Past Shows - 1865 TO 1899

CHRONOLOGY of THE NATIONAL THEATRE
TIMELINE A - 1865  to 1889
This record is a work in progress.  Click below for time segments
1835 - 1864
1900 -1924
1925 - 1949
1950 - 1999
2000 - the present

Click here for sources and other notes.

Abbreviations
SN refers to Stage for a Nation, Lee, Meersman, Murphy, 1985, the official history of The National.
HNNT refers to History of the New National Theatre by Alexander Hunter and J. H. Polkinhorn, November, 1954
ON refers to a series of orange notebooks containing information taken from the files of the Washington Historical Society on productions at the National beginning in 1835. Information culled from The Intelligencer newspaper files of the Martin Luther King Library. There are no program files for these entries.
Rapley Files - William W. Rapley was an owner and manager of the theatre in the 1860's and the 1870's. He was later succeeded by his son, Harry W. Rapley.

Sources:

List A: A first computerized partial listing of titles of attractions at the National Theatre was assembled by General Manager Richard Schneider about 1987, apparently from playbills.

List B: A second more elaborate computer listing from 1982 included dates, titles, and some performer annotation. This list included many performances other than those at the National, and seems to be the record of one east-coast theatre-goer's programs beginning in 1943.

Personal Recollection: On a regular basis, individuals report specific information which they know of "first-hand." We are told, for example, that Billie Burke, Al Jolson and Chita Rivera are all "Washingtonians." Chita attended Haywood School here.

Compilation of information Further work was done by President Donn B. Murphy, and Archivist Thomas S. Shorebird, from 1988 through 1993. Dr. Murphy and Anthony Stewart made entries from 1993 through 1997.

Work to incorporate material from other files into a comprehensive chronology was done by volunteer archivists Melvin Goldberg, Bayla White, Mary Haley, Elaine Kolodny and Celia Shapiro over a multi-year period beginning in 2000.

Notes
Where only the year and not the specific play dates of attractions are known, the show titles are listed prior to dated attractions, except when the dates for other attractions known to have played in January make it clear that the undated attractions were later in the year.

Abbreviations
SN refers to Stage for a Nation, Lee, Meersman, Murphy, 1985, the official history of The National.
HNNT refers to History of the New National Theatre by Alexander Hunter and J. H. Polkinhorn, November, 1954
ON refers to a series of orange notebooks containing information taken from the files of the Washington Historical Society on productions at the National beginning in 1835. Information culled from The Intelligencer newspaper files of the Martin Luther King Library. There are no program files for these entries.
Rapley Files - William W. Rapley was an owner and manager of the theatre in the 1860's and the 1870's. He was later succeeded by his son, Harry W. Rapley.

PRODUCTION DATES UNKNOWN

"Undated playbills [or other references] were found for all of [the next listed] shows. Further research is needed to ascertain whether these are the same as already dated shows or other [additional scheduled bookings]." The shows whose booking dates are un-ascertained are listed below. Dates of at least one engagement are listed after those which have been located.

BALLETS ESPANGNOL: TERESA AND LUISILLO
BILLIE TAYLOR
BLUE BEARD AND THE HEATHEN CHINEE
FORGOTTEN FACTOR, THE
HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY
MIRIAM WINSLOW AND HER DANCERS
OUTLAW, THE
OXYGEN, OR GAS IN BURLESQUE METER
PINK DOMINOES circa 1888 - based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling
SHARPS AND FLATS (1800's?)
TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (Film)
TWO KEYS, THE
VILLAR'S DRAGOONS
ZANDER THE GREAT, April 2, ???, Alice Brady and Jerome Patrick. Comedy by Salisbury Field, produced by Charles Frohman

1865
John Wilkes Booth appeared as Romeo to the retiring Miss Avonia Jones' Juliet at a benefit performance.

Dates Unknown but before April 1865 [Rapley file]
LEAH THE FORSAKEN – Starring Avonia Jones.
THE JEWISH MOTHER – Starring Ms. Vestvali
FAUST
OTHELLO – Starring Davenport
HUNCHBACK – Starring Mary Provost
LITTLE BAREFOOT – Starring Charlotte Thompson

March 1865
HAMLET – Starring one of the Booths.

April 14, 1865
MAZEPPA, OR THE WILD HORSE OF TARTARY featuring Kay Vance and her trained horse, Don Juan.

LINCOLN ASSASSINATED Tad Lincoln was attending a performance at The National when he learned of his father's assassination three blocks away at Ford's Theatre. The National closed indefinitely as part of the nation's mourning. SN, p. 50-53.

LOVE'S SACRIFICE

June 7, 1865
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN (or Life Among the Lowly) - “The Great American Life Drama” Starring Little Katie Baker, Susan Denin, Martha Wren and Mrs. C.B. Baker. Performance included Patriotic Tableau of Uncle Tom’s Vision of the Future with the same stars.

June 8, 1865
SEA OF ICE - a great romantic spectacular drama.

June 10, 1865
GRAND FAMILY MATINEE

FALL 1865 National Theatre reopened
HOLMAN OPERA TROUPE
WILD OATS – Starring comedian James E. Murdock
LOVE’S SACRIFICE – sentimental comedy starring Mrs. D. P. Bowers

1866
A photo-mural displayed on the rear wall of The National Theatre’s Executive Office shows the National’s exterior during the month of January 1868. This particular erection of The National burned on January 28, 1873, and again on February 27, 1885. During the fire in 1885, both the front and rear walls collapsed.

January 8 through January 27, 1866
Maggie Mitchell alternating with FANCHON, THE CRICKET and LITTLE BAREFOOT.

February 5 through February 10, 1866
GROVER’S GRAND GERMAN OPERA presenting Martha, Faust, Robert le Diable, Fra Diavolo, The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni. Starring Madame Bertha Johannsen.

In the latter part of March, 1866
performances picked up when Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean appeared in HENRY VIII.

May 1866 [Rapley file]
OTHELLO – by William Shakespeare. Starring J. Newton Gothold

June 1, 1866
John Thompson Ford (temporary management of theatre).

July 1866 [Rapley file]
THE LUBIN BROTHERS

Fall and Winter Season
Management: Spaulding and Rapley
Renamed Theatre: National Theatre
Proprietor; Spaulding and Rapley

THE BLACK CROOK
THE OCTAROON by Dion Boucicault
MACBETH by William Shakespeare
DEBORAH
THE POOR GENTLEMAN
SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM

In early December, former manager, treasurer, door-keeper and stage manager of the National Theater, Joseph Jefferson drew crowds as Bob Acres in THE RIVALS, CALEB PLUMMER, and his most famous role, RIP VAN WINKLE. SN, p.53

1867

February 13, 1867 [xerox only]
MEDEA – adapted from the French by Oliver C. Wyman. Starring Mrs. Lander, C. Pope, , H.S. Murdoch, Frank Read, Katie Kincade, Miss Jeffries, G.A. Parkhurst, G. Morton, R. Buell, R. Frazier, Mary Lenney, Mrs. C.L. Allen.

THE LOAN OF A LOVER – a musical comedietta. Starring W.W. Jeffries, J. Stevens, H. McDouall, J.P. Killbourne, Mrs. F. Williams, Mrs. Mary Lenny.

February 14,1867 [xerox only]
ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND

1868
January [Rapley file]
GRAND DUCHESS – Offenbach’s opera bouffe.

Spring season
Edwin Booth played the Cardinal in RICHELIEU.

September 7, 1868 [xerox only]
THE BLACK CROOK – spectacle in four acts presented by The Parisienne Ballet Troupe.

December 18, 1868
FIDELIO – Beethoven opera. Performers include Madame Cellini, Madame Rotter, Herr Habelmann, Herr Formes, Herr Reichardt and Joseph Hermanns. Conductor, Max Maretzek.

December 19, 1868 [matinee]
MARTHA – opera.

December 19, 1868 [no program file]
IL TROVATORE – Verdi opera

December 28, 1868 through January 2, 1869
THE BLACK CROOK – grand spectacular drama starring M’lle Wesmael, M’lle Christine, M’lle Emily Rigl, Martino Malino and the Zavistowski sisters.

1869
January 4 through January 9, 1869 [no program file]
UNDINE OR THE NAIAD QUEEN

January 11 through January 16, 1869
IXION – a burlesque. Starring Emeline Zavistowski, preceded by THE FRENCH SPY, a romantic military drama starring, M’lle Christine.

January 18 through January 23, 1869
AFTER DARK – drama by Boucicault. Starring Blanch de Bar, Miss Florence Stanley and C.B. Bishop.

January 25 through January 30, 1869
THE CHAPMAN SISTERS -- starring in two burlesque performances: Family Jars and Cinderella. Miss Blanche Chapman and Miss Ella Chapman were supported by Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Bishop, G.A. Parkhurst, Joseph Parker, M.A. Kennedy, Mrs. Meeker, Miss Florence Stanley, Miss Annie Dunn.

March 1 through March 13 (??), 1869
HUMPTY DUMPTY! – Starring Mr. Hernandez Foster, M’lle Emeline, M’lle Alice, M’lle Christine.

March 15 through March 26, 1869
FRENCH OPERA – performing Monsieur Choufleuri, Orphee Aux Enfers, La Perichole, La Grande Duchesse, Barbe Bleue. Stars include M’lle Tostee, M. Duchesne, M. Decre, M’lle Irma, M. Aujac.

April 12 through April 17, 1869
RICHINGS ENGLISH OPERA TROUPE – present La Traviata, Crown Diamonds, Il Trovatore, Bohemian Girl. Cast includes Mrs. C.R. Bernard, Anna Mischka, S.C. Campbell, W. Castle, Henry C. Peakes, James Peakes, J.A. Arnold, George Neal, Pierre Bernard, Mrs. E. Seguin, Mrs. Gonzales.

September 11 through September 18, 1869
THE LEFFINGWELL AND HIS GREAT BURLESQUE COMBINATION – appears for the first time in Washington in The Gushing Glorinda and Romeo Gaffier Jenkins.

November 1869 [no program file]
UNDER TWO FLAGS – dramatization of the novel by Ouidas. Starring Rose and Harry Watkins.

December 1869 [no program file]
THE MURDER BY THE ROADSIDE INN – melodrama. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hamilton.
December 20, 1869 through January 1, 1870 [xerox only]
ZANFRETTI AND CAROM PANTOMIME TROUPE – appearing in Jack and the Bean Stalk, New Tricks, New Ballets.

SINBAD

1870
Sole Management: William Spaulding
THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER

January 3 through January 8, 1870 [xerox only]
MR. AND MRS. W. J. FLORENCE -- appearing in Handy Andy, Mischievous Annie, Colleen Bawn (Boucicault), The Ticket of Leave Man (Tom Taylor), Dombey and Son (Dickens), Irish Lion, A Returned Volunteer (W.J. Florence). President Grant and General Sherman attended the performance of The Ticket of Leave Man.

January 10 through January 15, 1870 [no program file]
MISS BATEMAN – starring in two plays Leah adapted from the German play of Daburgh and Mary Warner (a domestic drama). Miss Bateman, the great tragic actress, is supported by George Jordan. President Grant and wife, along with Generals Porter and Sherman attended a performance.

January 17 through January 22, 1870 [xerox only]
W. H. LINGARD AND HIS ENGLISH BURLESQUE COMPANY – appearing in The Great Men of the Age, Captain of the Watch, and a grand burlesque of Pluto.

January 24 through January 28, 1870 [no program file]
GRAND ITALIAN OPERA – featuring Madame Carolina Briol and Signor C. LeFranc.

February 1870 [Rapley file]
HAMLET – Starring E.L. Davenport
A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS
PEARL OF SAVOY – Starring Maggie Mitchell

March 1 (Tuesday) through March 5, 1870 [xerox only]
PAREPA ROSA GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY – present Bohemian Girl, The Marriage of Figaro, Martha. Fra Diavolo.

March 7 through March

Spring 1870 [Rapley file]
LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET – Starring Mrs. D.P. Bowers
SOLON SHINGLE – Starring John Owens
RIP VAN WINKLE – Starring Joseph Jefferson
LITTLE DETECTIVE – Starring Mme. Lotta
RED LIGHT – Starring John Brougham
MARY STUART – Starring Mrs. D.P. Bowers
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE – Starring Davenport
FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY – Starring Annette Ince and Frank Mordent
RELIEF OF LUCKNOW – Starring Effie Germon

Fall 1870 [Rapley file]
GERMAN COUSIN – Starring Joe Emmert
HANDY ANDY – Starring Mr. and Mrs. Florence
ACROSS THE CONTINENT – Starring Oliver Dowd Byron
QUEEN ELIZABETH – Starring Miss Lander
UNDER TWO FLAGS – Starring Rose Watkins
CLAUDE MELNOTTE – Starring Charles Fechter and Caroline Leclerque

1871
Manager: J.G. Saville

February 21, 1871 (Tuesday)
GRAND CARNIVAL AND MASQUERADE BALL

April 10 through April 15, 1871 [Rapley file]
RIP VAN WINKLE – Starring Joseph Jefferson

April 17 through April 22, 1871 [Rapley file]
STREETS OF NEW YORK – Starring Frank Mayo

April 24 through April 29, 1871 [Rapley file]
CARNCROSS AND DIXIE MINSTRELS

October 6 & 7, 1871 [no program file]
CHARLES MATHEWS – Starring in A Curious Case (comedy by Charles Mathews), The Critic (drama by Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Mr. Gatherwool.

October 28 through November 2, 1871 [Rapley file]
ROSEDALE – Starring J.G. Saville

November 1871 [Rapley file]
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP – Starring Kate Putnam
THE RED POCKET BOOK – Starring Joe Proctor, May Saville

November 25 through November 30, 1871 [Rapley file]
DIVORCE – Starring George C. Boniface, Georgia Langley

December 1871 [Rapley file]
CENTRAL PARK – Starring Lester Wallach
AFTER DARK – Featuring a stock company
FEE FI FO FUM – Featuring Professor Davis’ Educated Dogs
ARRAH NA POGUE – Dion Bocicault and Agnes Robertson
ROSEDALE – Starring Lester Wallach
MARRIED FOR MONEY – Starring Charles Matthews
CHRISTIE JOHNSON – Starring Mrs. Chanfran
SARATOGA – Starring J.C. Saville

1872
January 1
January 22 through January 27, 1872 [no program file]
FRITZ, OUR GERMAN COUSIN – comedy by Charles Gayler. Starring J.K. Emmet, Dutch comedian.

January 29 through February 3, 1872 [no program file]
MAGGIE MITCHELL – Starring in Lerle, The Pearl of Savoy, Jane Eyre, Fanchon. Supported by L. R. Shewell.

February 19 through February 24, 1872 [ no program file]
E.A. SOTHERN – Starring in Lord Dundreary (written by Mr. Southern) and Our American Cousin.

February 26 through March 2, 1872 [no program file]
JOHN E. OWENS – Starring in Everybody’s Friend, Solon Shingle, Victims, Grimaldi, Happiest Day of My Life, Forty Winks, Live Indian.

March 4 through March 9, 1872 [no program file]
PAREPA-ROSA ENGLISH OPERA – present Marriage of Figaro, Zampa or the Marble Bride, Don Giovanni, Fra Diavolo, The Water Carrier. Company includes Madame Parepa-Rosa, Charles Santley

March 11 through March 16, 1872 [no program file]
DIVORCE – drama by Augustin Daly

March 18 through March 23, 1872 [no program file]
JOHN E. OWENS – return engagement

April 30 through May 5, 1872 [no program file]
AIMEE “the Queen of Opera Bouffe” – Starring in La Perichole, Les Brigands, La Belle Helene, Le Pont Des Soupirs, La Grande Duchesse, Barbe Bleue.

May 6 through May 11, 1872 [no program file]
THE BLACK CROOK

1873
January 28, 1873
FIRE! NATIONAL THEATRE FIRE (11 am)

Reopened on December 1, 1873 under the management of W.W. Rapley (later succeeded by his son, Harry W. Rapley). President Grant attended the reopening. The management vainly promised that “the devices for the safety of the audience in any conceivable emergency are so complete that no accident could happen.”

1874
INGOMAR - Opera - The great Italian actor Tommaso Salvini played on his first tour of America.
PAREPA-ROSA ENGLISH OPERA – present The Marriage of Figaro, Martha, Faust, Puritan’s Daughter and Fra Diavolo. Starring Madame Parepa-Rosa, with conductor Carl Rosa.

MARY STUART - probably by Schiller, starring Polish actress Mme. Janauschek and then British actress Adelaide Neilson.

TEMPTATION
DEBORAH

The highlight of the season was the appearance of Frank Mayo in Frank Murdoch's DAVY CROCKETT SN, p. 56.

1875
September 1, 1875
John T. Ford took "supreme control" of the National.

SURF

September 1, 1875
HAMLET - by William Shakespeare. Starring John McCullough.
In the summer John McCullough had limited success in the title role in Shakespeare's HAMLET. It is the basis for the apochryphal story that McCullough died at the National while performing. The myth is that McCullough was murdered backstage and that fellow actors buried him in the dirt rather than let his body be consigned to a pauper's grave. Even though his death from paresis was documented, he was said to haunt the theatre thereafter as the National Theatre Ghost. SN, p. 58-59.

1876
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS - by Jules Verne and Adolph d’Ennery. Starring G. Metkiff, W. H. Lytell, Dora Golthwaite, Blanche Mortimer, Hattie Burnham. Presented by the Kiralfy Brothers.

THE TWO ORPHANS - Panic was narrowly avoided as Kate Claxton performed, and a prankster shouted “Fire!” in the crowded theatre. “Panic was averted by the coolness of the ushers and a jovial air played by the orchestra” – Newspaper account.”

September 4 through September 9, 1876
HAVERLY’S MINSTRELS - including the Haverly Minstrels, Primrose and West, Edwin French, Milton G. Barlow.

September 11 through September 16, 1876 (no program file)
HUMPTY DUMPTY

September 18 through September 22, 1876
RICHELIEU - by Bulwar. Starring Charles Pope, supported by the New Orleans Varieties Theatre Company.

September 23, 1876 (no program file)
RICHARD III - by William Shakespeare. Starring Charles Pope, supported by the New Orleans Varieties Theatre Company.

September 25 through September 30, 1876 (no program file)
THE NAIAD QUEEN - presented by the Stock Company of the Ford’s National Theatre.

October 2 through October 7, 1876
TWO MEN OF SANDY BAR - comedy drama by Bret Harte. Starring Stuart Robson.

October 9 through October 14, 1876 (no program file)
EVANGELINE - comic opera by Rice and Goodman. Starring Miss Annis Montague.

October 20, 1876
BECKY MIX - comedy written for Maggie Mitchell by Clifton W. Tayleur. Starring Maggie Mitchell in a Benefit performance.

October 23 through October 28, 1876 (no program file)
WANTED A DIVORCE - comedy. Starring Louis L. James.

October 30 through November 4, 1876
MAUD MULLER - by Philip Stoner, based on the poem by John G. Whittier. Starring Miss Genevieve Rogers.

November 6 through November 10, 1876 (no program file)
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - by William Shakespeare. Starring Ben de Bar.

November 20 through November 25, 1876
MARRIED IN HASTE - comedy. Starring Louis James, Walter Treville, G.W. Denham.

November 27 through December 2, 1876 (no program file)
MRS. OATES’ COMIC OPERA COMPANY - performing Madame Angot’s Child, Princess of Trebizonde, and Girofle-Girofla.

December 25 through December 30, 1876
THE TWO ORPHANS - Starring Kate Claxton, with Ellen Cummies.

LOUISE
DON GIOVANNI - Opera
IL TROVATORE - Opera
LA TRAVIATA - Opera

1877

KING LEAR by William Shakespeare
HAMLET by William Shakespeare
THE GLADIATOR
BABY
BELLE LAMAR - drama
OUR BACHELORS - comedy
AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare
MISS MULTON
THE DANICHEFFS
LES CENT VIRGES - Opera
FORBIDDEN FRUIT - comedy
OTHELLO by William Shakespeare
RICHELIEU
VIRGINIUS

January 1 through January 6, 1877 (no program file)
ROMEO AND JULIET - by William Shakespeare. Starring Mary Anderson.

January 8 through January 13, 1877
BERTHE, THE DAUGHTER OF ROLAND - adapted by Miss Annie Ford from the French of Henri Bornier. Starring Miss Mary Anderson.

January 15 through January 20, 1877 (no program file)
CHESNEY WOLD - from Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. Starring Mme. Janauschek.

February 4 through February 10, 1877
THE SHAUGHRAUN - comedy by Dion Boucicault and starring Mr. Boucicault.

February 11 through February 17, 1877 (no program file)
THERE’S MILLIONS IN IT - comedy starring John T. Raymond.

February 18 through February 25, 1877
ALICE OATES AND HER NEW ENGLISH COMIC OPERA COMPANY – performing La Perichole and The Grand Duchess.

February 26 through March 3, 1877
HOOLEY’S MINSTRELS

March 5 though March 10, 1877 (no program file)
LEMONS - by Daly’s Fifth Avenue Company.

March 26 through March 31, 1877
HENRY J. MONTAGUE – Starring in Our Idol (comedy by Mrs. Harry Beckett), False Shame (comedy).

April 2 through April 7, 1877 [no program file]
ALICE OATES AND HER COMIC OPERA COMPANY – performing light English opera. Starring Alice Oates, M’lle Eme Roseau, Mrs. Julia Chapman, Miss Venie Clancy, Miss Susie Winner, Miss Bessie Temple, Miss Aimee Winner, Miss Maud Bowman, C.H. Drew, John Howson, Henri Laurent, J.H. Jones, A. W. Maflin, H. Amberg, L. De Smith.

April 30 through May 5, 1877
LYDIA THOMPSON AND HER OWN GRAND BURLESQUE COMPANY – presenting Penelope, Columbus, and Robinson Crusoe.

October 27 (Saturday) 1877
CASTE (musical comedy by T.W. Robertson) and JENNY LIND (musical farce). Starring Harry Taylor, W. H. Burton, Charles Waverly, Harry Rainforth, T.F. Meagher, Lizzie Mahon, Laura Joyce, Lizzie Herbert.

October 29 through November 3, 1877[no program file]
ROBINSON CRUSOE – presented by Lydia Thompson and Company

November 22 through November 27, 1877 [xerox only]
ALICE OATES AND HER COMIC OPERA COMPANY present La Jolie Parfumeuse, The Princess of Trebizonde, Madame Angot’s Child, Girofle-Girofla; Trial by Jury and Les Bavards.

November 29 through December 4, 1877 [no program file]
OTHELLO – by William Shakespeare. Starring John McCullough.

December 10 through December 15, 1877
MISS LOUISE POMEROY – starring in Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Lady Macbeth. Cast includes Charles Waverly, R.L. Downing, M. Lanagam, Harry Taylor, George Denham, W.H. Burton, Octavia Allen, Lizzie Herbert.

December 17 through December 22, 1877
RIP VAN WINKLE – Starring Joseph Jefferson. Cast includes M. Lanagan, Julian Mitchell, James Galloway, Walter L. Dennis, Miss Octavia Allen, Miss Eleanor Carey, Miss Virginia Thorne. On Friday night of the run, Mr. Jefferson appeared in a performance of THE RIVALS.

December 24 through December 29, 1877
SEA OF ICE – drama starring Louise Pomeroy. Cast includes Charles Waverly, Theo Hamilton, George Denham, R.L. Downing, W.H. Burton.

December 31, 1877 through January 5, 1878 [no program file]
MIGHTY DOLLAR – starring the Florences.

1878
John T. Ford, Lessee; H. Clay Ford, Manager; B. A. Baker, Stage Manager.

RICHELIEU
LA CIGALE
SWEETHEARTS
TOM COBB, or FORTUNE'S TOY
VIRGINIUS

January 21 through January 26, 1878
STRUCK OIL - drama by Maggie Moore and J.C. Williamson. Starring Miss Moore and Mr. Williamson.

January 28 through February 2, 1878
THE CRUSHED TRAGEDIAN - Starring Mr. Sothern and his Comedy Company.

February 4 through February 9, 1878
CAMILLE - a new English version of the Dumas play. Starring Madame Helena Modjeska.

February 11 through February 16, 1878
ALICE OATES AND THE NEW ENGLISH COMIC OPERA COMPANY - presenting a different performance each evening, including La Fille de Madame Angot; Barbe Bleue; The Princess of Trebizonde; La Perichole and the Grand Duchess.

March 24 through March 29, 1878
CARNCROSS & DIXEY’S MINSTRELS

March 31 through April 6, 1878
A CELEBRATED CASE - Starring Miss Minnette Thompson, Laura Joyce, Octavia Allen, Virginia Bray, Mrs. Germon, Louis James, Theo. Hamilton, George W. Denham, M. Lanagan.

