ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): NOVEMBER 1902

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 1902

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

November 3-8:
Amphion: Tom Moore (Andrew Mack)
Bijou: The Jilt (Spooner Stock Company)
Blaney’s: The Stranglers of Paris (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company)
Columbia: Mr. Barnes of New York (Greenwall Stock Company)
Folly: The White Slave
Gotham: The Face at the Window* (Elite Stock Company)
Grand Opera House: The Chaperons*
Montauk: The Toreador* (Francis Wilson)
Park: Searchlights of a Great City*
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Josephine, Empress of the French (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: The Lion’s Heart (Lyceum Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique

November 10-15:
Amphion: The Honor of the Humble* (James O’Neill)
Bijou: The Cherry Pickers (Spooner Stock Company)
Blaney’s: The World against Her (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company)
Columbia: Camille (Greenwall Stock Company)
Folly: For Her Children’s Sake*
Gotham: Blood Atonement* (Elite Stock Company)
Grand Opera House: The Governor’s Son (the Four Cohans)
Montauk: The Rogers Brothers at Harvard* (the Rogers Brothers)
Park: The Bandit King
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Guilty Mother (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: A Bowery Girl (Lyceum Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique

November 17-22:
Amphion: Foxy Grandpa (Joseph Hart, Carrie DeMar)
Bijou: Caprice (Spooner Stock Company)
Blaney’s: The Woman in Black (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company)
Columbia: Hoodman Blind (Greenwall Stock Company)
Folly: A Ragged Hero
Gotham: Man’s Enemy (Elite Stock Company)
Grand Opera House: For Her Children’s Sake
Montauk: Rip Van Winkle; The Rivals (Joseph Jefferson)
Park: The Counterfeiters*
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Peaceful Valley (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: A Runaway Wife (Lyceum Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique

November 24-29:
Amphion: A Gentleman of France (Kyrle Bellew)
Bijou: The New South (Spooner Stock Company)
Blaney’s: My Lady Nell (Blaney’s All-Star Stock Company)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Way Down East
Columbia: Under the Red Robe (Greenwall Stock Company)
Folly: The Chaperons
Gotham: For Fair Virginia (Elite Stock Company)
Grand Opera House: Sky Farm*
Montauk: The Mummy and the Hummingbird* (John Drew)
Park: A Ragged Hero
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Two Orphans (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: Under Sealed Orders (Lyceum Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Orpheum, Gayety, Unique