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Globe Theatre, Boston (1871)

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Globe Theatre, Boston (1871)

The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. It was located on 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 B.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 has achieved" in the 1960s. The theatre burned down in January 1894.

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1870s

  • H.A. Rendle's Chesney Wold, with Madame Janauschek
  • Fox's Humpty Dumpty
  • Augustin Daly's Pique, with Miss Jeffries-Lewis
  • 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
  • Miss Kate Claxton in "Two Orphans"

    • 1880s

  • "Rice's new extravaganza combination in the opera comique Calino"
  • Othello, starring Salvini
  • 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, with Helen Lamont and Signor Brocolini
  • As in a Looking-Glass, with Mrs. Langtry
  • The Hanlons in "Fantasma"
  • Princess Ida
  • Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Beatrice Cameron
  • The Oolah (1889)

    • 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

    • References

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