May 27 through June 1, 1878
THE SOLDIER’S TRUST - by D’Ennery. Starring George C. Boniface.

September 9 through September 14, 1878
THE ICE WITCH - Featuring T. W. Keene, George Denham, Charles Abrendt, Miss Henrietta Vaders, Miss Annie Wakeman, Miss Virginia Clary, The Minzelli Sisters, The Ravel-Martinetti Family, Little Rosebud and many others.

September 16 through September 21, 1878
BUFFALO BILL, WILLIAM F. CODY - presents border drama Lost and Won, depicting scenes and incidents of the great scout’s eventful and extraordinary life.

September 23 through September 28, 1878
F.C. BANGS starring in evenings of Shakespeare, including Hamlet, King John and Julius Caesar. Cast also includes T. W. Keene and Carl Ahrendt.

September 30 through October 5, 1878
JOHN E. OWENS - a week with the world famous comedian. Performing various comedies including Dot or the Cricket on the Hearth, Our Boys, Uncle Solon, Toodles, and Victims and Serious Family.

October 7 through October 12, 1878
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN - a revised edition of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel.

October 14 through October 19, 1878
HIDDEN HAND - a play representing life in the South in the 1850s by Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth. Featuring Blanche Ford, Adelaide Detchon, George W. Denham, Frank Donnelly, W.L. Dennis.

October 21 through November 2, 1878
EMMA ABBOTT AND THE HESS GRAND ENGLISH OPERA presenting Mignon, Bohemian Girl, The Chimes of Normandy, Martha, Fra Diavolo, Faust. Directed by C. D. Hess.

November 11 through November 16, 1878
ROBERT HELLER, MAGICIAN, MUSICIAN AND WIT

December 2 through December 7, 1878
JOHN MC CULLOUGH – appearing in repertory in Virginius, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III.

December 16 through December 21, 1878
JANE SHORE - historical domestic play by W. G. Will. Starring Miss Genevieve Ward.

December 23 through December 28, 1878
MLISS, THE MOUNTAIN WAIF - drama founded upon Bret Hart’s idyll. Starring Miss Katy Mayhew, Mr. C. J. Edmunds and a superb dramatic company.

December 30, 1878 through January 4, 1879
STRAKOSCH OPERA COMPANY presenting a season of grand Italian opera including Il Trovatore, Mignon, Lucia di Lammermoor, Huguenots, La Favorita.

1879
January 6 through January 11, 1879
HAVERLY’S UNITED MASTODON MINSTRELS

January 13 through January 18, 1879
MME. HELINA MODJESKA - starring in Frou Frou, East Lynne, Adrienne, Romeo and Juliet, Camille.

January 20 through January 25, 1879
DIPLOMACY - comedy by Victorien Sardou. Starring Frederick Warde and Maurice Barrymore, with John Drew, H. Reed Davis, and Albert Murdoch.

January 27 through February 1, 1879
F.S. CHANFRAU - a comedian and impersonator presents Kit, and The Octoroon.

February 3 through February 8, 1879
THE COLEVILLE OPERA BURLESQUE COMPANY performing Our Cinderella, Babes in the Wood. Starring Mlle. Emme Roseau and 50 artists.

February 10 through February 15, 1879
LAWRENCE BARRETT - interpretations of Shakespeare, Lytton Bulwer and Robertson.

February 17 through February 22, 1879
THE DANITES - American drama. Starring McKee Rankin and Kitty Blanchard.

February 24 through March 1, 1879
A MESSENGER FROM JARVIS’ SECTION - comedy by E.A. Locke. Starring Mr. B. Macauley.

March 2, 1879
LECTURE BY ROBERT B. INGERSOLL entitled The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child.

March 3 through March 8, 1879
JOSHUA WHITCOMB -comedy by Denman Thompson. Starring Mr. Thompson.

March 10 through March 15, 1879
THE SHAUGHRAUN - dramatic creation of Dion Boucicuault. Starring Mr. Boucicault.

March 17 through March 22, 1879
STUART ROBSON AND WILLIAM H. CRANE starring in A Cup of Tea, A Comedy of Errors, and Our Bachelors.

March 24 through March 29, 1879
JOSEPH JEFFERSON starring in The Rivals (comedy by W.B. Sheridan) and Regular (farce by Morton) and Rip Van Winkle (by Washington Irving). Supporting cast includes M. Lanagan, T.W. Keene, George Hoey, Walter L. Dennis, C. Waverly, J. Galloway, Miss. H. Vaders, Mrs. Germon, Miss E. Vaders.

March 31 through April 5, 1879
THE CARNCROSS MINSTRELS presenting Oratory, Persuasion, and Henry Moses Shadboat Pinafore (a new and original burlesque by E.M. Slocum).

April 7 through April 12, 1879
A CELEBRATED CASE - an emotional play. Presented by The Union Square (NY) Theatre Company.

April 14 through April 19, 1879
H.M.S. PINAFORE - by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. [Program lists cast, but not the name of the company.]

April 21 through April 26, 1879
HESS ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY presenting Paul and Virginia and The Chimes of Normandy. Starring Emma Abbott.

April 28 through May 3, 1879
FREAKS - comedy adapted from the German by F.F. Mackay. Starring the New York Criterion Comedy Company.

May 5 through May 10, 1879
H.M.S. PINAFORE - Comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Presented by the Colored Opera Company.

May 12 through May 17, 1879
H.M.S. PINAFORE - Comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Presented by the Standard Opera Company.

May 23, 1879
H.M.S. PINAFORE - Comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Presented by the English Opera Company.

June 11, 1879
INGOMAR - Starring John McCullough and Mary Anderson.

June 30, July 1 and 2, 1879
H.M.S. PINAFORE - Comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Presented by Ford’s Minature Pinafore Company.

July 16, 1879
H.M.S. PINAFORE - Comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Presented by the Potomac Boat Club.

September 16, 1879
QUEEN’S EVIDENCE - Managed by C.L. Graves, starring George C. Boniface.

October 9, 10 and 11 (matinee), 1879
RICE’S SURPRISE PARTY and REVELS - comic extravaganza by John J. McNally and Dexter Smith.

October 13, 1879
FAUST - grand opera. Cast includes Mlle. Blanche, Miss Lancaster, Miss Ascone, Signore Lazarini, Mr. L. G. Gottschalk, Monsieur Castelmary, Signor LaFontaine. Max Strakosch, director.

October 14, 1879
AIDA - grand opera. Cast includes Mlle. Blanche, Miss Lancaster, Miss Ascone, Signore Lazarini, Mr. L. G. Gottschalk, Monsieur Castelmary, Signor LaFontaine. Max Strakosch, director.

November 25 through November 30, 1879
VIRGINIUS – tragedy by James Sheridan Knowles. Starring John McCullough, with F. B. Warde.

December 29, 1879 through January 3, 1880
KATE CLAXTON -- appearing in Double Marriage and The Two Orphans! Supported by her own company. With Chas. A. Stevenson.

1880
EAST LYNN - melodrama


February 11 through February 14, 1880
FUN ON THE BRISTOL - dramatic and musical play by Henry C. Jarrett.

February 15 through February 21, 1880
ADA CAVENDISH

April 6 through April 10, 1880
RICHELIEU! - by Bulwar. Starring Lawrence Barrett and his company.

April 12 through April 17, 1880
CARNCROSS’ MINSTRELS -- John W. Albaugh, Manager.

May 6 though May 8, 1880
HORRORS! – Starring Willie Edouin.

May 10 through May 15, 1880 [no program file]
THE UPPER CRUST – Starring Annie Graham

November 8 through November 15, 1880
THE SPECTRE KNIGHT - Opera di camera; presented by Rice’s Bijou Comic Opera Company.

December 13 through December 19, 1880
KIT, THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER - comic drama, starring Mr. F.S. Chanfrau

December 20 through December 26, 1880
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

1881
January 13 through January 18, 1881
RICHELIEU! - tragedy by Bulwar. Starring John McCullough, with Fred B. Warde. Managed by William M. Conner.

January 20 through January 25, 1881 (dates uncertain) [no program file]
VIRGINIUS - tragedy by Sheridan Knowles. Starring John McCullough, with Fred B. Warde, Edmund Collier, John A. Lane, H. C. Barton, Edward Dee, Katge Forsyth, Augusta Foster. Under the management of William M. Conner.

February 10 through February 13, 1881 [no program file]
THE RIVALS - comedy by Sheridan. Starring Joseph Jefferson, with Mrs. John Drew, Frederick Robinson, Maurice Barrymore, Charles Waverly, and Rosa Rand.

February 14 through February 15, 1881 [no program file]
RIP VAN WINKLE – Starring Joseph Jefferson, with Charles Waverly, J. Galloway, W. Burton, G. Lynch, Rosa Rand, Maggie Gonzalles, Jaculine Benn.

February 24 through February 28, 1881 [no program file]
RICHARD III - by William Shakespeare. Starring T.W. Keene, with George Learock, W. Lloyd, H.B. Phillips, Hunter Smith, James Tighe, J.B. Everham, F.D. Montague, H. Mason, Georgia Tyler, Octavia Allen, Gertrude Johnston,

March 1 through March 4, 1881(no program file) [Year uncertain]
SARAH BERNHARDT in her Washington debut, performs Camille, Fedora, Frou-Frou, and Maitre de Forges. She received rave reviews.

October 24 through October 29, 1881
RICHARD III – by William Shakespeare

October 31 through November 5, 1881
EMMA ABBOTT GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY presents Il Trovatore, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Two Cavaliers.

November 7 through November 10, 1881
HERRMANN THE MAGICIAN

1882
June 13, 1882 - COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY LAW DEPARTMENT COMMENCEMENT
(Columbian University subsequently became George Washington University)

Exact dates unknown:
FRITZ IN IRELAND – Starring Joseph K. Emmet who composed many of the songs he performed. Cast inclues De Los King, Walter Standish, Harry C. Albaugh, W. Christie Miller, W.J. Donnelly, Little Annie Smith, Katie Blancke, Jeannie Harold, Pollie Poland.

EAST LYNNE – Starring Ada Gray, supported by Charles A Watkins’ Fifth Avenue Combination.

INGOMAR THE BARBARIAN – adapted by Maria Lovell. Starring John McCullough and his company. Under the management of William M. Conner.

EQUINE PARADOX – Starring George Bartholomew.

January 16 through January 21, 1882
RICHELIEU – tragedy by Bulwar. Starring Lawrence Barrett. Cast includes Otis Skinner, F.C. Mosley, Frederick Bock, Louis James, Charles Rolfe, B.G. Rogers, Chas. Plunkett.

April 3 through April 8, 1882
MADAME MODJESKA – Starring in Camille, As You Like It, Frou-Frou, and Twelfth Night. Cast includes Maurice Barrymore, G.H. Griffith, Frank Clements Norman Forbes, Mason Mitchell, Clara Fisher Maeder, Maud Milton, Helen Leigh, Clara Ellison, Frances Clarmont. Under the management of John Stetson.

April 10 through April 15, 1882
JOSEPH JEFFERSON -- Starring in Rip Van Winkle and The Rivals (Sheridan). Starring Joseph Jefferson. Cast includes Charles Waverly, H.F. Taylor, James T. Galloway, Frank Sherley, Mrs. Charles Walcot, Jacquiline Benn, Fanny Gonzalles, Mrs. Balloway, Lillian Lee

1883
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISCO starring James O’'Neill

Exact Dates Unknown:
HER MAJESTY’S OPERA COMPANY – presents Faust, Semiramide, William Tell, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, La Traviata. Performers include Madame Scalchi, M. Durat, Signor Clodio, Signor Monti, Signor Costa, Adelina Patti, Signor Ravelli, Signor Galassi, Mlle. Valerga, Madame Albani. Music conducted by Signor Arditi.

ZILLAH – Starring Mme. Janauschek. Cast includes G.D. Chaplin, Ogden Stevens, Ferdinand Hight, Doro Connor, Henrietta Irving, Anna Locke, A.H. Stuart, Giles Shine, Harry Hawk, Louis Bresdan, W.H. Barry, Emmie Wilmot, Virginia Brooks.

JOSEPH JEFFERSON – Starring in the Poor Gentleman (comedy by Coleman), The Rivals (comedy by Sheridan). Company includes Mrs. John Drew, Frederic Robinson, Rose Wood, B.T.Ringgold, Charles Waverly, Harry Taylor, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Hemple, Lillian Lee.

THOMAS W. KEENE – Starring in Richard III, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth (Shakespeare), Richelieu (Bulwar), Fool’s Revenge

October 1883
TWO ORPHANS – a drama. Starring Kate Claxton and Charles A. Stevenson.

SIBERIA – drama by Bartley Campbell. Cast includes Atkins Lawrence, Hardie Vernon, Lawrence Eddinger, Charles Abbotr, C.B. Waite, Vining Wood, M.C. Daly, Arthur Gardner, Paul Browne, Clarence Montaine, George F. Devere Jr., John Parry, Mark Arnold, Charles Warner, Harry Eustace, C.B. Hawkins, Adele Belgarde, Emma Vaders, Frankie McClellan, Sara Lasselles, Rebecca Alexander, Fanny Lloyd Annie Evans, Charles Petit, Alice Coleman.

THE ROMANY RYE – romantic drama by George R. Sims. Cast includes James M. Hardie, P.A. Anderson, Charles W. Butler, H.B. Bradley, L.F. Howard, J. Winston Murray, Neil Gray, William Leyden, George L. Davis, lewis Mitchell, C. Williams, James R. Price, Henry Bishop, Walker Merrill, Frank Dean, Carrie Dean, Sarah Von Leer, Marion P. Clifton, Zmay Bardell, Annie Gorman, Angie Griffiths, Minnie Reed. Under the management of Brooks and Dickson.

November 1883
BLACK CROOK – Cast includes J. Fleming Peters, Robert B. Bouchier, H.W. Mitchell, George R. Edeson, Joseph L. Mason L. Ruble, Thomas Star, D. Albert, Lotta Belton, Annie W. Tiffany, Anna Guenther, Mlle. Leontine, Rose Wilson. Production also includes three ballets and several special star acts. Produced under the personal supervision of Imre and Bolossy Kiralfy.

A BUNCH OF KEYS! – musical comedy by Charles Hoyt and Willie Edouin. Cast includes Alice Atherton, Anna Gunther, Anna Brevoor, Marietta Nash, Genie Holtzmeyer, Julian Mitchell, James T. Powers, C.B. Stevens, W. Smith, Willie Edouin, Tom Harding, Gilly Spooner, Rose Keys, Mary Keys, Teddy Keys, Sam Foss.

DREAMS – musical comedy originally titled Conceit. Starring Willie Edouin, Julian Mitchell, C.B. Stevens, W. Smith, James T. Powers, Alice Atherton, Genie Holtzmeyer, Anna Gunther, Marietta Nash.

December 1883 [xerox only]
VOKES FAMILY – present Cousin Joe, Belles of the Kitchen, Fun in a Fog.

1884
Lessee: W.W. Rapley; Manager: Samuel G. Kinsley
PAUL AND VIRGINIA - opera
CHIMES OF NORMANDY
ROMEO AND JULIET - opera
CARMEN - opera

January 4 through January 9, 1884
BOSTON IDEAL OPERA COMPANY presents Giralda, The Three Musketeers, Bohemian Girl, Fra Diavolo, and Victor, the Bluestocking

January 10, 1884
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA presents a concert of vocal and instrumental music.

January 11 through January 16, 1884
FANNY DAVENPORT

February 2, 1884 [HNNT]
RICHARD III – by William Shakespeare. Starring John McCullough in his last performance in Washington.

March 7 through 14, 1884
HENRY IRVING AND ELLEN TERRY -- Starring in Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Louis XI (by Casmir Delavigne), The Belle’s Stratagem! (comedy by Mrs. Cowley). Directed by Henry E. Abbey.

March 8, 1884
CLAIRE AND THE FORGE MASTER – drama by Ettie Henderson. Starring Maude Grander, with May Brookyn, Lizzie McCall, Lizzie DuRoy, Retta Henson, George Learock, Charles Chappelle, John Jack, J.W. Summers, E.H. Stephens, J.W. Arches, E. Hughes, Daniel Wolf.

March 14, 1884
FRITZ IN IRELAND – dram by William Carlton. Starring J.K. Emmett, with George R. Sprague, Maurice Pike, Kate French, Martin J. Cody, Edward Rue, H.A. Morey, C.W. Swain, William Schroeder, Clara Baker, Kate Blancke, Lizzie Scanlon.

April 1884
LIGHTS O’ LONDON – drama by George R. Sims. Cast includes J. L. Burleigh, George Mordaunt, Horace Vinton, Florence Thropp, Thomas J. McBride, Edward Frances, Charles Burns, Walter MacNichol, W. Richardson, Charles Mitchell, Fred W. Gretton, Louis Barrett, John Pringle, Harry Prior, Walter Frank, Genevieve Stebbins, May Wilkes, Marion Mardaunt, May Richards, Louisa Thropp. Presented by Shook and Collier.

May 5 through May 10, 1884
DEWDROP – romantic comedy by Con.T. Murphy and C.E. Callahan. Starring Miss Lizzie Evans. Cast includes Al Phillips, George W. Deyo, Harry Scharf, C.R. Burrows, E.D. Tannehill, Ed Clifford, W.T. Sheehan, Ida Burrows, Marie LeGros, Selina Anderson, Charline Weidman.

May 12 through May 15, 1884 [no program file]
PECK’S BAD BOY

September 8 through September 13, 1884
THATCHER, PRIMROSE AND WEST’S MINSTRELS

September 15 through September 20, 1884
DAD’S GIRL - comedy/drama by E.J. Swatrz. Starring Lizzie May Ulmer.

September 22 through September 27, 1884
ATKINSON’S COMEDY COMPANY performing scenes from The Grocery Man, Peck’s Bad Boy, Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa.

September 29 through October 4, 1884
NORDECK - a romantic comedy by Frank Mayo and John G. Wilson. Starring Frank Mayo, with Rachel McAuley.

October 4, 1884 (evening)
DAVY CROCKETT! - Starring Frank Mayo.

October 6 through October 11, 1884
SIBERIA! - by Bartley Campbell. Starring Atkins Lawrence, Frank Norcross, and Mr. L. Eddinger, Hardie Vernon, C.B. Waite, Vining Wood, M.C. Daly, Arthur Gardner, Paul Browne, Clarence Montaine, George F. Devere Jr., John Parry, Mark Arnold, Charles Warner, Harry Eustace, C.B. Hawkins, Adele Belgarde, Emma Vaders, Frankie McClellan, Helen Windsor, Jennie Karsner, Fanny Lloyd, Charles Petit, Alice Coleman.

October 13 through October 18, 1884
HEARTS OF OAK! - drama by James A. Herne. Starring James A. Herne, Charles H. Clark, and F. Chippendale.

October 20 through October 25, 1884
MY LIFE! - original drama by Harry Meredith. Starring Mme. Janauschek.

October 27 through November 1, 1884
MLLE. MARIE AIMEE starring in two productions: Divorcons (a satire on the divorce question by Victorian Sardou) and Mam’zelle (English comedy by Jessop and Gill). With Thomas Burns, Lester Victor and A. del Campo. Divorcons directed by Simmonds and Brown; Mam’zelle directed by Maurice Grau.

November 3 through November 8, 1884
STORM BEATEN! - drama by Robert Buchanan. Starring Joseph Winters, Isabella Preston, John Burke and Edmond Collier.

November 10 through November 15, 1884
THE MILAN GRAND OPERA COMPANY performing Aida, Rigoletto, Norma, It Trovatore, and the Barber of Seville.

November 17 through November 22, 1884
CALLED BACK - by Hugh Conway and Comyns Carr. Presented by the Madison Square Theatre Company.

November 24 through November 29, 1884
WAGES OF SIN! - drama by Frank Harvey. Starring Agnes Booth, with Charles C. Maubury and Charles Overton.

December 1 through December 6, 1884
SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY - domestic comedy/drama by L. R. Shewell. Starring B. R. Graham, O.H. Barr, George R. Edeson, Julia Stuart, Annie Ward Tiffany, Clementine, Vaughn .

December 8 through December 13, 1884
JOSEPH JEFFERSON! performing Cricket on the Hearth, Lend Me Five Shillings!, and Rip Van Winkle.

December 15 through December 20, 1884
THE PAVEMENTS OF PARIS - a dramatic spectacle by adapted from the French by Felix Morris. Starring Felix Morris.

December 22 through December 27, 1884
PRIVATE SECRETARY - comedy. Presented by the Madison Square Theater Company. Starring Al Lipman, M.A. Kennedy, and C. W. Stokes.

December 29, 1884 through January 3, 1885
YOUNG MRS. WINTHROP! - by Bronson Howard. Presented by the Madison Square Theater Company. Starring George Clarke, Thomas Whiffen, and C. E. Lothian.

1885
Manager: W.H. Rapley (son of W.W.)

January 5 through January 10, 1885
MR. & MRS. W. J. FLORENCE - performing The Mighty Dollar, Our Governor, The Ticket-of- Leave Man.

January 12 through January 17, 1885
RHEA performing The American Countess (by Howard Carroll), Arcadia (by Victorien Sardou), Camille (by Alexandre Dumas), Lady Ashley (by Barron Bates), Frou Frou, The Power of Love (by Victorien Sardou), A Dangerous Game.

January 19 through January 24, 1885
MAY BLOSSOM - by David Belasco. Starring Georgia Cayven and Joseph Wheelock and the Madison Square Theater Company.

January 26 through January 31, 1885
WE, US AND CO. - comedy by W. A. Mestayer and C. Barnard. Starring W. A. Mestayer and Theresa Vaughn.

February 2 through February 7, 1885
FEDORA - by Victorien Sardou. Starring Fanny Davenport.

February 9 through February 14, 1885
MY PARTNER - by Bartley Campbell. Starring Louis Aldrich.

February 16 through February 20, 1885
SKIPPED BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON - by and starring Louis Harrison and John Gourlay.

February 23 through February 27, 1885
VICTOR DURAND - drama by Henry Guy Carleton. Starring Lester Wallack and Company. During the run (February 26), the Theatre was CLOSED BY FIRE. The sets burned in the fire.

October, 1885
THEATRE REOPENS
Julia Wheeler read an “almost interminable” poem written for the occasion by Edwin Crapsey. Included was the sentiment:
“Behold a phoenix from the ashes came
Behold the drama’s new and splendid home!”

October 5 through October 10, 1885 [HNNT]
LADY ASHLEY – romantic comedy by Barron and Bates. Starring Rhea and her acting company.

October 12 through October 17, 1885
HUMBUG - farce by Fred Marsden. Starring Roland Reed, with Augustus Cook, H. Rees Davies, William C. Andrews, Oliver L. Jenkins, Joseph Gobay, Oliver L. Jenkins, Charles Patterson, Madge Carr, Bertie Damon, Annie Mortimer.

October 19 through October 24, 1885
MONTE CRISTO - adapted by Charles Fechter. Starring James O’Neill. Cast includes J.W. Shannon, W.H. Wallis, H.B.Bradley, John V. Melton, Howard Gould, S.Miller Kent, J.H. Shewell, Marry McClusky, Katie Stokes, Annie Boudinot, Fannie Henry, Marie Floyd.

October 26 through October 31, 1885

November 2 through November 7, 1885
MR. AND MRS. W. J. FLORENCE starring in Mighty Dollar, Dombey and Son (adapted from Dickens by John Brougham), Our Governor (comedy by George H. Jessop and William Gill).

November 9 through November 16, 1885
A RAG BABY - comedy by Charles Hoyt. Starring John T. Craven, Albert Riddle and Tony Williams. Under the management of Eugene Tompkins.

November 16 through November 21, 1885
SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY - drama by L.R. Shewell. Starring Nelson Wheatcroft, H.W. Herman, and George R. Edeson.

November 23 through November 28, 1885
THE WAGES OF SIN - drama by Frank Harvey. Starring Charles C. Maubury and Charles Overton.

November 30 through December 5, 1885
IN SPITE OF IT ALL - by Victorien Sardou. Starring Minnie Maddern.

December 6, 1885
JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA - 1st Sunday concert. Soloists include Kate deJonge, Walter Smith and Ernest Lent.

December 7 through December 11, 1885
JOSEPH JEFFERSON AND HIS COMEDY COMPANY presenting Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving), Cricket on the Hearth (by Charles Dickens) and Lend Me Five Shillings. Under the management of Mr. C.B. Jefferson.

December 14 through December 20, 1885
THE NEW YORK THALIA OPERA COMPANY presenting The Beggar Student, Baccaccio, The Black Hussar, Die Fledermaus, Nanon, The Postillion of Longemau. [Note: the Opera Company had changed its name to the Amberg New York Thalia Opera Company by 1886.]

