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Federal Street Theatre for an earlier theatre known also as the Boston Theatre''
The Boston Theatre was a theatre in
Boston
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Massachusetts
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. It was first built in 1854 and operated as a
theatre
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until 1925. Productions included performances by
Jean de Reszke
Jean de Reszke (born Jan Mieczysław Reszke; 14 January 18503 April 1925) was a Polish dramatic tenor and opera star. Reszke came from a wealthy Polish family with classical and operatic musical traditions. His mother gave him his first singing ...
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Italo Campanini
Italo Campanini (30 June 1845 – 14 November 1896) was a leading Italian operatic tenor, whose career reached its height in London in the 1870s and in New York City in the 1880s and 1890s. He had a repertoire of 80 operas and was the brother of ...
,
Thurlow Bergen
Thurlow Weed Bergen (1875–1954) was an American actor of stage and silent film.
Bergen was born on January 14, 1875, East Saginaw, Michigan to Issarella (Ella) Winner and the lawyer George B. Bergen. Bergen went to study law in Washington D.C. ...
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Edwin Booth
Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893) was an American stage actor and theatrical manager who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Booth's Th ...
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Anna Held
Helene Anna Held (19 March 1872 – 12 August 1918) was a Polish-born French stage performer of Jewish origin on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law ...
,
Jennie Kimball
Jennie Kimball (also, Jennie Kimball Flaherty and Jennie Kimball Schaefer; June 20, 1848 – March 23, 1896) was an American actress, soubrette, and theatrical manager.
She appeared first at The Boston Theatre in 1865. After the success made by h ...
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Christine Nilsson
Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, also called Christine Nilsson (20 August 1843 – 22 November 1921) was a Swedish operatic dramatic coloratura soprano. Possessed of a pure and brilliant voice (B3-F6), first three then two and a h ...
and others.
Images
Image:1854 BostonTheatre Bostonian1894 v1 no1.png, Boston Theatre street view, ca.1854
Image:BostonTheatre3 Midgley SightsInBoston.png, Interior, ca.1850s
Image:BostonTheatre BalPict.JPG, ''Macbeth
''The Tragedy of Macbeth'', often shortened to ''Macbeth'' (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambiti ...
'' at the Boston Theatre, 1850s
Image:1869 WestSt Nanitz map Boston detail BPL10490.png, Detail of 1869 map of Boston, showing Boston Theatre on Washington Street
Image:1899 BostonTheatre BostonGlobe May8.png, Advertisement, 1899
References
Further reading
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External links
* Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library. Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.)
Box office receipts: Guide and
Orchestra music: Guide
Former theatres in Boston
19th century in Boston
1854 establishments in Massachusetts
1925 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Cultural history of Boston
Boston Theater District
Theatres completed in 1854
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