Globe Theatre, Boston (1871)
Not to be confused with Globe Theatre, Boston (1903).
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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