Richard III
Contributors: Brady, William A., 1863-1950; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Belasco Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1911
Language: eng
Description: Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., David Belasco and Sam S. and Lee Shubert, proprietors and managers, direction of Sam S. and Lee Shubert (Inc.), L. Stoddard Taylor, resident manager. William A. Brady announces Mr. Mantell and his distinguished company in the following repertoire: "King Lear," "Hamlet," "As You Like It," "Richelieu," "Othello," "Macbeth," "Merchant of Venice," "Richard III." "Richard III," Mr. Colley Cibber's free but practicable perversion of the tragedy is used. It involves the use of matter from the final scene of the previous chronicle, Part III of King Henry VI, the omission of numerous characters of Shakespeare's, the transposition of some scenes and the elision of others, while a considerable portion of the text, notably the soliloquy on Conscience, in Act II, is Cibber's own.
Notes: Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., week of Monday, April 3, 1911. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday. Saturday evening.

Title devised by Library staff.

"Belasco Theater program, Washington, D.C., Vol. 6, no. 30"--p. 10.

Cast: Mr. Mantell, Mr. Frederick Baldwin, Mr. Oscar pfefferle, Mr. Alfred Hastings, Mr. J. Sawyer Crawley, Mr. Henry Fearing, Mr. Guy Lindsley, Miss Genevieve Hamper, Mr. W.H. Niemeyer, Miss Leila Frost, Mr. George Stilwell, Mr. Casson Ferguson, Mr. Hugh Jeffrey, Mr. Edwin Foos, Miss Karl Garvis, Mr. Cyril Tiapa, Mr. Fritz Leiber, Mr. Charles Kean, Miss Marie Booth Russell, Miss Genevieve Reynolds, Miss Agnes Elliott Scott.

With: King Lear. Issued together.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).