December 20, 1885
JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA - 2nd Sunday concert. Presenting a grand vocal and instrumental concert.

December 21 through December 26, 1885
LOTTA starring in M’lle, Nitouche (by H.Meilhac and A. Milaud), Musette (by Fred Marsden).

December 27, 1885
JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA - 3rd Sunday Concert. Featuring Frank Pearson, Juliette Corden, Mamie Morrice, Walter Smith and the Full Marine Band.

December 28, 1885 through January 2, 1886
ANNIE PIXLEY starring in M’Liss and Zara (comedy by Marsden).

1886
A RUSSIAN HONEYMOON
CAMILLE with Sarah Bernhardt

January 3, 1886
JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA AND THE FULL MARINE BAND - 4th Sunday concert. With Miss Louise Pyk, soprano, The Arion Quartette, and Messrs. Smith and Petrola, Cornet soloists.

January 4 through January 9, 1886
BOSTON IDEAL OPERA COMPANY present Giralda; Bohemian Girl; Victor, the Bluestocking; Musketeers; and Fra Diavolo. Cast includes W.H. MacDonald, Tom Karl, J.A. Montgomery, W.H. Clark, Zelie de Lussan, Florence Reed and Lizzie Burton.

January 10, 1886
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA AND THE FULL MARINE BAND - 5th Sunday concert.

January 11 through January 16, 1886
FEDORA! - by Victorien Sardou. Starring Fanny Davenport. Cast includes R.B. Mantel, Eugene O. Jepson, Melbourne McDowell, Sheldon Kinnecom, W.J. Hurley, F. Williard, Edgar L. Davenport.

January 17, 1886
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA AND THE FULL MARINE BAND - 6th Sunday concert. Featuring Dora Wiley, soprano; H.A. Foresman, Baritone, Signor Giuseppi San Gioga, Clarionettist; Wlater F. Smith, Cornettist.

January 18 through January 23, 1886
CLARA MORRIS starring in Miss Multon, L’Article 47; New Magdalen, Alixe, Camille, The Mountebank. Supported by Eben Plympton, James L. Arhart, Carl Ahrendt, Clara Ogden, L. W. Browning, Bijou Heron, Mrs. Farren, Vivia Ogden, Ada Crisp and Marian Lester.

January 23, 1886
THE MOUNTEBANK - dramatic play. Starring Eben Plympton. Cast includes James L. Carhart,
Ogden Stevens, and Marcus Moriarty.

January 24, 1886
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA AND THE FULL MARINE BAND - 7th Sunday concert. Featuring Maggie Mitchell, soprano; Mrs. H.H. Mills, contralto; Louis Tilleux, French horn.

January 25 through January 30, 1886
RHEA AND HER COMEDY COMPANY present A Dangerous Game (Sardou), Tragedy and Comedy, Pygmalion and Galatea (W.S. Gilbert), Frou-Frou, The Power of Love (Sardou), and An Unequal Match (Tom Taylor)

February 1 through February 6, 1886
THE MIKADO - libretto by W.S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. Presented by the J.C. Duff Comic Opera Company. Starring Charles W. Dungan, Harry MacDonough, Digby Bell, Charles Plunkett, Hamilton Adams, Laura Joyce Bell.

February 7, 1886
LECTURE BY HARRY W. FRENCH on “Paris, Past and Present”

February 8 through February 13, 1886
A PRISONER FOR LIFE - drama by Anicet Bourgois. Starring J.B. Studley.

February 14, 1886
LECTURE BY HARRY W. FRENCH on “Paris, Past and Present” (by special request)

February 15 through February 20, 1886
OUR JOAN - domestic drama by Herman Merivale. Starring Rose Coghlan. Management by Clinton J. Edgerly.

February 21, 1886
WILLIAM S. ROBERTS AND VIRGINIA ROBERTS present an evening of Mind Reading and Cabinet Manifestations.

February 22 through February 27, 1886
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY - comedy combining the work of Mr. Hawtry and many origianl scenes and situations by Mr. Gillette. Starring William Gillette.

February 28, 1886
LECTURE BY HARRY FRENCH on Italy and the Alps.

March 1 through March 6, 1886
HELD BY THE ENEMY - first production in Washington of the American Drama by William Gillette. Starring Henry Talbott, Arthur Forrest, A.S. Lipman, John Woodard, Chas. Bowser, H.M. Pitt, William Yearance, Wictor Harmon, Elliott Townsend, E.A. Barron, G.D. Fawcett, Mrs. Nellie Taylor, Carrie Turner and Louise Dillon. Directed by Max Freeman.

March 3 and March 4, 1886 (matinee)
PRINCE LICHTENSTEIN’S ORIGINAL HUNGARIAN GYPSY BAND - M. Olah, leader; C. Biringer, Manager.

March 8 through March 13, 1886
VAUTOUR, THE EXILE - by Adolphe D’Ennery. Starring Robert L. Downing and Miss Constance Hamblin. Management by A. B. Anderson.

March 15 through March 20, 1886
EMMA ABBOTT and the GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY, performing La Traviata, Mikado, Bohemian Girl, Linda of Chamouni and Il Trovatore. Wetherell and Pratt, directors.

March 21 and March 28, 1886
ARCHDUKE JOSEPH’S HUNGARIAN GYPSY BAND - performances by the National Ochestra from Hungary. Farencz Garay, Leader and Yanos Pronay, interpreter and director.

March 22 through March 27, 1886
WE, US AND CO. - whimsical musical absurdity by W.A. Mestayer. Starring W.A. Mestayer and Theresa Vaughn and their company of comedians and vocalists.

March 29 through April 3, 1886
STORM BEATEN - drama by Robert Buchanan. Starring Edmund Collier and Joseph P. Winter.

April 5 through April 10, 1886
THATCHER, PRIMROSE AND WEST’S MINSTRELS

April 12 through April 17, 1886
HUMBUG - comedy by Fred Marsden. Starring Roland Reed.

April 19 through April 24, 1886
JOSEPH JEFFERSON AND HIS COMEDY COMPANY - performing Cricket on the Hearth (by Charles Dickens), Lend Me Five Shillings, and Rip Van Winkle.

April 26 through May 1, 1886
BOSTON IDEAL OPERA CO. present Maid of Honor; Adina, the Elixir of Love; Victor, the Bluestocking; Fra Diavolo. W.H. Foster, manager.

May 3 through May 8, 1886
ENGAGED - a burlesque comedy by W.S. Gilbert. Starring Mrs. John Drew, supported by Sidney Drew, Charles Walcot, Edward Lamb, J.H. Fitzpatrick, W. MacNichol, Louise Pearce, Elizabeth Andres, Sydney Cowell and Alice Rutter.

May 10 through May 15, 1886
MCNISH, JOHNSON AND SLAVIN’S MINSTRELS - Under the management of W.S. Cleveland.

May 1886
OUR AMERICAN MINISTER – presented by the Leland Comic Opera Company.

July 26 through July 31, 1886
FALKA – comic opera by H.B. Farnie. Featuring the McGaull Opera Comique Company.

September 13 through September 18, 1886
TALKED ABOUT - comedy by W. P. Cowper. Starring Viola Allen, with Mr. Leslie Allen (her father).

September 20 through September 25, 1886
FREDERICK WARDE - Starring in Damon and Pythias, Ingomar, Richard III, Virginius, Richelieu, Galba, the Gladiator.

September 27 through October 2, 1886
FRANK MAYO - starring in two productions: The Three Guardsman and Nordeck

October 4 through October 9, 1886
THATCHER, PRIMROSE AND WEST’S MINSTRELS

October 11 through October 16, 1886
THE GREAT HERMANN - magician, assisted by Mme. Hermann.

October 18 through October 23, 1886
MARIE AIMEE in her farewell appearance. Performing two comedies, Divorcons (by Victoriene Sardou) and Mam’zelle (by Gessop and Gill)

October 25 through October 30, 1886
WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN - drama by Frank Harvey. Starring Effie Ellser, with Frank Weston, Archie Boyd and Howe Robbins.

November 1 through November 6, 1866
LOUIS JAMES AND MARIE WAINWRIGHT - Starring in Virginius, Richelieu, The Merchant of Venice, Katherine and Petruchio, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet.

November 8 through November 13, 1886
THE CARLETON OPERA COMPANY - presenting Nanon or the Hostess of the Golden Lamb.

November 15 through November 20, 1886
MIXED PICKLES! - comedy by T. H. Sayre. Starring Frank G. Cotter and the Superb Comedy Company.

November 22 through November 27 (matinee), 1886
MINNIE MADDERN -- starring in Caprice (comedy by Howard P. Taylor) Dangerous News (comedy by Minnie Maddern). Cast includes William Morris, T.J. Herndon, D.G.Longworth, Frank Karrington, George Bailey, Henry Webster, Odette Tyler, Mary Maddern, Addie Baker.

November 29 through December 4, 1886
A WALL STREET BANDIT - drama by A. C. Gunter. Starring Adkins Lawrence and Viola Allen.

December 6 through December 11, 1886
WE, US AND CO. - musical by W. A. Mestayer. Starring W. A. Mestayer, with Theresa Vaughn.

December 13 through December 18, 1886
AMBERG’S NEW YORK THALIA OPERA COMPANY - performing Don Caesar, Czar and Zimmerman, The Black Hussar, The Merry War, Gasperone, Nanon or the Hostess of the Golden Lamb, The Trumpeter of Saeckingen.

December 20 through December 25, 1886
LOTTA - Starring in Little Nell and the Marchioness, Bob, The Little Dectective, Musette, Nitouche - With Fred Lennox and P. Aug Anderson.

December 27, 1886 through January 1, 1887
ALONE IN LONDON OR A WOMAN AGAINST THE WORLD - drama by Robert Buchanan. Starring Cora Tanner. Cast includes Col. W. E. Sinn’s, Brooklyn (NY) Park Theatre Company.

1887
January 3 through January 15, 1887
BOSTON IDEAL OPERA COMPANY - In repertoire presenting Martha; Adina or The Elixir of Love, Victor, The Bluestocking; Maid of Honor; Fra Diavolo; and Bohemian Girl. Principals include: Zelie De Lussan, Louise Lablanche, Marie Stone, H.C. Barnabee, W.H. Clark, Tom Karl, W.H. Lawton, W.H. Macdonald, Clement Bainbridge, and Ivan Morawski.

January 17 through January 22, 1887
THE DEACON’S DAUGHTER - by A.C. Gunter. Starring Annie Pixley.

January 24 through January 29, 1887
HAVERLY’S AMERICAN EUROPEAN MINSTRELS

January 31 through February 5, 1887
NANCY AND CO. - comedy by Augustin Daly. Presented by the Arthur Rehan Company.

February 7 through February 12, 1887
MISS FORTESCUE - in her first Washington appearance. Starring in three productions: GRETCHEN (by W.S. Gilbert), Sweethearts (by W.S. Gilbert), Moths (dapted by H.Hamilton from the novel by Ouida). Directed by Al Hayman.

February 14 through February 19, 1887
WILSON BARRETT AND MISS EASTLAKE -- in repertoire, present Claudian, Hamlet, Clito and a triple bill of Chatterton, A Clerical Error, and The Color Sergeant. Assisted by the London Princess Theatre Co.

February 21 through February 27, 1887
IOLANTHE – operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan performed by J.C. Duff’s Comic Opera Company.

March 1 through March 5, 1887
SARAH BERNHARDT in her farewell tour, performing La Dame Aux Camillias, Fedora, Frou Frou, Le Maitre de Forges, and Adrienne Lecouveur.

March 7 through March 12,1887
MR. AND MRS. W. J. FLORENCE AND CO. - presenting Dombey and Son, The Mighty Dollar, Our Governor, The Flirt, and Ticket-of-Leave Man.

March 14 through March19, 1887
ARTHUR REHAN’S COMPANY OF COMEDIANS – presenting 7-20-8 or Casting the Boomerang (Wednesday and Thursday).

March 21 through March 25, 1887
PA! - comedy by Sol Smith Russell. Starring Sol Smith Russell and Mattie Ferguson, Virginia Nelson, Emma Hagger, Emily Baneker, Frederick Percy Marsh, Frank Lawton, A.H. Warren, Fred Pl Ham, and C. Van Etten.

March 28 through April 2, 1887
THEODORA - by Victorien Sardou. Starring Lillian Olcott, with Horace Vinton, Hudson Liston, and J.W. Kail.

April 4 through April 9, 1887
HAVERLY’S ORIGINAL MASTODON MINSTRELS

April 11 through April 16 1887
DION BOUCICAULT starring in Kerry, Fin Mac Cool and The Jilt.

April 18, 1887
JIM, THE PENMAN - drama by Sir Charles L. Young. Starring Frederic Robinson, H.M. Pitt, Alexander Salvini, E. M. Holland, Agnes Booth, Miss Maud Harrison, Mrs. E.J. Phillips and Miss May Robson. One night only, “by invitation of the President of the United States and Others” for the benefit of the Actors Fund.

April 19 through April 23, 1887
THE MAIN LINE - a love romance by Henry C. deMille and Charles Barnard. Starring Frederic Robinson, H.M. Pitt, Alexander Salvine, and E. M. Holland.

April 25 through April 30, 1887
ROBERT L. DOWNING starring in Spartacus, the Gladiator and Julius Caesar.

May 2 through May 7, 1887
EMMA ABBOTTT and THE GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY - present Crispino, Chimes of Normandy, Ermine, Lucretia Borgia, The Mikado, Bohemian Girl, Il Trovatore, Mignon, Carnival of Venice. Directed by Wetherell and Pratt.

May 9 through May 21, 1887 (two weeks) - no program file
KELLAR - an illusionist

May 29, 1887 (Sunday)
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA AND THE U.S. MARINE BAND – presenting works by Thomas, Sousa, Rossini, Verdi, Soderman, Fahrbach, Wagner, Godfrey, Gounod and Marenco. W.F. Pruette, Baritone, Walter F. Smith, Cornet Soloist, R.F. Cardella, Accompanist.

May 30 through June 4, 1887
DOCKSTADER’S MINSTRELS

June 2, 1887
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

June 13 through June 18, 1887
FITZ-GERALD OPERA COMPANY - second week of the summer opera season, presents “Nanon” by Genee.

June 20 through June 25, 1887
FITZ-GERALD OPERA COMPANY - third week of the summer opera season, presents “A Night in Venice”

June 27 through July 2, 1887
FITZ-GERALD OPERA COMPANY - fourth week of the summer opera season, presents the comic opera, “The Mascot” by Audran.

July 4 through July 9, 1887
PATIENCE OR BUNTHORNE’S BRIDE - opera presented by the Fitz-Gerald Opera Co.

September 19 through September 24, 1887
THATCHER, PRIMROSE AND WEST’S MINSTRELS – Under the management of Henry J. Sayers.

September 26 through October 1, 1887
BEACON LIGHTS - romantic play managed by Chauncey G. Pulsifer. Starring George Learock, T.J. Herndon, J. Hay Cossar, Ralph Dorman, Neva Wharton.

October 3 through October 8, 1887
A PAIR OF KIDS - a satirical musical comedy by Ezra F. Kendall. Starring Ezra F. Kendall.

October 10 through October 15, 1887
THE CARLETON OPERA COMPANY - in repertoire, present Nanon the Beautiful (a comic opera) and The Merry War.

October 17 through October 22, 1887
FREDERICK WARDE starring in Galba, The Gladiator; Damon and Pythias, Virginius, Delicate Ground, Katherine and Petruccio, Brutus, Gaston Cadol and Richard III.

October 24 through October 29, 1887
THE GOLDEN GIANT - a new play by Clay Greene. Starring Mrs. McKee Rankin. Under the management of H.C. Miner.

October 31 through November 5, 1887
THE HIGHEST BIDDER - comedy. Starring E.A. Sothern and the first traveling company from the New York Lyceum Theatre. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 7 through November 12, 1887
ARABIAN NIGHTS - burlesque by Alfred Thompson. Presented by the Imperial Burlesque Co.

November 13, 1887 (Sunday evening)
THE GRAND SACRED CONCERT by Levy and his concert company.

November 14 through November 19, 1887
HEARTS OF OAK – by James A. Herne. Starring James A. Herne, with Charles H. Clark, Phineas Leach, George C. Robinson, Grace Huntington, Helena Cartland, Mabel Winter and Little “Tot” Winter.

November 20, 1887 (Sunday evening)
THE GRAND SACRED CONCERT by Levy and his concert company.

November 21 through November 26, 1887
THATCHER, PRIMROSE AND WEST MINSTRELS – August Schroeder, Musical Director.

November 27, 1887 (Sunday evening)
THE GRAND SACRED CONCERT by Levy and his concert company.

November 28 through December 2, 1887
LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS - a farce. Starring Nat C. Goodwin, supported by his own select comedy company.

December 5 through December 10, 1887
JIM, THE PENMAN - by Sir Charles Young. Starring Jos. E. Whiting, H.M. Pitt, Ian Robertson, W.J. Ferguson, S. Miller Kent, Junius B. Booth, H.S. Millward, Lysander Thompson, Harry J. Holliday, Edward Stancliffe, Miss Ada Dyas, Miss Evelyn Campbell, Miss Jennie Eustace, Miss Kate Ferguson. Presented by A.M. Palmer.

December 12 through December 17, 1887
CHECK 44 OR, TOBOGGANING - satire by W.A. Mestayer. Starring W.A. Mestayer and Theresa Vaughn and their company of comedians and vocalists.

December 19 through December 24, 1887
PAWN TICKET NO. 210 - by David Belasco and Clay M. Greene. Starring Lotta (in a play written especially for her).

December 26 through December 31, 1887
LOVE IN HARNESS and NANCY AND CO. - by Augustin Daly. Presented by Arthur Rehan’s Comedy Company, “The Leading Comedy Organization, traveling in the latest success from Daly’s Theatre, New York.” Starring Miss Carrie Turner, Miss Adele Waters, Mrs. Clara Fisher Maeder, Miss Lily Vinton, Miss Charline Weidman, A.S. Lipman, George Parkes, Harry Hotto, D. Longworth and Harold Russell.

1888

January 2 through January 7, 1888
DOROTHY - comedy/opera presented by the J.G. Duff Comic Opera Company. Written by B.C. Stephenson, music by Alfred Cellier.

January 9 through January 14, 1888
BOSTON IDEAL OPERA COMPANY - W. H. Foster, Manager, presented Carmen, Adina, Daughter of the Regiment, Fra Diavalo.

January 16 through January 21, 1888
HERMANN - magic presented by Mr. Herrmann, assisted by Mme. Herrmann.

January 23 through January 28, 1888
THE OLD HOMESTEAD - by Denman Thompson and George W. Rhyer. Starring Mr. Thompson. With George A. Beane, Walter Gale, Chauncey Olcott, Frank Thompson, Louisa Morse, Annie Thompson, Lillian Stone, Venie Thompson, Minnie Luckstone.

January 30 through February 4, 1888
MRS. POTTER -- performing Loyal Love (comedy by Ross Neal) and Romeo and Juliet. With Mr. Kyrle Bellew and Mr. Henry Lee. Henry C. Miner, Manager.

February 5, 1888 (Sunday evening only)
READINGS FROM DICKENS -- readings by his son, Charles Dickens, performing
Doctor Marigold and Bob Sawyer’s Party.

February 6 through February 11, 1888
THE NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY -- Charles E. Locke, General Manager, Gustav Hinrichs, conductor. The company presented Tannhauser, Faust, The Queen of Sheba, Nero, AIDA, Lohengrin, and The Flying Dutchman.

February 12, 1888
WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - concert conducted by John Philip Sousa. Robert C. Bernays, concertmaster, assisted by Louise Natali, soprano, George Iseman, pianist, Henry Xander, accompanist.

February 20 and 23, 1888
NERO, OR THE BURNING OF ROME - opera by Anton Rubinstein. Presented by the National Opera Season, Charles E. Locke, General Manager.

February 21 and 25, 1888
FAUST -- opera by Charles Gounod. Presented by National Opera Season, Charles E. Locke, General Manager.

February 22 and 25, 1888
SHE -- by H. Rider Haggard. Dramatization by William Gillette, music by W.W. Furst. Starring Henry Aveling, William Faversham and Charles Bowser.

February 24, 1888
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA -- opera by Karl Goldmark, presented by National Opera Season, Charles E. Locke, General Manager

February 25, 1888
AIDA presented by the National Opera Season. Starring George H. Broderick, Clara Poole and Charlotte Walker.

February 26, 1888
WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - conducted by John Philip Sousa, assisted by Max Alvary, tenor and Henry Xander, pianist.

February 27 through March 3, 1888
LOUIS JAMES AND MARIE WAINWRIGHT starring in Virginius (by Sheridan Knowles), Gretchen (drama by Mr. Gilbert), Othello, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. [Note: filed under “James”]

March 5 through March 10, 1888
THE EMMA ABBOTT GRAND OPERA COMPANY - presenting Il Trovatore (Verdi), Ruy Blas, Chimes of Normandy, Mikado, Carnival of Venice, The Good Devil, Bohemian Girl. Starring Emma Abbott. Directed by Wetherell and Pratt.

March 12 through March 17, 1888
MR. AND MRS. W.J. FLORENCE starring in Our Governor (comedy by Jessop and Gill), Husband Hunting (one-act comedy by B.E. Woolf) and Dombey and Son (two-act dramatization of the Dickens novel), The Flirt (comedy by Gill and Melbourne), The Mighty Dollar (comedy by Wolf). Supported by Henry Pierson, C.J. Bell, Clarence Montaine, F. C. Wells, Miss Florence Noble, Miss Eleanor Lane, and Miss Belle Pierson.

March 19 through March 24, 1888
HELD BY THE ENEMY - by William Gillette. Starring Chas. W. Stokes, James E. Wilson, William Haworth, H.A. Moray, Frank Hervey, William Gillette, Jos. Humphreys, W.T. Doyle, T.A. Howe, Harry Rose, Jos. Rickard, James Stanton, Walter Crook, William Francis, Charles Stoddard, Mrs. Kate Denin Wilson, Miss Charlotte Behrens, Miss Minnie DuPree.

March 26 through March 31, 1888
THE JILT - by Dion Boucigault. Starring Dion Boucicault, Frank Roberts, Herbert Leonard, J.C. Padgett, R.A. Roberts, Luke Martin, Fred Corbett, Herbert Colby, Miss Thorndyke, Miss Jene Gordon, Miss Mary Barker, Miss Julia Stuart, Miss Elizabeth Rowland.

April 2 through April 7,1888
JIM, THE PENMAN - by Sir Charles Young. Starring A.M. Palmer, Joseph E. Whiting, S. Miller Kent, Ian Robertson, Guy Lindsley, Junius B. Booth, H.S. Millward, Lysander Thompson, Harry Holliday, Edward Stancliffe, Miss Ada Dyas, Miss Evelyn Campbell, Miss Jennie Eustace, Miss Kate Ferguson.

April 9 through April 14, 1888
THE WONDERFUL KELLAR - presentation of magic and natural phenomena.

April 23 through April 28, 1888
MAZULM, THE NIGHT OWL - pantomime by Imre Kiralfy. Starring Imre Kiralfy, the Vaidis Sisters, Dare Brothers, Braatz Brothers, Mlle. Qualtiz, and Mlle. Newman.

April 30 through May 3, 1888
THOMAS W. KEENE –Starring in Richard III, Othello, Julius Caesar, and Richelieu (by Bulwer) With Joseph Wheelock. Directed by Ariel N. Barney.

May 5, 1888
PAUL KAUVAR - by Steele MacKaye. Grand production for the benefit of the Statue of Washington, presented by the United States to the Republic of France. Performance under the auspices of President and Mrs. Cleveland.

May 7 through May 12, 1888
LOST IN NEW YORK - comedy drama by Leonard Grover. Starring Messrs. Miles and Barton of the Bijou Opera House, NY.

May 14 through May 18, 1888
McNISH, JOHNSON & SLAVIN’S REFINED MINSTRELS - managed by E.M. Castine, directed by H.M. Morse.

May 19, 1888
AN EVENING OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCES – featuring Miss Emma Thursby, the Ricca Venetian Mandolin Quintette, Eugene de Danckwardt; Adele Aus der Ohe, L. Ricca. Program includes the Overture from Encouragement, arias from Faust and Rigoletto, a piano solo, and mandolin pieces by Boettger and Bucalossi. Henry Xander, accompanist.

May 21 through May 26, 1888
A NARROW ESCAPE - a comedy drama by John A. Stevens. Starring Mr. Stevens and his comedy company, including Hudson Liston, Fred Lennox, Henry Holland, William Paul Brown, Marion Russell, Emily Lytton, Margaret Lanner, Georgie Dickson.

