Event Information

Venue(s):
Wallack's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Sep 1873, Evening
27 Sep 1873, Evening

Program Details

Friday night (09/26/73) to benefit Shiel Barry.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Sheil [comedian] Barry
2)
Handy Andy, [drama]
Text Author: Floyd
3)
Barney the baron; or, The haunted chamber
Text Author: Lover

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 September 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 September 1873, 7.
3)
Review: New York Clipper, 04 October 1873, 214.

“THE SUMMER SEASON at Wallack’s Theatre closed with the performances of Saturday evening, Sept. 27, having proved one of the most disastrous, in a pecuniary sense, ever known at that theatre, and it was equally unsuccessful in an artistic sense. ‘The best comedy theatre of America’ is apparently rapidly falling from its high estate.”