Othello

Event Information

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 September 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 May 1869, 8:00 PM
25 May 1869, 8:00 PM
26 May 1869, 8:00 PM
27 May 1869, 8:00 PM
28 May 1869, 8:00 PM
29 May 1869, Matinee

Program Details

Booth appears as Othello on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and as Iago on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Benefit for Mary McVicker on Friday (05/28/69).

Performers and/or Works Performed

Othello, [play]

Text Author: Shakespeare

Participants: Edwin Thomas Booth (role: Othello / Iago); Mary [actress] McVicker (role: Desdemona)

Citations

Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 May 1869, 12.

Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 May 1869, 7.

Announcement: New York Post, 27 May 1869.

Article: New York Clipper, 05 June 1869, 70.

Appended remarks from a letter published in the Leader of May 27 regarding Edwin Booth.