This page is under construction as new images are added.
This blog is dedicated to preserving a curated record of theatre-related clippings drawn from the digitized pages of the four chief Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine of 1898-1908. Those sources, as they were called during these years, are: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Standard Union, and Brooklyn Daily Times. At first, only Brooklyn Life printed photos; as time passed, the newspapers, beginning with the Citizen, abandoned photo-based etchings and line drawings for photos.
Each entry is devoted to one or two months during the decade. A list of the month’s offerings precedes the illustrations, most of which are identified within the original image. The performers include not only leading players but lesser ones, most of whose names are entirely forgotten today. Many depict burlesque and vaudeville acts that are often listed on the heading each weekly group of images.
The production lists designate titles of shows at the legitimate theatres only; burlesque and vaudeville theatres are listed only by name to show that they were active. If a theatre is missing it was either permanently or temporarily closed.
It is hoped that this blog will be a useful adjunct to a two-volume book I’m preparing for publication, ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908); Vol. I (1898-1903), Vol. II (1903-1908).
Samuel L. Leiter
Author: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES.
FEBRUARY 1900
February 5-10: Amphion: The Village Postmaster,
with Archie Boyd; Bijou: At Piney Ridge, with David Higgins; Columbia: The
Only Way, with Henry Miller; Gayety: The Great Train Robbery; Grand Opera House: Miss B.
Shaughnessy (Wash Woman), with
George H. Monroe; Montauk: The Singing Girl, with Alice Nielsen
Opera Company; Vaudeville/burlesque:
Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty; February
12-17: Amphion: His Excellence, The Governor, with
Ethel Barrymore; Bijou: Mistakes Will Happen, with Charles Dickson;
Columbia: The Only Way, with Henry Miller; Gayety: The Last
of the Rohans, with Andrew Mack; Grand Opera House: The Village
Postmaster, with Archie Boyd; Montauk: The Belle of New York; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall,
Empire, Star, Novelty; February 19-24: Amphion: Phroso, with
Odette Tyler; Bijou: The Dairy Farm; Columbia: Wall Street,
with the Rogers Brothers; Gayety: Dodge’s Trip to New York; Grand Opera House: The Last of the Rohans, with Andrew
Mack; Montauk: Sister Mary, with 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, with Edna Wallace Hopper; Grand Opera House: A
Wise Guy, with Hayes and Lytton’s Comedians: Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall,
Empire, Star, Novelty, Gayety, Montauk
6. February 5-10, 1900\
FEBRUARY 12-17, 1900
FEBRUARY 19-24, 1900
FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 4, 1900
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