Kwamina. The New Musical.
This 54th Street Theatre Broadway flop was set in a Western African nation as it was about the gain independence from Britain. While the dances..... Read More about Kwamina. The New Musical
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Playscripts, Prompt Books, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Broadway, Burlesque, Pantomime, Opera, Ballet, Dance, Musical Theater, Circus, Carnivals, Wax Museums, Magic Shows, Wild West Shows, Rodeos, Parades, Amusement Parks and Popular Amusements, Etc.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Playscripts, Prompt Books, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Broadway, Burlesque, Pantomime, Opera, Ballet, Dance, Musical Theater, Circus, Carnivals, Wax Museums, Magic Shows, Wild West Shows, Rodeos, Parades, Amusement Parks and Popular Amusements, Etc.
This 54th Street Theatre Broadway flop was set in a Western African nation as it was about the gain independence from Britain. While the dances..... Read More about Kwamina. The New Musical
First edition, first printing of this novel-play in eleven tableaux. Jarry’s peer, Paul Fort, founded Théâtre d’Art (1890–93) at the age of 18 in response..... Read More about L’Amour en Visites. (Love in Visits
Robert Charles Benchley (1889–1989) honed and developed his skills as a humorist and actor while at Harvard (Class of 1912). Benchley was an active, and..... Read More about Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme
Note: Our description includes images and quoted text from this book that may be considered racist, offensive, or harmful by contemporary readers. Among antebellum Blackface..... Read More about The Negro Forget-Me-Not Songster, the Only Work Published, Containing all the Negro Songs, That...
Sheet music for a song from Act I of the 1946 all-Black musical St. Louis Woman. The musical is based on the novel God Sends..... Read More about Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...
Rare photographic souvenir album with 35 mounted albumen photographs documenting a coaching parade and fair held in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the county seat of Franklin County..... Read More about Massachusetts Photography:] Souvenir of the Coaching Parade, Greenfield 1897
Vaudeville program for the week of September 28, 1896 at the Brooklyn Music Hall in East New York. The program included music, sketch artists Roach..... Read More about Brooklyn Music Hall, Cor. Fulton St. and Alabama Ave. [1896 Program
History of the Hanus theater operation and show business family of Antigo, Wisconsin. The history was compiled c.1979 by Edmund Hanus from contemporary newspaper, magazine..... Read More about History of the Hanus Family’s Association with the Theater and Show Business 1878–1961 [cover...
Edward Haas Robins, Actor In 1880, American stage and film actor Edward Haas Robins was born as Edward Haas in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Around 1909, after..... Read More about Four c.1910s Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Haas Robins, American Stage and Film Actor,...
Unrecorded 1902 sewn pamphlet describing the function and purpose of the Edwin Forrest Home in Philadelphia located at 4849 Parkside avenue. The Home was established..... Read More about The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin Forrest,...
An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The..... Read More about The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional...
Frank I. Frayne described himself as the “Pioneer of the Melodrama.” This giveaway “Free Songster,” in broadside format, advertises a week of his performances beginning..... Read More about Frank I. Frayne Free Songster ... The Great Western Dramas
The Germania Theater in Philadelphia was founded in 1877 by Gottlob Hammer and Heinrich Oberkirsch. The theater served a thriving German-speaking community until 1895 — a remarkable..... Read More about Germania-Theater. 528–532 Nord Dritte Strasse…Donnerstag den 17. Sept….Eine Leichte Person…
Vaudeville program for the week of October 27, 1902 at Hyde & Behman’s Theatre on Fulton Street in Brooklyn including a one-act play by George..... Read More about Hyde & Behman’s, Brooklyn. [1902 Theater Program
Program for the biographical play Robert Emmet, The Days of 1803 about that Irish patriot and rebel leader executed for leading a rebellion in Dublin..... Read More about Grand Opera House, Brooklyn. [1903 Program
A rare four-page circular for Grizzly Adams, a western frontier-themed play: “No Shooting or Yelling Indians, But a Truthfully Depicted Idyl of American Life on..... Read More about Goodrich & Thode’s Company…Idyl of American Life on the Borders of Civilization entitled...
Three broadsides issued by Mahan Brothers’ Trained Animals of Charlton, Massachusetts for three separate performances of trained animals at the 1897 Vermont and New Hampshire..... Read More about Be Sure and See! Mahan’s Performing Patagonian Dogs, Only Dogs of this Kind Ever Trained…...
Profusely-illustrated souvenir program for this jazzed-up adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. A visual spectacle, the musical featured an African-American cast and starred the..... Read More about Michael Todd’s Hot Mikado with Bill Robinson, staged by Hassard Short. Hall of Music, New York...
From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title
Theater program for West is East, a two-act musical comedy produced in 1927 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and featuring an all-male cast including..... Read More about M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”
First edition, variant issue. One of a number of works that were published in 1872 to capitalize upon the sensational murder of James Fisk who..... Read More about The Life and Times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. Being a Full and Impartial Account of the Remarkable...
Robert Emmons Rogers, the playwright, was graduated by Harvard College and his play debuted in St. Louis and was later performed at the Greenwich Village..... Read More about Behind a Watteau Picture. A Fantasy in Verse, in One Act
Dating from the first decade of Nebraska statehood, this unrecorded 1876 theatrical broadside from Schuyler, Colfax County engages the reader right from the start: Sidewalks!..... Read More about Sidewalks! Court Week Amusements! ...The Schuyler Dramatic Association ...The Idiot...
Typescript for an adaptation of Machinal, a landmark in expressionist and feminist theater. The play portrays the life, trial, and execution of real-life murderer Ruth..... Read More about Machinal. [Expressionist and Feminist Theater
A publicity photograph captioned in the mount, thus: “Steve Brodie. — On the Bowery. Thos. H. Davis & Wm. T. Keough.” In late 19th century..... Read More about Ca. 1880s cabinet card photograph of Steve Brodie, theater performer and Brooklyn Bridge jumper