Theater

Bunking Fire Laddies and the Bowery Theatre Fire [published Apr. 22, 1883]

jpkntz March 31, 2024

Passin’ by an engine house the other day...

Stage Fright and Stage Pluck [published Feb. 19, 1882]

jpkntz March 6, 2024

Some actors at my little theatre the other...

The Pranks of Signor Blitz [published Jan. 29, 1882]

jpkntz March 4, 2024

They tell a good story of Tom Hamblin...

Lester Wallack, American Theater Icon and Anglophile [published July 20, 1884]

jpkntz January 30, 2024

Everybody knows Lester Wallack, and yet it is...

Why Prince Leopold’s North American Tour Was Interrupted [published Apr. 13, 1884]

jpkntz January 27, 2024

It will be remembered by some of our...

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Marriage Challenges of Women of the Stage [published Oct. 23, 1881]

jpkntz January 17, 2024

There has been for some time a rumor...

Sol Smith’s Theatre Company [published Nov. 29, 1885]

jpkntz January 10, 2024

The New York amusement-goin’ world is full of...

Polyglot Theater Experiences [published Apr. 29, 1883]

jpkntz December 27, 2023

Talkin’ about the “polyglot” performances of Salvini and...

The Luck of Mazeppa and the Fall of a Prima Donna [published May 7, 1882]

jpkntz December 8, 2023

I have before alluded to one of the...

Mitchell of the Olympic Welcomes Charles Dickens [published Jan. 2, 1881]

jpkntz November 23, 2023

Talkin’ about public opinion, as they call it,...