Theatre Comique
Event Information
Venue(s):
Theatre Comique [1867- : 514 Broadway]
Proprietor / Lessee:
Josh Hart [actor, minstrel]
Manager / Director:
John F. [1833-93] Poole
Price: $.50 parquet & dress circle; $1 reserved seat; $.25 family circle
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
8 June 2025
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
20 Apr 1874, Evening21 Apr 1874, Evening
22 Apr 1874, Evening
22 Apr 1874, 2:30 PM
23 Apr 1874, Evening
24 Apr 1874, Evening
25 Apr 1874, Evening
25 Apr 1874, 2:30 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“The entertainment offered by Harrigan and Hart at the Theatre Comique is irresistibly funny. It delights the crowded audience that nightly throng the house, and certainly the person who could refrain from laughing at their eccentricities and comicalities would be grave, indeed. Two phenomenally clever boys—the Carrolls—though not much bigger than a man’s hand, have fun enough in them to win the hearty applause of the audience. Their presentation of negro character is very happy and free from the looseness with which their seniors sometimes invest it.”