Theatre programmes
Published: 1886
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Specimens; Theater programs
Description: Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at venues including The Casino,  The Casino Theatre Roof Garden, Abbey's Theatre, The American Theatre, Standard Theatre, Metropolitan Opera House, Lenox Lyceum, Star Theatre, Grand Opera House in New York, The Academy of Music in Montreal and the Boston Theatre in Boston, Mass. Includes programs for performances by J.M. Hill's Opera Company, Marie Tempest, Henry E. Dixey, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, M. Coquelin, Jane Hading, Francis Wilson, Leonard Boyne, Julia Arthur, Wilson Barrett, M.B. Curtis, Adelina Patti, Emma Eames, Edouard de Reszke, Jean De Reszke, George Thatcher, Wm. H. Crane, Rose Coghlan, Frederic de Belleville, A.M. Palmer's Stock Company, Miss Belle Archer and others. Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by Sydney Rosenfeld, Ludwig Englander, Reginald De Koven, Harry B. Smith, Hugo Wittmann, Julius Bauer, Helen F. Tretbar, Carl Milloecker, Maurice Ordonneau, Henri Kerous, Fred. Lyster, Georges Millet, Edmond Audran, William Gill, Henry E. Dixey, Oscar Barrett,  Horace Lennard, Casimir Delavigne, W.G. Wills, Victorien Saradou, J. Cheever Goodwin, E. Jakobowski, William Shakespeare, Charles Reade, Erckmann-Chatrian, Leopold Lewis, Alfred Duro, Henri Chivot, Charles Alfred Byrne, Louis Harrison, Wilson Barrett, Clement Scott, Henry Arthur Jones, Henry Herman, Henry Pettitt, Augustus Harris, M.B. Curtis, Brandon Thomas, Richard Wagner, Gioacchino Rossini, Charles Gounod, Ambroise Thomas, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich von Flowtow, Pietro Mascagni, Imre Kiralfy, Angelo Venanzi, Randolph Cruger, George Thatcher, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sir Charles Young, Augustus Thomas, Fred. Broughton, Sydney Grundy and the Kiralfy Brothers.
Notes: Spine title.

Some individual programs are also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Digital Collections Web site: Variety Stage: Theater Playbills and Programs. Digitized versions of programs include: Imre Kiralfy's "America" (Dec. 23, 1893).

Printed inventory card file arranged alphabetically by title available in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division Reading Room: item level control.

LC copy: Some programs have duplicates.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Theater programs and playbills: "The Passing Show" (1894); title: "The Fencing Master" (1892); title: "Child of Fortune" (1892); title: "Uncle Celestin" (1892); title: "Adonis" (1893); title: "Cinderella" (1894); title: "Louis XI" (1893); title: "Olivia" (1893); title: "Thermidor" (1894); title: "The Devil's Deputy" (1894); title: "The Merchant of Venice" (1893); title: "Nance Oldfield" (1893); title: "The Bells" (1893); title: "The Voyage of Suzette" (1893); title: "Sister Mary" (1894); title: "The Silver King" (1894); title: "Hamlet" (1894); title: "The Prodigal Daughter" (1893); title: "Sam'l of Posen" (1894); title: "Charley's Aunt" (1893); title: "Die Meistersinger" (1894); title: "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" (1892); title: "Faust" (1892); title: "Hamlet" (1892); title: "Lucia di Lammermoor" (1892); title: "Lohengrin" (1894); title: "Martha" (1892); title: "Italo Campanini Concert" (1892); title: "Semiramide" (1894); title: "L'Amico Fritz" (1894); title: "Philemon et Baucis" (1894); title: "Cavaleria Rusticana" (1894); title: "America" (1893); title: "Africa" (1893); title: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (1894); title: "School for Scandal" (1886); title: "Jim, the Penman" (1894); title: "Alabama" (1894); title: "Ruth's Romance" (1894); title: "An Arabian Night" (1894); title: "Around the World in 80 Days!" (1886).