Love chase

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Lester Wallack

Manager / Director:
Lester Wallack

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 March 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Apr 1870, 8:00 PM
30 Apr 1870, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
aka Love; Love chase; Countess and the serf
Text Author: Knowles

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 16 April 1870, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 April 1870, 5.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 April 1870, 16.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 April 1870, 4.

“To-morrow Mr. Lester Wallack is to act in the [sic] ‘The Bell’s [sic] Stratagem,’ and on the after evenings the same experienced, accomplished and brilliant artist is to appear in a series of ever-attractive old comedies.” 

5)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 April 1870, 6.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 April 1870, 7.
7)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 April 1870, 4.
8)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 April 1870, 15.

Full cast list with roles.

9)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 April 1870, 7.

Full cast list with roles.

10)
Review: New York Herald, 28 April 1870, 6.

Positive review; no mention of music.

11)
Review: New-York Times, 28 April 1870, 5.

No mention of music.

12)
Review: New York Post, 28 April 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

13)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 April 1870, 9.
14)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 April 1870, 7.

No mention of music.

15)
Review: New York Post, 30 April 1870, 1.

Brief note that Charles Wyndham is making a favorable impression in his roles of late.

16)
Review: New York Clipper, 07 May 1870, 38.

Brief review of all the plays given at Wallack’s the week of 04/25/70, noting that “[t]he revival of the old English comedies at Wallack’s Theatre has been attended with much success.”