MAY-JUNE 1908

This blog is dedicated to preserving a record of Brooklyn theatre theatre-related images based largely on publication in nearly a half-dozen contemporary Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine (Brooklyn Life) of 1898-1908. It also lists the week-by-week productions at each legitimate theatre from January 1898 through December 1908. It is adapted from my earlier blog, BROOKLYN THEATRE FROM 1898: AN ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY and is intended as a supplement to a forthcoming two-volume book also called ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908).

The book covers everything related to Brooklyn theatre during the first decade of the former city's first decade as a borough of Greater New York, including plays, playhouses, productions, people, producing policies, scandals, lawsuits, fires, accidents, brawls, ethnic theatres, crimes, religious attacks, rivalry with Manhattan, and so on. The focus is on legitimate theatre, but considerable attention is paid to developments in vaudeville and burlesque as well. 

To find a specific month, please use the search box in the upper left corner. May-June and August-September are always joined, so searches for one of those months should be, for example, May-June 1906.

Samuel L. Leiter

Author: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES (McFarland: 2024).

MAY-JUNE 1908 

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn) 

May 4-9:

Blaney’s: The Girl and the Detective* (Cecil Spooner)

Broadway: The Parisian Model (Anna Held)

Columbia: Dora Thorne (Corinne Snell)

Folly: The County Fair (Neil Burgess)

Gotham: (Fuller Stock Company) The Plunger

Majestic: Buster Brown

New Montauk: The Top o’ the World* (George W. Monroe)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Company) The Road to Yesterday

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Strange Adventures of Mrs. Brown

Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Park 

May 11-16:

Bijou: Human Hearts

Broadway: Sapho, Carmen (Olga Nethersole)

Gotham: (Fuller Stock Company) Shore Acres

Majestic: The Bishop’s Carriage (Edna May Spooner)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Old Heidelberg

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Princess of Patches 

Vaudeville/burlesque: Keeney’s, Olympic, Orpheum, Star, Gayety, Folly 

May 18-23:

Broadway: The Clansman

Folly: Bandanna Land (Bert Williams and George Walker)

Gotham: (Fuller Stock Company) Anna Karenina

Majestic: The Three of Us (Edna May Spooner)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Zira

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Slaves of Russia

Vaudeville/burlesque: Olympic, Orpheum, Star, Gayety 

May 25-31:

Broadway: The Man of the Hour

Majestic: The Governor and the Boss (Edna May Spooner)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Girl from Williamsburg

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Parish Priest

Vaudeville/burlesque: Orpheum, Star, Gayety 

June 2-7:

Majestic: The Marriage of William Ashe, with Edna May Spooner

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Pearl of Savoy

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Nobody’s Darling, with Madeleine Clark

Vaudeville/burlesque: Orpheum, Star, Gayety

May 4-9, 1908

May 11-16, 1908

May 18-23, 1908

May 25-31, 1908

Majestic: The Governor and the Boss, with Edna May Spooner

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Lee Avenue Stock Company) The Girl from Williamsburg

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Parish Priest

Vaudeville and burlesque: Orpheum, Star, Gayety

June 2-7, 1908

June 9-14, 1908

A few additional summertime beach resort amusement photos for 1908.

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