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 1900
August 20-25:
Vaudeville/burlesque: Sta
August 27-September 1:
(See next week for shows opening September 1.)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Al Reeves’ Music Hall, Star
September 3-8:
Bijou: The Bowery After Dark (Terry McGovern; opened Saturday, September
1)
Gayety: The Telephone Girl (opened Saturday, September 1)
Grand Opera House: The Heart of Maryland (opened Saturday, September 1)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Girl I Left Behind Me (Payton Stock Company;
opened Saturday, September 1)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall,
Brooklyn Music Hall, Star
September 10-15:
Bijou: Shenandoah
Gayety: The Heart of Maryland
Grand Opera House: The Telephone Girl
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Prodigal Daughter (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall,
Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty
September 17-22:
Bijou: M’Liss (Nellie McHenry)
Gayety: Shenandoah
Grand Opera House: Mrs. B. Shaughnessy (Wash Woman) (George Monroe)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: Quo Vadis (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall,
Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Star, Novelty
September 24-29:
Bijou: The Angel of the Alley*
Columbia: Woman and Wine*
Gayety: Mrs. B. O’Shaughnessy (Wash Woman) (George W. Monroe)
Grand Opera House: A Hole in the Ground
Montauk: “Madame Butterfly”*; Naughty
Anthony* (Charles E. Evans, Valerie Bergere)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Private Secretary (Payton Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Al Reeves’ Music Hall,
Brooklyn Music Hall, Empire, Novelty
AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 1, 1900
SEPTEMBER 10-15, 1900
SEPTEMBER 17-22, 1900
SEPTEMBER 24-29, 1900
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