Globe Theatre, Boston (1871)
Programme for performance of H.A. Rendle's "Chesney Wold," 1873
Detail of 1886 map of Boston, showing Globe Theatre
Seating chart, 1883
The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. It was located on Washington Street, near the corner of Essex Street.[1] Arthur Cheney oversaw the Globe until 1876.[2][3] From 1871-1873 it occupied the former theatre of John H. Selwyn.[3] After a fire in May 1873, the Globe re-opened on the same site in December 1874.[4] Architect B.F. Dwight designed the new building.[5] From 1877-1893 John Stetson served as proprietor;[6][7] some regarded him as "a theatrical producer with a reputation for illiteracy in his day such as Samuel Goldwyn has achieved" in the 1960s.[8] The theatre burned down in January 1894.[9]
Performances
1870s
- H.A. Rendle's Chesney Wold, with Madame Janauschek[10]
- Fox's Humpty Dumpty[11]
- Augustin Daly's Pique, with Miss Jeffries-Lewis[12]
- E.A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary[12]
- Sea of Ice" with Miss Maud Granger as Ocarita and Mr. George Boniface as Carlos, Monday, January 28, 1878 [13]
- Eliza Weathersby's Froliques[14]
- Miss Kate Claxton in "Two Orphans"
1880s
- "Rice's new extravaganza combination in the opera comique Calino"[15]
- Othello, starring Salvini[16]
- L.R. Shewell's Debt of Honor[16]
- Oscar Wilde lecture June 2, 1882[17]
- Oedipus[8]
- 14 Days, with Charles Wyndham[18]
- We, Us & Co., with Mestayer-Vaughn[19]
- Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado, with Helen Lamont and Signor Brocolini[20]
- As in a Looking-Glass, with Mrs. Langtry[21]
- The Hanlons in "Fantasma"[21]
- Princess Ida[22]
- Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Beatrice Cameron[23]
- The Oolah (1889)[24]
1890s
- The Lion Tamer, with Francis Wilson[25]
- Ali Baba, with American Extravaganza Co.[26]
- The Crust of Society[27]
- Prince Karl, with Richard Mansfield[28]
- Hanlon Brothers' "mechanical fairy spectacle Superba"[29]
- La Cigale, with Lillian Russell [30]
References
- ↑ The Globe occupied the site on Washington Street opposite the Park Theatre, on the block between Essex Street and Hayward Place: no.364 Washington Street, 1871-ca.1876 (Boston Almanac. 1871, 1875) later re-numbered as no.598 Washington Street, ca.1877-ca.1894 (Boston Almanac. 1877, 1881, 1887, 1891, 1894)
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, July 17, 1872; Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876
- 1 2 Richard Herndon and Edwin Bacon, eds. (1892), Boston of to-day: a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men, Boston: Post Pub. Co., OCLC 4430662
- ↑ "Chronicle of events." Boston Almanac. 1875
- ↑ Benjamin Franklin Dwight (d.1893). American Architect and Building News, Oct. 14, 1893
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, May 26, 1878; 22 Sept., 1880; Boston Evening Transcript, March 2, 1883; Dec. 3, 1887. Boston Globe, January 22, 1893
- ↑ John Stetson (d.1896). New York Times, April 19, 1896
- 1 2 Doris M. Alexander. "Oedipus in Victorian New York." American Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 1960)
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, January 3, 1894
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, March 7, 1873
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, July 17, 1873
- 1 2 Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876
- ↑ Globe Theatre Programme
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, May 26, 1878
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, 22 Sept., 1880
- 1 2 Boston Daily Globe, January 9, 1881
- ↑ Oscar Wilde In America
- ↑ Boston Evening Transcript, March 2, 1883
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, May 17, 1885
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, May 22, 1887
- 1 2 Boston Daily Globe, Dec. 3, 1887
- ↑ Charles E. L. Wingate (1888), The playgoers' year-book, for 1888, Boston: State Pub. Co.
- ↑ Donald Pizer. "The Radical Drama in Boston 1889-1891." New England Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1958)
- ↑ (21 December 1889). Massachusetts, New York Clipper (it played a month in Boston)
- ↑ Boston Globe, January 22, 1893
- ↑ Boston Globe, March 5, 1893
- ↑ Boston Globe, April 4, 1893
- ↑ Boston Globe, Sept. 21 1893
- ↑ Boston Daily Globe, December 29, 1893
- ↑ Lillian Russell Opera Comique Co. in La Cigale: An Original Opera Comique
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