With Lord Westmeath he leased the Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, and opened it, 6 March 1793, with productions of Beggar's Opera and The Irish Girl, with amateur casts.
[1] In 1794 Jones obtained permission to open a theatre for seven years in Dublin, and to hire female but not male performers.
Supported by Lord Westmeath, Jones spent heavily on the house, with the interior decorated by Gaetano Marinari[2] and Zaffarini.
Jones sold in 1808 shares in the Crow Street Theatre to John Crampton and Edward Tuite Dalton.
He once more withdrew from the management in 1814: a series of disturbances had culminated in a riot, in which the theatre was wrecked, and Jones laid the blame on the Tory government.
Intrigue against him proved successful, he was unable to renew the patent were refused, and it was granted to Thomas Harris of Covent Garden Theatre.