EditorialPrograms designed as Playbills are handed out during a memorial for Larry Kramer at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, June 26, 2023. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
EditorialPrograms designed as Playbills are handed out during a memorial for Larry Kramer at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, June 26, 2023. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael R. Jackson, who wrote “A Strange Loop,” signs playbills after its final performance, at the Lyceum Theater in New York, Jan. 15, 2023. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times)
EditorialRegency actor rehearsing Hamlet in costume in his apartment. The room is decorated with boots, props and playbills, the bed stood against the wall. The Authors Retreat. Study and Practice. Proteus rehearsing Hamlet before his friend Horatio Quill. Hand...
EditorialAn illustration of an orangutan sitting on a chair. This is possibly Jenny the orangutan that Charles Darwin saw at London Zoo in 1838. [A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertisements, playbills, etc]. 1700 - 1860. In 1838 London Zoo acquired...
EditorialA playbill for 'As You Like It' at the Theatre Royal, Margate. A Collection of the playbills of the Theatre Royal, Margate, from 1793 to 1801. Margate, [1793-1801]. Source: Playbills 422.(144). Language: English.
EditorialCricket, played by the Gentlemen's club, White Conduit House, Islington. Six prints of manly recreation, as practised in public places in and about London. A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertisements, playbills, etc. II. Carlisle House and...
EditorialThe Macaroni. A real character at the late masquerade'. A macaroni (or formerly maccaroni). In mid-18th century England, was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected and epicene manner. The term pejoratively referred ...
EditorialA handbill advertising David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of September 1769. A collection of illustrations, portraits, newspaper cuttings, extracts from books and sale catalogues, advertisements, manuscripts and playbills, relating princi...
EditorialJennifer Nettles autographs playbills in her dressing room before her final performance in “Waitress,” in New York, Nov. 24, 2021. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialA playbill advertising Ira Aldridge's appearance as Othello, Richard III and Shylock in Newcastle, 1845. A collection of playbills from miscellaneous Newcastle-upon-Tyne theatres 1791-1855. [Newcastle-upon-Tyne : s.n.], 1791-1855. Source: Playbills 262...
EditorialAn ape dressed in human clothes. A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertisements, playbills, etc. VI-VIII. Trained Animals, Menageries, etc. ca. 1800-1860. Illustration. Source: 1889.b.10/6.(34). Language: English.
EditorialA playbill for the Cushman sisters in 'Romeo and Juliet'. A collection of playbills from Haymarket Theatre 1846-1847. [London : s.n.], 1846-1847. Source: Playbills 142, vol. 1, no.51. Language: English.
EditorialA playbill for a performance of King Lear, 25th January 1838. A Series of Playbills of Covent Garden Theatre from 1 Jan. 1812 to 31 Dec. 1845. London, 1812-45. Source: Playbills 124a. Language: English.
EditorialA handbill advertising David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of September 1769. A collection of illustrations, portraits, newspaper cuttings, extracts from books and sale catalogues, advertisements, manuscripts and playbills, relating princi...
EditorialA playbill for Ira Aldridge's performance as Othello. A collection of playbills from Covent Garden Theatre 1832-1833. [London : s.n.], 1832-1833. Source: Playbills 105, no.313. Language: English.
EditorialYarmouth suspension bridge, as it appeared after the accident by which 79 lives were lost, on Friday evening, May 2, 1845. [A ten-volume collection of handbills, broadsides, playbills, reports and election material relating to Great Yarmouth and publis...
EditorialA playbill for 'The Inconstant; or, the Way to Win Him' at the Theatre Royal, Margate . A Collection of the playbills of the Theatre Royal, Margate, from 1793 to 1801. Margate, [1793-1801]. Source: Playbills 422.(148). Language: English.
EditorialPreview of the collection of legendary magician, Ricky Jay at Sotheby's New Bond Street Galleries, London., Sothebys, New Bond Street, London, UK - 24 Sep 2021
EditorialRegency actor rehearsing Hamlet in costume in his apartment. The room is decorated with boots, props and playbills, the bed stood against the wall. The Authors Retreat. Study and Practice. Proteus rehearsing Hamlet before his friend Horatio Quill. Hand...
