ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): FEBRUARY 1904

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).

FEBRUARY 1904

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

February 1-6:
Amphion: Peggy from Paris*
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Captain’s Mate
Columbia: The Way of the Transgressor*
Folly: Arrah-na-Pogue (J. K. Murray)
Gotham: Hearts Adrift
Grand Opera House: Our New Minister
Montauk: A Chinese Honeymoon
Novelty: A Little Outcast* (Anne Blancke)
Park: The White Slave
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton’s Payton Stock Company) Davy Crockett
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Home and Honor
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Unique, Gayety, Orpheum, Watson’s

February 8-13:
Amphion: The Office Boy (Frank Daniels)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The World against Her
Columbia: Hermann the Great (magician)
Folly: The Ninety and Nine
Gotham: Child Slaves of New York
Grand Opera House: A Midnight Marriage (Florence Bindley)
Montauk: Old Heidelberg* (Richard Mansfield)
Park: A Desperate Chance
Payton’s Fulton Street: (Payton Fulton Street Stock Company) Our New Girl* (two nights only)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton’s Payton Stock Company) Queena
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Resurrection
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Unique, Gayety, Orpheum, Watson’s

February 15-20:
Amphion: Sergeant Kitty (Virginia Earle)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Bonnie Scotland
Columbia: M’liss (Nellie McHenry)
Folly: The Peddler (Joe Welch)
Gotham: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Al W. Martin’s company)
Grand Opera House: By Right of Sword (Ralph Stuart)
Montauk: The Earl of Pawtucket (Lawrence D’Orsay); Candida* (special matinee; Arnold Daly)
Novelty: Driven from Home (Patrice)
Park: If Women Were Men*
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton’s Payton Stock Company) Between Love and Duty
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Duchesse Du Barry
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Unique, Gayety, Orpheum, Watson’s, Fulton Street

February 22-27:
Amphion: The Prince of Pilsen* (Henry W. Savage Grand Opera Company)
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) A Romance of Old Mexico
Columbia: The Two Orphans (Kate Claxton)
Folly: Soldiers of Fortune (Edwin Brandt)
Gotham: Her First False Step
Grand Opera House: Sherlock Holmes (Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon)
Montauk: The Marriage of Kitty* (Marie Tempest)
Novelty: Hearts Adrift
Park: Wedded but No Wife*
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton’s Payton Stock Company) Dora Thorne
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Two Orphans
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Star, Unique, Gayety, Orpheum, Watson’s, Fulton Street