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).
*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)
April 30-May 5:
Bijou: Shore Acres
Columbia: Coralie and Co., Dressmakers*
Gayety: Man’s Enemy*
Grand Opera House: The Parisian Woman; Jim, the Penman; A
Gigantic Liar; Sapho; The Prodigal
Daughter; Drifted Apart; Romeo and Juliet; Diplomacy; Aristocracy;
The Plunger; A Child of State;
My Kentucky Home (Corse Payton’s Comedy Company)
Montauk: The Maneuvers of Jane*
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire,
Star, Novelty
May 7-12:
Bijou: Yon Yonson (Gus Hill)
Gayety: Across the Pacific (Howard Hall, Harry Clay Blaney)
Grand Opera House: McFadden’s Row of Flats
Montauk: Light opera season (Castle Square Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire,
Star, Novelty
May 14-19:
Bijou: The City of New York (Annie Ward Tiffany)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Quo Vadis*
Gayety: Sapho* (Alberta Gallatin)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty
May 21-26:
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Quo Vadis
May 28-June 2:
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Quo Vadis
Grand Opera House: Sapho (Alberta Gallatin)
APRIL 30-MAY 5, 1900
MAY 7-12, 1900
MAY 14-19, 1900
MAY 21-26, 1900
22. May 28-June 2, 1900
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