ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): JANUARY 1901

ORPHEUM THEATRE: FULTON AND ROCKWELL PLACE (1901)

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 1901

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

December 31-January 5:
Amphion: Hodge, Podge and Co. (Peter F. Dailey)
Bijou: 8 Bells (the Byrne Brothers)
Columbia: San Toy (Augustin Daly Musical Company)
Gayety: The Floor Walkers (Ward and Vokes)
Grand Opera House: The Rebel (Andrew Mack)
Montauk: L’Aiglon* (Maude Adams)
Park (Baker Stock Company): The Lost Paradise
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): The Two Orphans
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum

January 7-12:
Amphion: Zaza (Mrs. Leslie Carter)
Bijou: Through the Breakers
Columbia: Sweet Anne Page* (Lulu Glaser Opera Company)
Grand Opera House: The Rebel (Andrew Mack)
Montauk: Foxy Quiller* (Jerome Sykes)
Park (Baker Stock Company): Lynwood
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Men and Women
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Gayety

January 14-19:
Amphion: All on Account of Eliza (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Bijou: In Old Kentucky
Columbia: Monte Cristo (James O’Neill)
Gayety: The Merry Tramps* (the Royal Lilliputians)
Montauk: When We Were Twenty-One (Nat C. Goodwin, Maxine Elliott)
Park (Baker Stock Company): Myrtle Ferns
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): A Child of the State
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Grand Opera House

January 21-26:
Amphion: The Still Alarm (Harry Lacy)
Bijou: Lost in the Desert*
Columbia: A Royal Rogue* (Jefferson De Angelis)
Gayety: Miss Prinnt* (Marie Dressler)
Grand Opera House: The Merry Tramps (the Royal Lilliputians)
Montauk: The Gay Lord Quex *(John Hare)
Park (Baker Stock Company): Oaken Hearts
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Hazel Kirke
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum

January 28-February 2:
Amphion: Vanity Fair* (Gertrude Coghlan)
Bijou: At the Stroke of 12
Columbia: Sapho (Olga Nethersole)
Gayety: At Piney Ridge (David Higgins)
Grand Opera House: Sis Hopkins (Rose Melville)
Montauk: David Garrick; The Professor’s Love Story; The Middleman; Tom Pinch (E. S. Willard)
Park (Baker Stock Company): Nell Gwynn
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): The Galley Slave
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Orpheum