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  • How to die of embarrassment : by Bill Dunlop and Catch Theatre Co. : unofficial programme / Catch Theatre Co.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's Station) ... Whit Monday May 25th and during the week : Great attractions entire change ... Rabbi Joselman ... Mr. A. Broadhurst the surprise of the Chicago exhibition, with a beard over 7 feet long and a moustache 3 feet in length : Wonderful living freak of nature, the armless Midget Lady stands only 32 inches in height, born without hands or arms, and goes through a marvellous performance with her feet ...
  • The Terrence Higgins Trust present a unique staged reading of Safe Sex by Harvey Fierstein : at the Vaudeville Theatre, The Strand WC2, Sunday 16th December at 7.30 pm : includes High Profilactors!.
  • Friday, Jan. 19, farewell benefit of Mr. C. Freeman the American Giant! : and last night but one of his engagement ...
  • How to die of embarrassment : by Bill Dunlop and Catch Theatre Co. : unofficial programme / Catch Theatre Co.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • Positively for this night only! : Surrey Theatre. This present Monday, the 12th of May, 1823, will be presented the highly-popular melo drama, taken from the play of the Mountaineers, Octavian, by a professional gentleman ... for this night only will be exhibited the two real esquimaux indians from the frozen regions where Captain Parry is making discoveries ...
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • Every evening at 7.45, on a scale of grand magnificance, a new edition of the grand fairy spectacular opera, Babil & Bijou or, the lost regalia : by Dion Boucicault & J.R. Planche ... / Alhambra Theatre, manager, William Holland.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • To the public! : fifth appearance of the American Giant! On Tuesday evening, Dec. 26th, the celebrated American Giant, Mr. Freeman ...
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • Second appearance, these three years, of Mrs. Yates whom is engaged for six nights only : second appearance of Monsieur Bihin the celebrated Belgian giant, the tallest and handsomest man in the world, and also of the original troupe of Parisian monkeys! / Theatre Royal, Dublin.
  • Extraordinary novelty! Another living skeleton!! : and the last night of Cannon & Crawley ... : Monday, August 15th, 1825 ... / Royal Coburg Theatre.
  • Dear Friend, I have the privilege of inviting you to an important theatrical event and I'm sure you won't want to miss it ... / Sir John Gielgud, Patron of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • A grand juvenile night : by desire and under the immediate patronage of the right honorable the Earl of Sefton ... the celebrated American Giant Mr. Charles Freeman ... on Tuiesday, January 8, 1844 / Royal Amphitheatre ; sole lessee and manager, Mr. W.R. Copeland, 15 Great Charlotte Street.
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • The last week of the present attractive performances : Balfe's grand opera, The daughter of St. Mark ... The peri ... / Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane.
  • On Monday, July 19th, 1869 & every evening until further notice : the performance will commencewith (Wednesday and Thursday excepted) the interesting drama, in four acts, entitled - the Black Doctor : acts I. and II. the island of Bourbon, 1788 ... / Grecian Theatre ... City Road.
  • The days lengthen : by one hour and thirty-one minutes : hetero friendly comedy : Tristan Bates Theatre, 1a Tower Street London WC2 ...
  • The days lengthen : by one hour and thirty-one minutes : hetero friendly comedy : Tristan Bates Theatre, 1a Tower Street London WC2 ...
  • Last appearance but two of Mr. & Mrs. Yates : last appearance but four of Monsieur Bihin the celebrated Belgian giant, the tallest and handsomest man in the world, and also of the original troupe of Parisian monkeys! / Theatre Royal, Dublin.
  • How to die of embarrassment : by Bill Dunlop and Catch Theatre Co. : unofficial programme / Catch Theatre Co.
  • How to die of embarrassment : by Bill Dunlop and Catch Theatre Co. : unofficial programme / Catch Theatre Co.
  • A cathedral tower, advertising an AIDS benefit performance of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the cathedral' in Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by Ulrikka S. Gernes and Dermat Tatlow, ca. 1995, for AIDS Concern.
  • St. Peter's College, Westminster: a Royal procession by night. Lithograph, 1834.