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Short theatrical or musical piece after the main performance
An afterpiece (or postlude, German term Nachspiel is also used in English texts) is a short, usually humorous one-act playlet or musical work following
Afterpiece
Comic afterpiece in ancient Roman theatre
An exodium (plural exodia) was a short, comic afterpiece in the ancient Roman theatre, typically performed at the conclusion of a tragedy to provide comic
Exodium
American variety performer and theatre owner (1837–1908)
often had an afterpiece following it. They played a major role in his shows, often written in the final act of the program. The afterpieces were written
Tony_Pastor
19th- and 20th-century American form of musical theater
American Quartet, 1902 Problems playing this file? See media help. The afterpiece rounded out the production. In the early days of the minstrel show, this
Minstrel_show
Arthur Murphy play
The Apprentice is a 1756 afterpiece by Irish dramatist Arthur Murphy. This two-act farce, which was Murphy's first play, satirized London's amateur spouting
The_Apprentice_(play)
Art form combining sung text and musical score in a theatrical setting
In England, opera's antecedent was the 17th-century jig. This was an afterpiece that came at the end of a play. It was frequently libellous and scandalous
Opera
1786 comic opera
and Lydia Webb. In following years it was reduced to a shorter two-act afterpiece. Worrall p.63 Worrall, David. Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British
The_Siege_of_Curzola
English writer and judge (1707–1754)
Barely a month later, on 24 April 1730, Fielding produced the two-act afterpiece Tom Thumb (expanded in 1731 as The Tragedy of Tragedies). Echoing Ralph’s
Henry_Fielding
1716 play
the same title was written by Charles Johnson the same year. A one-act afterpiece is the origin of the phrase "Tis impossible to be sure of anything but
The_Cobbler_of_Preston
1715 play
comedy play by the British writer Henry Carey. A farce, it produced was an afterpiece to follow on from a revival of Bonduca. The original Drury Lane cast included
The_Contrivances
1963 studio album by Cassius Clay
2. "Round 6: Funny You Should Ask" 2:40 3. "Round 7: 2138" 4:07 4. "Round 8: The Knockout" 4:05 5. "Afterpiece (see Round 1)" 3:27 Total length: 18:57
I Am the Greatest (Cassius Clay album)
I_Am_the_Greatest_(Cassius_Clay_album)
Genre of light opera
v t e Opera genres Acte de ballet Afterpiece Azione sacra Azione teatrale Ballad opera Ballet héroïque Bühnenfestspiel Bühnenweihfestspiel Burletta Chamber
Operetta
1715 play
British writer Christopher Bullock. It was originally performed as an afterpiece to another work The Lucky Prodigal. With its Newgate Prison setting and
A_Woman's_Revenge_(play)
Short act or show that precedes the main attraction
curtain raiser. One that followed the full-length piece was called an afterpiece. W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning the curtain raisers: This was
Curtain_raiser
Play by Henry Carey
Marriage is a 1722 farce by the British writer Henry Carey. Written as an afterpiece it premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre accompanying a revival of
Hanging_and_Marriage
Opera by William Shield
Covent Garden, on 31 December 1782. It was intended to be used as a light afterpiece to a more "serious" work sung in Italian. Such works were common at the
Rosina_(opera)
Musical
and blackface minstrel companies for the next 30 years, typically as an afterpiece. The play parodies the Indian narratives that were popular at the time
Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage
Po-ca-hon-tas,_or_The_Gentle_Savage
1720 play
Hob's Wedding is a 1720 farce by the Irish writer John Leigh. An afterpiece, it premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in support of the comedy
Hob's_Wedding
Theatrical character in "She Stoops To Conquer"
production. The character became so popular that he was later used in a 1778 afterpiece play, Tony Lumpkin in Town, by John O'Keeffe. The play was still popular
Tony_Lumpkin
Play by William Shakespeare
