Rip Van Winkle

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Junius Brutus, Jr. Booth

Manager / Director:
Junius Brutus, Jr. Booth

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 January 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Sep 1873, Evening
09 Sep 1873, Evening
10 Sep 1873, Evening
11 Sep 1873, Evening
12 Sep 1873, Evening
13 Sep 1873, 1:30 PM

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 Times, 07 September 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 September 1873, 9.
3)
Review: New York Post, 12 September 1873, 2.

Notes that large audiences are attracted to the play because it “is a thoroughly wholesome one, and does not depend for its popularity upon any tableaux, panorama, ballet, picture-drawing or other artificial but inartistic element of the ‘Variety Show.’”