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

Maxine Elliott in Her Great Match.

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 1907

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

March 4-9:

Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Othello

Blaney’s Amphion: A Man’s Broken Promise*

Broadway: Little Johnny Jones

Columbia: Lena Rivers*

Folly: Texas

Grand Opera House: Queen of the White Slaves

Majestic: Kellar, the magician

New Montauk: The Girl and the Governor* (Jefferson De Angelis)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Paul Revere

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Orphans of New York (N. S. Wood)

Shubert: Playing the Game* (Joseph and William W. Jefferson)

Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

March 11-16:

Bijou: M’liss

Blaney’s Amphion: The Four Corners of the Earth

Broadway: The Duel (Otis Skinner)

Columbia: Big-Hearted Jim

Folly: Kellar, the magician

Grand Opera House: Chinatown Charlie

Majestic: Checkers

New Montauk: Clarice* (William Gillette)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) In the Palace of the King

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) From Rags to Riches (N. S. Wood)

Shubert: The Social Whirl

Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

March 18-23:

Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company)

Blaney’s Amphion: The Colleen Bawn

Broadway: The Mountain Climber (Francis Wilson)

Columbia: A Desperate Chance

Folly: Chinatown Charlie

Grand Opera House: Mr. Blarney from Ireland (Fiske O’Hara)

Majestic: Not Yet, but Soon* (Hap Ward)

New Montauk: Her Great Match (Maxine Elliott)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Wife

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Sprig o’ Green

Shubert: Brown of Harvard (Henry Woodruff)

Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

March 25-30:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) East Lynne
Blaney’s Amphion: Old Isaacs from the Bowery (Harry First)

Broadway: Julius Caesar; The Merchant of Venice; King Lear; Richelieu; Macbeth (Robert Mantell)

Columbia: Human Hearts

Folly: Queen of the White Slaves

Grand Opera House: At Piney Ridge

Majestic: The Woman in the Case (Eugenie Blair)

New Montauk: In the Bishop’s Carriage* (Jessie Busley)Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) TrilbyPhillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Master Workman

Shubert: The Light Eternal* (James Neill, Edyth Chapman)

Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s, Star, Imperial, Novelty

March 4-9, 1907