May 28 through June 2, 1888
THE QUEEN’S LACE HANDKERCHIEF - an opera comique by Johann Strauss. Presented as part of the Summer Opera Season by the Grau Opera Comique Company, managed by E.G. Stone. Starring Lillian Conway, Murtha Porteus, Mabella Baker.

June 4 through June 9, 1888
THE MIKADO by Gilbert and Sullivan. Presented as part of the Summer Opera Season by the Grau Opera Comique Company, managed by E.G. Stone. Starring N.S. Burnham, C.J. Campbell and George H. Broderick.

June 15, 1888
TESTIMONIAL TO LAVINIA SHANNON: THE MYSTERY OF AUDLEY COURT - starring
Ms. Shannon as Lady Audley.

June 20, 1888
THE MARBLE HEART - romance starring Edward H. Allen, Karl Decker, Arthur Moses. Benefit performance for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

August 27 through September 1, 1888
THE PAYMASTER - military melodrama by Duncan B. Harrison. Starring Duncan Bradley Harrison, Elmer E. Grandin, Fred D. Munroe, and Neil O’Brien.

September 3 through September 8, 1888
FORGIVEN - drama by Clay Greene. Starring Frederic Bryton.

September 10 through September 15, 1888
A PAIR OF KIDS - satirical musical comedy by Ezra F. Kendall. Starring Mr. Kendall.

September 17 through September 22, 1888
THATCHER, PRIMROSE & WEST’S MINSTRELS - management by D.W. Truss. Starring George Thatcher, George H. Primrose and W.H. West.

September 24 through September 29, 1888
THE TWO SISTERS - play. Starring Frank Mordaunt, Ernest Foster.

October 1 through October 6, 1888
THE WORLD AGAINST HER - melodrama by Frank Harvey. Starring Kate Claxton with Charles A. Stevenson, accompanied by Arthur H. Forrest and Company.

October 8 through October 13, 1888
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY - Starring Harry Allen and Raymond Holmes.

October 15 through October 20, 1888
MR. & MRS. W. J. FLORENCE performing in The Mighty Dollar (comedy by Woolf), Our Governor or His Little Hatchet (comedy by Jessop and Gill), Heart of Hearts (comedy by Arthur Jones), and Dombey and Son (by Charles Dickens, dramatized by Brougham).

October 22 through October 27, 1888
MAXULM THE NIGHT OWL - pantomime by Jerome Ravel. Presented by Imre Kiralfy. Starring M’lle Grassi, Mons. Arnold, M’lle Asteginao, Mr. J. Le Clair and the Dare Brothers. Supported by Imre Kiralfy’s corps of danseuses.

October 29 through November 3, 1888
MARGARET MATHER - starring in Macbeth, The Honeymoon (comedy by John Tobin), Leah, Romeo and Juliet, Lady of Lyons. With J. B. Studley.

November 5 through November 10, 1888
JULIA MARLOWE starring in Ingomar the Barbarian, the Hunchback, Twelfth Night. Supported by Charles Barron and Ariel Barney’s American Company. It was Miss Marlowe’s first visit to Washington.

November 12 through November 17, 1888
A HOLE IN THE GROUND (A WAIL FOR THE WOES OF THE WAYFARER) - farce by Charles H. Hoyt.

November 19 through November 24, 1888
MONTE CRISTO - by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Charles Fechter. Starring James O’Neill with J.W. Shannon, Carroll Fleming, J.H. Shewell.

November 26 through December 1, 1888
FREDERICK WARDE starring in Damon and Pythias, Virginius, Gaston or A Son of the Soil, Galba the Gladiator, Richard III and William Tell, the Hero of Switzerland. Supported by the Joseph Brooks’ dramatic company.

December 3 through December 8, 1888
A PARLOR MATCH - comedy by Charles H. Hoyt. Starring Charles E. Evans and William Hoey. Management by Harry Mann.

December 10 through December 15, 1888
LORD CHUMLEY - comedy by Henry DeMille and David Belasco. Starring E.H. Sothern. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

December 17 through December 22, 1888
THE RIVALS - comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Starring Joseph Jefferson and his comedy company.

December 24 through December 29, 1888
THE WIFE - society comedy by David Belasco and Henry C. DeMille, directed by Daniel Frohman.

December 31, 1888 through January 5, 1889
LA CIGALE comedy adapted from the French by Olive Logan. Starring Lotta.

1889

January 7, 8 & 9, 1889
A TRIP TO AFRICA - presented by the J.C. Duff Comic Opera Company. Starring Laura Bellini, with Hubert Wilke.

January 10, 11, & 12, 1889
THE BEGGAR STUDENT - presented by the J.C. Duff Comic Opera Company. Starring Laura Bellini, with Hubert Wilke.

January 14 through January 19, 1889
SHE - romance by H. Rider Haggard. Starring M. B. Snyder, William S. Harkins, Charles Bowser. Directed by Al Hayman.

January 21 through January 26, 1889
FASCINATION - comedy by Robert Buchanan. Starring Cora Tanner. Management by Col. William E. Sinn.

January 28 through February 2, 1889
NAT C. GOODWIN AND HIS COMEDY COMPANY – Starring in A Royal Revenge (comedy adapted by Wm. Yardley) and Confusion (comedy by Joseph Derrick). Under the management of George W. Floyd.

February 4 through February 9, 1889
HERRMANN, THE MAGICIAN - assisted by Mme. Herrmann and d’Alvani.

February 11 through February 16, 1889
JOCELYN - romantic drama by Charles F. Coghlan. Starring Rose Coghlan.

February 17, 1889
THROUGH LONDON WITH CHARLES DICKENS – illustrated lecture and readings from the works of Charles Dickens by Frank Oakes Rose

February 18 through February 23, 1889
MISS ESMERALDA - a burlesque by A. C. Torr and Horace Mills. Starring Nellie Farren, Fred Leslie and George Edwardes’ London Gaiety Burlesque Company.

February 25 through March 2, 1889
EMMA ABBOTT GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY - in residence. Presenting Chimes of Normandy, Lucia, Il Trovatore, Norma, Ruy Blas, and Mikado.

March 3, 1889
BAYNE’S 69th REGIMENT BAND - presented a “Monster Sacred Concert”. Soloists: Mme Ida F. Cortada, Soprano, Mons. Louis J. Cornu, Violinist, Mr. H.A. Hall, Saxaphonist, Mr. S. Mygranto, Cornetist.

March 4 through March 9, 1889
PAUL KAUVER - a drama by Steele Mackaye. Starring Joseph Haworth and Carrie Turner. Directed by the author.

March 11 through March 16, 1889
ARTHUR REHANS’ COMPANY OF COMEDIANS - presenting Nancy & Company, Seven-Twenty-Eight and Love in Harness!

March 18 through March 21, 1889
MINNIE PALMER AND HER COMPANY -- present My Brother’s Sister (by Leonard Grover) and My Sweetheart (by William Gill).

March 25 through March 31, 1889
NATURAL GAS - farce comedy by H. Grattan Donnelly. Starring Henry V. Donnelly and Edward Girard.

April 1 through April 6, 1889
ROBERT ELLSMERE - drama by Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Starring E.H. Vanderfelt and John T. Sullivan.

April 8 through April 13, 1889
THE CRYSTAL SLIPPER (OR PRINCE PRETTIWITZ AND LITTLE CINDERELLA spectacular extravaganza. Starring James Maas, Edwin Foy, Tom Martin, and James E. Sullivan.

April 15 through April 20, 1889
JIM, THE PENMAN - by Sir Charles Young. Starring Joseph Whiting. Directed by Mr. A.M. Palmer.

April 22 through April 26, 1889
HE, SHE, HIM\, HER - pantomimical comedy by Charles P. Brown. Starring George
H. Adams, assisted by Miss Toma Hanlon.

April 29 through May 4, 1889
LYDIA THOMPSON AND HER GRAND ENGLISH BURLESQUE COMPANY - presenting two burlesques: Penelope (by H.P. Stephens and Edward Solomon) and Columbus (by George Dance).

May 6 though May 11 (matinee), 1889
THE WOMAN HATER - a comedy by David D. Lloyd. Starring Roland Reed.

May 11, 1889
CHEEK - complimentary testimonial to Miss Annie Lewis, by Roland Reed and his company.

May 13 through May 16, 1889
STARLIGHT - a musical comedy. Starring Jarbeau, a gifted comedienne.

May 17 and 18, 1889
CHORAL SOCIETY - May Festival

May 27, 1889
PARADISE FLATS - comedy by Hubbard T. Smith. Starring Miss Feilding Roselle and Miss Rose Cotterill.

June 11, 1889
COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL - 24th Annual Commencement.

June 15, 1889
THE BOHEMIANS - present two one-act comedies My Turn Next and Nan, the Good for Nothing. A benefit for the Chesapeake and Ohio canal sufferers.

June 24 through June 29, 1889
FRA DIAVOLO - opera by Aube. Presented by the Thompson Opera Company.

July 1 through July 7, 1889
THE MASCOT - opera by Audran. Presented by the Thompson Opera Company.

July 8 through July 14, 1889
IL TROVATORE - opera by Verdi. Presented by the Thompson Opera Company.

July 15 through July 21, 1889
A MERRY WAR - comic opera by Johann Strauss. Presented by the Thompson Opera Company.

July 22 through July 27, 1889
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL - opera by Balfe. Presented by the Thompson Opera Company.

September 2 through September 7, 1889
A PAIR OF KIDS - a satirical musical comedy by Ezra F. Kendall. Starring Ezra F. Kendall.

September 9 through September 14, 1889
THE BURGLAR - comedy-drama by Gus Thomas. Starring A.S. Lipman, Sidnew Drew, James S. Maffitt, Jr.

September 16 through September 21, 1889
JIM, THE PENMAN - by Sir Charles Young. Starring Joseph Whiting. Directed by Mr. A.M. Palmer.

September 23 through September 28, 1889
THE STILL ALARM - by Joseph Arthur. Starring Harry Lacy.

September 30 through October 5, 1889
LATER ON - musical farce/comedy by H.Grattan Donnelly. Starring Hallen and Hart. Managed by Harry Hine.

October 7 through October 12, 1889
PRIMROSE AND WEST MODERN MINSTRELS - managed by Mr. D. W. Truss.

October 14 through October 19, 1889
SWEET LAVENDER - a domestic comedy by A.W. Pinero. Presented by Daniel Frohman’s Lyceum Theatre Stock Company.

October 21 through October 26, 1889
PAUL KAUVAR - play by Steele Mackaye. Starring Joseph Haworth and Carrie Turner. Directed by the author. Managed by E.G. Stone.

October 28 through November 2, 1889
HELD BY THE ENEMY - by H.A. Rockwood. Starring Charles W. Stokes, William Harcourt, and Jolene Butler.

November 3, 1889
LEVY CONCERT COMPANY

November 4 through November 9, 1889
FREDERICK WARDE -- Starring in The Mountebank (by d’ Ennery), Gaston Cadol (a love story by Celia Logan), Virginius (by Sheridan Knowle), Richard III (William Shakespeare).

November 11 through November 16, 1889
A PARLOR MATCH - comedy by Charles H. Hoyt. Starring Charles E. Evans and William Hoey.

November 18, 19 and November 23 (matinee), 1889
A SCRAP OF PAPER - a comedy by Sardou. Starring Mr. & Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 20 and 23 (evening), 1889
THE IRON MASTER - by A.W. Pinero. Starring Mr. & Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 21, 1889
THE QUEEN’S SHILLING - comedy by J.W. Godfrey. Starring Mr. & Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 22, 1889
THE WEAKER SEX - drama by A.W. Pinero. Starring Mr. & Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 25 through November 30, 1889
KING RICHARD III - by William Shakespeare. Starring Mr. Richard Mansfield and his company.

November 27 (matinee) and November 30 (matinee), 1889
A DOLL’S HOME - social drama by Henrik Ibsen. Special presentation by Mr. Richard Mansfield’s Company. Starring May Haines as Nora and Atkins Lawrence, Mervyn Dallas, Hubert Druce.

December 2, 1889
INGOMAR - a play by Marie Lovell. Starring Julia Marlowe, with Eben Plympton. Directed by Ariel Barney.

December 4 and 7 (evening), 1889
TWELFTH NIGHT - by William Shakespeare. Starring Julia Marlowe, with Eben Plympton. Directed by Ariel Barney.

December 5, 1889
THE HUNCHBACK - a play by Sheridan Knowles. Starring Julia Marlowe, with Eben Plympton. Directed by Ariel Barney.

December 7 (matinee), 1889
PYGMALION AND GALATEA - by W.S. Gilbert. Starring Julia Marlowe, with Eben Plympton. Directed by Ariel Barney.

December 9, 1889
THE RIVALS - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Starring Joseph Jefferson and W.J. Florence.

December 21, 1889
THE HIGHEST BIDDER - a play E.H. Southern. Starring E.H. Southern.

December 23 through December 28, 1889
OUR FLAT - a comedy by Mrs. Musgrove. Presented by Daniel Frohman’s Special New York Lyceum Company.

December 30, 1889 through January 4, 1890
WILSON BARRETT AND HIS COMPANY - performing Claudian (by Henry Herman), The Color Sergeant, A Clerical Error, Chatterton, Ben-My-Chree (by Hall Caine and Wilson Barrett), Hamlet and the Silver King (by H.A. Jones and Henry Herman). Starring Wilson Barrett, with Miss Eastlake.

1890
January 6 through January 11, 1890
ROGER LaHONTE or A MAN’S SHADOW - presented by H.C. Miner. Starring William Terriss and Miss Jessie Millward.

January 9, 1890 (matinee)
MAID MARIAN - drama. Starring Miss Letitia Aldrich in her debut. Presented by Gustave Frohman.

January 13 through January 18, 1890
FASCINATION - comedy/drama by Robert Buchanan. Starring Cora Tanner, management by Col. Wm. E. Sinn.

January 20 through January 25, 1890
TWELFTH NIGHT - by William Shakespeare. Starring Marie Wainwright.

January 27 through February 1, 1890
THE OOLAH - a merry, comic opera. Starring Francis Wilson and Company.

February 3 through February 8, 1890
A BRASS MONKEY - comedy by Hoyt.

February 10 through February 15, 1890
A GOLD MINE - comedy by Brander Mathew and George H. Jessop. Starring Nat. C. Goodwin and company directed by John E. Warner.

February 17 through February 22, 1890
THE WIFE - society comedy by David Belasco and Henry C. deMille. Starring Boyd Putnam, Henry Herman and S. Miller Kent. Presented by Daniel Frohman’s Lyceum Theatre Wife Company.

February 24 through March 1, 1890
GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY - presents Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan) , Bohemian Girl (Balfe), Martha (Flotow), Ernani and Il Trovatore (Verdi), Romeo and Juliet (Gounod). Starring Emma Abbott and the Grand English Opera Company.

March 3 through March 8, 1890
MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK -adapted by Archibald Clavering Gunter, Esq. from his romantic novel. Management by Frank W. Sanger.

March 17, 18, 19 and 21, 1890
A GAME OF CARDS, THE CIRCUS RIDER & THE ROUGH DIAMOND – comedies starring Rosina Vokes with Felix Morris and the London Comedy Company.

March 22, 1890 (matinee only)
IN HONOR BOUND, MY MILLINER’S BILL & A PANTOMIME REHEARSAL - comedies starring Rosina Vokes and Felix Morris with the London Comedy Company.

March 24 through March 29, 1890
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY - presented by the Original New York Company. Starring Tommy Russell, Ray Maskell, and Wallie Eddinger.

March 31 through April 5, 1890
A MIDNIGHT BELL - comedy by Hoyt. Starring Richard J. Dillon and George Richards.

April 7, 8 , 9 & 10, 1890
PEG WOFFINGTON - comedy by Charles Reade. Starring Rose Coghlan. Managed by Augustus Pitou.

April 11 and April 12 (matinee), 1890
FORGET-ME-NOT - a society drama. Starring Rose Coghlan.

April 12, 1890 (Sat. evening only)
JOCELYN - Starring Rose Coghlan. Managed by Augustus Pitou.

April 14 through August 19, 1890
AUGUSTIN DALY’S COMPANY presents As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew, The Country Girl, and A Woman’s Wont, The Great Unknown, The Railroad of Love (Franz von Schoenthan and Gustav Kadelburg), Seven...Twenty...Eight - or Casting the Boomerang.

April 21 and April 26, 1890
WILSON BARRETT AND HIS COMPANY - performing The Silver King (by H.A. Jones and Henry Herman), The Color Sergeant (by Brandon Thomas), A Clerical Error (by H.A. Jones), Chatterton (by H.A. Jones and Henry Herman), Ben-My-Chree (by Hall Caine and Wilson Barrett), Hamlet, Clito (by Sidney Grundy and Wilson Barrett), What Women Will Do (by Addison Bright and Jerome K. Jerome). Starring Wilson Barrett, with Miss Eastlake.

April 28 through May 3, 1890
NATURAL GAS - comedy by H.Grattan Donnelly. Starring Henry V. Donnelly and Edward Girard.

May 5 through May 10, 1890
INHERITED - play by Richard Davey and Lucy Hooper. Starring Maude Granger (on tour) with Harry Mainhall.

May 12, 13 and 14, 1890
SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY - drama by Edward Harrigan. Starring Edward Harrigan and his New York Company. Original songs and music by Dave Braham

May 15 through May 17, 1890
OLD LAVENDER - drama by Edward Harrigan. Starring Edward Harrigan. Management by M.W. Hanley.

May 26 through May 31, 1890
PRIMROSE AND WEST MINSTRELS - Managed by D.W. Truss.

June 2, 3 and 11, 1890
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES of the Martyn College of Elocution and Oratory and the Academy of Acting.

June 5, 1890
JENNIE O’NEILL POTTER in a special engagement, managed by Major J.B. Pond, for benefit of Kit Carson Post, No. 2.

June 11, 1890
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS – by Webster Edgerly. Starring Edmund Shaftesbury and the Washington Academy of Acting. August Schroeder, musical director.

June 13 through June 18, 1890
PARADISE FLATS - a comedy by Hubbard T. Smith. Starring Miss Feilding Roselle, Mrs. Charles B. Reide, Miss Mary Whithorne. Directed by Albert Riddle, under the auspices of the Columbia Athletic Club.

August 25 through August 30, 1890
PROFESSOR HERRMANN’S NEW TRANS-ATLANTIQUES - variety show.

September 1 through September 6, 1890
U AND I - musical satire by Edgar Smith and Richard F. Carroll. Starring Gus Williams and John T. Kelly.

September 8 through September 13, 1890
GEORGE THATCHER’S MINSTRELS

September 15 through September 20, 1890
A DARK SECRET - a grand aquatic spectacle by C.B. Jefferson and H.S. Taylor. Starring J.S. Thompson and Joseph Mason.

September 22 through September 27, 1890
T.D. MARKS’ NEW EUROPEAN INTERNATIONALS - Directed by T.D. Marks and P.B. Shaffer.

September 29 through October 4, 1890
CASTLES IN THE AIR - an opera presented by De Wolf Hopper and the Opera Bouffe Company. Directed by Charles E. Locke and J. Charles Davis.

October 6, 1890 through October 11, 1890
THE CHARITY BALL - by David Belasco and Henry C. De Mille. Presented by Daniel Frohman’s New York Lyceum Theatre Company. Producer, Daniel J. Frohman

October 13, 1890 through October 18, 1890
THE MERRY MONARCH - operetta. Presented by Francis Wilson and Company.

October 20 through October 25, 1890
PRIMROSE AND WEST’S MINSTRELS

October 27 through November 1, 1890
BOSTON HOWARD ATHENAEUM STAR SPECIALTY COMPANY - variety show presented by Rich and Harris.

November 3 through November 8, 1890
CONRIED’S COMIC OPERA COMPANY - presenting The King’s Fool (by Adolph Mueller), The Gypsy Baron (by Johann Strauss).

November 10 through November 15, 1890
LOTTA - presenting Musette (comedy by Marsden), Spoiling the Broth (comic operetta by Offenbach), A Faint Heart, Nan the Good For Nothing (comic drama by Buckstone) and Ina (a musical comedy by A.K. Fulton).

November 17 through November 23, 1890
EMMA JUCH GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY present performances of Lohengrin, William Tell, The Flying Dutchman, Faust, The Bohemian Girl, The Huguenots, Rigoletto, William Tell. Starring Emma Juch, Georgine von Januschowky' (otherwise Madame Neuendorff).

Vo Januschowsky, Carlotta Maconda, Marie Freebert, Lizzie MacNichol, Jennie Flower, Bernice Holmes, Charles Hedmondt, George Gould, Payne Clarke, John E. Belton, Henry Vogel Allerino Gannio, Otto Rathjens, Franz Vetta, E.N. Night, J.C. Miron, S.H. Dudley.

November 25, 1890 through November 30, 1890
THE GREAT HERMANN - Magician

December 6, 1890
HAMLET - by William Shakespeare. Starring Robert Mantell.

December 15 through December 20, 1890
THE JEFFERSON-FLORENCE COMEDY COMPANY - performing The Rivals, and The Heir-at-Law. Starring Joseph Jefferson and W.J. Florence in both productions.

December 22 through December 27, 1890
A PARLOR MATCH - a comedy by Charles H. Hoyt. Starring Charles E. Evans and William Hoey Directed by W. D. Mann.

December 29,1890 through January 1 and January 3 (matinee), 1891
TWELFTH NIGHT - by William Shakespeare. Starring Miss Marie Wainwright, with Barton Hill, William F. Owen, Perry Brooke, Blanche Walsh and Louis Mutchener.

1891

January 1 (matinee), 2 and 3 (evening), 1891
THE HONEYMOON - comedy by John Tobin. Starring Miss Marie Wainwright, with Barton Hill, William F. Owen, Perry Brooke, Blanche Walsh and Louis Mutchener.

January 5 through January 10, 1891
THE MASTER OF WOODBARROW - by Jerome K. Jerome. Starring E.H. Southern. Producer by Daniel Frohman

January 12 through January 17, 1891
A MIDNIGHT BELL - comedy by Hoyt.

January 19 through January 24, 1891
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER - by Mark Twain. Starring Elsie Leslie. Produced by Daniel Frohman.

January 26 through January 31, 1891
THE UGLY DUCKLING - comedy/drama by Paul Potter. Starring Mrs. Leslie Carter. Directed by David Belasco.

February 2 through February 7, 1891
THE MERRY MONARCH - Operetta in Three Acts. Starring Francis Wilson and Company
Libretto by J. Cheever Goodwin. Music by Woolson Morse. Orchestration by John Philip Sousa

February 9 through February 14, 1891
MYLES AROON - Starring W.J. Scanlon

February 16 through February 21, 1891
LATER ON - a musical farce comedy by H. Gratten Donnelly. Starring Fred Hallen and Joe Hart.

February 23 through February 28, 1891
LONDON COMEDY COMPANY presenting Percy Pendragon, A Double Lesson, My Lord in Livery, The Old Musician, Wig and Gown, and the Rough Diamond.. Starring Rosina Vokes, with Felix Morris.

March 2 through March 7, 1891
ROSE COUGHLAN -- appearing three plays: Peg Woffington (comedy by Charles Reade), London Assurance (comedy by Dion Boucicault) and Lady Barter (comedy by Charles Coughlan). Under the management of August Pitou.

March 9 through March 14, 1891
THE CRYSTAL SLIPPER - spectacular extravaganza by Harry Smith. Directed by Richard Barker. Presented by the American Extravaganza Company.

March 16 through March 19, 1891
JOAN OF ARC - by Jules Barbiere, translated and adapted by William Young. Starring Margaret Mather, with Otis Skinner.

March 20, 1891
AS YOU LIKE IT - by William Shakespeare. Starring Miss Margaret Mather, with Otis Skinner.

March 21, 1891
LEAH, THE FORSAKEN - a tragedy in five acts by Mosenthal. Starring Miss Margaret Mather
With Otis Skinner.

March 23 through March 28, 1891
MR. WILKINSON'S WIDOWS - comedy by William Gillette. Starring Joseph Holland, Mrs. Dion Bonchicault, and Frederick Bond. Producer, Charles Frohman.

March 30 and April 3, 1891
THE IRON MASTER - by A. W. Pinero. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their London Company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 31, 1891
IMPULSE - a comedy-drama by B.C. Stephenson. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their London Company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

April 1 and April 4 (matinee), 1891
ALL FOR HER - drama by Herman C. Merivale and Palgrave Simpson. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their London Company. Directed by Daniel Frohman

April 2, 1891
A SCRAP OF PAPER - comedy by J. Palgrave Simpson. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their London Company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

April 4, 1891
THE QUEEN’S SHILLING - comedy by G. W. Godfrey. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their London Company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

April 6 through April 11, 1891
THE BURGLAR - a comedy-drama by Gus Thomas. Starring A.S. Lipman, with Harry Corson Clarke and L.A. Wagenhals.

