Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 November 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM
23 Jan 1866, 7:30 PM

Program Details

PROG DET: Overture at 7:20.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Edwin Thomas Booth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 22 January 1862, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 January 1866, 7.
3)
Review: New-York Times, 24 January 1866, 4.

     “Mr. Booth’s success in particular characters is so great, and his friends in this community are so numerous, that he—the Booth himself—is barely permitted to show himself in the vast range of characters wherein elsewhere he has established his position.”