- See Federal Street Theatre for an earlier theatre known also as the Boston Theatre
The Boston Theatre was a theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. It was first built in 1854 and operated as a theatre until 1925. Productions included performances by Thurlow Bergen,[1] Charles A. Bigelow,[2] Edwin Booth,[3] Anna Held,[2] James O'Neill[1] Jennie Kimball, and others.
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Boston Theatre street view, ca.1854 -
Interior, ca.1850s -
Macbeth at the Boston Theatre, 1850s -
Detail of 1869 map of Boston, showing Boston Theatre on Washington Street -
Advertisement, 1899
References
edit- ^ a b John Bouvé Clapp; Edwin Francis Edgett (1899), Players of the Present, vol. 1, New York: Dunlap Society, OCLC 2623904
- ^ a b Eugene Tompkins (1908), History of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OL 7237383M
- ^ Charles E. L. Wingate (1888), Playgoers' Year-Book, Boston: Stage Pub. Co., OL 17937497M
Further reading
edit- "Boston Theatre". Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. 9. Boston, Mass. 1855.
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- Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library. Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.): Box office receipts: Guide; and Orchestra music: Guide.
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