A HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE: ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY (1898-1908): MARCH 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: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES (McFarland: 2024).

MARCH 1898

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

February 28-March 5:
Amphion: The Idol’s Eye (Frank Daniels)
Bijou: At Gay Coney Island (Mathews and Bulger)
Columbia: The Heart of Maryland (Mrs. Leslie Carter)
Gayety: A Hot Old Time (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Grand Opera House: An Irish Gentleman* (Andrew Mack)
Montauk: Secret Service* (William Gillette)
Park: The Land of the Living (Lillian Washburn)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

March 7-12:
Amphion: Under the Red Robe
Bijou: Sweet Inniscarra* (Chauncey Olcott)
Columbia: Never Again
Gayety: At Gay Coney Island
Grand Opera House: A Milk White Flag
Montauk: Secret Service (William Gillette)
Park: The Man in the Iron Mask
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

March 14-19:
Amphion: The Wedding Day* (Lillian Russell, Della Fox, Jeff De Angelis)
Bijou: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Columbia: The French Maid* (Olive Redpath, Saharet)
Gayety: An Irish Gentleman* (Andrew Mack)
Grand Opera House: The Prisoner of Zenda
Montauk: Secret Service (William Gillette)
Park: The Cruiskeen Lawn (Dan McCarthy)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

March 21-26:
Amphion: A Lady of Quality (Julia Arthur)
Bijou: Alone in London (Cora Tanner)
Columbia: The French Maid (Olive Redpath, Saharet)
Gayety: The Prisoner of Zenda
Grand Opera House: The Sporting Duchess
Montauk: The Moth and the Flame* (Effie Shannon, Herbert Kelcey)
Park: A Bunch of Keys (Ada Bothner)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

March 28-April 2:
Bijou: Hermann the Great, magic (Leon and Adelaide Hermann)
Columbia: The Royal Box* (Charles Coghlan)
Gayety: The Foundling (Cissy Fitzgerald)
Grand Opera House: The Sunshine of Paradise Alley
Montauk: The Telephone Girl* (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Park: The Span of Life
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star