This blog is dedicated to preserving a record of Brooklyn theatre history and theatre-related images based largely on coverage in the nearly half-dozen daily Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine (Brooklyn Life) of 1898-1908. It is a vastly expanded, upgraded, and corrected version of my blog, BROOKLYN THEATRE FROM 1898: AN ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY, which is gradually being dismantled as this one is being constructed. It covers everything related to Brooklyn theatre, including plays, playhouses, productions, people, producing policies, scandals, law suits, 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.
The main newspaper sources, using the names by which they were known during these years, were the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Standard Union, and Brooklyn Daily Times; occasionally, other local sources were called on. At first, only Brooklyn Life provided photos, but as time passed the newspapers, beginning with the Citizen, abandoned their photo-based engravings and line drawings for photos. Each entry is devoted to one or two months during the decade. A list of the month’s offerings precedes the illustrations, most of which are identified within the original image. The performers include both leading players and lesser ones, most of whose names are entirely forgotten today. Many depict burlesque and vaudeville acts who are often listed on the ads that begin each weekly group of images. The production lists designate titles of shows at the legitimate theatres only; burlesque and vaudeville theatres are listed only by name to show that they were active. If a theatre is missing it was either permanently or temporarily closed.
It is hoped that this blog will be a useful adjunct to a two-volume book of the same title I’m preparing for publication.
To find a specific item, please use the search box in the upper left corner. You ca also go to a particular month by searching for it, i.e., February 1905. The project hopes to be complete sometime in 2026 when it reaches 1908.
Samuel L. Leiter
Author: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES (McFarland: 2024).
This blog is dedicated to preserving a record of Brooklyn theatre history and theatre-related images based largely on coverage in the nearly half-dozen daily Brooklyn newspapers and one weekly magazine (Brooklyn Life) of 1898-1908. It is a vastly expanded, upgraded, and corrected version of my blog, BROOKLYN THEATRE FROM 1898: AN ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY, which is gradually being dismantled as this one is being constructed. It covers everything related to Brooklyn theatre, including plays, playhouses, productions, people, producing policies, scandals, law suits, 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.
The main newspaper sources, using the names by which they were known during these years, were the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Standard Union, and Brooklyn Daily Times; occasionally, other local sources were called on. At first, only Brooklyn Life provided photos, but as time passed the newspapers, beginning with the Citizen, abandoned their photo-based engravings and line drawings for photos. Each entry is devoted to one or two months during the decade. A list of the month’s offerings precedes the illustrations, most of which are identified within the original image. The performers include both leading players and lesser ones, most of whose names are entirely forgotten today. Many depict burlesque and vaudeville acts who are often listed on the ads that begin each weekly group of images. The production lists designate titles of shows at the legitimate theatres only; burlesque and vaudeville theatres are listed only by name to show that they were active. If a theatre is missing it was either permanently or temporarily closed.
It is hoped that this blog will be a useful adjunct to a two-volume book of the same title I’m preparing for publication.
To find a specific item, please use the search box in the upper left corner. You ca also go to a particular month by searching for it, i.e., February 1905. The project hopes to be complete sometime in 2026 when it reaches 1908.
Samuel L. Leiter
Author: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEATER IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES (McFarland: 2024).
OCTOBER
1906
*=novelties (recent plays new to
Brooklyn)
October 1-6:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Belle of Richmond
Blaney’s Amphion: A Bad Man from Mexico (Walter Wilson)
Broadway: As Ye Sow
Columbia: A Race for Life
Folly: The Ninety and Nine
Grand Family: The Sign of the Four
Grand Opera House: The Burglar’s Daughter
Majestic: The Girl Raffles (Cecil Spooner)
New Montauk: M’lle Modiste (Fritzi Scheff)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) The Prodigal Son (Etta Reed
Payton)
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Queen of the Highway
Shubert: The Social Whirl (Adele Ritchie)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s,
Star, Imperial, Novelty, Family
October 8-13:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Stubbornness of Geraldine
Blaney’s Amphion: Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl
Broadway: The College Widow (Evelyn Vaughan)
Columbia: The Gypsy Girl (Dolly Kemper)
Folly: Breaking into Society (the Four Mortons)
Grand Family: The Black Hand
Grand Opera House: The Gambler of the West
Majestic: The Girl Raffles (Cecil Spooner)
New Montauk: The Kreutzer Sonata (Blanche Walsh)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Darkest Russia
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) The Gambler’s Daughter
Shubert: Veronique, the Flower Girl (Louise Gunning)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s,
Star, Imperial, Novelty, Family
October 15-20:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) The Kreutzer Sonata
Blaney’s Amphion: Why Girls Leave Home
Broadway: Sergeant Brue (Frank Daniels)
Columbia: The Way of the Transgressor
Folly: The Folly of the West
Grand Family: The Road to ’Frisco
Grand Opera House: Home Folks
Majestic: A Good Fellow (Eva Tanguay)
New Montauk: Mr. Hopkinson
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) For Her Children’s Sake
Shubert: The Stolen Story
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s,
Star, Imperial, Novelty
October 22-27:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) On Shannon’s Shore
Blaney’s Amphion: When the World Sleeps
Broadway: Twiddle Twaddle (Joe Weber and company, including Marie
Dressler)
Columbia: The Great Jewel Mystery (the Russell Brothers)
Folly: The Burglar and the Lady (James J. Corbett)
Grand Family: (Stewart Stock Company) Woman Against Woman
Grand Opera House: The Queen of the Highbinders
Majestic: As Ye Sow
New Montauk: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Annie Russell)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Monte Cristo
Shubert: John Hudson’s Wife (Hilda Spong)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s,
Star, Imperial, Novelty
October 29-November 3:
Bijou: (Spooner Stock Company) Leah Kleschna
Blaney’s Amphion: My Tom-Boy Girl (Lottie Williams)
Broadway: His Honor the Mayor
Columbia: When the World Sleeps
Folly: A Lucky Dog (Nat M. Wills)
Grand Family: (Stewart Stock Company) Beware of Men
Grand Opera House: The Rocky Road to Dublin
Majestic: Me, Him and I
New Montauk: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (Madge Carr Cook)
Payton’s Lee Avenue: (Payton Stock Company) Out of the Fold
Phillips’ Lyceum: (Lyceum Stock Company) Rachel Goldstein
Shubert: The Love Letter (Virginia Harned)
Vaudeville/burlesque: Hyde & Behman’s, Gotham, Gayety, Keeney’s,
Star, Imperial, Novelty
October 1-6, 1906
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October 22-27, 1906
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October 29-November 3, 1906
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