Boston_Theatre

The Boston Theatre

The Boston Theatre

1854–1925 theatre in Massachusetts, United States

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.

See Federal Street Theatre for an earlier theatre known also as the Boston Theatre

Images

  • 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

42°21′15.79″N 71°3′45.35″W

References

  1. [1]
    John Bouvé Clapp; Edwin Francis Edgett (1899), Players of the Present, vol. 1, New York: Dunlap Society, OCLC 2623904
  2. [2]
    Eugene Tompkins (1908), History of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OL 7237383M
  3. [3]
    Charles E. L. Wingate (1888), Playgoers' Year-Book, Boston: Stage Pub. Co., OL 17937497M

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