Theatre programmes
Published: 1886
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Specimens; Theater programs
Description: Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at venues including Empire Theatre, Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre, Garden Theatre, Palmer's Theatre, Academy of Music, Standard Theatre, Grand Opera House, Madison Square Theatre, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Star Theatre, Casino, Standard Theatre, Union Square Theatre, Harrigan's Park Theatre, The Lyceum Theatre, Docstader's, 14th Street Theatre, Wallack's, Hoyt's Theatre, Harrigan's Theatre and the Bijou Theatre in New York and the New National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Includes programs for performances by John Drew, Henry Miller, William Faversham, Minnie Seligman, Loie Fuller, Rose Coghlan, Little Tuesday, William Gillette, Geo. S. Knight, Digby Bell Opera Company, Edwin Booth, Rosina Vokes London Comedy Co., Miss Fortescue, Dockstader's Minstrels, M.B. Curtis, Fanny Rice, Edward Harrigan, Annie Pixley, and others. Includes programs for performances of plays and  entertainments written by Henry Arthur Jones, Sydney Grundy, Thornton Clark, Louis N. Parker, Dion Boucicault, Robert Buchanan, Chas. A. Hoyt, Paul M. Potter, Edward E. Rice, Charles Reade, Henry Guy Carleton, Imre Kilralfy, Angelo Venanzi, Bronson Howard, F. Hopkinson Smith, Augustus Thomas, Harry B. Smith, Julian Edwards, Sir Charles Young, W.S. Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan, William Shakespeare, Edward Harrigan, Dave Braham, Meilhac and Halevy, W.J. Shaw, Arthur Wallack, Archibald Clavering Gunter and W.W. Lowitz.
Notes: Title from spine.

Includes portion of text of Act 1 of Kimre' Kiralfy's "America". Some programs have duplicates.

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

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Theater programs and playbills: "The Bauble Shop"  (1894); title: "Sowing the Wind" (1894); title: "Gudgeons" (1895); title: "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1894); title: "Lady Gladys" (1894); title: "A Trip to Chinatown" (1892?); title: "Trilby" (1895); title: "Little Christopher Columbus" (1894?); title: "Peg Woffington" (1894); title: "The Butterflies" (1894); title: Imre Kiralfy's "America" (1893); title: "The Still Alarm" (1893?); title: "Shenandoah" (1894); title: "Too Much Johnson" (1895); title: Boston Ideal Opera Company (1887); title: "Rudolph" (1887?); title: "Col. Carter of Cartersville" (1892); title: "Jupiter, or, The King and the Cobbler" (1892); title: "Jim the Penman" (1886); title: "The Mikado" (1886); title: "Othello" (1886); title: "Richelieu" (1886); title: "Erminie" (1886); title: "Cousin Dick" (1886); title: "In Honor Bound" (1886); title: "A Pantomime Rehearsal" (1886); title: "The Chouans" (1886); title: "The O'Reagans" (1886); title: "Frou-Frou" (1886); title: "Session of the Knickerbocker Club" (1886); title: "Caught in a Corner" (1886); title: "Sophia" (1886); title: "A Milk White Flag" (1894); title: "Reilly and the 400" (1892); title: "A Jolly Surprise" (1892?); title: "Polly Middles" (1892?).