at Queen's Theatre .
Davis, Tracy C., and Ellen Donkin, editors. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
282

26 December 1867: Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first...

Building item

26 December 1867

Ellen Terry and Henry Irving made the first of many stage appearances together when they played opposite one another in Katherine and Petruchio (better known as The Taming of the Shrew) at the new...

31 January 1880: Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, was reopened...

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31 January 1880

Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, was reopened by Marie Wilton and her husband Squire Bancroft after extensive restructuring.
Macqueen-Pope, Walter James. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the British Stage. W. H. Allen, 1952.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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1904: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the...

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1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father of the writers Viola and Iris Tree ) founded an Academy of Dramatic Art at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
“RADA: A Brief History”. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

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