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).
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).
*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn
December 4-9:
Amphion: Who Killed Cock Robin?* (Thomas Q. Seabrooke)
Bijou: A Romance of Athlone (Chauncey Olcott)
Columbia: The Old Homestead (Denman Thompson)
Grand Opera House: Superba
Montauk: A Rich Man’s Son* (William H. Crane)
Park: Erminie (American Standard Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music
Hall, Empir
December 11-16:
Amphion: Cyrano de Bergerac (Francis Wilson)
Bijou: The Gunner’s Mate*
Columbia: A Stranger in a Strange Land
Gayety: Superba
Grand Opera House: Secret Service
Montauk: The Girl in the Barracks* (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Park: Erminie (American Standard Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music
Hall, Empire
December 18-23:
Bijou: A Trip to Coontown* (Cole and Johnson)
Columbia: The Sign of the Cross* (William Greet’s London Company, with
Charles Dalton)
Gayety: Sis Hopkins (Rose Melville)
Grand Opera House: The Rising Generation (Billy Barry)
Montauk: More Than Queen* (Julia Arthur)
Park: Giroflé-Girofla (American Standard Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music
Hall, Empire
December 25-30:
Amphion: Because She Loved Him So (J. E. Dodson)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Becky Sharp* (Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske,
Maurice Barrymore)
Bijou: The Queen of Chinatown*
Columbia: The Christian (Viola Allen)
Gayety: A Stranger in a Strange Land
Montauk: The Tyranny of Tears (John Drew)
Park: Iolanthe (American Standard Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music
Hall, Empire, Grand Opera House
DECEMBER 4-9, 1899
DECEMBER 11-16, 1899
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DECEMBER 25-30, 1899
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