April 13 through April 18, 1891
AUGUSTIN DALY’S COMPANY - presenting The School for Scandal (by Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Taming of the Shrew (by William Shakespeare), A Night Off (by Franz von Schonthan), The Last Word (by Franz von Schonthan), Railroad of Love (by Franz von Schonthan and Kadlberg). Starring John Drew and Miss Ada Rehan.

April 20 through April 25, 1891
A.M. PALMER'S MADISON SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY presenting Captain Swift (by R. Haddon Chambers), A Pair of Spectacles (by Sidney Grundy), Saints and Sinners (by Henry Arthur Jones), and Jim, the Penman (by Sir Charles Young). Cast includes Maurice Barrymore, E.M. Holland, J.H. Stoddard, and Maud Harrison.

April 27 through May 2, 1891
STILL ALARM - by Joseph Arthur. Starring Harry Lacy, with Frank Norcross, Charles Lothian, and Joseph Wilkes.

May 4 through May 9, 1891
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY - Starring David Steele, Harry Allen, Frank Tannehill Jr., H.AA. Morey, Herbert Fortier, Frank M. Kendrick, Edward Morey, Chas. Hamlin, Maude Giroux, Nettie Ferrell, Adele Clarke, Kate Wilson, Kate Burlingame. Directed by Chas. Frohman and H.A. Rockwood.

May 11 through May 16, 1891
SHILOH - first Washington production of a new military drama by Conier. Cast includes John A. Lane, Frederick Vroom, Chars. W. Sutton, W.HJ. Levoen, Daniel Farrell, E.F. Nagle, Wilbur Hudson, Edwin Wayne, Guy Spangler, Wm. Bowker Lew Simmons, Leo Hamilton, Delancy Barclay, Charles Godfrey, James Acton, Emma Hinckley, Belle Bailey, Edna Perry, Ethel Keeley, Millie Fulmer. Directed by S.C. DuBois.

May 18 through May 23, 1891
THE FLOWER QUEEN - a cantata in three parts. Cast includes Hattie Meads, Ernest H. Daniel, Hellen Nye, Mamie Boteler, Olive Travers, Carrie Clark and Jessie Davis, Margaret Sherman, Lucy Mitchell, Florence Stidham, Annie K. Roller, Ida Wagner, May Belle Chambers, Marion Garrett, Flora Shinn, Virgie Clabaugh. Directed by Prof. J.H. Daniel.

May 25 through July 1891
LAMONT OPERA COMPANY - during the summer opera season performs White Hussar, The Bohemian Girl, Royal, Middy, Princess To To, Girofle-Girolfa, Olivette, Prince Methusalem, Carmen, Stradella, Fauvette, Grand Duchess, Musketeers and Mignon, Company includes Helen Lamont, Lizzie Annandale, Beatrice Tiffnay, Marion Weller, Wm. Pruette, Walter Allen, Kirkland Calhoun, J.Y. Glisson, R.W. Guise and M.J. Thomas. Directed by S.W. Fort.

GEOFFREY MIDDLETON, GENTLEMAN - comedy drama

August 31 through September 5, 1891
ROBERT DOWNING -- Starring in Virginius (tragedy by Sheridan Knowles), Brutus (drama by John Howard Payne), Damon and Pythias (drama by John Bainim), Julius Caesar (by William Shakespeare), The Gladiator (tragedy by Saumet). Supported by Eugenie Blair and Fred C. Mosely.

September 7 though September 12, 1891
PRIMROSE AND WEST’S MODERN MINSTRELS - managed by D.W. Truss.

September 14 through September 19, 1891
HERMANN IN MAGIC, MIRTH AND MYSTERY - a magic show starring Herrmann and Mme. Hermann.

September 21 through September 26, 1891
NATURAL GAS - face-comedy by H. Gratton Donnelly, revised by Frank Dumond, management by Samuel P. Cox. Starring Donnelly and Girard, accompanied by May Howard.

September 28 through October 3, 1891
TUXEDO - an evening of entertainment. Starring the George Thatcher Minstrels, allied with the Rich & Harris Comedy Co.

October 5 though October 10, 1891
THE MIDDLEMAN - BY Henry Arthur Jones. Starring E.S. Willard in his first Washington appearance.

October 12 through October 17, 1891
A FAIR REBEL - a military drama by Harry P. Mawson. Starring Edward R. Mawson with Fanny Gillette.

October 19 through October 24, 1891
BOYS AND GIRLS - comedy by John J. McNally. Staring Rich and Harris’ Merry Comedy Company.

October 26, 27, and 28, 1891
GEOFRFREY MIDDLETON, GENTLEMAN - comedy drama by Miss Martha Morton. Starring Augustus Pitou’s Stock Co.

October 29, 30, and 31, 1891
A MODERN MATCH - society drama by Clyde Fitch. Starring Augustus Pitou’s Stock Co.

November 3 and 4, 1891
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP - comedy by Tom Taylor. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 5 and 7 (evening), 1891
A WHITE LIE - comedy by Sidney Grundy. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 4, 1891
A SCRAP OF PAPER - comedy by J. Palgrave Simpson. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 6 and 7 (matinee), 1891
THE IRONMASTER - an adaptation by A.W. Pinero of George Ohnet’s drama. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

November 9 through November 14, 1891
SHENANDOAH - comedy drama by Bronson Howard. Starring Oscar Eagle, Francis Carlyle, A.E. Lohman, Robert Benedict, Harry Allen, Margaret Robinson, Lilla Vane, Mabel Dunlap, Josephine Hall, Anna Robinson and Mrs. A.C. Haslem. Directed by Charles Frohman.

November 16 through November 21, 1891
BLUE JEANS - dramatic comedy by Joseph Arthur. Cast includes Robert Hilliard, George D. Chaplin, Herbert Carr, J.J. Wallace Charles D. Udell, Wm. J. Wheeler, Joseph Graham, Jennie Yeamans, Judith Berolde, Marian Strickland, Mrs. Charles Edmonds, Kate Chester.

November 23 through November 28, 1891
WANG - by J. Cheever Goodwin; composed by Woolson Morse. Starring DeWolf Hopper and His Merry Company.

November 30 through December 5, 1891
A MIDNIGHT BELL

December 7 through December 12, 1891
A PARLOR MATCH - comedy by Charles H. Hoyt. Starring Charles E. Evans and William Hoey and their company of comedians. Directed by W. D. Mann

December 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19 (matinee), 1891
THE RIVALS - comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Starring the Jefferson Comedy Co., with Joseph Jefferson, Louis James, W.F. Owen, J.H.. Barnes, Firzhugh Owsley, Geo. W. Denham, Joseph Warren, Mrs. John Drew, Viola Allen, Maud Monroe.

December 18 and 19, 1891
THE HEIR-AT-LAW - comedy by Colman. Starring the Jefferson Comedy Co., with Joseph Jefferson, Louis James, W.F. Owen, J.H.. Barnes, Firzhugh Owsley, Geo. W. Denham, Joseph Warren, Mrs. John Drew, Viola Allen, Maud Monroe.

December 21 through December 26, 1891
INCOG - farce by Mrs. Roumaldo Pacheco. Starring Charles Dickson and the George W. Lederer Model Company.

December 28 , 1891 through January 2, 1892
NIOBE - comedy by Harry and Edward Paulton. Starring Abbott and Teal’s Comedy Company.

1892

January 4 through January 9 (matinee), 1892
GEOFFREY MIDDLETON, GENTLEMAN - a comedy drama by Miss Martha Morton. Starring Augustus Pitou’s Stock Company.

January 11 (evening), 1892
A MODERN MATCH - society drama by Clyde Fitch. Starring Augustus Pitou’s Stock Co.

January 11 through January 16, 1892
THERMIDOR - by Sardou. Presented by Charles Frohman, as originally performed
at the Theatre Francais, Paris.

January 18 through January 23, 1892
JULIUS CAESAR - by William Shakespeare. Starring The Meininger dramatic company. Directed by Car and Theodore Rosenfeld. Music for the play is composed by Mr. Boese, Conductor of the Court Theatre of the Duke of Saxon-Meiningen.

January 25 through January 30, 1892
ROSINA VOKES -- appearing in A Game of Cards, My Milliner’s Bill, A Pantomime Rehearsal, The Rose, The Circus Rider and A Double Lesson. All are comedies starring Rosina Vokes, supported by Felix Morris and her London Comedy Company.

February 1 through February 6, 1892
THE QUEEN’S MATE - a comic opera by Charles Lecocq. Presented by the J.C. Duff Opera Company.

February 7, 1892
COLONEL ROBERT C. INGERSOLL delivers a lecture on Shakespeare.

February 8 through February 13, 1892
THE STILL ALARM - a romantic comedy drama by Joseph Arthur, produced under the direction and stage management of the author. Starring William S. Harkins, John Bird, Harry Corson Clarke.

February 15 through February 20, 1892
ART AND NATURE (one-act comedy adapted from the French by William Yardley) and THE NOMINEE (comedy in 3 acts adapted from the French by Leander Richardson and William Yardley). Starring Nat C. Goodwin and his Companion Players. Directed by Mr. Jno. E. Warner.

February 22, through February 27, 1892
E. H. SOTHERN -- Starring in Lord Chumley (by Henry C. DeMille and David Belasco) and The Dancing Girl (by Henry Arthur Jones). Management by Daniel Frohman.

March 7 through March 12, 1892
THE HARVEST MOON - a romantic drama by James M. Martin. Starring Janauschek.

March 14 through March 19, 1892
HOYT’S A TEXAS STEER (OR, MONEY MAKES THE MARE GO) - presented by Hoyt and Thomas, Managers Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre. A ‘collection of saws and instances supposed to be more or less upon the extraordinary possibilities of American politics and the development of statesmanship of the average type.

March 21, 22, 24, 1892
A SCRAP OF PAPER - comedy by J. Palgrave Simpson. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal, directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 23, 1892
KATHERINE KAVANAGH play by Mrs. Oscar Beringer and Clo Graves. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 25, 1892
IMPULSE - comedy by B.C. Stephenson. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 26 (matinee), 1892
THE SQUIRE - by A. W. Pinero. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 26, 1892
THE QUEEN’S SHILLING - a comedy by G. W. Godfrey. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their company. Directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 28 through April 1, 1892
THE MIDDLEMAN - a play of modern English life by Henry Arthur Jones. Starring Edward S. Willard.

April 2, 1892 (matinee and evening performances)
JUDAH - a play of modern English life by Henry Arthur Jones. Starring Edward S. Willard.

April 4 through April 9, 1892
HERRMANN - Magic, Mirth and Mystery by the prestidigitateur, assisted by his wife.

April 11 through April 16, 1892
THE NEW CITY DIRECTORY - comedy show starring Russell’s Comedians. Music by W.S. Mullaly.

April 18 through April 21, April 23, 1892
LADY BARTER (comedy by Charles Coghlan) and NANCE OLDFIELD (one act sketch by Charles Reade). Starring Miss Rose Coghlan and Mr. Charles Coghlan

April 22, 1892 (Friday evening performance)
THE CHECK BOOK - comedy by Charles Coghlan. Starring Rose Coghlan and Charles Coghlan.

April 25 through April 30, 1892
AUGUSTIN DALY’S COMPANY OF COMEDIANS. Presenting Love in Tandem, As You Like It, The School for Scandal, and the Last Word, The Foresters, and Nancy and Company. Starring Charles Wheatleigh, Thomas Bridgeland, Lloyd Danbigney.

May 2, 4 and 5, 1892
MR. AND MRS. CLEOPATRA ( farcical-musical-spectacular-terpsichorean hallucination by Frederick Brooke Neilson) and SHAKESPEARE’S 7 AGES (a ballet divertissement). Presented by the University of Pennsylania Mask and Wig Club.

May 3, 1892
THE ADELINA PATTI CONCERTS directed by Messrs. Abbey, Schoffel and Grau. Starring Madame Adelina Patti, assisted by Mlle. G. Fabbri, Signor Galassi, Signor Novar. Signor Arditi, conductor and Signor Mascheroni, accompanist.

May 6 and 7, 1892
ERMINIE - opera presented by Harris, Britton and Dean Opera Co.

May 9 through May 14, 1892
LA CIGALE - comedy opera starring Lillian Russell. Written by Messrs. Chivot and Duro, music by E.Audran; English version by F.C. Burnand. Presented by the Lillian Russell Opera Comique Co., Mr. T. H. French, proprietor and manager.

About this time Percy Winter began operation of a repertoire company which continued until his departure in 1897. No other repertorie company plated at the theatre until the establishment of The National Theatre Players by S.E. Cochran in 1925.

May 16 through May 21, 1892
MR. WILKINSON’S WIDOWS - comedy farce by Alexander Bisson, adapted for American stage by William Gillette. Presented by Charles Frohman’s Comedians. Starring Joseph Holland, Georgie Drew Barrymore, Thomas Ryley.

June 9, 1892
DAMON AND PYTHIAS - a testimonial benefit tendered by Mr. William Boag to the Potomac Corps, W.R.C. for the G.A.R. Encampment Fund. Starring Edwin Perry and William Boag.

June 23, 1892
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF THE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL

August 1 through August 6, 1892
SETTLED OUT OF COURT - based on M. Alexandre Bisson’s “Pont Biquet”, arranged and adapted by William Gillette. Starring the Charles Frohman Comedians.

September 5 through September 10, 1892
PRIMROSE AND WEST’S MINSTRELS - managed by D.W. Truss, musical direction by Robert Carmichael.

September 12, 1892
JULIUS CAESAR - by William Shakespeare. Starring tragedians Frederick Warde and Louis James.

September 13 and September 14, 1892
THE LION’S MOUTH - romantic play by Henry Guy Carleton. Starring tragedians Frederick Warde and Louis James.

September 15 through September 17 (matinee), 1892
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI - tragedy by George H. Boker. Starring tragedians Frederick Warde and Louis James.

September 17, 1892
OTHELLO - by William Shakespeare. Starring tragedians Frederick Warde and Louis James.

September 19 through September 24, 1892
A NUTMEG MATCH - by William Haworth. Starring Annie Lewis. Music by Jacob Litt and Thomas H. Davis.

September 26 through October 1, 1892
ACROSS THE POTOMAC - a new military drama by Augustus Pitou and Edward M. Alfriend. Starring Boyd Putnam and Matt B. Snyder.

October 3 through October 8, 1892
12 P.M. - comedy. Starring Jennie Yeamans.

October 10 through October 15, 1892
THE IDEA - comedy by Herbert Hall Winslow and Joseph Hart. Starring the laureate comedians Hallen and Hart.

October 17 through October 22, 1892
THE GREY MARE - a comedy by George R. Sims and Cecil Raleigh. Presented by Daniel Frohman.

October 24 through October 29, 1892
HOYT’S A TEXAS STEER (OR, MONEY MAKES THE MARE GO) - presented by Hoyt and Thomas, Managers Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre. A “collection of saws and instances supposed to be more or less upon the extraordinary possibilities of American politics and the development of statesmanship of the average type.”

October 31 through November 5, 1892
THE VOODOO, OR A LUCKY CHARM - comedy by F.S. Gibbs, presented by Frank W. Sanger and Gus. Bothner, starring Thomas E. Murray. With John G. Sparks, Wales Winter, James H. Leahy.

November 7 through November 16, 1892
ARISTOCRACY - a new and original American comedy by Bronson Howard. Starring a representative cast of American players. Directed by Al Hayman and Charles Frohman.

November 14 through November 18, 1982
A TRIP TO CHINATOWN - musical presented by Charles J. Hoyt. Starring Burt Haverly, George A. Beane, Jr.

November 21 through November 25, 1892
RIP VAN WINKLE - starring Joseph Jefferson, Julia Marlowe Taber, Robert Taber, Fanny Rice, and W.H. Crane.

November 28 through December 3, 1892
ALABAMA - drama by Augustus Thomas. Directed by Al. Haymen. Presented by the A.M. Palmer Home Stock Company. Starring J.H. Stoddart, E.M. Holland, Odell Williams.

December 5 through December 10, 1892
BLUE JEANS - a comedy drama by Joseph Arthur. Starring Frederick Vroom, A.C. Moreland, and Andrew Robson.

December 12 through December 17, 1892
MR. WILKINSON’S WIDOWS - a comedy farce by Alexander Bisson. Directed by Charles Frohman. Starring Frank Norcross, Esther Tittell, Fred G. Ross, and Thomas Burns.

December 19 through December 24, 1892
THE DUCHESS - by Paul M. Potter. Starring Helen Barry, with Elizabeth Garth, Jennie Weathersby, and Adella Measor.

December 26 through December 31, 1892
MISS HELYETT - a musical comedy arranged and rewritten from the French by David Belasco. Directed by E.D. Price. Starring Louise Leslie-Carter. Production featured a special presentation by Lottie Collins in “Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay”.

1893

January 2 through January 6, 1893
ROSINA VOKES -- appearing in Crocodile Tears (a comedietta adapted from the French), The Circus Rider (a comedietta by Mrs. Charles Doremus), My Lord in Livery (a farcical comedy by S. Theyre Smith), The Paper Chase (a farcical comedy by Charles Thomas). Supported by Felix Morris and her London Comedy Company.

January 9 through January 14, 1893
THE LION TAMER - comic opera presented by Francis Wilson and Company. Starring Mr. Wilson. Text and lyrics by J. Cheever Goodwin; Music by Richard Stahl.; orchestration by John Philip Sousa.

January 16 through January 21, 1893
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME - drama by David Belasco and Franklin Fyles. Presented by Charles Frohman’s Stock Company. Starring Frank Mordaunt and William Thompson.

January 30 through February 4, 1893
WILSON BARRETT AND HIS LONDON COMPANY -- Wilson Barrett starring in Claudian (by Henry Herman), Pharoah (by Wilson Barrett), Lady of Lyons (by Bulwar-Lytton), Ben-My-Chree (by Hall Caine and Wilson Barrett), Hamlet (by Shakespeare), and The Silver King (by Harry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman).

February 6 through February 11, 1893
CAPT. LETTARBLAIR – comedy by Marguerite Merington. Starring E.H. Sothern

February 13 through February 18, 1893
A GILDED FOOL - comedy by Henry Guy Carleton. Starring Nat. C. Goodwin. Directed by George J. Appleton.

February 20 through February 25, 1893
ROBERT DOWNING AND COMPANY – present The Lion Hearted ( drama by A.D. Hall), The Gladiator (tragedy by Saumet), Othello (Shakespeare), and A Grand Special Bill. Starring Robert Downing, with Eugenie Blair and the Robert Downing Company.

February 27 through March 4, 1893
CHUMS and JANE - comedies starring Miss Johnstone Bennett. Directed by Charles Frohman.

March 5, 1893 (Sunday)
SACRED CONCERT – including music by Verdi, Meyerbeer, Sullivan, Bellini, Bischoff, Preneville, Gounod, Aronson, Giorza.

March 6 through March 11, 1893
THE LOST PARADISE - by Henry C. DeMille, directed by Charles Frohman.

March 13 through March 18, 1893
A TEXAS STEER (OR MONEY MAKES THE MARE GO)- a comedy by Hoyt, presented by Hoyt and Thomas’s Standard Comedy Company.

March 20 through March 25, 1893
THE STILL ALARM - romantic comedy-drama by Joseph Arthur. Introducing the child actor, Little Tuesday.

March 27 through April 1, 1893
E.S. WILLARD IN REPERTORY – Starring in The Middleman (by Henry Arthur Jones), Judah, A Fool’s Paradise, John Needham’s Double, The Professor’s Love Story (by J.M. Barrie). Management by A.M. Palmer.

April 3 through April 8, 1893
HERRMANN THE GREAT - magic show starring Herrmann the Great, assisted by Mme. Herrmann.

April 10 through April 15, 1893
WANG – comic opera by J. Cheever Goodwin; music by Woolson Morse. Starring DeWolf Hopper and his merry company.

April 17 through April 22, 1893 (no program file)
ARISTOCRACY - comedy drama by Bronson Howard. Cast includes William Faversham, Frederic Bond, J.W. Piggott, Bruce McRae, Viola Allen, Wilton Lackage, Blanche Walsh, John H. Brown. Directed by Al Hayman and Charles Frohman.

April 24 through April 29, 1893
A PARLOR MATCH – comedy by Charles H. Hoyt. Starring Charles E. Evans and William Hoey. Under the direction of W.D. Mann.

May 1 through May 6, 1893
THE MASKED BALL – comedy adapted by Clyde Fitche from the work of Bisson and Carro. Starring John Drew, with Harry Harwood, Harold Russell, C. Leslie Allen, Frank Lamb, Virginia Buchanan, Annie Adams, Lillian Florence. Presented by Charles Frohman.

May 8 through May 13, 1893
AUGUSTIN DALY’S COMPANY OF COMEDIANS. Presenting Love in Tandem, The Belle’s Stratagem (comedy by Hannah Crowley), the Last Word (comedy by Augustin Daly), The Hunchback (by Sheridan Knowles) and Twelfth Night.

May 27, 1893 (benefit performances for National Homoeopathic Hospital)
PINAFORE (2 p.m.); CHIMES OF NORMANDY (8 p.m.) - directed by N. Du Shane Cloward.

May 29 through June 3, 1893
WITHERED LEAVES and THE SNOWBALL - comedies presented under the management of Charles A. Shaw. First week of The Comedy Season.

June 5 through June 10, 1893
WITHERED LEAVES and BETSY - comedies presented under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring John Findlay, Charles Coote, Lillian Lawrence, Robert Weed, Charles Mackay, Rose Barrington Frederic Bond, Percy Winter, Edward Specht, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Mary Sanders, Lillian Stahl. Second week of The Comedy Season.

June 12 through June 17, 1893
A BACHELOR OF ARTS and LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS - comedies presented under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Third week of The Comedy Season.

June 19 through June 24, 1893
TWENTY MINUTES UNDER AN UMBRELLA and OUR BOYS - comedies presented under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Fourth week of The Comedy Season.

June 26 through July 1, 1893
RUTH’S ROMANCE and MY AWFUL DAD - comedies presented under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Fifth week of “The Comedy Season.”

July 6 through July 8, 1893
CASTE - comedy-drama by T.W. Robertson, under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Sixth week of The Comedy Season.

July 10 through July 14, 1893
THE CAPE MAIL and THE SNOWBALL - drama by Clement Scott and comedy by Sidney Grundy, presented under management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Seventh week of The Comedy Season.

July 15, 1893 (one performance only)
CASTE - comedy-drama by T.W. Robertson, under management of Charles A. Shaw. Seventh week of The Comedy Season.

July 17 through July 22, 1893
ENGAGED - farcical comedy by W.S. Gilbert, under management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Eighth week of The Comedy Season.

July 24 through July 29, 1893
EVERYBODY’S FRIEND comedy by J. Stirling Coyne, under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Ninth week of The Comedy Season.

July 31 through August 5, 1893
A PAIR OF LUNATICS and FORBIDDEN FRUIT - dramatic sketch by W.R. Walkes and comedy by Dion Boucicault, under management of Charles A. Shaw. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Marles Mackay, John Findlay, Percy Winter, Joseph Wheelock, Robert Weed, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Rose Barrington, Agnes Findlay, Lucy Escott, Lillian Stahl. Tenth and closing week of “The Comedy Season.”

August 28 through September 2, 1893
THE OTHER MAN - a military comedy presented by Charles Frohman’s Comedians. Starring Joseph Holland, Thomas Burns and Harry Brown.

September 4 through September 9, 1893
THE ISLE OF CHAMPAGNE - a comic opera by Charles Alfred Byrne and Louis Harrison; music by William Furst. Directed by George W. Lederer. Starring Thomas Q. Seabrooke and his opera company and ballet.

September 11, 12 and 13, 1893
JOSEPH - a comedy presented by the Ramsay Morris Comedy Company. Starring Mr. J.W. Pigott, Mr. Charles Wyngate, Miss Elsie deWolfe.

September 14, 15 and 16, (evenings) and September 16 matinee, 1893
MRS. PENDLETON’S FOUR IN HAND and THE JUDGE - comedies presented by the Ramsay Morris Comedy Company. Starring Mr. J.W. Pigott, Mr. Charles Wyngate, Miss Elsie deWolfe.

September 25 through September 30, 1893
PRIMROSE AND WEST - a minstrel show directed by Robert Carmichael.

