... T.YBIC THEATEE. Love's Trickery, an operetta in one act, written by Cunningham Bridg man and composed by Ivan Caryll, was produced at the Lyric Theatre last Saturday with complete success. The action takes place in the drawing room of Lady Daffodill (Miss Augarde), who awaits a visit from the Count Pauliteckuick, a German nobleman, who, in return for his generous conduct in releasing the late ...

... . The successful comedy, Our Flat, was removed from the Opera Comique to the above theatre on Monday, and never went better. In fact we do not remember it to liave been so successful on any previous occasion. Sir. Willie Edouin has somewhat elaborated his character of the speculative theatrical manager, aud now plays it with remarkable humour. The stage business has also been improved, and the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. JESOP'S FABLES. THE half-dozen actors who, whether they are in a good piece or a bad one, can generally depend upon bringing a fair audience together-- are all more or less mannerists. Mr. Irving, Mr. Toole, Mr. Terry, Mr. Willard, Mr. Terriss, Mr. Penley-- it is impossible to get away from the individuality of the performer whatever the part which he may appear in. Nor ...

... COYENT GARDEN PROMENADE CONCERTS. MR. FREEMAN THOMAS had every reason to be gratified at the success of his opening concert on Saturday last. Long before the hour of commencement (7.30 p.m. on Saturdays; 8 p.m. on other days) every free seat in the theatre was occu pied, and every inch of standing room in the upper regions. An hour later, the boxes and dress circle were filled, and the so ...

... . MISS MARION LEA demonstrated one or two things very satisfactorily at her matinée last week at the Avenue. But she failed to show any very good reason why if she wanted to play Dumas' Mile, de Belle-Isle, she should not present one of the already numerous versions of that play, amongst which may be mentioned Mr. A. Shirley's Reparation A Night in the Bastille (in which, if we mistake not, ...

... . Uncles and Aunts, after a lengthened career, due entirely, or almost entirely, to the comic individuality given by Mr. Penley to one of its characters, has at last been removed from the programme at the Comedy, where it was replaced by a new piece from the now fertile pen of Mr. Sydney Grundy. About the title of this novelty, Merry Margate, there was a pleasant suggestion of fun, hearty if ...

... OLYAIPIC THEATRE. The Silent Witness, the first new play presented by Mr. John Coleman during his management of the Olympic, is a curious survival. It is a reminiscence of the days when all earls were prima facie wicked, when prison-governors were necessarily brutal, when convicts were allowed to impress sympathetic warders with their eloquence, when comic scoundrels were always Irish, and ...

... . IT is an odd fatality which has led Mr. Wilson Barrett, who hitherto has always written in collaboration, to dispense with assistance at exactly the moment when his choice of a subject made it specially desirable, if not absolutely necessary. Collabo ration is never more needed than when, as in Nowadays, a dramatist makes his plot hinge upon the technicalities of a trade, profession, or ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. JULIUS CiESAR AT OXFORD. IT is the fashion for dramatic criticism, which treats amateur performances generally with the contempt deserved by those who do not advertise, to make an exception in favour of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and write about its per formances with rapture. I am happy to say that I am not compelled to hysterics to order, and that I am ...

... . THE twelfth of the current series of these concerts was given on Saturday last, when a special attraction was presented in the new cantata composed by Mr. Hamish MacCunn, and entitled The Lay of the Last Minstrel. The words have been taken from Sir Walter Scott's well-known poem, and the prin cipal personages are Lady Buccleuch (Mme. Nordica), Margaret of Branksome (Miss Curran), Sir William ...

... . NOT even Ouida in her most fanciful illustrations of the vices of the fashionable world and the demi-monde has ever evolved a romance quite so crude and silly as that introduced by Miss Kate M. Forsyth in The Tigress. This play is under stood to be a version by Mr. Ramsey Morris of a novel called Crucify Her, which in spite of its serious title must we should say be a very comic story ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE SHAUGHRAHN. WHEN we have seen one of Boucicault's Irish plays we have seen a good deal of the others. There is much in common in the plots, construction, and general treatment of The Shaughraun, The Colleen Bawn, and Arra-na-Pogue. Still, they are all capital pieces of their kind, and the sameness of their general effect docs not prevent them from being indi vidually ...