ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): OCTOBER 1900

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).

OCTOBER 1900

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

October 1-6:
Amphion: On the Quiet* (Willie Collier)
Bijou: The Gunner’s Mate
Columbia: The Viceroy*; The Serenade; Robin Hood (the Bostonians)
Gayety: A Hole in the Ground
Grand Opera House: The Girl from Maxim’s
Montauk: Barbara Frietchie (Julia Marlowe)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): The Parisian Princess; Drifted Apart

October 8-13:
Amphion: The Pride of Jennico* (James K. Hackett)
Bijou: Sons of Ham* (Bert Williams and George Walker)
Columbia: Hearts Are Trumps*
Gayety: Dairy Farm
Grand Opera House: The Slaves of the Orient*
Montauk: Sherlock Holmes* (William Gillette)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Aristocracy
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty

October 15-20:
Amphion: Woman and Wine
Bijou: Two Little Vagrants
Columbia: Hearts Are Trumps
Gayety: A Man from the West* (James J. Jeffries)
Grand Opera House: A Hot Old Time (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Montauk: Sherlock Holmes (William Gillette)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): East Lynne; The Plunger

October 22-27:
Amphion: Prince Otto* (Otis Skinner)
Bijou: King of the Opium Ring
Columbia: The Old Homestead (Denman Thompson)
Gayety: A Hot Old Time (Johnny and Emma Ray)
Grand Opera House: The Rounders (Thomas Q. Seabrooke)
Montauk: The Monks of Malabar* (Francis Wilson)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): Jim, the Penman
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty

October 29-November 3:
Amphion: Theodora (Melbourne McDowell)
Bijou: Man’s Enemy (Dorothy Rossmore)
Columbia: All on Account of Eliza* (Louis Mann, Clara Lipman)
Gayety: Siberia
Grand Opera House: Le Voyage en Suisse*
Montauk: My Daughter-in-Law* (Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon)
Payton’s Lee Avenue (Payton Stock Company): A Gilded Fool
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty