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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 to 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 to 1893 John Stetson served as proprietor; some regarded him as "a theatrical producer with a reputation for illiteracy in his day such as

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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

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Performances

1870s

* H.A. Rendle's Chesney Wold, with Madame Janauschek * Henry VIII starring

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as Katherine Queen of England *

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's Humpty Dumpty *

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's Pique, with Miss Jeffries-LewisBoston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876 * E.A. Sothern as

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* " 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

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, and

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, week of March 5, 1873. * Miss Kate Claxton in '' Two Orphans''

1880s

* "Rice's new extravaganza combination in the opera comique Calino" * Othello, starring SalviniBoston Daily Globe, January 9, 1881 * L.R. Shewell's Debt of Honor *

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lecture June 2, 1882 *

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* 14 Days, with Charles Wyndham * We, Us & Co., with Mestayer-Vaughn * Gilbert & Sullivan's

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, with Helen Lamont and

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* As in a Looking-Glass, with Mrs. LangtryBoston Daily Globe, Dec. 3, 1887 * The Hanlons in "Fantasma" * Princess Ida * Ibsen's

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, with

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* '' The Oolah'' (1889)(21 December 1889)
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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

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References

External links

* Detail of 1882 map of Boston showin
location of Globe Theatre
via Boston Public Library's Atlascope Boston tool. * NYPL
Globe Theatre Company
Boston (fl. 1870)
Boston Athenæum Theater History
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