1776 - Theater, Film

Theater, Film

Theater: Stella by Wolfgang von Goethe 2/8 at Hamburg; The Twins (Die Zwillinge) by German playwright Friedrich (Maximilian) von Klinger, 24, 2/23 at Hamburg; The Soldier (Die Soldaten) by German playwright-poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, 25, who has followed Goethe to Weimar but is forced to leave because of his bad manners and tactlessness (Lenz will suffer a mental breakdown); Mustapha et Zeangir by Sebastien Chamfort, whose tragedy brings him a pension from the French royal family and confirms his success in society; The Runaway by Devonshire-born bookseller's daughter Hannah Cowley (née Parkhouse), 33, at London's Drury Lane Theatre. Poet Cowley attended theater earlier in the year with her husband, an East India Company employee, and told him she could write a better play. She did so within a fortnight and sent it to David Garrick, who has produced it, launching her on a notable career.

The Bolshoi Theater is founded at Moscow.