The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. It was located at 598 Washington Street,[1] near the corner of Essex Street.[2] Arthur Cheney oversaw the Globe until 1876.[3][4] From 1871 to 1873 it occupied the former theatre of John H. Selwyn.[4] After a fire in May 1873, the Globe re-opened on the same site in December 1874.[5] Architect Benjamin F. Dwight designed the new building.[6] From 1877 to 1893 John Stetson served as proprietor;[7][8] some regarded him as "a theatrical producer with a reputation for illiteracy in his day such as Samuel Goldwyn has achieved" in the 1960s.[9] The theatre burned down in January 1894.[10]
Horatio J. Homer, Boston's first African-American police officer, worked as a janitor at the Globe Theatre before being hired by the Boston Police Department.[1]
Performances
edit1870s
edit- H.A. Rendle's Chesney Wold, with Madame Janauschek[11]
- Fox's Humpty Dumpty[12]
- Augustin Daly's Pique, with Miss Jeffries-Lewis[13]
- E.A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary[13]
- "Sea of Ice" with Miss Maud Granger as Ocarita and Mr. George Boniface as Carlos, Monday, January 28, 1878 [14]
- Eliza Weathersby's Froliques[15]
- The Scouts of the Prairie, with Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro, Ned Buntline, and Giuseppina Morlacchi, week of March 5, 1873.[16]
- Miss Kate Claxton in Two Orphans
1880s
edit- "Rice's new extravaganza combination in the opera comique Calino"[17]
- Othello, starring Salvini[18]
- L.R. Shewell's Debt of Honor[18]
- Oscar Wilde lecture June 2, 1882[19]
- Oedipus[9]
- 14 Days, with Charles Wyndham[20]
- We, Us & Co., with Mestayer-Vaughn[21]
- Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado, with Helen Lamont and Signor Brocolini[22]
- As in a Looking-Glass, with Mrs. Langtry[23]
- The Hanlons in "Fantasma"[23]
- Princess Ida[24]
- Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Beatrice Cameron[25]
- The Oolah (1889)[26]
1890s
edit- The Lion Tamer, with Francis Wilson[27]
- Ali Baba, with American Extravaganza Co.[28]
- The Crust of Society[29]
- Prince Karl, with Richard Mansfield[30]
- Hanlon Brothers' "mechanical fairy spectacle Superba"[31]
- La Cigale, with Lillian Russell[32]
References
edit- ^ a b Neal, Anthony W. (February 4, 2016). "Sergeant Horatio J. Homer: Boston's first black police officer". The Bay State Banner. p. 1. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
- ^ The Globe occupied the site on Washington Street opposite the Park Theatre, on the block between Essex Street and Hayward Place: no.364 Washington Street, 1871-ca.1876 (Boston Almanac. 1871, 1875) later re-numbered as no.598 Washington Street, ca.1877-ca.1894 (Boston Almanac. 1877, 1881, 1887, 1891, 1894)
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, July 17, 1872; Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876
- ^ a b Richard Herndon and Edwin Bacon, ed. (1892), Boston of to-day: a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men, Boston: Post Pub. Co., OCLC 4430662, OL 7162628M
- ^ "Chronicle of events." Boston Almanac. 1875
- ^ Benjamin Franklin Dwight (d.1893). American Architect and Building News, Oct. 14, 1893
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, May 26, 1878; 22 Sept., 1880; Boston Evening Transcript, March 2, 1883; Dec. 3, 1887. Boston Globe, January 22, 1893
- ^ John Stetson (d.1896). New York Times, April 19, 1896
- ^ a b Doris M. Alexander. "Oedipus in Victorian New York." American Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 1960)
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, January 3, 1894
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, March 7, 1873
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, July 17, 1873
- ^ a b Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876
- ^ Globe Theatre Programme
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, May 26, 1878
- ^ Boston Globe, May 5, 1873
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, 22 Sept., 1880
- ^ a b Boston Daily Globe, January 9, 1881
- ^ Oscar Wilde In America
- ^ Boston Evening Transcript, March 2, 1883
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, May 17, 1885
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, May 22, 1887
- ^ a b Boston Daily Globe, Dec. 3, 1887
- ^ Charles E. L. Wingate (1888), The playgoers' year-book, for 1888, Boston: State Pub. Co., OL 17937497M
- ^ Donald Pizer. "The Radical Drama in Boston 1889-1891." New England Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1958)
- ^ (21 December 1889). Massachusetts, New York Clipper (it played a month in Boston)
- ^ Boston Globe, January 22, 1893
- ^ Boston Globe, March 5, 1893
- ^ Boston Globe, April 4, 1893
- ^ Boston Globe, Sept. 21 1893
- ^ Boston Daily Globe, December 29, 1893
- ^ Lillian Russell Opera Comique Co. in La Cigale: An Original Opera Comique
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Globe Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts).
- Detail of 1882 map of Boston showing location of Globe Theatre, via Boston Public Library's Atlascope Boston tool.
- NYPL. Globe Theatre Company, Boston (fl. 1870)
- Boston Athenæum Theater History Archived 2021-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, Globe Theatre, Boston