Christopher Beeston (c. 1579 – c. 15 October 1638) was a successful actor and a powerful theatrical impresario in early 17th century London. He was associated...

In 1616, the Queen's men, now directed by impresario Christopher Beeston, moved into Beeston's new indoor Cockpit Theatre. This was in emulation of the...

footballer Christopher Beeston (c. 1579 – 1638), actor James Beeston (1778-?), English cricketer John Beeston, an alternative name of James Beeston, cricketer...

year, 1602, saw Christopher Beeston's rape charge. Probably some of the Lord Chamberlain's Men were among the actors who accompanied Beeston to his pretrial...

which I am of". (Phillips also leaves a bequest to Christopher Beeston, as a former "servant". Beeston was almost certainly another former apprentice.)...

Phillips, John Heminges, Henry Condell, Thomas Pope, William Sly, Christopher Beeston, William Kempe, and John Duke. (Kempe would leave the company the...

William Beeston (1606? – 1682) was an English actor and theatre manager, the son and successor to the more famous Christopher Beeston. William was brought...

indoor Cockpit Theatre, and these two were presumably produced by Christopher Beeston, who operated both the Red Bull and the Cockpit. By the 1620s, the...

housed from 1675 at the Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam). August – Christopher Beeston acquires the lease of the Cockpit off Drury Lane in London and converts...

in 1637, when Christopher Beeston established, under royal warrant, the King and Queen's Young Company, colloquially called Beeston's Boys. The intent...

her theatrical patronages is Christopher Beeston, who had not only run his own company of actors known by the Beeston's Boys, but others such as Queen...

"schoolmaster in the country" on the authority of William Beeston, son of Christopher Beeston, who had acted with Shakespeare in Every Man in His Humour...

of the London apprentices damages the Cockpit Theatre. Impresario Christopher Beeston rebuilds it, and christens it the Phoenix for its rebirth, perhaps...

Christopher Beeston, actor, impresario, and owner of the Cockpit Theatre (also known as the Phoenix) as well as the Red Bull. In August 1635 Beeston loaned...

there and at the Red Bull Theatre, under the managements of Christopher Beeston, William Beeston, and Sir William Davenant, down to the closing of the theatres...

stage career as a boy player filling female roles; he was part of Christopher Beeston's theatrical establishment at the Cockpit Theatre, "eventually becoming...

1637, under a royal warrant, by the theatre manager and impresario Christopher Beeston, during a time of disorder and reorganisation in the theatre profession;...

Worcester's Men. Among the company's most important members were Christopher Beeston, its manager, and Thomas Heywood, the actor-dramatist who wrote many...

Chamberlain's/King's troupe down to 1621. "Kit" might have been Christopher Beeston, who was with the Chamberlain's in the 1598–1602 period. The plot...

Tina Wendy Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston, MBE PC (born 2 July 1967) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords. Baroness...

the Children of Paul's. (Christopher Beeston would make the same effort, though more fortunately, when he started Beeston's Boys in 1637.) The Blagrave/Gunnell...

organisations, those of Richard Heton at the Salisbury Court and Christopher Beeston at the Cockpit Theatre.) The play was revived early in the Restoration...

took it ill, and would have forbidden the play" – but impresario Christopher Beeston promised Herbert that everything that Herbert disliked in the play...

than the 30 shillings he left to Shakespeare, Henry Condell, and Christopher Beeston, but the same sum he left to fellow King's Men Robert Armin, Alexander...

information on specific individuals, see individual entries: Robert Armin, Christopher Beeston, Robert Benfield, etc. "Sharer" – an actor who was a partner in the...

already a leading player with the Lady Elizabeth's Men. In 1625, Christopher Beeston formed a new company under the patronage of the new queen, Henrietta...

Prince of Wales, King James I's eldest son and heir). In August 1616, Christopher Beeston acquired the lease to the building and converted it to an indoor...

actor/playwright Thomas Heywood and the famous clown Will Kempe. Christopher Beeston joined Worcester's Men in August 1602, after leaving the Lord Chamberlain's...

salaries, and grievances of hired men in the dramatic companies." Christopher Beeston and Thomas Heywood, among others, gave testimony on the side of Baskervile...

Nabbes's Hannibal and Scipio. Bird married Anne Beeston, the eldest daughter of Christopher Beeston, the leading theatrical impresario of his generation;...