LondonTheatre

The Evening’s Attractions

• Map Every playhouse, booth, and pleasure garden plotted across the city, with a decade-by-decade timeline of theatrical activity from the first Restoration licences to the century’s end.
• Calendar Day by day across 141 years, 1659–1800. Each cell is a night at the theatre; deeper colour records a busier house. Filter by playhouse or decade to trace a season in full.
• Repertoire Plays, operas, pantomimes, and drolls: searchable by title, genre, and season, with performance tallies, first-night dates, and the theatres that staged each work.
• People A dramatis personae of the actresses, actors, child performers, and companies who filled the cast columns, with appearance counts, active decades, and the houses where they worked.
• Receipts A ninety-five-year ledger of box-office takings at Drury Lane and Covent Garden: record nights, benefit performances, seasonal medians, and the long run of nightly revenue from 1660 to 1776.
• Networks Six network views of theatrical connexion, by decade or across the full era: playhouses and their players; co-casting partnerships; mainpiece–afterpiece pairings; works and their performers; and more.
• Games Nine diversions drawn from 141 seasons: identify a cast, place a play in its decade, match a mainpiece to its afterpiece, pit two box-office nights against each other, and more.
• About The dataset, its sources, the limits of the record, and the grain of its reading.