The Dublin Stage, 1720–1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments, and Afterpieces. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-585-24870-7
The_Taming_of_the_Shrew
1718 play
and Susanna Mountfort as Fidelia. In 1723 Breval rewrote his work as an afterpiece retitled The Strollers which enjoyed considerable success. Burling p.69
The_Play_is_the_Plot
English composer
afterpiece, 1793, London) My Grandmother (libretto by Prince Hoare, afterpiece, 1794, London) Lodoiska (libretto by John Philip Kemble, afterpiece, 1794
Stephen_Storace
Play by Charles Knipe
Lincoln's-Inn Fields Theatre, London in 1715. It was performed as an afterpiece at times. It was revived at Covent Garden in 1736. Whincop says that it
A_City_Ramble
Play by Charles Molloy
number of occasions. It premiered with the farce Hob's Wedding as an afterpiece. The original cast at Lincoln's Inn Fields included Lacy Ryan as Bellayr
The_Half-Pay_Officers
1676 play
premiered at the Dorset Garden Theatre performed by the Duke's Company as an afterpiece to Otway's new tragedy Titus and Berenice. The original cast included
The_Cheats_of_Scapin
Play by George Lillo
decade. It was shown with Henry Fielding's The Historical Register as an afterpiece. Soon afterwards Walpole brought forward a Licensing Act 1737 to clamp
Fatal_Curiosity
1796 play
comedy play by the Irish writer John O'Keeffe. A farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 23 April 1796. The original
The_Doldrum
1786 play
by the English writer Elizabeth Inchbald. A farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 20 June 1786. The original cast included
The_Widow's_Vow
List of Films
Title Director Cast Genre Ref. Afterpiece Keane Wong Stephen Fung, Myolie Wu, Angela Yuen, Chrissie Chau Drama Bird of Paradise Wu Chui-yi Catherine Chau
List of Hong Kong films of 2026
List_of_Hong_Kong_films_of_2026
Beginning with this show, nearly every episode closed with a 3-4 minute "Afterpiece," one of George and Gracie's vaudeville routines, which were performed
List of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show episodes
List_of_The_George_Burns_and_Gracie_Allen_Show_episodes
1730 play by Henry Fielding
only the first two acts of the play were shown. It was paired with the afterpiece Damon and Phillida, which was later replaced by The Jealous Taylor in
The_Author's_Farce
Genre of French opera
v t e Opera genres Acte de ballet Afterpiece Azione sacra Azione teatrale Ballad opera Ballet héroïque Bühnenfestspiel Bühnenweihfestspiel Burletta Chamber
Opéra_comique
1676 play
Another new work by Otway, a farce The Cheats of Scapin was performed as an afterpiece. Both plays were published together the following year and dedicated to
Titus_and_Berenice
1778 play by John O'Keeffe
Tony Lumpkin in Town is a 1778 Irish comedy play by John O'Keeffe. An afterpiece, it was intended as a sequel to the 1773 play She Stoops to Conquer by
Tony_Lumpkin_in_Town
Comedy play
Miss Lucy Seymour. In 1787 John O'Keeffe adapted the work into a two-act afterpiece Love and War. Hogan p.797 Nicoll p.277 O'Shaughnessy p.11 Nicoll, Allardyce
The_Campaign_(play)
1724 play
John C. & Clark, Gladys L. H. The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments, and Afterpiece. Lehigh University Press, 1993. v t e
A_Wife_and_No_Wife
Italian opera genre associated with humor
v t e Opera genres Acte de ballet Afterpiece Azione sacra Azione teatrale Ballad opera Ballet héroïque Bühnenfestspiel Bühnenweihfestspiel Burletta Chamber
Opera_buffa
1875 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
Dolaro's Royalty Theatre, and he needed a short opera to be played as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole, which was to open on 30 January (with Fred
Trial_by_Jury
Person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or performance art
gradually began to replace the Atellanae as interludes [embolium] or afterpieces (exodium on the main theatre stages; became the sole dramatic event at
Mime_artist
English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836–1911)
