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)
November 5-10:
Amphion: The Only Way* (Creston Clarke, Adelaide Prince)
Bijou: Siberia
Columbia: Brother Officers* (William Faversham, Margaret Anglin)
Grand Opera House: The Sign of the Cross (Charles Dalton)
Montauk: More than Queen (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 (Denman Thompson)
Bijou: Sporting Life
Columbia: The Belle of Bohemia* (Sam and Dick Bernard)
Gayety: Le Voyage en Suisse
Grand Opera House: Kerry Gow; Shaun Rhue (Joseph Murphy)
Montauk: Zaza (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 (Chauncey Olcott)
Columbia: Rip Van Winkle; Lend Me Five Shillings; The Rivals;
The Cricket on the Hearth (Joseph
Jefferson)
Gayety: The Village Postmaster (Archie Boyd)
Grand Opera House: A Man of the West (James J. Jeffries)
Montauk: The Ambassador*; The Maneuvers of Jane (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 (Chauncey Olcott)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Columbia: Henry V (Richard Mansfield)
Gayety: Kerry Gow; Shaun Rhue (Joseph Murphy)
Grand Opera House: The Village Postmaster (Archie Boyd)
Montauk: The Rogers Brothers in Central Park* (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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