... THE THEA TRES I HE many revivals by which the last few weeks have been distinguished have all proved more or less prosperous. At the Adelphi, Mr. H. J. Byron, to the part of Sir Simple Simple in Not s ...

... The important theatrical event of the week is the pro duction at the Adelphi of the Prompter's Box, the new drama by Mr. H. J. Byron, by whom and Mr. Benjamin Webster the principal parts ...

... IF we compare Mr. H. J. Byron's last new drama, The Prompted s Box, with the other pieces which he has pro duced since the day when his ambition to be something above a writer of burlesqu ...

... MR. BURNAND'S new burlesque at the STRAND is not only a complete success, but, judged by the peculiar canons of Strand extravaganzas, a well-deserved one. Sir George and a Dragon is no ne ...

... SOMEBODY has said that Easter is the only period of the year when managers of theatres have reason to rejoice over wet weather. The remark is true enough, but it re quires the explanation ...

... MR. ROBERTSON, who has already taken his place as the most original and successful of writers for the English stage, has once more achieved a triumph as an author of genuine comedy. His n ...

... JUST as the Mississippi mania in Paris was succeeded by the South Sea excitement in London, so the rage for Offenbach and Hervé in the French capital seems about to be followed by an outburst ...

... M US IC THE preliminaries of the operatic season are now over, and business has commenced in earnest. With what would be the flowers of May, were May genial enough to allow flowers, come the stars of ...

... THE Italian operas have been in full work since their respective stars arrived; Mesdames Patti and Lucca at one house, and Mdlle. Nilsson at the other presenting attractions between which some ...

... THE most notable of recent events at Covent Garden was the production of Hamlet (we decline to write Amleto), with Mdlle. Sessi as Ophelia. Messrs. Gye and Mapleson have been in a difficulty a ...

... TWO new comedies by authors hitherto unknown to the stage, produced on the same evening, evidence at least a laudable determination on the part of managers to give a trial to others besid ...

... NOTING the prevalence of a taste for opéra bouffe, Messrs. Metzler and Co. have issued the first of a series of works likely to gratify it, both as regards quality and cheapness. They begin ...