October 2 through October 7, 1893
THE SPORTSMAN - a comedy adapted by William Lestocq, from the French of George Faydeau, directed by Julius Cahn. Presented by and starring Mr. M.A. Kennedy. The performance concludes with the famous FRANTZ FAMILY, acrobatic artists.

October 9 through October 14, 1893
IN OLD KENTUCKY a romantic comedy drama written by C.T. Dazey, directed by Jacob Litt and Thomas H. Davis. Starring H.J. Wolfe, R.G. Clark and William McVay.

October 16 through October 21, 1893
THE RAINMAKERS - a farcical comedy by Frank Dumont, management by Samuel P. Cox. Starring the comedians Henry V. Donnelly and Edward Girard.

October 22 through October 27, 1893
AFRICA -- an opera with libretto by Clay M. Greene and J. Cheever Goodwin; music by Randolph Cruger. Starring Mr. George Thatcher.

October 30 through November 4, 1893
ACROSS THE POTOMAC -- a war drama by Augustus Pitou and Edward Alfriend. Starring Boyd Putnam, J.P. Keefe and I.N. Drew.

November 6 and 8, 1893
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI - a tragedy by Hon. George H. Boker. Starring Frederick Warde and Louis James.

November 7 (evening) and 8 (matinee), 1893
THE LION’S MOUTH - a play by Henry Guy Carleton. Starring Frederick Warde and Louis James.

November 9, 1893
OTHELLO - by William Shakespeare. Starring Frederick Warde and Louis James.

November 11, 1893 (Sat. Evening only)
VIRGINIUS - play by Sheridan Knowles. Starring Frederick Warde and Louis James.

November 13 through November 18, 1893
PANJANDRUM - a comic opera written by J. Cheever Goodwin with music by Woolson Morse. Starring DeWolf Hopper and his company.

November 20 through November 25, 1893
SHERIDAN or, THE MAID OF BATH - a play based on incidents in the life of author Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Paul M. Potter. Starring E.H. Sothern.

November 27 through December 1, 1893
RIP VAN WINKLE - musical starring Joseph Jefferson.

December 4, 5, 6 and 9 (evenings) and Sat. matinee on Dec. 9, 1893
SUNSET, CROCODILE TEARS, and MAID MARIAN - comedies. Starring Rosina Vokes in her farewell engagement. Also starring Mons. C.D. Marius and Miss Ffolliott Paget

December 7, 8 and 9, 1893
DREAM FACES, WAITING, and A PANTOMIME REHEARSAL - comedies. Starring Rosina Vokes in her farewell engagement. Also starring Mons. C.D. Marius and Miss Ffolliott Paget.

December 11 through December 16, 1893
IN MIZZOURA - a drama by Augustus Thomas. Starring Nat C. Goodwin. Directed by George J. Appleton.

December 18 through December 23, 1893
A TRIP TO MARS - a play presented by the Liliputians. Starring Franz Ebert, Bertha Jaeger, Adolph Zink, Ida Mahr, Max Walter, Christian Pons and Ludwig Merkel, with Herman Ring, Elise Lau and Toni Meister.

December 25 through December 29, 1893
A NUTMEG MATCH - a character study by William Haworth. Starring William E. Wilson and Ralph Stuart.

1894

January 1 through January 6, 1894
THE ENSIGN - written by William Haworth. Starring Wilson Deal. Directed by Jacob Litt and Thomas H. Davis.

January 8 through January 13, 1894
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME - written by David Belasco and Franklin Fyles. Starring Frank Mordaunt. Directed by Charles Frohman.

January 15 through January 20, 1894
YON YONSON - a farcical drama written by Gus Heege, who also starred in it. Directed by Jacob Litt and Thomas H. Davis.

January 22 through January 27, 1894
ERMINIE - comic opera, libretto by Harry Paulton and music by Edward Jakobowski. Presented by Francis Wilson and company. Starring Mr. Wilson.

January 29 through February 2, 1894
A MILK WHITE FLAG - musical comedy directed by Frank McKee, presented by Hoyt’s Musical Comedy Company.

February 3, 1894 (single matinee performance)
CHILDREN’S PINAFORE - a comic opera presented as a benefit for the National Homeopathic Hospital. Starring Frederic Hazard.

February 3, 1894 (single evening performance)
ANNUAL MUSICAL AND ATHLETIC ENTERTAINMENT OF THE COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB - management provided by the Amusement Committee of the Club.

February 6, 1894 (single matinee performance)
THE THREE DUKES - a comic opera. Libretto by W.H. Harris; music by Arthur Percy Harris, starring W.H. Harris.

February 12 through February 17, 1894
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN - by Oscar Wilde. Starring Frank Gillmore, Howell Hansel and Evelyn Campbell. Directed by Charles Frohman.

February 19 through February 24, 1894
A BRASS MONKEY - a satire by Charles H. Hoyt. Starring George F. Marion.

February 26, through March 3, 1894 [no program file]
THE PRINCESS NICOTINE - Opera Comique by Charles Alfred Byrne and Louis Harrisson; Music by William Furst. Starring Lillian Russell as Rosa, the Princess Nicotine
Marie Dressler as The Duchess, Wife of Don Pedro.

March 5 through March 10, 1894
THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER - drama by Henry Pettit and Sir Augustus Harris. Cast includes J.H. Barnes, Ralph Delmore, Julius Knight, Jefferson deAngelis, Russel Bassett, Charles Coote. Management by T.H. French.

March 12 through March 17, 1894
THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY - by A.W. Pinero. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and their London company.

March 17, 1894 (Saturday evening performance only)
THE IRONMASTER - an English adaptation of “Le Maitre de Forges.” Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal with their London Company.

March 22, 1894 and March 24, 1894 (Thursday evening and Saturday performances only)
ROBIN HOOD -- opera by De Koven and Smith. The Famous Bostonians, Barnabee, Karl and Mac Donald, Props.

March 23, 1894 (single performance)
THE MAID OF PLYMOUTH - comic opera by Thomas P. Thorne and Clay M. Greene. The Famous Bostonians.

March 26 through March 31, 1894
A TEXAS STEER (or “Money Makes the Mare Go”) - written by Hoyt; management by Frank McKee. Starring Tim Murphy.

April 2 through April 4, 1894 (matinee)
THE ROSE, THE VAGABOND, MOSES - comedies by Minnie Maddern Ficke, Forbes Heermans, and Minnie Maddern Ficke, respectively. Presented by Felix Morris and His Comedy Company.

April 4 through April 7, 1894
THE OLD MUSICIAN and THE PAPER CHASE - by Felix Morris and Charles Thomas, respectively. Presented by Felix Morris and His Comedy Company.

April 7, 1894 (Saturday night only)
KERRY, THE VAGABOND and MOSES – by Dion Boucicault, Forbes Heermans and Minnie Maddern Fiske, respectively. Presented by Felix Morris and His Comedy Company.

April 8, 1894 (one evening only)
LECTURE BY REV. SAM W. SMALL - Southern Evangelist - “What We Should Do to Be Saved.”

April 9, 1894 (single performance)
VIRGINIUS - tragedy by J. Sheridan Knowles. Starring Wilson Barrett and His Famous London Company.

April 10 and April 14, 1894 (matinee)
BEN MY CHREE (Girl of My Heart)- drama by Hall Caine and Wilson Barrett. Music by M. Connolly. Costumes by Bernstein. Starring Wilson Barrett and His Famous London Company.

April 11, 1894 (matinee only)
THE STRANGER - from the German, by Kotzebue. Starring Wilson Barrett and His Famous London Company.

April 11, 1894 (single evening performance)
JACK SAXTON, A TALE OF THE TURF - by Wilson Barrett. Starring Wilson Barrett and His Famous London Company.

April 12, 1894 (single performance)
HAMLET - by William Shakespeare. Starring Wilson Barrett and His Famous London Company.

April 13, 1894 (single performance)
OTHELLO - by William Shakespeare. Starring Wilson Barrett and His Famous London Company.

April 16 through April 21, 1894
ROSE COGHLAN IN REPERTORY - Starring in A Woman of No Importance (by Oscar Wilde); Diplomacy (by Sardou), Forget-Me- Not (by Herman Merrivale and F.C. Groves).

April 23 through April 28, 1894
ARISTOCRACY – by Bronson Howard. Starring Louis Massen, Mary Hampton, Blanche Walsh, Charles Wingate, Frederic Bond, A.S. Lipman. Directed by Charles Frohman.

April 30 through May 5, 1894
A GILDED FOOL - by Henry Guy Carleton. Starring Nat C. Goodwin; directed by George J. Appleton.

May 7 through May 12, 1894
LORD CHUMLEY - comedy by Henry C. DeMille and David Belasco. Starring E.H. Sothern.

May 14 through May 19, 1894
PANJANDRUM - comic opera by J. Cheever Goodwin; music by Woolson Morse. Starring De Wolf Hopper.

May 21 through May 26, 1894
JULIA MARLOWE -- Starring in The Belle’s Strategem (a comedy by Hannah Cowley), Chatterton (a drama by Ernest Lacy), As You Like It (by William Shakespeare), The Love Chase (comedy by Sheridan Knowles), Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare), Twelfth Night (by William Shakespeare), Ingomar the Barbarian (by Marie Lovell).

May 28 through June 2, 1894
BUMBLE’S COURTSHIP (a dramatic sketch adapted from the Dickens novel “Oliver Twist”) and THE THREE HATS (a comedy adapted from “Les Trois Chapeaux” by Arthur Shirley). Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Charles Mackay, Mary Sanders, John Findlay, Agnes Faindlay, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, and Lillian Stahl. Under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Opening week of the Comedy Season.

June 4 through June 9, 1894
THE SCHOLAR (a comedy in two acts by J.B. Buckstone), along with MR. HOBBY’S DAUGHTERS (a comedy in one act by George Roberts). Starring Frederic Bond, Herbert Pattee, John Findlay, Charles MacKay, Agnes Findlay, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, Mary Sanders. Directed by Percy Winter. Under the management of Charles A. Shaw. Second week of the Comedy Season.

June 11 through June 16, 1894
MY AWFUL DAD (a three act comedy by Charles Matthews), along with MAN PROPOSES ( a one-act comedy by Sidney Grundy). Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Mackay, John Findlay, Joseph Wheelock Jr., Percy Winter, R.F. Runyon, Edward Specht, C.F. Loon, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, Agnes Findlay, Mary Sanders, Lillian Stahl. Directed by Percy Winter. Third week of the Comedy Season.

June 18 through June 23, 1894
UNCLE (a three act farce by Henry J. Byron), along with ON AN ISLAND (a dramatic sketch by J.W. Jones). Starring John Findlay, Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Joseph Wheelock Jr, Frances Stevens, Mary Sanders, Agnes Findlay. Directed by Percy Winter. Fourth week of the Comedy Season.

June 25 through June 30, 1894
HOME - a comedy-drama by T. W. Robertson. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Charles Mackay Joseph Wheelock Jr., John Findlay, Percy Winter, Edward Specht, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, Agnes Findlay, Lillian Stahl. Directed by Percy Winter. Fifth week of the Comedy Season.

July 2 through July 7, 1894
BACHELOR OF ARTS (a comedy in two acts by Pelham Hardicke), along with RUTH’S ROMANCE (a comedy in one act by Frederick Boughton). Starring Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Charles Mackay Joseph Wheelock Jr., John Findlay, Percy Winter, Edward Specht, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, Agnes Findlay, Lillian Stahl. Directed by Percy Winter. Sixth week of the Comedy Season.

July 9 through July 16, 1894
AN ARABIAN NIGHT - a comedy by Sydney Grundy. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Charles Mackay Joseph Wheelock Jr., John Findlay, Percy Winter, Edward Specht, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, Agnes Findlay, Lillian Stahl. Directed by Percy Winter. Seventh week of the Comedy Season.

July 23 through July 30, 1894
HIS LAST LEGS (by William Bayle Bernard), along with A HAPPY PAIR (a comedy in one act by S. Theyre Smith). Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Charles Mackay Joseph Wheelock Jr., John Findlay, Percy Winter, Edward Specht, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, Agnes Findlay, Lillian Stahl. Directed by Percy Winter. Eighth week of the Comedy Season.

July 31 through August 4, 1894
OURS - a comedy by T.W. Robertson. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Coote, Charles Mackay Joseph Wheelock Jr., John Findlay, Percy Winter, Edward Specht, Alberta Gallatin, Frances Stevens, Agnes Findlay, Lillian Stahl. Directed by Percy Winter. Ninth week of the Comedy Season.

August 20 through August 25, 1894
THE WHITE SQUADRON - a patriotic melodrama by A.Y. Pearson. Starring W.A. Whitecar, Fredrick Julian, J.H. Smiley, Robert Neil, Charles Macklin, j. Edwin Leonard, Will F. Phillips, Percy Plunkett, JJ. Morris, C.E. Guere, George F. White, B.G. Martin, William Vestal, J.W. Harmon, Alvin Chandler, Laura Booth, Edith Julian, Laura Almossino, Adeline Colton.

August 27 and September 1 (matinee), 1894
VIRGINIUS - a tragedy. Starring Robert Downing and Eugenie Blair, with Edmond Hayes, J.R. Amory, William Frederic, W.B. Downing, Albert Taylor, Alexander McKenzie, S.T. George, George Stryker, John Bowman, Byron Williams, T.A. Albert, R.M. Johns, Miss Mayland and Mrs. F.M. Yates.

August 28, 30 and September 1, 1894
THE GLADIATOR - Starring Robert Downing and Eugenie Blair, with Edmond Hayes, William Frederic, W.B. Downing, Alexander McKenzie, J.R. Amory, George Stryker, Byron Williams, Albert Taylor, John Bowman, May Lindley, Fanny Newhall, and Mrs. F.M. Bates.

August 29 matinee, 1894
RICHARD, THE LION HEARTED - by A.D. Hall. Starring Robert Downing and Eugenie Blair, with Edmond Hayes, William Frederic, W.B. Downing, Alexander McKenzie, J.R. Amory, George Stryker, Byron Williams, Albert Taylor, John Bowman, May Lindley, Fanny Newhall, and Mrs. F.M. Bates.

August 29, 1894
DAMON AND PYTHIAS - by John Banim. Starring Robert Downing and Eugenie Blair, with Edmond Hayes, William Frederic, W.B. Downing, Alexander McKenzie, J.R. Amory, George Stryker, Byron Williams, Albert Taylor, John Bowman, May Lindley, Fanny Newhall, and Mrs. F.M. Bates.

August 31, 1894
INGOMAR - Starring Robert Downing and Eugenie Blair, with Edmond Hayes, William Frederic, W.B. Downing, Alexander McKenzie, J.R. Amory, George Stryker, Byron Williams, Albert Taylor, John Bowman, May Lindley, Fanny Newhall, and Mrs. F.M. Bates.

DOROTHY - comic opera

September 3 through September 8, 1894
A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW - Comedy starring Charles Dickson and company. Written by Stanislaus Stance. Management by Edward J. Abram.

September 10 through September 15 1894
WAY DOWN IN DIXIE and A GRAND TRANSFORMATION - Presented by Primrose and West’s Minstrels. Joseph P. Harris, manager.

September 17, 1894
IL TROVATORE - Presented by the Marie Tavary Grand Opera Co. Charles H. Pratt, Proprietor and Manager. Starring Marie Tavary, Emma Mariani, Thea Dorre, A.L. Guille, William Warren, Karl Clause, William Mertens, William Shuster.

September 18, 1894
CARMEN - by George Bizet. Presented by the Marie Tavary Grand Opera Co. Starring Marie Tavary, Payne Clark, William Mertens, Dora Escott, Ellen Eland, William Hamilton, William Schuster, M.H. Dudley and William Warren.

September 19, 1894, matinee only
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL - Presented by the Marie Tavary Grand Opera Co. Charles H. Pratt, Proprietor and Manager. Starring William Schuster, Payne Clarke, William Warren, William Hamilton, J.C. Cheviot, Emma Mariani, Dora Escott and Sofia Romaini.

September 19, 1894, evening performance only
IL PAGLIACCI and CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA - Presented by the Marie Tavary Grand Opera Co. Charles H. Pratt, Proprietor and Manager. Starring Emma Mariani, A.L. Guille, William Mertens,
William Warren, William Schuster, S.H. Dudley, N. Klause, and Marie Tavary.

September 20, 1894
LOHENGRIN - Opera by Richard Wagner. Presented by The Marie Tavary Grand Opera Co. Charles H. Pratt, Proprietor and Manager. Starring Marie Tavary, Helen Von Doenhoeff, Payne Clark, William Mertens, William Hamilton, William Shuster.

September 21, 1894
FAUST - Opera by Richard Wagner. Presented by The Marie Tavary Grand Opera Co. Charles H. Pratt, Proprietor and Manager. Starring Marie Tavary, Thea Dorre A.L. Guille, William Mertens, William Hamilton, William Schuster and Sofia Romani.

September 22, 1894
IL PAGLIACCI and CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA - Presented by the Marie Tavary Grand Opera Co. Charles H. Pratt, Proprietor and Manager. Starring Emma Mariani, A.L. Guille, William Mertens, William Warren, William Schuster, S.H. Dudley, N. Klause, and Marie Tavary.

September 24 through September 29, 1894
TABASCO - A comic opera starring Thomas Q. Seabrooke and his comic opera
company. Libretto by R.A. Barnet, music by George W. Chadwick.

October 1 through October 6, 1894
A MILK WHITE FLAG - Musical comedy presented by Hoyt’s Musical Comedy Co. Frank McKee, Manager. Starring Charles Stanley, Lloyd Wilson, Arthur Pacie, Edward Garvie, Frank Baldwin, Sam Weston, Frank Lawton, John S. Marble.

October 8 through October 13, 1894
THE RAINMAKERS - a farcical comedy by Frank Dumont. Presented by and starring Henry V. Donnelly and Edward Girard.

October 15 through October 18, 1894
A NIGHT OFF - a comedy presented by Mr. Augustin Daly’s Company of Comedians. Starring James Lewis, Herbert Gresham, Francis Carlyle, Charles LeClercq, William Gilbert, G.H. Gilbert,Percy Haswell, Laura Hansen, Eugene Upham, Catherine Lewis and Henry Dixey.

October 19 and 20, 1894
SEVEN-TWENTY-EIGHT (OR CASTING THE BOOMERANG) - Comedy presented by Mr. Augustin Daly’s Company of Comedians. Starring James Lewis, Herbert Gresham, Francis Carlyle, Charles LeClercq, William Gilbert, G.H. Gilbert, Percy Haswell, Laura Hansen, Eugene Upham, Catherine Lewis and Henry Dixey.

October 22 through October 27, 1894
MISS ADA REHAN -- Starring in The Last Word, Love on Crutches (by Augustin Daly), Taming of the Shrew (by William Shakespeare), School for Scandal (by Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Twelfth Night, As You Like It (by Shakespeare). Managed by Augustin Daly.

October 29 through November 3, 1894
A TRIP TO CHINATOWN - Presented by Hoyt’s Plays. Management by Frank McKee. Starring Harry Conor, Newton Chiswell, George Sinclair, Julius Witmark.

November 5 through November 10, 1894
THE AMAZONS - A romantic farce by A.W. Pinero. Presented by Daniel Frohman, management by Charles Frohman. Starring Miss Johnstone Bennett, Isabel Irving, Eline Eilson, Ida Vernon and Louise Rial.

November 12, 13, 14 and 17, 1894
ROBIN HOOD - Comic opera presented by The Famous Bostonians, Barnabee and MacDonald, proprietors and managers. Written by Reginald DeKoven and Harry B. Smith.

November 15, 1894
THE MAID OF PLYMOUTH - Comic opera presented by The Famous Bostonians. Written by Thomas P. Thorne and Clay M. Greene. Based on Longfellow’s poem, “The Courtship of Miles Standish.

November 16, 1894
FATINITZA - Comic opera presented by The Famous Bostonians, Barnabee and MacDonald, proprietors and managers.

November 19, 20, 21 and 24 (matinee)
RIP VAN WINKLE - Starring Joseph Jefferson. Also featuring Edwin Varrey, Joseph Warren, Joseph Reilly, Walter Howard, Joseph Logan, Annie Mack Berlin, Baby Parker, Nanon Flowler, Ella Stillman and Ethel Browning.

November 22, 23 and 24, 1894
CRICKET ON THE HEARTH (based on a story by Charles Dickens) and LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS - Comedies starring Joseph Jefferson.

November 26 through December 1, 1894
A TEMPERANCE TOWN - By Hoyt. Starring Richard J. Dillon, L.R. Stockwell, Lee Harrison,
W.H. Currie.

December 14, 1894 (Friday afternoon)
DOROTHY - Comic opera. Performed by The Players of Columbian University.

December 17 through December 22, 1894
DR. SYNTAX - Comic opera starring De Wolf Hopper. Written by J. Cheever Goodwin; music by Woolson Morse.

December 24 through December 29, 1894
1492 - Historical extravaganza presented by Rice’s Surprise Party. Libretto by R.A. Barnet; music by Carl Pflueger. Starring John Peachey, Walter Jones, Edward Favor and Gilbert Gregory.

December 31,1894 through January 5, 1895 [no program file]
IN OLD KENTUCKY – Jacob Litt’s production of the original comedy/drama.

1895
January 5, 1895 [no program file]
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE - based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Starring Richard Mansfield and his stock company. Directed by John P. Slocum.

January 7 through January 12, 1895
THE DEVIL’S DEPUTY - a comic opera in three acts. Starring Francis Wilson. Libretto by J. Cheever Goodwin. Music by E. Jakobowski.

January 14 through January 19, 1895
SOWING THE WIND - a play in four acts by Sidney Grundy. Charles Frohman, Management.

January 21 through January 26, 1895
WILLIAM H. CRANE -- performing Merry Wives of Windsor (by William Shakespeare), His Wife’s Father (a comedy by Martha Morton), The Senator (a comedy illustrating social, diplomatic and political life in Washington by Joseph Brooks). Directed by Joseph Brooks. [filed by play]

January 28 through February 2, 1895
A TEXAS STEER - OR MONEY MAKES THE MARE GO - by Hoyt. Frank McKee, management; starring George Woodward.

February 4 through February 9, 1895
JULIA MARLOWE -- appearing in Ingomar, the Barbarian, Twelfth Night, The Love Chase, As You Like It, School for Scandal. Assisted by Robert Tabor. Fred Stinson management.

February 11 through February 16, 1895
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME - an American Drama by David Belasco and Franklin Fyles; Charles Frohman, management. Starring Maclyn Arbuckle and Thomas Oberle.

February 18 through February 23, 1895
THE BUTTERFLIES - a comedy by Henry Guy Carleton. Starring John Drew and Maud Adams. Directed by Charles Frohman.

February 25 through March 2, 1895
CHARLEY’S AUNT - a farcical comedy by Brandon Thomas. Charles Frohman, Management. Starring M.A. Kennedy and Frank Burbeck.

March 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1895
LADY CLANCARTY or WEDDED and WOOED - a drama in four acts by Tom Taylor. Starring Mr. and Mrs. Kendal; directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 8, 9 and 10, 1895
IN REPERTORY - Mr. and Mrs. Kendal perform The Second Mrs. Tanquery, A Scrap of Paper,” and “A White Lie. All directed by Daniel Frohman.

March 11, 12 and March 13, (matinee) 1895
PEACEFUL VALLEY - by Edward Kidder. Starring Sol Smith Russell.

March 13 and 14, 1895
THE HEIR-AT-LAW a classic Old English comedy by George Coleman, the Younger. Starring Sol Smith Russell.

March 15 and 16, 1895
A POOR RELATION - a comedy by Edward Kidder. Starring Sol Smith Russell.

March 18 through March 23, 1895
THE PRINCESS BONNIE - a comic opera. Words and music by Williard Spencer. Staring Frank Daniels.

March 25 and 26 and 27 (Wednesday matinee), 1895
A WAY TO WIN A WOMAN - a comedy by Jerome K. Jerome. Starring E.H. Sothern.

March 28 and 29 and 30 (Saturday matinee), 1895
CAPTAIN LETTERBLAIR - by Marguerite Merington. Starring E.H. Sothern.

March 30, 1895
THE HIGHEST BIDDER - comedy by Madison Morton and Robert Reece. Starring E.H. Sothern.

April 1 through April 6, 1895
A BLACK SHEEP AND HOW IT CAME OUT IN THE WASH - a composition in dialogue. Starring Otis Harlan. Presented by Hoyt and McKee Musical Comedy Company.

April 8 through April 13, 1895
THE POLITICIAN OR THE WOMAN’S PLANK - a satirical comedy by David D. Lloyd and Sidney Rosenfeld. Starring Roland Reed and his company. Directed by E. B. Jack.

