Maxine Elliott as Portia
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)
May 6-11:
Bijou: Romance of Coon Hollow
Columbia: Ben Hur
Criterion: Whose Baby Are You? (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: Old Jed Prouty (Richard Golden)
Grand Opera House: My Lady* (Eva Tanguay)
Montauk: All on Account of Eliza (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Montauk: In a Balcony*; “Land
of Heart’s Desire”* (Otis Skinner, Eleanor Robson, Sarah Cowell LeMoyne; May 7 matinee only)
Park: Because She Loved Him So (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Woman against Woman (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star,
Novelty, Orpheum
May 13-18:
Amphion: The Girl We Love*
(Charles Dickson, Lillian Burkhart)
Columbia: Ben Hur
Criterion: Charley’s Uncle (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: The Still Alarm (Harry Lacy)
Grand Opera House: The Charity Ball (Aubrey Stock Company)
Montauk: Lohengrin; Lucia di Lammermoor (Castle Square Opera
Company)
Park: The Two Orphans (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Hazel Kirke; A Gilded Fool (Payton Stock
Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star,
Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée
May 20-25:
Criterion: The Blundering Mr.
Budds (Baker Stock Company)
Gayety: The Honest Blacksmith (Bob Fitzsimmons)
Grand Opera House: Men and Women (Aubrey Stock Company)
Montauk: Carmen; Faust (Castle Square Opera Company)
Park: Hazel Kirke; The Buckeye (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: A Runaway Wife (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star,
Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée
May 26-June 1:
Amphion: The Hunchback
(Brennan Stock Company)
Columbia: The Merchant of Venice (Nat C. Goodwin, Maxine Elliott; one
performance, May 20)
Criterion: Nancy Hanks (Baker Stock Company)
Grand Opera House: We ‘Uns of Tennessee (Aubrey Stock Company)
Montauk: La Bohème; Martha (Castle Square Opera Company)
Park: Barbara Frietchie (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star,
Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée
June 3-8:
Montauk: Il Trovatore; The
Bohemian Girl (Castle Square Opera Company)
Park: Caste (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Eagle’s Nest (Corse Payton Stock Company, replacing
local Payton Stock Company; third such
visit)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Star,
Orpheum, Haverly’s Musée, Criterio
June 10-15:
Montauk: Diplomacy (Charles
Frohman’s Empire Stock Company, including William Faversham, Margaret Anglin; June 13, one night
only)
Park: For Fair Virginia (Spooner Stock Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Little Minister (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Star, Orpheum, Criterion
June 17-22:
Criterion: The Arabian Nights
(Brennan Stock Company)
Park: Becky Bliss, the Circus Girl (Spooner Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Star
June 24-29:
Park: “A Happy Pair”; A Child of
the Regiment (Spooner Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Star
May 4-9, 1903
2. May 11-16, 1903
3. May 18-23, 1903
4. May 25-30, 1903
5. June 1-6, 1903
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