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)
March 5-10:
Amphion: Round New York in 80 Minutes (Koster and Bial’s Big Company)
Bijou: Why Smith Left Home
Columbia: Phroso (Odette Tyler)
Gayety: A Wise Guy (Hayes and Lytton’s Comedians)
Montauk: A Runaway Girl (James T. Powers)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire,
Star, Novelty, Grand Opera House
March 12-17:
Amphion: Das Fuenfte Rad (The Fifth Wheel); Maria Stuart; Jugendfreunde;
Als Ich Wiederkam; Im
Weissen Roess’l (Heinrich Conried’s Irving Place Stock Company)
Bijou: Across the Pacific* (Howard Hall, Harry Clay Blaney)
Columbia: The Charlatan (De Wolf Hopper)
Gayety: King of the Opium Ring
Grand Opera House: Shenandoah
Montauk: The Surprises of Love*
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire,
Star, Novelty
March 19-24:
Amphion: The Carpet Bagger* (Tim Murphy)
Bijou: The Policy Players* (Bert Williams and George Walker)
Columbia: The Ameer* (Frank Daniels)
Gayety: Shenandoah
Grand Opera House: By the Sad Sea Waves* (Mathews and Bulger)
Montauk: The Elder Miss Blossom* (Mr. and Mrs. Kendal)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire,
Star, Novelty
Amphion: The Parish Priest* (Daniel Sully)
Bijou: In Old Kentucky
Columbia: Erminie (Francis Wilson, Lulu Glaser, Pauline Hall)
Gayety: By the Sad Sea Waves (Mathews and Bulger)
Grand Opera House: The Gunner’s Mate*
Montauk: A White Lie, A Son’s Inheritance* (Mr. and Mrs. Kendal)
MARCH 5-10, 1900
MARCH 11-16, 1900
MARCH 26-March 31, 1900
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