A HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN STAGE: ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROADWAY (1898-1908): APRIL 1907

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).

APRIL 1907

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

April 1-6:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Aunt Cynthy’s Homestead*
Blaney’s Amphion: The Boy Behind the Gun
Broadway: The Rogers Brothers in Ireland (Rogers Brothers)
Columbia: Across the Pacific (Johnny Hoey)
Folly: In Old Kentucky
Grand Opera House: Parted on Her Bridal Tour (Victory Bateman)
Majestic: Little Johnny Jones
New Montauk: The Hypocrites* (Doris Keane, Richard Bennett)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Home Folks
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) More to Be Pitied than Scorned
Shubert: On Parole* (Charlotte Walker, Vincent Serrano)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

April 8-13:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Thelma*
Blaney’s Amphion: Eight Bells (the Brothers Byrne)
Broadway: The Vanderbilt Cup (Elsie Janis)
Columbia: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Al W. Martin’s company)
Folly: Mr. Blarney from Ireland (Fiske O’Hara)
Grand Opera House: Custer’s Last Fight
Majestic: Way Down East
New Montauk: Clothes (Grace George)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Deliver Me from My Friends
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) No Mother to Guide Her (premiere)
Shubert: The Road to Yesterday* (Minnie Dupree)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

April 15-20:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) General Faulkner’s Daughter*
Blaney’s Amphion: The Black Politician* (S. H. Dudley)
Broadway: George Washington, Jr. (George M. Cohan, Jerry J. Cohan)
Columbia: $10,000 Reward*
Folly: The Volunteer Organist
Grand Opera House: In New York Town*
Majestic: Way Down East (Phoebe Davis)
New Montauk: The Lion and the Mouse* (Edmund Breese, Grace Elliston)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Pretty Peggy
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Why Girls Leave Home
Shubert: Widowers’ Houses* (Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon, Ferdinand Gottschalk)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

April 22-27:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Chimmie Fadden
Blaney’s Amphion: The Hired Girl’s Millions*
Broadway: In the Bishop’s Carriage (Jessie Busley)
Columbia: Queen of the Highbinders (the Russell Brothers)
Folly: Custer’s Last Fight
Grand Opera House: The Burglar and the Lady (James J. Corbett)
Majestic: Sunday (Jessie Bonstelle)
New Montauk: Madama Butterfly (New English Opera Company)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Conqueror
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Avenger
Shubert: Dream City* (Joe Weber’s company; Cecilia Loftus, Harlan Otis)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

April 29-May 4:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Blaney’s Amphion: Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West
Broadway: The Lion and the Mouse (Edmund Breese, Grace Elliston)
Columbia: The Millionaire Detective
Folly: Me, Him and I
Gotham: (Hal Clarendon’s Stock Company) Northern Lights
Grand Opera House: The Outlaw’s Christmas*
Majestic: Monte Cristo (James O’Neill)
New Montauk: The Grand Mogul* (Frank Moulan)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Merchant of Venice
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Down Mobile
Shubert: The Primrose Path* (Margaret Wycherly)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty