ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): JANUARY 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 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).

January 1898

January 3–8

American: The Fast Mail
Amphion: Heartsease, with Henry Miller
Bijou: A Guilty Mother
Gayety: Who Is Who?, with Kelly and Mason
Grand Opera House: A Ward of France, with Maurice Barrymore
Montauk: An American Citizen, with Nat C. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott
Park (Stock Company): Incog (evenings); Little Lord Fauntleroy (matinees)
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

January 10–15

American: The Captain's Mate
Amphion: Cumberland '61
Bijou: Heart of the Klondike
Columbia: A Stranger in New York
Gayety: Hyde's Comedians
Grand Opera House: McSorley's Twins
Montauk: The Girl from Paris
Park (Stock Company): The Lights o' London
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

January 17–22

American: Shannon of the Sixth
Amphion: Never Again
Bijou: In Old Kentucky
Columbia: The Circus Girl
Gayety: The Pacific Mail
Grand Opera House: Superba
Montauk: The Girl from Paris
Park (Stock Company): The Lost Paradise
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

January 24–29

American: The Midnight Flood
Amphion: The Cat and the Cherub, with Anna Held
Bijou: The Great Train Robbery
Brooklyn Academy of Music: The Geisha
Columbia: The Circus Girl
Gayety: Superba
Grand Opera House: Who Is Who?, with Kelly and Mason
Montauk: The Senator, with William H. Crane
Park (Stock Company): The Streets of New York
Vaudeville/Burlesque: Hyde & Behman's, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star