The Globe Theatre (est.1871) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. It was located at 598 Washington Street, near the corner of Essex Street.The Globe occupied the site on Washington Street opposite the Park Theatre, on the block between Essex Street and Hayward Place: no.364 Washington Street, 1871-ca.1876 (Boston Almanac. 1871, 1875) later re-numbered as no.598 Washington Street, ca.1877-ca.1894 (Boston Almanac. 1877, 1881, 1887, 1891, 1894) Arthur Cheney oversaw the Globe until 1876.Boston Daily Globe, July 17, 1872; Boston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876 From 1871 to 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."Chronicle of events." Boston Almanac. 1875 Architect Benjamin F. Dwight designed the new building.Benjamin Franklin Dwight (d.1893). American Architect and Building News, Oct. 14, 1893 From 1877 to 1893 John Stetson served as proprietor;Boston Daily Globe, May 26, 1878; 22 Sept., 1880; Boston Evening Transcript, March 2, 1883; Dec. 3, 1887. Boston Globe, January 22, 1893John Stetson (d.1896). New York Times, April 19, 1896 some regarded him as "a theatrical producer with a reputation for illiteracy in his day such as Samuel Goldwyn has achieved" in the 1960s.Doris M. Alexander. "Oedipus in Victorian New York." American Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 1960) The theatre burned down in January 1894.Boston Daily Globe, January 3, 1894
Horatio J. Homer, Boston's first African-American police officer, worked as a janitor at the Globe Theatre before being hired by the Boston Police Department.
Performances
1870s H.A. Rendle's Chesney Wold, with Madame JanauschekBoston Daily Globe, March 7, 1873 Henry VIII starring Charlotte Cushman as Katherine Queen of England Fox's Humpty DumptyBoston Daily Globe, July 17, 1873 Augustin Daly's Pique, with Miss Jeffries-LewisBoston Evening Transcript, Sept. 9, 1876 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 Globe Theatre Programme Eliza Weathersby's FroliquesBoston Daily Globe, May 26, 1878 The Scouts of the Prairie, with Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro, Ned Buntline, and Giuseppina Morlacchi, week of March 5, 1873.Boston Globe, May 5, 1873 Miss Kate Claxton in Two Orphans
1880s "Rice's new extravaganza combination in the opera comique Calino"Boston Daily Globe, 22 Sept., 1880 Othello, starring SalviniBoston Daily Globe, January 9, 1881 L.R. Shewell's Debt of Honor Oscar Wilde lecture June 2, 1882Oscar Wilde In America Oedipus 14 Days, with Charles WyndhamBoston Evening Transcript, March 2, 1883 We, Us & Co., with Mestayer-VaughnBoston Daily Globe, May 17, 1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado, with Helen Lamont and Signor BrocoliniBoston Daily Globe, May 22, 1887 As in a Looking-Glass, with Mrs. LangtryBoston Daily Globe, Dec. 3, 1887 The Hanlons in "Fantasma" Princess Ida Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Beatrice CameronDonald Pizer. "The Radical Drama in Boston 1889-1891." New England Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1958) The Oolah (1889)(21 December 1889). Massachusetts, New York Clipper (it played a month in Boston)
1890s The Lion Tamer, with Francis WilsonBoston Globe, January 22, 1893 Ali Baba, with American Extravaganza Co.Boston Globe, March 5, 1893 The Crust of SocietyBoston Globe, April 4, 1893 Prince Karl, with Richard MansfieldBoston Globe, Sept. 21 1893 Hanlon Brothers' "mechanical fairy spectacle Superba"Boston Daily Globe, December 29, 1893 La Cigale, with Lillian RussellLillian Russell Opera Comique Co. in La Cigale: An Original Opera Comique
References
External links
Detail of 1882 map of Boston showing location of Globe Theatre, via Boston Public Library's Atlascope Boston tool. NYPL. Globe Theatre Company, Boston (fl. 1870) Boston Athenæum Theater History , Globe Theatre, Boston