April 15 through April 20, 1895
GISMONDA - by Sardou. Starring Fanny Davenport, with Theodore Roberts and Melbourne MacDowell. Directed by Miss Davenport.

April 22 through April 27, 1895
MISS ADA REHAN – in a week of repertory. Under the management of Mr. Augustin Daly. Productions include Love on Crutches, The Honeymoon, Heart of Ruby, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Nancy and Company.

April 29 through May 4, 1895
MR. AND MRS. KENDAL -- in a week of repertory. Directed by Daniel Frohman. Productions include three comedies: Impulse, The Queen’s Shilling, A Scrap of Paper.

May 6 through May 11, 1895
WILSON BARRETT -- Starring in The Sign of the Cross (by Wilson Barrett) and The Manxman.

May 13 through May 18, 1895
NAT C. GOODWIN -- Starring in A Gold Mine (Brander Matthews and George H. Jessop), David Garrick, Lend Me Five Shillings, and A Gilded Fool. Under the direction of George J. Appleton.

May 20 through May 25, 1895
THE LYCEUM THEATRE COMPANY -- present in repertory, An Ideal Husband, Fortune, The Wife. Produced by Daniel Frohman.

May 27 through June 1, 1895
A LOVE GAME ( one-act comedietta by Walter Browne) and NITA’S FIRST (a farce by T. G. Warren). Starring Alfred Hudson, Charles Coote, Charles Mackay, Percy Winter, Joseph Weelock, Jr., Bertram Foster, Fanny Addison Pitt, Lillian Lawrence, Frances Stevens, Helena Chalmers, Mary Sanders, Margaret Dibden. First week of the Comedy Season.

June 3 through June 8, 1895
AN AWFUL AFFAIR - a comedy by Charles S. Fawcett. Starring Charles Coote, Charles Bowser, Charles Mackay, Jos. Wheelock Jr., Alfred Hudson, Percy Brooke, Percy Winter, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Frances Stevens, Fanny Addison Pitt and Margaret Dibden. Directed by Percy Winter. Second week of the Comedy Season.

June 10 through June 15, 1895
MARRIED IN HASTE - a comedy by Henry J. Byron. Starring Alfred Hudson and Charles Coote. Directed by Percy Winter. Third week of the Comedy Season.

June 17 through June 22, 1895
OUR REGIMENT - a farce by Henry Hamilton. Starring Alfred Hudson, Charles Bowser, Charles Coote and Charles Mckay. Directed by Percy Winter. Fourth week of the Comedy Season.

June 24 through June 29, 1895
FORBIDDEN FRUIT - a comedy. Fifth week of the Comedy Season.

July 1 through July 6, 1895
BARBARA (a comedy by Jerome K. Jerome) and PARTNERS FOR LIFE (a comedy by Henry J. Byron). Starring Lillian Lawrence, Frances Stevens, Charles Mackay, Percy Winter. Directed by Percy Winter. Sixth week of the Comedy Season.

July 8 through July 13, 1895
SEALED INSTRUCTIONS - a comedy by Mrs. J.C. Keightley. Starring Charles Coote, Charles Bowser, Charles Mackay, Jos. Wheelock, Jr., Alfred Hudson, Percy Brooke, Percy Winter, Lillian Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Frances Stevens Fanny Addison Pitt and Margaret Dibden. Seventh week of the Comedy Season.

July 15 through July 20, 1895
ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME - a comedy by William Gillette. Starring Alfred Hudson. Directed by Percy Winter. Eighth week of the comedy season.

September 9 through September 14, 1895
OUR FLAT - a farce by Mrs. Musgrave. Starring Emily Bancker, with Margery Sylvester. Presented by Thomas W. Ryley.

September 16 through September 21, 1895
MAMMOTH MINSTRELS - The Primrose and West Company starring George H. Primrose and W.H. West. Managed by Joseph Garland.

September 23 through September 28, 1895
LYCEUM THEATRE COMPANY directed by Daniel Frohman, presenting productions of The Case of Rebellious Susan (a comedy by Henry Arthur Jones), An Ideal Husband (by Oscar Wilde), The Wife (by David Belasco and Henry C. deMille), The Charity Ball (by David Belasco and Henry C. deMille).

September 30 to October 5, 1895
LITTLE CHRISTOPHER - by George R. Simms and Cecil Raleigh. Music by Ivan Caryll and Gustav Kerker. Presented by the Garden Theatre Burlesque Company. Starring William Collier. Directed by A.M. Palmer.

October 7 through October 12, 1895
MADELINE: OR THE MAGIC KISS - by Stanislaus Stange, music by Julian Edwards. Starring Camille D’Arville. Directed by Philip A. Shea.

October 14 through October 19, 1895
THE FOUNDLING - by William Lesocq and E.M. Robson. Starring Cissy Fitzgerald. Presented by Charles Frohman.

October 28 through November 2, 1895
THE MASQUERADERS - by Henry Arthur Jones. Starring Henry Miller and William Faversham. Presented by Charles Frohman’s Empire Theatre Company.

November 4 through November 9, 1895
NANCY LEE - a nautical opera by Fred Miller. Starring Digby Bell. Presented by the Digby Bell Opera Company.

November 11 through November 16, 1895
MISS OLGA NETHERSOLE IN REPERTORY - performing Romeo and Juliet, Denise (by Alexander Dumas), Frou Frou (by Mesdames Meilhac and Halevy), Camille (by Dumas).

November 18 through November 23, 1895
A MILK WHITE FLAG - presented by Hoyt and McKee’s Comedy Company.

November 25 through November 30, 1895
ROB ROY - a comic opera presented by the Whitney Opera Company. Music by Reginald DeKoven; Book by Harry B. Smith. Directed by F.C. Whitney.

December 2 through December 7, 1895
AMBITION - by Henry Guy Carlton. Starring Nat C. Goodwin. Directed by George J. Appleton.

December 9 through December 14, 1895
THE CHIEFTAIN - a comic opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Starring Francis Wilson. Management by A. H. Canby.

December 16 through December 21, 1895
THE PRINCE OF MAGICIANS, a magic show by Starring Frederick Bancroft, with Katherine Gyles. Directed by Clarence Fleming and THE SULTAN’S VISITOR, a mystical one-act comedy by Frederick Bancroft.

December 23 through December 28, 1895
CHARLEY’S AUNT - a farce by Branden Thomas. Starring Owen Fawcett, Frank Burbeck and Percy Lyndall. Management by Charles Frohman.

December 30, 1895 - January 5, 1896
FLEUR-DE-LIS - a comic opera presented by the Della Fox Comic Opera Company. Managed by Nat Roth, lyrics and text by J. Cheever Goodwin, music by William Ford.

1896
January 13 through January 18, 1896
THE SHOP GIRL - a musical farce by H.J. Dam, music by Ivan Caryll. Starring W. H. Rawlins. Directed by A.E. Dodson.

January 20 through January 25, 1896
THE FATAL CARD - a melodrama by Haddon Chambers and B.C. Stephenson. Starring George Alison. Managed by Charles Frohman

January 27 through February 1, 1896
THE GAY PARISIANS - a new farce by George Feydeau and Maurice Desvalliere. Starring W.J. Ferguson. Managed by Charles Frohman.

February 2, 1896
A GRAND SACRED CONCERT by Ellen Beach Yaw, assisted by Maximillian Dick and Georgiella Lay and the New York Philharmonic.

February 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9, 1896
A WARTIME WEDDING - lyrics by C. Dazey and Oscar Weil, music by Oscar Weil. Presented by the Bostonians: W.H. MacDonald, Eugene Cowles, Harry Dale, George Frothingham, Charles, R. Hawley, Harold Blake, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Leonara Gnito, Cara Barnabee, Josephine Bartlett. Directed by Frank L. Perley.

February 4, 1896
ROBIN HOOD - by Reginald DeKoven and Harry B. Smith. Presented by the Bostonians, Jerome Sykes, Harold Blake, W.H. MacDonald, Eugene Cowles, Jessie Bartlett Davis, George Frothingham, C.E. Landie, Helen Bertram Henley, Josephine Bartlett, Alice Nielson.

February 7, 1896
PRINCE ANANIAS - a comic opera, music by Victor Herbert, libretto by Francis Neilson. Presented by the Bostonians, George B. Frothingham, Harry Dale, W.H. Macdonald, Eugene Cowles, Jerome Sykes, C.E. Landie, James E. Miller, J.R. Boyle, Josephine Bartlett, Cora Barnabee, Helen Bertram Henley, Jessie Bartlett Davis. Directed by Frank L. Purley.

February 10, 11, 12, 1896
MR. VALENTINE’S CHRISTMAS (one-act play by Mr. J. A. Mitchell) and AN EVERYDAY MAN (by Marguerite Merington). Starring Sol Smith Russell, with Charles Mackay, Alfred Hudson, George W. Denham, George Woodward, Edwin Earle, Robert Lowe, Stewart Allen, Minnie Radcliffe, Bijou Fernandez, Fanny Addison Pitt. [Filed under Mr. Valentine’s Christmas]

February 13, 14, 15, 1896
THE RIVALS - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Starring Sol Smith Russell, Fannie Addison Pitt and Charles MacKay.

February 17 through February 22, 1896
SEWING THE WIND - by Sidney Grundy. Starring J.H. Gilmour, Howell Hansel, Mary Hampton. Managed by Charles Frohman.

February 24 through February 29, 1896
A TRIP TO CHINATOWN - written by Mr. Hoyt. Starring Harry Conor, Geraldine McCann, Sadie Kirby, Madge Dean, Myra Morella, Josi Shalders, Julius Witmark, Richard Karl, Geo. Richards.

March 2, 3, 4 and March 7, 1896
WANG - by J. Cheever Goodwin, music by Woolson Morse. Starring De Wolf Hopper and his company, including Edna Wallace-Hopper, Edmund Stanley, Thomas S. Guise, Alfred Klein.

March 5 and 6, 1896
DR. SYNTAX - by J. Cheever Goodwin, music by Woolson Morse. Starring de Wolf Hopper and his company, including John Parr, Alred Klein, Edmund Stanley, Thomas S. Guise, Harry P. Stone.

March 9 through March 14, 1896
A PAIR OF SPECTACLES (a comedy by Sidney Grundy) and COMEDY AND TRAGEDY (a one-act drama by W.S. Gilbert). Starring John Hare, Julia Neilson, Fred Terry, and the Garrick Theatre Company of London.

March 16 through March 21, 1896
THE WIZARD OF THE NILE - a comic opera by Harry B. Smith, music by Victor Herbert. Presented by the Frank Daniels Comic Opera Company. Starring Frank Daniels, with Louis Royce, Walter Allen, Caludia Carlstedt, Dorothy Morton, Leonard Walker, Louis Casavant, Helen Redmond, Bessie Barton, Grace Gauworth. Directed by Napier Lothian Jr.

March 23 through March 28, 1896
TOO MUCH JOHNSON - a comedy. Starring William Gillette and a company of comedians, including Maud Haslam, Kate Meek, Samuel Reed, Anna Belmont, W. Hull Crosby, Palph Delmore, Charles J. Bell, Robert Hickman, Benjamin Hendricks, Thomas Erison and J.F. Rickard. Produced by Charles Frohman.

March 30 through April 4, 1896
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA - a romantic play by Edward Rose, based on the novel by Anthony Hope. Starring E.H. Sothern, with Arthur Lawrence, Howard Gould, Guido Marburg, W.L. Branscombe, Roydon Erlynne and Grace Reals. Presented by Daniel Frohman.

April 6 through April 11, 1896
JULIA AND ROBERT TABER -- in a week of repertory including Romeo and Juliet, She Stoops to Conquer, the Hunchback, As You Like It, Henry IV, the Lady of Lyons, Twelfth Night. Starring Julia Marlowe Taber and Robert Taber.

April 13 through April 18 (matinee), 1896
THE GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY - a comedy by Franklyn Fyles. Starring William H. Crane and his company, including Burr McIntosh, Edwin Arden, Joseph Wheelock, Jr., William Boag, Percy Brooke, Lorimer Stoddard, George F. DeVere, E.D. Tyler, Blanche Burton, Marion Abbott, Margaret Robinson, Anna Robinson, Kate Denin Wilson. Directed by Joseph Brooks.

April 18, 1896
THE SENATOR - Starring William H. Crane and his company, including Burr McIntosh, Edwin Arden, Joseph Wheelock, Jr., William Boag, Percy Brooke, Lorimer Stoddard, George F. DeVere, E.D. Tyler, Blanche Burton, Marion Abbott, Margaret Robinson, Anna Robinson, Kate Denin Wilson. Directed by Joseph Brooks.

April 20 through April 25, 1896
THE TWO ESCUTCHEONS OR CHICAGO IN BERLIN - adapted by Sydney Rosenfeld from the comedy by Blumenthal and Kadelberg. Starring Edythe Chapman, Robert F. Cotton, Rose Barrington, George Backus, Louise Muldener, and Charles Craig.

April 27 through May 2, 1896
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF MISS BROWN - a farcical play by Robert Buchanan and C. Marlowe. Starring E. A. Locke and Annie Dacre.

May 4 through May 9, 1896
A MIDNIGHT BELL - a musical comedy in four acts by Hoyt. Starring Digby Bell and Laura Joyce Bell, with Ed Redway, Gertrude Perry, Patrice Spencer.

May 11 through May 16, 1896
FLEUR-DE-LIS - a comic opera presented by the Della Fox Comic Opera Company, managed by Nat Roth. Starring Della Fox, with Jefferson de Angelis, Alfred C. Wheelan, Melville Stewart, Charles Dungan, Charles Campbell, Edward Knight, Villa Knox, Kate Uart, May Cuthbert, Alice Cameron, and Nathalie Allien.

May 18 through May 23, 1896
THE LITTLE TROOPER - a French vaudeville operetta by Raymond and Mars, adapted by Clay M. Greene. Presented by the Della Fox Comic Opera Company. Starring Della Fox, with Jefferson de Angelis, Alfred C. Wheelan, Melville Stewart, Charles Dungan, Charles Campbell, Edward Knight, Villa Knox, Kate Uart, May Cuthbert, Alice Cameron. Under the management of Nat Roth.

May 25 through May 30, 1896
HER BROTHER BOB - a comedy by Charles Bradley. Written for and starring Mary Sanders, with Joseph Wheelock, Edward Paulton, Charles Dibden Pitt, Percy Brooke, Charles Mackay, John Findlay, Agnes Findlay, Maud Monroe and Genevieve Redman.

June 29 through July 4, 1896
THE WASHINGTON STOCK COMPANY presents two plays, Just a Bit of Gilbert’s Galatea and The Private Secretary, under the direction of Bert Riddle. Starring Charles Coote, John Findlay, William Boag, Britta Marti, William Elton, Mr. Hutson, George Stevens, Edythe Chapman, Mary Sanders, Agnes Findlay, Abbie Johnson. Supervised by Frederic Bond.

July 6 through July 10, 1896
THE WASHINGTON STOCK COMPANY presents two plays, Bridget and Turned Up. Directed by Bert Riddle. Starring John Findlay, Ernest Elton, Charles Mackey, William Boag and Frederic Bond. Supervised by Frederic Bond.

July 13 through July 17, 1896
THE WASHINGTON STOCK COMPANY presents two plays, Her Last Rehearsal ( one-act play by Willard Holcomb)and The Snowball (a comedy by Sydney Grundy). Starring Charles Mackay, Mary Sanders, William Boag, Frederic Bond, John Findlay, George Stevens, Edythe Chapman, Britta Marti and Mary Sanders. Supervised by Frederic Bond.

July 20 through July 24, 1896
THE WASHINGTON STOCK COMPANY presents two plays, My Awful Dad (a comedy by Charles Mathews), and Bluff (a comedietta by Paul Wilstach). Both directed by Bert Riddle. Starring Frederic Bond, Charles Mackay, John Findlay, William Boag, George Stevens, Mary Sanders.

July 27 through August 1, 1896
THE WASHINGTON STOCK COMPANY presents School - a comedy drama by Robertson. Starring Percy Brooke, John Findlay, Frederic Bond, William Boag.

August 3 through August 8, 1896
THE WASHINGTON STOCK COMPANY presents two plays, The Magistrate (a farce by A.W. Pinero), and Tragedy Rehearsed (a one-act play). Starring Percy Brooke, John Findlay, Frederic Bond, Charles Mackay, William Boag, A.T. Seamon. Directed by Bert Riddle. Supervised by Frederic Bond. A.W. Schroeder, orchestra conductor.

September 14 through September 19, 1896
PUTNAM - a dramatic play by Ella Wren. Starring Robert Downing and Eugenie Blair. Directed by James W. Morrissey.

September 21 through September 26, 1896
MY FRIEND FROM INDIA - a comedy by H.A. du Souchet. Starring Frederick Bond, with Edward S. Abeles, Walter E. Perkins, Charles Arthur, John F. Duncan, Frank G. Parry, John Finn, Marion Giroux, Kenyon Bishop, Louise Galloway, Helen Reimer, May Vokes. Presented by the Smyth and Rice Comedy Company.

October 5 through October 10, 1896
AN INNOCENT SINNER - a new play by Lawrence Marston and Lillian Lewis. Starring Lillian Lewis and Lawrence Hanley.

October 12 through October 17, 1896
A TEMPERANCE TOWN - a comedy by Charles Hoyt. Starring George Richards and Eugene Canfield.

October 19 through October 24, 1896
LOIE FULLER - dancer assisted by a vaudeville company composed of Molly Fuller, Fred Hallen, Charles B. Ward, Swift and Chase, Louise Montrose.

October 26 through October 31, 1896
DORCAS - an operatic comedy by Harry and Edward Paulton. Starring Minnie Jarboe, William Broderick, Charles O. Bassett, Arthur R Seaton, Charles Earle, Charles Meyer, Eva Davenport, Marie Millard, Drew Donaldson, Marie Davenport.

November 2 through November 7, 1896
MISS PHILADELPHIA - a musical by Edgar Smith, music by Herman Perlet. Presented by Thomas D. Van Osten. Starring Willie Collier and Inez Mecusker, with Louise Allen, Kathryne M. Evans, Olga Lambert, Carrie Reynolds, Gladys Claire, Budd Ross, Olga Lambert, Ray Allen, John Hyams, Taylor Williams. Directed by Thomas D. Van Osten.

November 9 through November 14, 1896
ROARING DICK & CO. - a romantic and picturesque drama by Maurice Barrymore. Directed by William A. Brady. Starring Maurice Barrymore, with C.A. Smiley, W.J. LeMoyne, Leslie Allen, Henry Bagge, Edith Crane, Eva Vincent, Alice Gordon, Grace Balentine, Frances Wheeler.

November 16 through November 21, 1896
SQUIRE KATE - a pastoral drama by Robert Buchanan. Starring Georgia Cayvan and her company, including Anne Sutherland, Florence Conron, William Herbert, Lionel Barrymore, Orrin Johnson, Frank Atherley. Directed by Charles Burnham.

November 30 through December 5, 1896
PUDD’NHEAD WILSON - by Mark Twain. Dramatized by Frank Mayo. Starring Theodore Hamilton, Frank E. Aiken, Frank Currier, Newton Chisnell, William S. Gill, J.P. Tucker, N. White, Eleanor Moretti, Lucille La Verne. President and Mrs. Cleveland attended a performance. At one point, according to the New York Times, “his laugh was so hearty and spontaneous that it infected every who witnessed the Presidential outbursts.”

December 7 through December 12, 1896
HALF A KING - a comic opera, adapted from the French by Harry B. Smith, music by Ludwig Englander. Management by A.H. Canby. Starring Francis Wilson and his company, including Lulu Glaser, Peter Lang, J.C. Miron, Edward P. Temple, Christie MacDonald, Agnes Paul, Agnes Martyne, Blanche Plunkett.

December 14 through December 19, 1896
SHORE ACRES - play directed by Henry C. Miner. Starring James A. Herne as Nathaniel Berry, with Robert Fischer, James T. Galloway, Franklin Garland, David M. Murray; Grace Gaylor Clark, Lucy Morrow.

December 21 through December 26, 1896
A CONTENTED WOMAN - comedy about suffrage written and directed by Charles Hoyt. Starring Caroline Miskel-Hoyt, William H. Currie, Frank Lane, Amy Ames.

December 28,1896 through January 2, 1897
THE ORIGINAL BOSTONIANS – present The Bohemian Girl (music by Balfe), Robin Hood, and Serenade (music by Victor Herbert), Prince Ananias (music by Victor Herbert). Starring the Original Bostonians: H.C. Barnabee, W.H. Fitzgerald, Wm. E. Philp, W.H. MacDonald, Eugene Cowles, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Hilda Clark, Josephine Bartlett, Gracia Quive. Directed by Frank Perley.

1897
January 4 through January 9, 1897
A MILK WHITE FLAG - a tribute to our citizen soldiers, presented by Hoyt & McKee’s comedy company. With Charles Stanley, Lloyd Wilson, Clarisse Agnew, Harry Gilfoil, Matt Snyder.

January 11 through January 16, l897
THE NEW SUPERBA - a unique mechanical and pantomimic spectacle, invented and arranged by the famous Hanlon Brothers. With Frances Hartley and Charlotte Deane.

January 17, 1897
HALEY’S WASHINGTON MILITARY AND CONCERT BAND. Selections from “El Capitan” by Sousa, “Tannhauser”, by Wagner, and “My Dream” by Waldtenfel.

January 18 through January 24, 1897
OTIS SKINNER – Starring in Soldier of Fortune, Lady of Lyons, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Katherine and Petruchio. Skinner’s company includes Maud Durbin, Frederick Mosley, W. J. Constantine, Sarah Truax, Frank Sylvester.

January 20, 1897
CASTLE SOMBRAS - a romantic comedy in four acts by H. Greenough Smith. Starring Richard Mansfield, Beatrice Cameron and the Garrick Theater stock company.

January 25 through January 30, 1897
A FOOL OF FORTUNE - a new comedy of contemporary New York, by Martha Morton. Directed by Joseph Brooks. Starring William H. Crane, Percy Brooke, and Effie Shannon

February 1 through February 5, 1897
PRIMROSE & WEST’S MISTRELS - With comedians George H. Primrose, Jimmy Wall, William Waters, George Wilson, and John Howe. W.H. West as Interlocutor.

February 4, 1897 (Friday afternoon)
CHARITY CONCERT - under direction of Mrs. Thomas C. Noyes. Selections included William Tell Overture by Rossini, The Holy City by Adims, and Tannhauser by Wagner.

February 7 through February 12, l897
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN - a comedy by Madeline Lucette Ryley. Starring N. C. Goodwin, Maxine Elliott, William Ingersoll, Frazer Coulter. Directed by George J. Appleton.

February 12, 1897 (evening performance)
THE RIVALS, a comedy by Richard Brindsley Sheridan. Directed by George J. Appleton. Starring N. C. Goodwin.

February 14 through February 19, l897
AT GAY CONEY ISLAND - a comedy by Levin C. Tees. Starring J. Sherrie Mathews and Harry Bulger.

February 20, 1897
HALEY’S WASHINGTON CONCERT BAND playing Sousa, Kersson, Weber, Wohanka.

February 21 through February 26, 1897
A PARLOR MATCH - a Ziegfeld revival. Starring Anna Held, with Charles Evans and William Hoey

February 27, 1897
LECTURE BY COL. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL - How to Reform Mankind

February 28, through March 5, 1897
A BACHELOR’S ROMANCE - a comedy by Martha Morton. Starring Sol Smith Russell. With Arthur Forrest, George W. Denham, George Alison, Arthur Hoops.

March 7 through March 12, 1897
A BLACK SHEEP - presented by the Hoyt and McKee Musical Comedy Co. Starring Otis Harlan. With Jeannette St. Henry, Agnes Farnam, Lea De Groot, Marie Richmond, Hattie Wells, Frankie St.John, May Blanchard, William De Vere, Jos. Frankau, Harry Luckstone, Jos. Natus, W.F. Mack, Steve Maley, Wm. Hatter, Jno. W. Mitchell.

March 14 through March 19, 1897
MISS FRANCIS OF YALE - a farcical comedy by Michael Morton. Directed by Julius Cahn. With Etienne Giradot, Richard C. Bennett and Nick Long.

March 21 through March 27, 1897
DR. BELGRAFF - by Charles Klein. Starring Wilton Lackaye and Marie Wainwright.

March 29 through April 3, 1897
THE SPECULATOR - a comedy drama, by George H. Broadhurst. Starring Thomas Q. Seabrooke. With Horace Mitchell and A. H. Stuart.

April 4, 1897
HALEY’S WASHINGTON CONCERT BAND

April 5 through April 10, l897
MADAME SANS GENE - a comedy by M.M. Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau. English by Chas. Henry Meltzer. Produced by Augustus Pitou. Starring Kathryn Kidder, with James Cooper, Harold Russell, and Wallace Shaw.

