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

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 1901

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

September 30-October 5:

Bijou: Sons of Ham (Bert Williams, George Walker)
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Humpty Dumpty and the Black Dwarf
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Fanchon, the Cricket
Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Captain Swift
Gayety: The Dairy Farm
Gotham: (Gotham Elite Stock Company) Wife for Wife
Grand Opera House: The Girl from Maxim’s
Montauk: The Brixton Burglary*
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) The Butterflies
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Banker’s Daughter
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Novelty, Star, Orpheum, Theatre Unique

October 7-12:

Amphion: The Strollers (Francis Wilson)
Bijou: Lost in the Desert
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Northern Lights
Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) What Happened to Jones
Gayety: Two Little Vagrants
Grand Opera House: The Governor’s Son (the Four Cohans)
Gotham: Lynwood
Montauk: Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines* (Ethel Barrymore)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) Madame Sans-Gêne
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Peaceful Valley
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Hoodman Blind
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Novelty, Star, Orpheum, Theatre Unique

October 14-19:

Amphion: The Christian
Bijou: Australia
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) Siberia
Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Nell Gwynne
Gayety: Happy Hooligan
Grand Opera House: The Heart of Maryland (Helene Wintner)
Gotham: (Gotham Elite Stock Company) East Lynne
Montauk: The King’s Carnival* (Marie Dressler, Emma Carus)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) The Jilt
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Darkest Russia
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Moonshiners
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Novelty, Star, Theatre Unique, Folly

October 21-26:

Amphion: The Brixton Burglary*
Bijou: Happy Hooligan
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) La Tosca
Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Because I Love You; Betsy
Gayety: The Heart of Maryland (Helene Wintner)
Grand Opera House: Winchester*
Gotham: (Gotham Elite Stock Company) The Octoroon
Montauk: The Rogers Brothers in Washington (the Rogers Brothers)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) On the Wabash
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) A Contented Woman
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Strategists
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Unique, Folly

October 28-November 2:

Amphion: Up York State (David Higgins)
Bijou: Home Sweet Home*
Columbia: (Greenwall Stock Company) My Partner
Criterion: (Baker Stock Company) Dr. Bill
Gayety: Sons of Ham (Bert Williams, George Walker)
Grand Opera House: Mrs. B. O’Shaughnessy (Wash Lady) (George W. Monroe)
Gotham: (Gotham Elite Stock Company) Ten Nights in a Barroom
Montauk: The Climbers* (Amelia Bingham)
Park: (Spooner Stock Company) The Adventures of Lady Ursula
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Held by the Enemy
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Passion’s Slave
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Orpheum, Folly