Event Information
Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre
Manager / Director:
Leonard Grover
Price: $.50; $.25 children
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
30 July 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
10 Sep 1866, 7:45 PM
11 Sep 1866, 7:45 PM
12 Sep 1866, 7:45 PM
13 Sep 1866, 7:45 PM
14 Sep 1866, 7:45 PM
15 Sep 1866, 7:45 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
aka Rip Van Winkle; or, The sleep of twenty years
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 September 1866, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 10 September 1866, 2.
"[Jefferson is] as popular as before he left us to gather fresh laurels on the English stage. We wish that he might appear in something better than 'Rip Van Winkle,' although it has one merit in the fact that Mr. Jefferson is kept so much on stage."
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 12 September 1866, 2.
4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 15 September 1866, 182.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 September 1866, 182.
Brief. “An event of the week was the re-appearance on the New York State of Joseph Jefferson, the popular comedian.”
