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

Maude Adams, right.

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).

NOVEMBER 1898

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

October 31-November 5:
Amphion: La Tosca, Cleopatra, Fedora (Melbourne McDowell, Blanche Walsh)
Bijou: Cumberland ‘61
Columbia: The Golden Horseshoe* (Royal Lilliputians)
Gayety: A Hot Old Time (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Grand Opera House: An Irish Gentleman (Andrew Mack)
Montauk: The Fortune Teller* (Alice Nielsen)
Park (Grover Stock Company): Pink Dominoes
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

November 7-12:
Amphion: A Stranger in New York
Bijou: The Land and the Sea
Columbia: A Day and a Night in New York*
Gayety: An Irish Gentleman (Andrew Mack)
Grand Opera House: Devil’s Island*
Montauk: The Conquerors* (William Faversham)
Park (Grover Stock Company): Everybody’s Friend
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

November 14-19:
Amphion: The Old Homestead (Denman Thompson)
Bijou: Sweet Inniscarra (Chauncey Olcott)
Columbia: A Brace of Partridges, “Goodby”
Gayety: Devil’s Island
Grand Opera House: Haverly’s Minstrels
Montauk: The Conquerors (William Faversham)
Novelty (Novelty Stock Company): Lost Paradise
Park (Grover Stock Company): The Long Strike (J. H. Stoddart)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

November 21-26:
Amphion: The Golden Horseshoe (the Lilliputians)
Bijou: Sweet Inniscarra (Chauncey Olcott)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: The Little Corporal* (Francis Wilson)
Columbia: The Christian* (Viola Allen)
Gayety: Haverly’s Minstrels
Grand Opera House: A High Born Lady* (Clifford and Huth)
Montauk: The Adventure of Lady Ursula* (E. H. Sothern, Virginia Harned)
Novelty: Lost Paradise
Park: The Wolves of New York; or, Red Riding Hood in Real Life
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star

November 28-December 3:
Amphion: A Day and a Night in New York
Bijou: On the Wabash*
Columbia: Way Down East*
Gayety: The Mulligan Guard Ball (Edward Harrigan, Bob Fitzsimmons)
Grand Opera House: A Reign of Error*
Montauk: The Little Minister *(Maude Adams)
Novelty: Lend Me Your Wife
Park (Grover Stock Company): The Wolves of New York; or, Little Red Riding Hood in Real Life
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star