Across the Continent

Event Information

Venue(s):
Wood's Museum and Metropolitan Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
20 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
21 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
22 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
23 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM
24 Jan 1874, 2:00 PM
24 Jan 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Across the continent, [drama]
Text Author: Unknown playwright
Participants:  Oliver Doud [actor] Byron

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 January 1874, 7.
2)
Article: New York Herald, 20 January 1874, 10.

Intellectual enormities committed night after night by Byron and the cast at Wood’s in appearing in plays that do not approach a truthful representation of anything in real life.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 January 1874, 2.
4)
Review: New York Clipper, 31 January 1874, 350.

No mention of music; included an olio in the second act.