Theatre Comique

Event Information

Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]

Manager / Director:
William Horace Lingard

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 October 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
25 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
26 Aug 1868, 2:30 PM
26 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
27 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
28 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM
29 Aug 1868, 2:30 PM
29 Aug 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

As per New York Herald advertisement: “William Horace Lingard and his extraordinary company…performing nightly to crowded and fashionable audiences A NEW, NOVEL AND GENTEEL AMUSEMENT, the first performance of the kind given in this city, and hailed with delight by every beholder.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Text Author: Lingard

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 24 August 1868, 4.

“The crowds who nightly flock to the Theatre Comique, only to find standing room, justify the management in not making any very material change in the programme for the present.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 August 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 29 August 1868, 167.