Playbill Collection

WW2 - NaFI presents ENSA Production at Alexandria, Egypt
WW2 - A playbill for a production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde produced by N.A.A.F.I (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes)

Lincoln Assass. / Playbill
The playbill found in President Abraham Lincolns box after his assassination by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theatre

Stephen Kemble as Falstaff in Shakespeare's King Henry IV - playbill Theatre Royal, Hull November 15, 1804 Date: 1804

Playbill, Empire Theatre, Belfast, Ireland, November 1921
Playbill for Empire Theatre, Belfast, November 1921 - The Weldonn Singers are top of the bill, alongside Will Luff, Henri Hilton, Three Godwyns, Reg Jecks and Vera Vivian

Theatre poster, Hippodrome, Oscar Asche, Lily Brayton
Theatre poster, Hippodrome, Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton in Hajj. 1915

Playbill, Dick Whittington, Theatre Royal, Birmingham
Pantomime playbill, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Theatre Royal, Birmingham

Pantomime playbill design, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Theatre Royal, Birmingham

Playbill, Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Royal, Birmingham
Pantomime playbill, Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Royal, Birmingham

Pantomime playbill design, Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Royal, Birmingham

Childrens Pantomime 1871
The Childrens Pantomime Party at Covent Garden Theatre. Date: 1871

Leopold Godowsky performing at the Bechstein Halll, London
Leopold Godowsky (18701938) - Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, and teacher - performing at the Bechstein Hall (now the Wigmore Hall), Wigmore Street

La Fosse aux Filles by Alexandre Kouprine
Promotional postcard showing a playbill of entertainment showing at the Theatre du Grand-Guinol in Paris, featuring La Fosse aux Filles by Alexandre Kouprine, Le Chevalier Canepin by M

Extraordinary exhibition of Scapiglione
Advertising flyer for an Extraordinary Exhibition at the Saville House, Leicester Square, every day from Ten o Clock till One, and from Two till Ten. Scapiglione

Two off-work clowns attract attention in a Garrison Town
In a Garrison Town. First Loafer to second Loafer (as out friends from the circus pass by) - " Officers!". This is likely to derive from the two clowns often getting entangled with the law

Humorous exchnge between actor and theatre critic
Actor - " What did you think of my performance of the ghost?" Critic - " It was most lifelike." !!! Date: 1893

Two Actors outside a theatre comment on a Flea Circus
Two Actors outside a theatre (on observing the playbills displayed) pass comment on a Performing Flea Show. First Actor (resting) - " H m - a scratch company." Date: 1892

Sarah Bernhardt - Publicity for her role in L Aiglon
Photograph of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in La Princesse Lointaine by Edmond Rostand (in 1895), used to publicise her latest role in L Aiglon (1900), also by Rostand. Date: 1900

Thaumaturgick exhibitions, optical illusions and deceptions
Playbill for performance of " thaumaturgick exhibitions, optical illusions and magical deceptions" by Mr Boaz at the Kings Arms, High Street

Playbill for Maskelyne & Cooke magical variety show
Playbill for performances of the show The Novelty of the Age, featuring magicians Maskelyne and Cooke, held at Berkley Castle, Blackpool, January 1870

Playbill - magician Doctor Silvester and the levitating lady
Undated playbill for performances of magician Doctor Silvester and the levitating lady at " Gebouw der Loge". HPF/5A/37

Childrens Pantomime
The Childrens Pantomime Party at Covent Garden Theatre

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