April 12 through April 17, 1897
CHIMMIE FADDEN - by Edward W. Townsend. Directed by Frank McKee. Starring Charles Hopper, George Nash, Mamie Outcault.

April 19 through April 24, 1897
A MIDNIGHT BELL (a comedy by Hoyt) and THE HOOSIER DOCTOR (a domestic comedy drama, by Augustus Thomas). Starring Digby Bell and Laura Joyce Bell.

April 26 through May 1, 1897
PUDD’NHEAD WILSON - by Mark Twain, dramatized by Frank Mayo. Directed by Mayo and Jefferson. Starring Theodore Hamilton, Frank E. Aiken, Ada Dwyer, Lucille Laverne

May 10 through May 15, l897
THE JUCKLINS - a pastoral comedy-drama by Daniel L. Hart. Directed by William R. Hayden. Starring Stuart Robson.

May 17 through May 22 , 1897
JULIA MARLOWE AND ROBERT TABOR -- in repertory. Starring with their own company in For Bonnie Prince Charlie. Romeo and Juliet, Romola and As You Like It.

May 24, 1897
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY J.P. CLUM

May 28 and 29, 1897
CINDERELLA -

June 1, 1897
AN AMATEUR REHEARSAL, presented by the Soldier’s Home Dramatic Company and NINETEEN HUNDRED, presented by the School of Light Gymnastics.

June 2, 1897
GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE WOOD’S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE

June 11, 1897
CONCERT BY THE PUPILS OF MISS KATIE V. WILSON

July 26 through July 31, 1897
WHERE ARE WE AT? - a comedy by Chas. S. Fawcett. Presented by the Frederic Bond Company.

August 2 through August 7, 1897
THE PAPER CHASE - a comedy by Charles Thomas. Presented by the Frederic Bond Company.

September 13 though September 18, 1897
CORBETT vs FITZSIMMONS - a veriscope film of the boxing match that took place in Carson City, Nevada on March 17, 1897. The film was shown twice a day (matinee and evening).

September 20 through September 25, 1897
THE TARRYTOWN WIDOW - a comedy by C.T. Dazey. Starring Joseph Hart, George W. Howard, Charles Lothian, Robert Paton Gibbs, Frank Durant Ben T. Dillon a, Clarence Ball, Eva Taylor Babcock and Ida Vernon.

September 27 through October 2, 1897
STUART ROBSON – Starring in The Jucklins (comedy by Daniel Hart), Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare), The Henrietta. Cast includes Mrs. Robson, Joseph Keefe, Thomas Wise, Augustus Halbach, Ernest Lamson, John Wooderson, Gertrude Perry, Edna G. Brothers.. Directed by Daniel V. Arthur.

October 4 through October 9, 1897
A SECRET WARRANT - romantic drama by W. A. Tremayne. Presented by and starring Robert B. Mantell.

October 11 through October 16, 1897
PRIMROSE AND WEST MINSTRELS - Principal acts include: Carl Carlton’s Band, with William Kilpatrick, drum major; the Ben Mowatt Trio, George Wilson, the Quaker City Quartet, the Waterbury Brothers and Tenney, the Marvelous Seymours, Milton G. Barlow. With B.S. Carnes, as the Interlocutor.

October 18 through October 23, 1897
IN TOWN - a musical farce by Adrian Ross and James T. Tanner; music by Dr. Osmond Carr. Starring George Edwardes’ London Gaiety Theatre Burlesque Company. Present by Hayman and Frohman.

October 25 through October 30, 1897
THE ROYAL SECRET - a romantic comedy by F.D. Reinau and W.T. Price. Starring Wilton Lackaye and his own acting company. Directed by A.L. Rheinstrom.

November 1 through November 6, 1897
THE SERENADE - a comic opera with music by Victor Herbert and libretto by Harry B. Smith. Featuring the original Bostonians Light Opera Company and starring Henry Clay Barnabee and W. H. MacDonald. Directed by Frank L. Perley.

November 8 through November 13, 1897
JOSEPH JEFFERSON performing Rip Van Winkle, (Mo, Tu, We, Sa) Cricket on the Hearth, and Lend Me Five Shillings (Th, Fr). His troupe included Theo. Hamilton, Wm. Winter Jefferson, Harry Meredith, Julia Dean, Anne Sutherland and Blanche Bender.

November 15 through November 20, 1897
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS - drama by Wilson Barrett. Presented by Wm. Greet’s London Company, with Charles Dalton, Gertrude Boswell, Irene Rooke, W.E. Bonney, J. Monkhouse, Harry Burcher, Hubert Bruce, Marion Grey, Ettie Williams, Agnes Scott.

November 22 through November 27, 1897
THE SPORTING DUCHESS - a drama by Sir Augustus Harris, Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. Starring J.H. Stoddart, Cora Tanner, Ffolliott Paget, Edmund Collier. The production featured a scene in which 8 horses and professional jockeys raced across the stage.

November 29 through December 4, 1897
THE NEW SUPERBA - a unique, mechanical and pantomimic spectacle. Presented and created by the Hanlon Bros. Cast includes Eugenia Dingens, Ellenor Carroll, Louise Truax, Anna Stannard, Charles Guyer, Nellie Daly, Sarony Lambert, J.H. Haslam.

December 6 through December 11, 1897
HEARTSEASE - a romantic comedy by Charles Klein and J.I.C. Clarke. Starring Henry Miller, with Arthur Elliot, Leslie Allen, Prince Lloyd, Thomas A. Hall, Henry Molten, Frank Beamish, Jas. A. Leahy, R. Lacey, E.J. Mettler, Margaret Dale, Maud Hosford, Josephine Lovett, Laura Clement.

December 12, 1897
LECTURE BY COL. R. G. INGERSOLL on the subject “Why I am an Agnostic.”

December 13 through December 18, 1897
SHORE ACRES - written by and starring James A. Herne. Cast includes Robert Fischer, James T. Galloway, Franklin Garland, Herbert Flans, Grace Gayler Clark. Directed by Henry C. Miner.

December 20 through December 25, 1897
WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES - a comedy by George H. Broadhurst. Cast includes Geo. C. Boniface, Jr., George Ober, Reuben Fax, Wm. Bernard, Cecil Kingston, J.W. Cope, Harry Rose, Anna Belmont, Kathryn Osterman, Rose Stuart, Florence Robinson, Mrs. E.A. Eberle and Mattie Ferguson.

December 27, 1897 through January 1, 1898
FANNY DAVENPORT – appearing in three plays by Victorien Sardou: Fedora, Cleopatra, La Tosca. Her company includes Melbourne MacDowell.

1898
January 3 through January 7, 1898
A VIRGINIA COURTSHIP - a comedy by Eugene W. Presbey. Starring William H. Crane. Directed by Joseph Brooks.

January 8, 1898
THE SENATOR - comedy by Lloyd and Rosenfeld. Starring William H. Crane. Directed by Joseph Brooks.

January 10 through January 15, 1898
PRIMROSE AND WEST MINSTRELS - Musical director, Robert L. Carmichael. Starring William H. West, as the Interlocutor.

January 17 through January 22, 1898
A LADY OF QUALITY - a play by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Stephen Townesend. Starring Julia Arthur and Edwin Arden. Directed by Arthur Lewis. Produced under the stage direction of Napier Lothian, Jr.

January 24 through January 29, 1898
NEVER AGAIN OR THE TRICKS OF SERAPHIN - a comedy by Maurice Desvalliers and Anthony Mars. Presented by Charles Frohman.

January 31 through February 5, 1898
PRINCE RUDOLPH - romantic comedy by Otis Skinner; founded on the theme of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Starring Otis Skinner, supported by Maud Durbin and Frederick Mosley.

February 7 through February 12, 1898
SOL SMITH RUSSELL – Starring in A Bachelor’s Romance (by Martha Morton), The Rivals (by Richard Brinsley Sheridan), The Spitfire (by John Madison Morton), Mr. Valentine’s Christmas (adapted by Charles E. Lewis), Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare).

February 14 through February 19, 1898
THE CIRCUS GIRL - a musical play by James T. Tanner and W. Palingas. Music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. Lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross. Cast of 75. Presented by Charles Frohman.

February 21 through February 26, 1898
THE HOOSIER DOCTOR - a comedy/drama by Augustus Thomas. Starring Digby Bell.

February 28 through March 5, 1898
THE FRENCH MAID - musical: libretto by Capt. Basil Hood, music by Walter Slaughter. Starring Edd Redway.

March 7 through March 12, 1898
THE SWELL MISS FITZWELL - a comedy by H.A. DuSouchet. Starring May Irwin and her company. Directed by E. Rosenbaum.

March 14 through March 19, 1898
THE BALLET GIRL - an English novelty musical. Book by James T. Tanner; lyrics by Adrian Ross; music by Karl Kiefert. Presented by Edward E. Rice.

March 21 through March 26, 1898
WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES - a farce by George H. Broadhurst. Starring George C. Boniface, Jr. Presented by Broadhurst Brothers.

March 28 through April 2, 1898
TOO MUCH JOHNSON - a comedy by William Gillette. Starring William Gillette,with Ida Conquest, Sam Reed, Hope Ross, Arnold Daly, Joseph Brennan, Joseph Francoeus, Robert Hickman, William B. Smith, Joseph Maddern. Presented by Charles Frohman.

April 4 through April 9, 1898
AN IRISH GENTLEMAN - a drama by Ramsay Morris. Starring Andrew Mack. Directed by R.A. Roberts.

April 11 through April 16, 1898
THE PRINCESS AND THE BUTTERFLY - a comedy by Arthur W. Pinero. Presented by Daniel Frohman’s Lyceum Theater Stock Company.

April 18 through April 23, 1898
N. C. GOODWIN – Starring in An American Citizen (comedy by Madeline Lucette Ryley), A Gilded Fool (comedy by Henry Guy Carlton), The Rivals (comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan). Appearing with Mr. Goodwin and his company is Miss Maxine Elliott. Directed by George Appleton.

April 25 through April 30, 1898
THE MAN FROM MEXICO - a farce, adapted from the French by H.A. DuSouchet. Starring Willie Collier and Louise Allen and Dan Mason. Directed by W. H. Post.

May 2 through May 7, 1898
ONE SUMMER’S DAY - a comedy by H.V. Esmond. Starring John Drew, with Arthur W. Byron, James O. Barrows, D.H. Harkins, Morgan Coman, Frank E. Lamb, Master Henry McArdle, Miss Isabel Irving, Miss May Buckley, Miss Ida Vernon, Miss Bijou Fernandez and Mrs. Delores King. Presented by Charles Frohman.

May 9 through May 14, 1898 [xerox only]
CONGRESS OF FOREIGN STARS - vaudeville style music hall of 12 acts. Presented by Koster & Bial.

May 26, 1898 [no program file]
LAMBS’ STAR GAMBOL – 125 artists and musicians in a minstel program. Company includes Nat C. Goodwin, deWolf Hopper, Reginald de Koven,

June 9, 1898 [no program file]
AN ANNUAL SONG RECITAL BY THE PUPILS OF MISS KATIE V. WILSON (filed under Wilson, Katie V.)

June 13 through June 18, 1898 [xerox only]
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA AND H.M.S. PINAFORE - performed by the National Opera Comique Company. Carlotta Gilman starred in both productions. Directed by Joseph M. Kenney. Produced by Josa Van Den Berg.

June 20 through June 25, 1898 [xerox only]
THE GRAND DUCHESS - an opera by Offenbach. Starring Carlotta Gilman. Presented by the National Opera Comique Company.

August 11 through August 16, 1898 [xerox only]
GEORGE WILSON’S MODEL MINSTRELS AND W.S. CLEVELAND’S MASSIVE MINSTRELSY – two minstrel companies appearing together.

August 24, 1898 [xerox only]]
CONCERT BY THE U.S. MARINE BAND – includes an address by Hon. Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster-General.

September 12 through September 17, 1898 [xerox only]
THE GIRL FROM PARIS – burlesque by Edward E. Rice. Starring Della Stacey, Horace Newman, Sidney de Grey, Harry Hermsen, Charles Drake, J.C. Marlowe, George Mitchell, Lee Hobbs Martin, Maud Daniels, Olive Wallace and Maud de Don. Under the direction of Frank Smithson.

September 19 through September 24, 1898
A REIGN OF ERROR - a farce by John J. McNally. Starring the Rogers Brothers and Georgia Caine, George F. Marion, Maude Raymond, Ada Lewis, John Parr, Georgie Lawrence, Budd Ross, La Petite Adelaide and Edith St. Clair. Directed by Ben Teal. Presented by Klaw and Erlanger.

September 26 through October 1, 1898
THE CHRISTIAN - based on the novel by Hall Caine. Starring Viola Allen, Edward J. Morgan, John Mason and George Woodward.. Produced under the stage direction of Walter Clarke Bellows.

October 3 through October 8, 1898
WHY SMITH LEFT HOME - a farce by George H. Broadhurst. Starring Maclyn Arbuckle, Fred W. Peters, Frank Hatch, M.B. Snyder, Maurice Darcy, Miss Marion Giroux, Miss Blanche Chapman, Miss Rose Snyder, Miss Sadie Kirby, Miss Dorothy Usner, Miss Jessie Conant, and Mrs. Annie Yeamans.

October 10 through October 15, 1898
THE CHARLATAN - a comic opera by John Philip Sousa and Charles Klein. Starring De Wolf Hopper and his company.

October 17 through October 22, 1898
THE CONQUERORS - a drama by Paul M. Potter. Starring William Faversham and Jessie Millward. Presented by Charles Frohman’s Empire Theater Company.

October 24 through October 29, 1898
THE LITTLE HOST - an operatic comedy by Edgar Smith and Louis DeLange. Music by W.T. Francis and Thomas Chilvers. Starring Della Fox, Hugh Chilvers, H.D. Blakemore, Herbert Carter and Frank Kelly.

October 31, November 1, November 2, November 4 and 5, 1898
THE SERENADE - a comic opera. Music by Victor Herbert and Harry B. Smith. Directed by Frank L. Perley. Starring the Famous Original Bostonians.

November 3 and November 5 (matinee), 1898
ROBINHOOD - an opera by Reginald deKoven and Harry B. Smith. Directed by Frank L. Perley. Starring the Famous Original Bostonians.

November 7 through November 12, 1898
BECAUSE SHE LOVED HIM SO - comedy, adapted by William Gillette from the French. Starring Edwin Arden. Presented by Charles Frohman.

November 14 through November 19, 1898
THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE - by R.C. Carton. Starring James K. Hackett. Presented by Daniel Frohman.

November 21 through November 26, 1898
WAY DOWN EAST - a new American play by Lottie Blair Barker. Starring Phoebe Davies an d Odell Williams. Presented by William A. Brady.

November 28 through December 3, 1898
HON. JOHN GRIGSBY - a comedy by Charles Klein. Starring Sol Smith Russell. Cast includes Lionel Barrymore.

December 5, 1898
MAGDA - drama by Hermann Sudermann. Starring Modjeska. Directed by John C. Fisher.

December 7, 1898
ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA - by William Shakespeare. Starring Modjeska. Directed by John C. Fisher.

December 8, 1898
CAMILLE - by Alexandre Dumas. Starring Modjeska. Directed by John C. Fisher.

December 6 and December 10 (matinee), 1898
MARY STUART - a historical park by Frederic Schiller. Starring Modjeska. Directed by John C. Fisher.

December 9, 1898
AS YOU LIKE IT - by William Shakespeare. Starring Modjeska. Directed by John C. Fisher.

December 10, 1898
MACBETH - by William Shakespeare. Starring Modjeska. Directed by John C. Fisher.

December 11, 1898
LECTURE BY COL. R.G. INGERSOLL on the subject of “Superstition.”

December 12, 13, 14, 15 and 14 (matinee), 1898
THE RIVALS - comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Starring William Winter Jefferson. Company includes Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Warren Jefferson, Otis Skinner, Wilton Lackaye, George Denham, Elsie Leslie, Folliet Paget.

December 16 and 17, 1898
RIP VAN WINKLE - Starring Thomas Jefferson. Company includes William Winter Jefferson, Joseph Warren Jefferson, Otis Skinner, Wilton Lackaye, George Denham, Elsie Leslie, Folliet Paget.

December 18, 1898
SUPERSTITION - a lecture by Robert B. Ingersoll (filed under Ingersoll)

December 19 through December 25, 1898
THE FRENCH MAID - frisky English novelty. Libretto by Capt. Basil Hood; music by Walter Slaughter. Starring Anna Held and Charles A. Bigelow. Presented by Charles E. Evans and F. Ziegfeld Jr.

December 26, 1898 through January 1, 1899
THE TELEPHONE GIRL - a musical comedy by Hugh Morton. Music by Gustave Kerker. Starring Louis Mann and Clara Lipman. Presented by George Lederer and George McLellan.

1899

CHARLES O'MALLEY - COMEDY
MORIZ ROSENTHAL RECITAL - piano

January 2 through January 7, 1899
THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY - by Clyde Fitch and Leo Ditrichstein. Starring William H. Crane. Directed by Joseph H. Brooks.

January 9 through January 14, 1899
PRIMROSE AND DOCKSTADER’S GREAT AMERICAN MINSTRELS

January 16 through January 21, 1899
A DAY AND A NIGHT IN NEW YORK - an account of the adventures of a gentleman from New Jersey by Hoyt.

January 23 through January 28, 1899
SHENANDOAH - a war play by Bronson Howard. Starring Maurice Barrymore and Mary Hampton. Directed by Jacob Litt.

January 30 through February 4, 1899
BY THE SAD SEA WAVES - a ragtime opera. Starring “The Real Funny Boys: Mathews and Bulger.” Directed by Dunne and Riley.

February 6 through February 11, 1899
THE LITTLE MINISTER - a new comedy by J. M. Barrie. Starring Maude Adams with George Irving as Capt. Halliwell. Presented by Charles Frohman.

February 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 (matinee) 1899
A LADY OF QUALITY - by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Stephen Townsend. Starring Julia Arthur. Directed by Napier Lothian, Jr.

February 15, 1899
AS YOU LIKE IT - by William Shakespeare. Starring Julia Arthur. Second annual engagement.

February 18, 1899
PYGMALION AND GALATEA -by W.S. Gilbert . Starring Julia Arthur
MERCEDES - by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Starring Julia Arthur. (Program filed under Pygmalion and Galatea).

February 20 through February 25, 1899
CATHERINE - comedy by Henri Lavedan. Starring Annie Russell.

February 27 through March 4, 1899
KATE KIP, BUYER - comedy by Glen MacDonough. Starring May Irwin and her company.

March 6 through March 11, 1899
SECRET SERVICE - a romance of the Confederacy by Mr. Gillett. Starring Joseph Brennan. Presented by Charles Frohman.

March 13 through March 18, 1899
RUPERT OF HENTZAU - by Anthony Hope. Starring James K. Hackett.

March 17, 1899 (Friday Afternoon)
EMIL SAUER pianist in his first Washington recital.

March 19, 1899
THE CELT IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD - by Rev. Edward McGlynn. Under the auspices of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

March 27 through April 1, 1899
THE BRIDE ELECT - comic opera, with book and music by John Philip Sousa. Presented by Klaw, Erlanger and Stevens.

April 3 through April 8, 1899
NATHAN HALE - by Clyde Fitch. Starring Mr. N.C. Goodwin and Miss Maxine Elliott. Under the management of George J. Appleton.

April 10 through April 15, 1899
JOSEPH JEFFERSON COMEDY COMPANY presents Rip Van Winkle (by Washington Irving) and The Rivals (by Richard Brinsley Sheridan). Starring Joseph Jefferson, with Verner Clarges, George F. Nash, Joseph Jefferson Jr., George W. Denham, Walter B. Woodall, W.W. Jefferson, Ffolliott Paget, Elsie Leslie and Blanche Bender.

April 17 through April 22, 1899 [no program file]
HER ATONEMENT - by Anson Pond. Starring Margaret Robinson, Louise Aldreich, Henry E. Dixey, Jessie Busley, Orrin Johnson, Kate Denin Wilson, John F. Cook and Recca Scott. Presented by Charles Frohman.

April 20, 1899 (afternoon)
A PIANO RECITAL BY RAFAEL JOSEFFY

April 24 through April 29, 1899 [only a xerox program cover sheet]
THE FORTUNE TELLER - comic opera by Victor Herbert, based on the book by Harry B. Smith. Starring Alice Nielsen and her Opera Company. Produced by Julian Mitchell and presented by Frank L. Perley.

May 1 through May 6, 1899
TRELAWNY OF THE “WELLS” - a comedietta by A.W. Pinero. Featuring the Lyceum Theatre Company.

June 1, 1899
ROMEO AND JULIET - by William Shakespeare. Starring Miss Maude Adams, with William Faversham and James K. Hackett. One night only.

June 8, 1899
LAW SCHOOL OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT (filed under National University)

June 13, 1899 (Tuesday evening)
ALABAMA – presented by the Carroll Institute Dramatic Club, assisted by the Carroll Institute Orchestra. A benefit for the Georgetown University Hospital.

June 14, 1899
AN ANNUAL SONG RECITAL BY THE PUPILS OF MISS KATIE V. WILSON (filed under Wilson, Katie V.)

September 18 through September 23, 1899
CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO - an original Hebrew drama by Israel Zangwill. Presented by Liebler and Company. Staged by James A. Herne.

September 25, 27(matinee) and 29, 1899
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - Richard Sheridan. Starring Louis James, Kathryn Kidder, and Charles B. Hanford. Presented by Wagenals and Kemper.

September 26, 27, 28 and 30 (matinee), 1899
THE WINTER’S TALE - by William Shakespeare. Starring Louis James, Kathryn Kidder, and Charles B. Hanford. Presented by Wagenals and Kemper.

September 30, 1899
MACBETH - by William Shakespeare. Starring Louis James, Kathryn Kidder, and Charles B. Hanford. Presented by Wagenals and Kemper.

October 2 through October 7, 1899
BECAUSE SHE LOVED HIM SO - a new comedy adapted from the French by William Gillette. Starring J.E. Dodson. Presented by Charles Frohman.

October 9 through October 14, 1899
AT THE WHITE HORSE TAVERN - comedy by Sydney Rosenfeld from a German play by Messrs. Blumenthal and Kadelberg. Starring Charles H. Bradshaw. Presented by Daniel and Charles Frohman.

October 16 through October 21, 1899
PAPA’S WIFE - a musical comedy presented by Mr. Flo Ziegfeld Jr. Starring Mlle. Anna Held.

October 23 through October 28, 1899
ZAZA - David Belasco’s version of Pierre Berton and Charles Simon’s play. Starring Mrs. Leslie Carter. Presented by Charles Frohman.

October 30 through November 4, 1899
CHRIS AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP - music by John Philip Sousa; book by Glen MacDonough. Starring Jerome Sykes and Edna Wallace-Hopper. Presented by Klaw, Erlanger and Stevens.

November 6 through November 11, 1899
PHROSO - from the novel by Anthony Hope; dramatized by Edward Rose and H.V. Esmond. Starring Odette Tyler. Presented by Charles Frohman.

November 13, 15, 16, 18 (matinee), 1899
A POOR RELATION - an original comedy drama by Edward E. Kidder. Starring Sol Smith Russell.

November 20 thorugh November 25, 1899
THE GIRL FROM MAXIM’S - farce by George Feydeau. Cast includes W.J. Ferguson, Joseph Allen, Lewis Baker, Alfred Klein, Josephine Hall, Gertrude Whitty, Mayme Kealty, Rose Flynn. Presented Charles Frohman.

November 27 through December 1, 1899
THE CUCKOO - a French farce adapted by Charles Brookfield. Starring Joseph Holland.

December 3 through December 10, 1899
THE SONG OF THE SWORD - a new and original romantic drama by Leo Ditrichstein. Starring E.H. Sothern and Miss Virginia Harned

December 11 through December 17, 1899
LORD AND LADY ALGY - a light comedy by R.C. Carton. Presented by Charles Frohman’s Empire Theatre Company.

December 22, 1899 (matinee)
TIES - by Paul Hervieu - an English version of a play original performed at the Comedie Francaise. Part of Mr. John Blair’s course of modern plays. Starring Mr. John Blair.

December 23, 1899
RUPERT OF HENTZAU - by Anthony Hope. Starring James K. Hackett.

December 25, 26, 27 & 28, 1899
ROBESPIERRE - drama by Victorien Sardou.

December 29, 1899
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE - by William Shakespeare. Starring Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.

December 30, 1899 (matinee)
THE AMBER HEART - by Alfred C. Calmour. Starring Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.