ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY: ANNALS OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE (1898-1908): FEBRUARY 1905

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 1905

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

February 6-11:
Bijou: Lovers’ Lane (Spooner Stock Company)
Broadway: Joseph Entangled* (Henry Miller, Hilda Spong, Laura Hope Crews)
Columbia: Monte Cristo (American Stock Company)
Folly: Shadows on the Hearth*
Gotham: At Cripple Creek
Grand Opera House: Paris by Night*
Majestic: Siberia
Montauk: The Usurper* (Nat C. Goodwin)
Novelty: For His Brother’s Crime
Park: Alone in the World
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Sign of the Four (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: For Her Children’s Sake (Lyceum Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s, Amphion

February 13-18:
Bijou: The Altar of Friendship (Spooner Stock Company)
Broadway: The County Chairman (Maclyn Arbuckle)
Columbia: Man’s Enemy (American Stock Company)
Folly: Kellar, the magician
Gotham: The Child Wife
Grand Opera House: Nancy Brown
Majestic: Checkers (Thomas W. Ross)
Montauk: The Duke of Killicrankie* (John Drew)
Novelty: A Midnight Marriage
Park: A Working Girl’s Wrongs
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Silver King (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: Darkest Russia (Lyceum Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s Fulton Street, Amphion, Garden

February 20-25:
Bijou: The Sword of the King (Spooner Stock Company)
Broadway: The Office Boy (Frank Daniels)
Columbia: The Silver King (American Stock Company)
Folly: Checkers (Thomas W. Ross)
Gotham: On the Suwanee River
Grand Opera House: The Jewel of Asia*
Majestic: A Pair of Pinks (Ward and Vokes)
Montauk: Little Johnny Jones* (George M. Cohan)
Novelty: Two Little Waifs
Park: A Desperate Chance
Payton’s Lee Avenue: A Bunch of Keys (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: The Village Postmaster (Lyceum Stock Company)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s, Amphion, Garden

February 27-March 4:
Bijou: Two Little Vagrants (Spooner Stock Company)
Broadway: A Madcap Princess (Lulu Glaser)
Columbia: Under Two Flags (American Stock Company)
Folly: A Pair of Pinks (Ward and Vokes)
Gotham: Hearts Adrift
Grand Opera House: At the Old Crossroads
Majestic: In Old Kentucky
Montauk: The Winter’s Tale; Twelfth Night (Viola Allen)
Novelty: From Clue to Capture; or, the Great Chadwick Mystery*
Park: A Wife’s Secret
Payton’s Lee Avenue: The Eternal City (Payton Stock Company)
Phillips’ Lyceum: The Vacant Chair (Lyceum Stock Company)