Rip Van Winkle

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
James E. [manager, proprietor] Hayes

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 February 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Sep 1867, Evening
01 Oct 1867, Evening
02 Oct 1867, Evening
03 Oct 1867, Evening
04 Oct 1867, Evening
05 Oct 1867, Matinee
05 Oct 1867, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Rip Van Winkle, [play by Boucicault]
aka Rip Van Winkle; or, The sleep of twenty years
Text Author: Boucicault
Participants:  Joseph, III Jefferson [actor] (role: Rip Van Winkle)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 September 1867.
2)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 October 1867, 3.

“Crowded and enthusiastic audiences have been attracted to this establishment, during the engagement of Jefferson, to witness his masterful impersonation of the hero in Washington Irving’s legend of Sleepy Hollow, and last night was no exception to the rule. The embodiment ofRip Van Winkle, as presented last evening, drew from an appreciative house repeated and well-merited demonstrations of approbation, and stamps this as the masterpiece of this already brilliant and successful artist, while the support rendered by the company was in every wayw worthy of so fine a rendering of the leading rôle.”