... The week preceding Easter, formerly a complete blank as affording citizens of the capital an opportunity of obtaining dramatic amusement, has this year found DRURY-LANE, the ADELPHI, GAIETY, OLYMPIC, STRAND, GLOBE, VAUDEVILLE, OPERA COMIQUE, the CoURtT, the ALEAMBRA, the STANDARD, the BRITANNIA, and the ROYAL AQUARIUM THEATRES all open. Thle PRINCE OP WALES'S closed on Thursday for a night ...

... Nothing so emphatically proves the advance made in the appreciation of high class music at the present day as the interest felt in that very noble form of instrumental music the orchestral symphony. The changes in style adopted by various composers, from the days of Haydn to those of the two most celebrated instrumental composers of modern Germany, Raff and Brahms, are very remarkable, and ...

... PRllNCE OF' WALEiS TI-FAT'RE. Air Dion 1-10oniault'Is powerful anli cleverly-cotcstructed Otnedy-drauit: Led . ttifZg w'as produced at this Theatre onl Monday last, andL has beel play ed thloughoutthe we elc iss Holen) Barr has appeared lit the prinlcipal each~eter-thet of Armande-and she has played it wvith inimiltaLble grace andll vigour. 11cr impePrsonation of this part is noL t newv to ...

... (FROMil OTIR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) ABERDEEINt. HER MAJTEs's TOEATRE.- Lessee, Mr William Gomersal.-The TWo Orphanes has kept the bills since last ii eek with great success. Miss Lottle Harcourt is really excellent as Henrnette; and Miss Birchenough, as blind Louise, gives a touchingly pathetic rendering of the character. Mr Dornton is natural in the part of Pierre M while Mr Sennett invests the ...

... The sale of liquors, fermented or distilled, in the audito- riums of Varie by Theatres while the perforniances are in pro- gress, is to be stopped. On Thursday night, the 4th inst., the police captains of the various precincts, in accordance with instructions issucd by Superintendent Walling, detailed officers in civilians' dress to stop the sale of beer or liquors in the Irving Music Hall, ...

... (ROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) \IENNA, MAY 19, 1877.-In a very few days all our larger theatrical establishments will, with the exception of the Carl Theatre, be closed for the usual summer vacation, an event already forestalled by the Theatre an dor Wien and the cormische Oper. The latter building was put tip for sale only yesterday, but no bidding whatever could be obtained for the beautiful ...

... BIOGRAPHICA-L SKETCH OF CIPRICO. The Sen -Francisco Neews Letter of September 1.5th furnishes the following particulars respecting the actor whose services DIr Holland has secured. It will be seen that it promises great things on his behalf, and claims for him a remarkably promi- nent position on the stage. Of course, after this, we shall expect something wonderful, and we shall await with ...

... The twenty-second series of Saturday afternoon concerts at the Crystal Palace is, as usual, full of interest to the musician and amateur. Twenty-five concerts are to be given, eleven of these before Christmas and the remainder in the early spring, commencing on the 9th of February, after the holiday season has had its turn. Besides the repetition of some of the greatest works of the classical ...

... pp,0VI NCA I4Al TEATR [AAI&,, (FRih olDS OWN CORRESPO.NfRNTiS, ABERDERYV. HER tL.WEvTY's TIHEIATRE.-Lessee, Mr William Gbmllersal- On Saturnlay, the 7th inst., Mr (. S. Mlaclay, the talented leafer ofthe orchestra, llha a, bellefit, when a large andience sesenied to see BIet Roy rendered by a clever company of cisateare. 'iTbe chief feature was the interpretation of the outlaw, given b y Mr ...

... AMUSEMENTS ON TEE CONTINENT. (emeO OURl OWN CORRESPONDENT.)) VIE NNA, FEBRUARY 17, 1877.-The carnival, always adverse to theatrical entertainmeents, has tbis timne pressed more heavily than ever on the exchequer of our dra- matic and lyric establishments, which have already been severely tried :by three years of continueid political and financial difficulties. At the Theatre of the Josefstadt ...

... TJlB CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. The ample record given this week in our columns of how the ,reat theatrical festival of Boxing Nighthas beencelebrate Du ?? and, country will show that in no respect has there been any falling off managerial enterprise or public support. The weather' on the winter Bank Holiday was as Seasonably bracing as could be desired, and the slight fall of sleeLt, which came ...

... pRo , 01 A L T II E A TR ICa AL . (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) ABBRDEJPZN. j dIAJEenS TeArea-Lessee, Mr William Gomersal- O liondaY MIr G. IV. Auson commenced a fortnight's engage- 1l t in his famous impersonation of Mr Bunter, in New Men en Old Acres, and delighted the audience by his exquisitely ,arsIoldeliAcestiOn of the character. On Wednesday and Tl srsdsly &'itijaldi was presented. ...