FEBRUARY 1900

  

 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).

 FEBRUARY 1900 

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

February 5-10:
Amphion: The Village Postmaster (Archie Boyd)
Bijou: At Piney Ridge (David Higgins)
Columbia: The Only Way* (Henry Miller)
Gayety: The Great Train Robbery
Grand Opera House: Miss B. Shaughnessy (Wash Woman) (George H. Monroe)
Montauk: The Singing Girl* (Alice Nielsen Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty

February 12-17:
Amphion: His Excellence, The Governor* (Ethel Barrymore)
Bijou: Mistakes Will Happen* (Charles Dickson)
Columbia: The Only Way (Henry Miller)
Gayety: The Last of the Rohans (Andrew Mack)
Grand Opera House: The Village Postmaster (Archie Boyd)
Montauk: The Belle of New York
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty

February 19-24:
Amphion: Phroso (Odette Tyler)
Bijou: The Dairy Farm
Columbia: The Rogers Brothers on Wall Street* (the Rogers Brothers)
Gayety: Dodge’s Trip to New York*
Grand Opera House: The Last of the Rohans (Andrew Mack)
Montauk: Sister Mary* (May Irwin)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Academy of Music

February 27-March 4:
Amphion: A Greek Slave*
Bijou: A Guilty Mother
Columbia: Chris and the Wonderful Lamp* (Edna Wallace Hopper)
Grand Opera House: A Wise Guy (Hayes and Lytton’s Comedians)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Gayety, Montauk

 February 5-10, 1900\

 

FEBRUARY 12-17, 1900

FEBRUARY 19-24, 1900

FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 4, 1900

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