MAY-JUNE 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).

MAY-JUNE 1907

*=novelties (recent plays new to Brooklyn)

May 6-11:

Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Duchess of Devonshire

Blaney’s Amphion: The Dancer and the King* (Cecil Spooner)

Broadway: The Walls of Jericho (James K. Hackett)

Columbia: From Broadway to the Bowery*

Folly: Billy the Kid (Joseph Santley)

Gotham: (Hal Clarendon Stock Company) The Power of the Cross

Grand Opera House: The Two Orphans

Majestic: Buster Brown

New Montauk: Mrs. Warren’s Profession* (Mary Shaw)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Zaza

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Confessions of a Wife

Shubert: The Three of Us*

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

May 13-18:

Blaney’s Amphion: The Girl from Texas (Cecil Spooner)

Broadway: Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Mary Shaw)

Columbia: For a Human Life*

Folly: The Outlaw’s Christmas

Gotham: (Hal Clarendon Stock Company) Oliver Twist

Majestic: Eileen Asthore (Chauncey Olcott)

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) When We Were Twenty-One

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The King of the Desert

Shubert: The Other Girl (Thomas W. Ross)

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

May 20-25:

Blaney’s Amphion: His Terrible Secret; or, the Man-Monkey* (William H. Turner)

Gotham: (Hal Clarendon Stock Company) A Stranger in a Strange Land

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Carmen

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) A Little Outcast

Shubert: The White Hen* (Louis Mann, Louise Gunning, Lotta Faust)

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

May 27-June 1:

Gotham: (Hal Clarendon Stock Company) Quo Vadis

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Mills of the Gods

Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Lured from Home, or Fallen by the Wayside

Shubert: The Girl of the Golden West* (Blanche Bates)

Vaudeville/burlesque: Gayety, Star, Orpheum (comic opera season begins with Wang)

June 3-8:

Broadway: The Lion and the Mouse

Gotham: (Hal Clarendon Stock Company) The Silver King

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) East Lynne

Shubert: The Girl of the Golden West (Blanche Bates)

Vaudeville/burlesque: Gayety, Orpheum (Carmen)

June 10-15:

Broadway: About Town (Lew Fields, Peter F. Dailey, Blanche Ring, Louise Dressler)

Gotham: (Hal Clarendon Stock Company) The Octoroon

Orpheum: The Mikado

Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Hearts Aflame

June 17-22:

Orpheum: The Chimes of Normandy 

May 6-11, 1907

May 13-18, 1907

May 20-25, 1907

May 27-June 1, 1907

June 3-8, 1907

June 10-15. 1907

June 17-22, 1907