AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1899

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).

 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1899

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

August 14:

Vaudeville/burlesque: Star

September 4-9:
Bijou: Devil’s Island (opened Saturday, September 2)
Gayety: Mrs. B. O’Shaughnessy (Wash Lady)* (George Monroe; opened Saturday, September 2)
Grand Opera House: Under the Red Robe (Paul Cazaneuve)
Montauk: The Moth and the Flame (Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Empire, Star

September 11-16:
Bijou: The Cherry Pickers
Columbia: Because She Loved Him So*
Gayety: Under the Red Robe
Grand Opera House: A Grip of Steel
Montauk: The Cuckoo*
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Empire, Novelty

September 18-23:
Amphion: The Mikado, The Bohemian Girl (Jaxon Opera Company)
Bijou: An Easy Mark*
Columbia: Because She Loved Him So
Gayety: A Grip of Steel
Grand Opera House: The White Heather (Rose Coghlan)
Montauk: Hon. John Grigsby* (Sol Smith Russell)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire

September 25-30:
Bijou: The Sporting Duchess
Columbia: Because She Loved Him So
Gayety: The White Heather (Rose Coghlan)
Grand Opera House: The Village Postmaster
Montauk: Colinette* (Julia Marlowe)
Park: The Mikado, The Bohemian Girl (Jaxon Opera Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Novelty, Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire

SEPTEMBER 4-9, 1899

 

SEPTEMBER 11-16, 1899

 

SEPTEMBER 18-23, 1899

SEPTEMBER 25-30, 1899