ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): MARCH 1902

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).

MARCH 1902

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

March 3-8:
Amphion: Eben Holden (E. M. Holland)
Bijou: King of the Opium Ring
Blaney’s: (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company) The Still Alarm
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Lend Me Your Wife
Folly: The Head Waiters* (Ward and Vokes)
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) The Stowaway
Grand Opera House: All on Account of Eliza (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Montauk: The Little Duchess* (Anna Held)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) My Official Wife
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Girl I Left Behind Me
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Current Cash
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum

March 10-15:
Amphion: The Widow Jones (May Irwin)
Bijou: The Night Before Christmas*
Blaney’s: (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company) The Forger’s Daughter
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) A Milk White Flag
Folly: All on Account of Eliza (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) Beacon Lights
Grand Opera House: The Head Waiters (Ward and Vokes)
Montauk: Alice of Old Vincennes (Virginia Harned)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) The Little Minister
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Woman Hater
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Silver King
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum

March 17-22:
Amphion: D’Arcy of the Guards* (Henry Miller)
Bijou: Sons of Ham (Williams and Walker)
Blaney’s: (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company) The Two Orphans
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) The Streets of New York
Folly: Eben Holden (E. M. Holland)
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) The Unknown
Grand Opera House: Kellar the magician
Montauk: David Harum (William H. Crane)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Kathleen Mavourneen
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) A Lady of Quality
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The American Girl
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum

March 24-29:
Bijou: A Thoroughbred Tramp*
Blaney’s: (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company) King of the Opium Ring
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) East Lynne
Folly: The Road to Ruin
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) Leah, the Forsaken
Grand Opera House: Eben Holden (E. M. Holland)
Montauk: Under Southern Skies (Grace George)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) The Man from Mexico
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Mr. Barnes of New York
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Sam’l of Posen
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum