The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a
playhouse in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, in the 19th century. It was located at 598
Washington Street,
near the corner of Essex Street. Arthur Cheney oversaw the Globe until 1876.
From 1871-1873 it occupied the former theatre of
John H. Selwyn.
After a fire in May 1873, the Globe re-opened on the same site in December 1874. Architect
Benjamin F. Dwight designed the new building. From 1877-1893 John Stetson served as proprietor; some regarded him as "a theatrical producer with a reputation for illiteracy in his day such as
Samuel Goldwyn
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has achieved" in the 1960s.
[Doris M. Alexander. "Oedipus in Victorian New York." American Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 1960)] The theatre burned down in January 1894.
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
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.
Performances
1870s
* H.A. Rendle's Chesney Wold, with
Madame Janauschek
*
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
's Humpty Dumpty
*
Augustin Daly
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's Pique, with Miss Jeffries-Lewis
[Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876]
*
E.A. Sothern as
Lord Dundreary
* "
Sea of Ice" with Miss Maud Granger as Ocarita and
Mr. George Boniface as Carlos, Monday, January 28, 1878
* Eliza Weathersby's Froliques
*The Scouts of the Prairie, with
Buffalo Bill Cody
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,
Texas Jack Omohundro,
Ned Buntline
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Early life and military service
Judson was born on March 20, 1821, in Harpersfield, New Yo ...
, and
Giuseppina Morlacchi, week of March 5, 1873.
* Miss
Kate Claxton in ''
Two Orphans''
1880s
* "Rice's new extravaganza combination in the opera comique Calino"
* Othello, starring
Salvini[Boston Daily Globe, January 9, 1881]
* L.R. Shewell's Debt of Honor
*
Oscar Wilde lecture June 2, 1882
*
Oedipus
* 14 Days, with
Charles Wyndham
* We, Us & Co., with Mestayer-Vaughn
* Gilbert & Sullivan's
Mikado
Mikado may refer to:
* Emperor of Japan or
Arts and entertainment
* ''The Mikado'', an 1885 comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
* ''The Mikado'' (1939 film), an adaptation of the opera, directed by Victor Schertzinger
* ''The Mikado'' (1967 f ...
, with Helen Lamont and
Signor Brocolini
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* As in a Looking-Glass, with
Mrs. Langtry[Boston Daily Globe, Dec. 3, 1887]
*
The Hanlons in "Fantasma"
* Princess Ida
* Ibsen's
A Doll's House
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, with
Beatrice Cameron
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Career
Cameron's first a ...
* ''
The Oolah'' (1889)
[(21 December 1889)]
Massachusetts
''New York Clipper
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'' (it played a month in Boston)
1890s
* ''The Lion Tamer'', with
Francis Wilson
* Ali Baba, with American Extravaganza Co.
* The Crust of Society
* Prince Karl, with Richard Mansfield
*
Hanlon Brothers' "mechanical fairy spectacle Superba"
* La Cigale, with
Lillian Russell
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Lillian Russell Opera Comique Co. in La Cigale: An Original Opera Comique
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References
External links
* NYPL
Globe Theatre Company
Boston (fl. 1870)
Boston Athenæum Theater History
, Globe Theatre, Boston
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