managing the Royalty Theatre, and he needed a short opera to play as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole. He contacted Gilbert, asked about the piece
W._S._Gilbert
1786 British opera
opera with music by William Shield and a libretto by John O'Keeffe. An afterpiece, it was a sequel to the 1783 hit The Poor Soldier with the characters
Love_in_a_Camp
Play by Aaron Hill
as Elfrid. Concerned about the play's modest reception, Hill wrote an afterpiece entitled The Walking Statue which proved to be more popular than the main
Elfrid
Irish theatrical work
pasticcio opera to music by William Shield, as in its altered version as an afterpiece for the London stage, The Poor Soldier (1783). White, Eric Walter: A Register
The_Shamrock
Topics referred to by the same term
tales illustrated by Harry Furniss The Romp (play) (1767), a comedic afterpiece play derived from Love in the City by Isaac Bickerstaffe The Romp (website)
Romp
Victorian-era theatrical partnership
managing the Royalty Theatre and needed a short opera to be played as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole. Carte knew about Gilbert's libretto for Rosa
Gilbert_and_Sullivan
Opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
King Louis XV's entertainments at Fontainebleau and was intended as an afterpiece to a play by Nivelle de la Chaussée, La fausse antipathie. However, the
Daphnis_et_Eglé
entrée. 18th century. Les fêtes de Ramire (1745), Anacréon (1754), Rameau Afterpiece English 18th/19th century short opera or pantomime performed after a full-length
List_of_opera_genres
1735 play
comedy play by Robert Fabian. Performed at the Drury Lane Theatre as an afterpiece to Cato. It became notorious for the killing of the actor Thomas Hallam
Trick_for_Trick_(1735_play)
English stage actor of the Victorian era (1838–1905)
successful solo play, Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack, an afterpiece to Dion Boucicault's drama Hunted Down, in which Irving played the villain
Henry_Irving
1779 play
1779 comedy play by the British writer Hannah Cowley. A two-act farcical afterpiece, it premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 10 April 1779
Who's_the_Dupe?
1720 play
John C. & Clark, Gladys L. H. The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments, and Afterpiece. Lehigh University Press, 1993. v t e
Wexford_Wells
1757 play
England is a 1757 comedy play by the British writer Tobias Smollett. An afterpiece, it was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London and
The_Reprisal
1898 musical
noise from the street. Clorindy was first presented on July 4, 1898 as an afterpiece to Rice's production Summer Nights, and it was a hit, prompting Cook to
Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk
Clorindy:_The_Origin_of_the_Cakewalk
English actor and playwright
1718 he also authored several plays, mainly farces, beginning with an afterpiece The Slip. His sole attempt at a tragedy was The Traitor. In 1720 he relinquished
Christopher_Bullock_(actor)
1736 play
The London Stage, Volume III: A Calendar Of Plays, Entertainments And Afterpieces, Together With Casts, Box Receipts And Contemporary Comment. Southern
The_Parricide
1704 play
Chapelle. It was staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London as an afterpiece to a revival of John Crowne's The Country Wit. The cast included Thomas
The_Stage_Coach
Sung drama of a light or comedic nature
Arthur Sullivan, to write a short one-act opera that would serve as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole. The result was Trial by Jury; its success
Comic_opera
English composer and violinist (1756–1778)
hark, the watch-dogs bark" and the Storm chorus) The Cady of Bagdad (afterpiece comic opera, libretto by Abraham Portal). 1778. The Triumph of Mirth,
Thomas_Linley_the_younger
The Romp is a 1767 play, a comic afterpiece, which was derived from Love in the City by Isaac Bickerstaffe. The piece centred on the most popular character
The_Romp_(play)
Opera by Charles Dibdin
The Padlock is a two-act 'afterpiece' opera by Charles Dibdin. The text was by Isaac Bickerstaffe. It debuted in 1768 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London
The_Padlock
