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

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Grace George (1879-1961), born and bred in Brooklyn.

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).

MAY-JUNE 1902

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

May 5-10:
Amphion: When Knighthood Was in Flower (Julia Marlowe)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Trelawny of the Wells
Blaney’s: (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company) The Lost Trail
Columbia: Il Trovatore; Carmen (Murray-Lane Company)
Folly: The Governor’s Son (the Four Cohans)
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) Blue Grass of Old Kentucky
Grand Opera House: The Sign of the Cross (Charles Dalton)
Montauk: Francesca da Rimini* (Otis Skinner)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Christopher, Jr.
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Shamus O’Brien
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum

May 12-17:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) My Brother’s Sister
Blaney’s: (Blaney All-Star Stock Company) The Blue and the Gray
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company returns) Reaping the Whirlwind
Folly: Garrett O’Magh* (Chauncey Olcott)
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) A Great Hero
Montauk: Under Two Flags (Blanche Bates)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Drifted Apart
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Roxana’s Claim
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum

May 19-24:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Masqueraders
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Jeanne Du Barri (Jessaline Rogers)
Folly: When London Sleeps
Orpheum: light opera season (Milton Aborn Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (visiting company) Ten Nights in a Bar-Room
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Sleeping City
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique

May 26-31:
Bijou: (Spooner’s Stock Company) The Princess of Patches
Columbia: Jeanne Du Barri (Jessaline Rodgers)
Orpheum: light opera (Milton Aborn Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Only a Farmer’s Daughter
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Hi Hubbard
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Gayety, Unique

June 2-7:
Bijou: A Daughter of the South
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) As You Like It
Burlesque: Star

June 9-14:
Bijou: Trilby
Orpheum: light opera (Milton Aborn Company)
Burlesque: Star

June 16-21:
Bijou: The Lady from Laramie
Orpheum: light opera (Milton Aborn Company)
Burlesque: Star

June 23-28:
Orpheum: light opera (Milton Aborn Company)

June 30-July 5:
Orpheum: light opera (Milton Aborn Company)

May 5-10, 1902