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. 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 Benjamin 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.
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 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 The Scouts of the Prairie, with Buffalo Bill Cody, Texas Jack Omohundro, Ned Buntline, and Giuseppina Morlacchi, week of March 5, 1873. 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
External links
NYPL. Globe Theatre Company, Boston (fl. 1870) Boston Athenæum Theater History , Globe Theatre, Boston