1805 play
Rugantino is an 1805 melodrama by the British writer Matthew Lewis. An afterpiece, it was originally staged at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 18 October
Rugantino_(play)
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
Géorgiennes and La Périchole. Trial by Jury was written specifically as an afterpiece for that production of La Périchole. Latin, literally, "with the pen running
Jacques_Offenbach
Comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and B.C Stephenson
It premiered on 5 June 1875 at the St James's Theatre in London (as an afterpiece to W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb), concluding its run five weeks later, on
The_Zoo
Opera genre
definitions mentioned above. Only first runs are shown. Curtain-raisers and afterpieces that played with the Savoy Operas are included in the next table below
Savoy_opera
1824 play
Maria Tree as Mary. It was performed 14 times in its initial run. An afterpiece, the running time was roughly an hour and fifty minutes. It subsequently
Charles_the_Second_(play)
English actress (1711–1785)
regular season, The Devil to Pay was swiftly cut down into a sentimental afterpiece with a climactic duet, arranged from a Handel aria, for Clive and Irish
Kitty_Clive
1776 play
after Marriage is a comedy play by the Irish writer Arthur Murphy. An afterpiece, it premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 30 March
Three_Weeks_After_Marriage
1788 play
English writer Elizabeth Inchbald. A three-act farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 22 May 1788. The original
Animal_Magnetism_(play)
1953 play by Max Frisch
and the increasingly surreal flavour culminates in a final scene, the afterpiece, where Biedermann and his wife Babette find themselves at the gates of
The_Fire_Raisers_(play)
1790 opera by Stephen Storace
Storace to a libretto by Prince Hoare. No Song, No Supper is an operatic afterpiece which is the first of Storace's five collaborations with Hoare. Its premiere
No_Song,_No_Supper
1759 comedy play by James Townley
Stairs is a 1759 comedy play by the British writer James Townley. An afterpiece, it premiered at Drury Lane on a double bill with a revival of Congreve's
High_Life_Below_Stairs
Literary device
Paul D. Cannan (2008). "Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers, and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage (review)". Restoration:
Epilogue
American comedic actor and performer (1899–1986)
article reported that his first vaudeville performance was in 1930 in the afterpiece Amateur Night that played at the Palace Theatre in New York. He had previously
Jerry_Bergen
Farce by W. S. Gilbert
ran for only 53 performances. Arthur Sullivan's The Zoo played as an afterpiece to Tom Cobb. Gilbert and Sullivan had already produced their hit one-act
Tom_Cobb
1779 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
the present day. Performed by male school children, it functioned as an afterpiece to Euripides's Alcestis. In 1911, Herbert Beerbohm Tree mounted a star-studded
The_Critic_(play)
2026 Asian film festival in New York
Title Original Title Director Premiere status Hong Kong Panorama 2026 Afterpiece 第四幕 Keane T. K. Wong North American Premiere 2026 Bird of Paradise 媽樣年華
25th New York Asian Film Festival
25th_New_York_Asian_Film_Festival
Polly Honeycombe is a 1760 afterpiece farce by George Colman the Elder. It comically deals with the effect of novel-reading on not only young women, but
Polly_Honeycombe
Style of Italian opera
v t e Opera genres Acte de ballet Afterpiece Azione sacra Azione teatrale Ballad opera Ballet héroïque Bühnenfestspiel Bühnenweihfestspiel Burletta Chamber
Opera_seria
Miss in Her Teens; or The Medley of Lovers is a farce (or afterpiece) written in 1747 by David Garrick. It was adapted from Florent Carton Dancourt's 1691
Miss_in_Her_Teens
Galician noblewoman and courtier (1325–1355)
The London stage, 1660-1800 : a calendar of plays, entertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment. Carbondale :
Inês_de_Castro
1716 play
