A HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE: ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY (1898-1908): FEBRUARY 1898

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 A HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE: ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY (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: NINETEE

February 1898

Weekly Attractions

January 31–February 5

American: The Dear Irish Home; The Cruiskeen Lawn
Bijou: The Electrician
Columbia: The Idol's Eye
Amphion: My Friend from India
Grand Opera House: The Pacific Mail
Montauk: The Countess Valeska, with Julia Marlowe
Park (Stock Company): The Ticket-of-Leave Man
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

February 7–12

American: The Land of the Living
Amphion: The Geisha
Bijou: Fallen Among Thieves
Columbia: A Marriage of Convenience, with John Drew
Gayety: The Governors, with Ward and Vokes
Grand Opera House: Primrose and West's Minstrels
Montauk: Romeo and Juliet; Bonnie Prince Charlie; As You Like It; Ingomar, with Julia Marlowe
Park (Stock Company): The New Unknown
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Gayety

February 14–19

American: Ingomar; Leah the Forsaken; East Lynne (repertory with Rachelle Renard)
Amphion: The Girl from Paris
Bijou: Cumberland '61
Columbia: Die Lachtaube; Waldmeister; La Belle Hélène; Die Fledermaus (Conried Comic Opera Company)
Gayety: Primrose and West's Minstrels
Grand Opera House: In Gay New York
Montauk: A Bachelor's Romance, with Sol Smith Russell
Park (Stock Company): The Galley Slave
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

February 21–26

Amphion: A Stranger in New York
Bijou: East Lynne
Columbia: Jack and the Beanstalk
Gayety: In Gay New York
Grand Opera House: A Hot Old Time, with Johnny and Emma Ray
Montauk: The Swell Miss Fitzwell, with May Irwin
Park: Kit, The Arkansas Traveler
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star