... SIR CHARLES YOUNG'S capital drama Jim the Penman evidently interested Islirgton playgoers very much on its presentation at the Grand the other day. As we pointed out on its original production at the Haymarket, it is a very clever piece of dramatic workmanship, and narrowly misses being one of the great plays of the day. Its great defect lies of course in the failure to illustrate in action ...

... . MISS AGNES HEWITT, the new le tee of the Olympic, has made a fairly good start upon her enterprising venture. In the first place, she has made the dingy, dusty old house a pleasant and attractive place in which to spend an evening, which it certainly has not been for many a year. The favourite old colours-- white and crimson-- have seldom been employed to more cheerful advantage; the ...

... . The Skeleton, as presented the other day at the Vaudeville, proved to be above the average of the farcical matinée production, and yet unlikely to do much good with the general public. Like a good many other adaptations from the humour depends neither upon witty talk nor in- German, its largely upon what one may call genious situation, but the expedients of the nursery-- such, ...

... . Werner is a drama that would certainly not have seen the footlights except for the prestige of its author's name. Its story is vague and has little sympathetic interest. Its tragic melancholy makes it monotonous without letting it attain grandeur; its dialogue affords a conclusive proof of its writer's inability to write even passable blank verse. One redeeming feature it has: its central ...

... . WE have so recently noticed in detail an afternoon revival of The Road to Rain, at the Strand, that we need now do little beyond noting the fact that Holcroft's effective comedy has duly taken its place in the evening programme. The English Comedy Company doe3 its work worthily. Better representa tions of the Dorntons, old and young, than Mr. Farren and Mr. Conway could not nowadays be found ...

... . MR. AUGUSTUS HARRIS is renowned for energy and activity, and these qualities were notably exhibited in the first week of his cur rent operatic season at Drury Lane. He was pre vented from carrying out his original intention to produce six different operas in the first six consecutive nights, but actually pro duced five, with costly ap pointments, and carefully rehearsed mises en scène. In ...

... Jubii.ee Week, as was to be expected, has been almost entirely barren of dramatic events. The attraction of the decorations and illuminations and the preparations for Tuesday's grand ceremonial have i ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-- The performances at Covent Garden need not be alluded to at great length. On Thursday last week Lucrezia Borgia was performed, the heroine being Madame De Cepeda, whose voice no ...

... . Miss Florence St. John being unfortunately too ill to continue appearing in Madame Favart, that comic opera is now replaced at the Avenue by Indiana, a piece of very different artistic pretentions. The libretto, by Mr. Farnie, sets forth a somewhat complicated intrigue, in the course of which a young woman, who is disguised 1 or the purpose3 of the plot aa a young man, pretends in that ...

... . Two revivals of some interest have now been added to the répertoire of the English Comedy Company in The Hypocrite of Isaac Bickerstaffe, and The Busybody of Mrs. Centlivre. The performances, as a whole, have been Hardly equal to those of the better-known comedies presented by the troupe, but in each there are individual figures of high excellence. Such is the Dector Cantwell of Mr. Farren, ...

... SANGER S THEATRE. MR. CHARLES STUART is wisely making hay at Sanger's while the Bun shines, or, in other words, while the public interest in Buffalo Bill and his doings keeps at boiling point. He has got hold of a piece by a certain Colonel Stanley, who has collaborated with Mr. Charles Hermann for the purpose of making dramatic capital out of the Wild West. This work is said to have enjoyed ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIO. OLD COMEDIES AT THE STRAND THEATRE. WHITSUN holiday-making, which in my own case means extra work, might very well be put forward by me as an excuse for the somewhat brief and perfunctory character of the following criticism But I will go further, and admit that I can really find very little to criticise in, and very little to write about concerning, the famous Old Comedy, ...