Theatre. Newport . On Monday Evening, August 19, 1816 Will be presented, a favorite Comedy, in 5 Acts, called the School of Reform or, how to Rule a Husband (Theater) Americana,Art, Architecture & Design

Broadside, on laid paper. 25-1/4x19-1/2 inches. Unrecorded oversize early American theater broadside for a performance at the Newport Theatre of Thomas Morton's comedy The School of Reform. Other acts included a "new comic song, called Scan Mag, or Tea-Table Talk" by a Mr. Stamp, "a Hornpipe, with skipping Rope" by Miss W. Clark, and a one-act farce titled Day After the Wedding. The bottom of the broadside lists details on ticket sales: $1 for boxes, $.50 for the pit and $.25 for the gallery. The earliest known broadside for the Newport Theatre (1793-1842) is dated in the year of its opening in 1793 (Bristol B8432; one known copy at Rhode Island Historical Society, badly mutilated). Shaw & Shoemaker record two other 1816 broadsides (38690 and 39072), for August 30 and August 9, respectively; an additional 1816 broadside for August 7 is located in the the Hay Library, Brown University. The Harvard Theatre Collection does not appear to hold a single pre-1820 example of a broadside from the Newport Theatre. Tissue backed repairing separations at old folds, toned, minor dampstaining at right margin Broadside, on laid paper. 25-1/4x19-1/2 inches