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

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, with Madge Carr Cook (center)

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).

MARCH 1905

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

March 6-11:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Are You a Mason?
Broadway: Weather-Beaten Benson* (Ezra Kendall)
Columbia: (American Stock Company) The Streets of New York
Folly: A Romance of Athlone (Chauncey Olcott)
Gotham: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Grand Opera House: Kellar, the magician
Majestic: A Son of Rest (Nat Wills)
Montauk: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch* (Madge Carr Cook)
Novelty: Queen of the Highway
Park: The Charity Nurse
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Why Smith Left Home
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Why Women Sin
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s, Amphion, Garden

March 13-18:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Shamus; or, The Spy of the Glen
Broadway: Dockstader’s Minstrels
Columbia: (American Stock Company) The Sign of the Four
Folly: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Gotham: The James Boys in Missouri
Grand Opera House: The Watch on the Rhine* (Al H. Wilson)
Majestic: The Pit (Wilton Lackaye)
Montauk: Sunday* (Ethel Barrymore)
Novelty: His First False Step*
Park: Hearts Adrift
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The School for Scandal
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Slaves of the Mine
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s, Amphion, Garden

March 20-25:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Zip
Broadway: Mrs. Black Is Back* (May Irwin)
Columbia: (American Stock Company) Northern Lights
Folly: A Son of Rest
Gotham: Human Hearts
Grand Opera House: Pals* (James J. Corbett)
Majestic: The Pit (Wilton Lackaye)
Montauk: Merely Mary Ann* (Eleanor Robson)
Novelty: Hearts Adrift
Park: M’liss (Nellie McHenry)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Rip Van Winkle
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Driven from Home
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s, Amphion, Garden

March 27-April 1:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Lady of Lyons
Broadway: The Girl from Kays (Sam Bernard, Hattie Williams)
Columbia: (American Stock Company) For Her Sake
Folly: In Old Kentucky
Gotham: Alone in the World
Grand Opera House: A Romance of Athlone (Chauncey Olcott)
Majestic: Busy Izzy (George Sidney)
Montauk: Business Is Business* (William H. Crane)
Novelty: When Women Love*
Park: Wedded but No Wife (Selma Herman)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The County Fair (Neil Burgess)
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Fight for Millions
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Unique, Orpheum, Watson’s, Star, Keeney’s, Amphion, Garden