Light at Last

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Broadway between Prince and Houston Sts. Buckley's Hall

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 August 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Mar 1868, 8:00 PM
17 Mar 1868, 8:00 PM
18 Mar 1868, 8:00 PM
19 Mar 1868, 8:00 PM
20 Mar 1868, 8:00 PM
21 Mar 1868, 3:00 PM
21 Mar 1868, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 March 1868.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 March 1868, 5.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 16 March 1868, 5.
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 March 1868, 5.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 March 1868, 7.
6)
Review: New York Herald, 17 March 1868.

“WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE.—‘Light at Last, or the Shadow on the Casement,’ is the title of the new drama, in five acts, by Colonel J. Fitzgerald, which was produced at the New York theatre last night. The play is of the highly sensational order, abounding in striking situations and startling denouments, securing the interest of the audience at the start and entrancing it during its continuance. The scene is laid in Ireland at the present time, or nearly so, and gives a much more correct representation of the condition of Irish society in the country as we now, with our assured knowledge of what it is, gather from later experience of letter and observation than the conventional dramas, so often brought out here to ‘crowded houses,’ have presented, thus realizing, if in no other way, the preferred title of the drama. The principal feature in its introduction here is the appearance in the cast of Miss Kate Reignolds, the most charming of Irish actresses on the American stage. Of the other artists we may mention Miss Emma Lingard, a debutante here; Messrs. Boniface, G. W. Clarke, Ryner and Harry Hawk (his first appearance here) as excellent in their several parts. Introduced on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, a most appropriate occasion, a successful run may be expected, the more certainly as the audience last night was exceedingly large, notwithstanding the storm, and loud and enthusiastic in its reception of the piece.”

7)
Review: New-York Times, 18 March 1868, 5.

Brief; no mention of music.

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 21 March 1868, 398.
9)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 March 1868, 5.