Inn Fields Theatre in London on 10 March 1716, and was followed as an afterpiece by the masque Presumptuous Love, also by Taverner. It opened the same
Everybody_Mistaken
1729 ballad opera
The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments, and Afterpiece. Lehigh University Press, 1993. Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Early
The_Beggar's_Wedding
1795 play by Prince Hoare
The Three and the Deuce is a 1795 English afterpiece with libretto by Prince Hoare and music by Stephen Storace. It was first performed at the Theatre
The_Three_and_the_Deuce
English poet and playwright (1685–1732)
Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd. This appeared on 23 February 1715 as an afterpiece at Drury Lane to Nicholas Rowe's tragedy Jane Shore. It left the public
John_Gay
1798 musical
premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 25 October 1798 as an afterpiece. The original cast included Edward Townsend as Jack Junk, John Fawcett
The_Mouth_of_the_Nile
Hamlet and census-designated place in New York, United States
Photo[permanent dead link]. Dyson, Verne (1953). A Century of Brentwood, with the Afterpiece: Supplement and Index. Brentwood, Long Island, NY: Brentwood Village Press
Brentwood,_New_York
German composer (18th century)
the composer cut it significantly, from a full opera of 42 airs to an afterpiece of sixteen airs, it became a hit. Apart from The Beggar's Opera, The Devil
Seedo
English musician and composer of the second half of the 18th century
Gopell, by playing the obbligato part in the aria Sweet Echo from the afterpiece Comus. By 1778, Shaw had joined the band at the Drury Lane theatre in
Thomas_Shaw_(composer)
Genre of variety show
developed into a definite form of entertainment, with a first part, olio and afterpiece or burlesque. Most of the shows that were rated as burlesque shows between
American_burlesque
1787 play
mistakenly attributed to William Macready. A farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 28 August 1787. The Irish
The_Village_Lawyer
French opera genre
v t e Opera genres Acte de ballet Afterpiece Azione sacra Azione teatrale Ballad opera Ballet héroïque Bühnenfestspiel Bühnenweihfestspiel Burletta Chamber
Opéra_bouffe
Ballet by Arthur Sullivan
companies, when performing a shorter opera, to present a short ballet as an afterpiece on the programme. In 1864 Arthur Sullivan was the organist for the Royal
L'Île_Enchantée
musical entertainment pieces performed either between scenes or as an afterpiece to relieve the tension created by the melodrama and its serious storyline
Minnesota_Centennial_Showboat
French genre of opera buffa (comic opera)
v t e Opera genres Acte de ballet Afterpiece Azione sacra Azione teatrale Ballad opera Ballet héroïque Bühnenfestspiel Bühnenweihfestspiel Burletta Chamber
Opéra_bouffon
Topics referred to by the same term
(disambiguation) Jig (theatre), 'dramatic' or 'farce' jig, a short, comic afterpiece in the playhouses of 16th and 17th century England James D. Ramage (1916–2012)
Jig_(disambiguation)
Play by Charles Hale Hoyt
Evans' and Hoey's vaudeville piece "The Book Agent" (which came from an afterpiece by Frank Dumont) into a full-length play. The scant plot involved two
A_Parlor_Match
American comic strip
David Manning White and Robert H. Abel, eds. (Free Press, 1963) Art Afterpieces by Ward Kimball (Pocket Books, 1964) Foreword by Walt Kelly The Comics:
Pogo_(comic_strip)
British singer, actress-manager
"vivacity as an actress" with "taste and skill as a singer". As a replacement afterpiece to La Périchole, her new theatre manager, Richard D'Oyly Carte, commissioned
Selina_Dolaro
English dramatist and civil servant (1732–1811)
by a musical drama, The Summer's Tale, subsequently compressed into an afterpiece Amelia (1768). Cumberland first essayed sentimental comedy in The Brothers
Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
Richard_Cumberland_(dramatist)
1912 hymn by George Bennard
Cross And exchange it some day for a crown In his art parody volume Art Afterpieces, Ward Kimball created a variation on the painting Expulsion from Paradise
The_Old_Rugged_Cross
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