EditorialAn ape dressed in human clothes. A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertisements, playbills, etc. VI-VIII. Trained Animals, Menageries, etc. ca. 1800-1860. Illustration. Source: 1889.b.10/6.(34). Language: English.
EditorialA playbill for the Cushman sisters in 'Romeo and Juliet'. A collection of playbills from Haymarket Theatre 1846-1847. [London : s.n.], 1846-1847. Source: Playbills 142, vol. 1, no.51. Language: English.
EditorialThe Macaroni. A real character at the late masquerade'. A macaroni (or formerly maccaroni). In mid-18th century England, was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected and epicene manner. The term pejoratively referred ...
EditorialA playbill for a performance of King Lear, 25th January 1838. A Series of Playbills of Covent Garden Theatre from 1 Jan. 1812 to 31 Dec. 1845. London, 1812-45. Source: Playbills 124a. Language: English.
EditorialAn advertisement for a circus and perfoormance by a clown: 'Cooke's royal circus ...'. Friday, May 2nd ... Nelson, the clown ... 'First night of Mr. William Cooke as clown ... [A ten-volume collection of handbills, broadsides, playbills, reports and ...
EditorialA playbill for 'As You Like It' at the Theatre Royal, Margate. A Collection of the playbills of the Theatre Royal, Margate, from 1793 to 1801. Margate, [1793-1801]. Source: Playbills 422.(144). Language: English.
EditorialA playbill for 'Love in a Village' at the Theatre Royal, Margate. A Collection of the playbills of the Theatre Royal, Margate, from 1793 to 1801. Margate, [1793-1801]. Source: Playbills 422.(2). Language: English.
EditorialA playbill advertising Ira Aldridge's appearance as Othello, Richard III and Shylock in Newcastle, 1845. A collection of playbills from miscellaneous Newcastle-upon-Tyne theatres 1791-1855. [Newcastle-upon-Tyne : s.n.], 1791-1855. Source: Playbills 262...
EditorialA handbill advertising David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of September 1769. A collection of illustrations, portraits, newspaper cuttings, extracts from books and sale catalogues, advertisements, manuscripts and playbills, relating princi...
EditorialA playbill for Ira Aldridge's performance as Othello. A collection of playbills from Covent Garden Theatre 1832-1833. [London : s.n.], 1832-1833. Source: Playbills 105, no.313. Language: English.
EditorialA playbill for 'Grand Gala and Brilliant Fire Works' at the Prospect Hotel, Hooper's Hill, Margate. A Collection of the playbills of the Theatre Royal, Margate, from 1793 to 1801. Margate, [1793-1801]. Source: Playbills 422.(22). Language: English.
EditorialCricket, played by the Gentlemen's club, White Conduit House, Islington. Six prints of manly recreation, as practised in public places in and about London. A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertisements, playbills, etc. II. Carlisle House and...
EditorialYarmouth suspension bridge, as it appeared after the accident by which 79 lives were lost, on Friday evening, May 2, 1845. [A ten-volume collection of handbills, broadsides, playbills, reports and election material relating to Great Yarmouth and publis...
EditorialLe élèphants de la pagode.' 2 acte. Déjeuner. Galerie dramatique. Theatre du cirque olympique. A coloured illustration of two performing elephants. Both are wearing a caparison, with gold trmming. [A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertise...
EditorialA playbill for 'The Inconstant; or, the Way to Win Him' at the Theatre Royal, Margate . A Collection of the playbills of the Theatre Royal, Margate, from 1793 to 1801. Margate, [1793-1801]. Source: Playbills 422.(148). Language: English.
EditorialAn illustration of an orangutan sitting on a chair. This is possibly Jenny the orangutan that Charles Darwin saw at London Zoo in 1838. [A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertisements, playbills, etc]. 1700 - 1860. In 1838 London Zoo acquired...