This page is under construction as new images are added.
This blog is dedicated to preserving a curated record of theatre-related clippings drawn from the digitized pages of the four chief Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine of 1898-1908. Those sources, as they were called during these years, are: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Standard Union, and Brooklyn Daily Times. At first, only Brooklyn Life printed photos; as time passed, the newspapers, beginning with the Citizen, abandoned photo-based etchings and line drawings for photos.
Each entry is devoted to one or two months during the decade. A list of the month’s offerings precedes the illustrations, most of which are identified within the original image. The performers include not only leading players but lesser ones, most of whose names are entirely forgotten today. Many depict burlesque and vaudeville acts that are often listed on the heading each weekly group of images.
The production lists designate titles of shows at the legitimate theatres only; burlesque and vaudeville theatres are listed only by name to show that they were active. If a theatre is missing it was either permanently or temporarily closed.
It is hoped that this blog will be a useful adjunct to a two-volume book I’m preparing for publication, ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908); Vol. I (1898-1903), Vol. II (1903-1908).
Samuel L. Leiter
Author: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES.\
NOVEMBER 1900
N November 5-10: Amphion: The Only Way, with Creston Clarke, Adelaide Prince; Bijou: Siberia; Columbia: Brother Officers, with William Faversham, Margaret Anglin; Grand Opera House: The Sign of the Cross, with Charles Dalton; Montauk: More than Queen, with Blanche Walsh; Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company) My Kentucky Home; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty, Gayety; November 12-17: Amphion: The Old Homestead, with Denman Thompson; Bijou: Sporting Life; Columbia: The Belle of Bohemia, with Sam and Dick Bernard; Gayety: Le Voyage en Suisse; Grand Opera House: Kerry Gow, Shaun Rhue, with Joseph Murphy; Montauk: Zaza, with Mrs. Leslie Carter; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Diplomacy; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty; November 19-24: Amphion: Naughty Anthony, “Madame Butterfly”; Bijou: Mavourneen, with Chauncey Olcott; Columbia: Rip Van Winkle, Lend Me Five Shillings, The Rivals, The Cricket on the Hearth, with Joseph Jefferson; Gayety: The Village Postmaster, with Archie Boyd; Grand Opera House: A Man of the West, with James J. Jeffries; Montauk: The Ambassador, The Maneuvers of Jane, with Daniel Frohman’s Stock Company; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company)The Charity Ball; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall. Brooklyn Music Hall, Star, Novelty; November 26-December 1: Amphion: Hearts are Trumps; Bijou: Mavourneen, with Chauncey Olcott; Brooklyn Academy of Music: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Columbia: Henry V, with Richard Mansfield; Gayety: Kerry Gow, Shaun Rhue, with Joseph Murphy; Grand Opera House: The Village Postmaster, with Archie Boyd; Montauk: The Rogers Brothers in Central Park, with the Rogers Brothers; Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Midnight Follies; Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty
NOVEMBER 5-10, 1900
NOVEMBER 12-17, 1900
NOVEMBER 26-DECEMBER 1, 1900
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