ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): NOVEMBER 1901

Grand Opera House, Elm Place, between Fulton and Livingston.

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 1901

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

November 4-9:
Amphion: Tom Moore* (Andrew Mack)
Bijou: Treasure Island*
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Lights o’ London
Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) “A Poster Maid,” My Uncle’s Nephew
Folly: Mrs. B. Shaughnessy (Wash Lady) (George W. Monroe)
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) Woman against Woman
Grand Opera House: A Hot Old Time (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Montauk: Florodora
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) The Fatal Card
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Hidden Hand
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Woman in Black
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Gayety, Brooklyn Academy of Music (Election Night only), Unique

November 11-16:
Amphion: The Altar of Friendship* (John Mason)
Bijou: Two Little Vagrants
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) The White Squadron
Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) The Boarding School
Folly: Lost River
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) All the Comforts of Home
Grand Opera House: The Merry Tramps* (the Lilliputians)
Montauk: The Merchant of Venice, King Charles I, Nance Oldfield and “The Bells,” Louis XI, “Waterloo” and The Lyons Mail (Henry Irving and Ellen Terry)

Park: (Spooner Stock Company) A Fair Rebel
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Parisian Princess
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Jack Royal
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique, Paula’s Musée

November 18-23:
Amphion: The Red Kloof *(Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Bijou: Are You a Buffalo?*
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) A Lady of Quality
Criterion: The Queen of Chinatown
Folly: A Ragged Hero*
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) Sapho
Grand Opera House: Garrett O’Magh (Chauncey Olcott)
Montauk: When Knighthood Was in Flower (Julia Marlowe)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Magda
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Silver King
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Raglan’s War
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique

November 25-30:
Amphion: Are You a Mason?
Bijou: The Village Postmaster
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Edward Horrigan)
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Tennessee Partner
Criterion: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Folly: The Merry Tramps (the Lilliputians)
Gotham: (Elite Stock Company) The Wages of Sin
Grand Opera House: Garrett O’Magh (Chauncey Olcott)
Montauk: Mrs. Dane’s Defence (Empire Company)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Mexico
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Flirtation
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Voice of Nature