Darkest Russia (play)
Darkest Russia is a play by H. Grattan Donnelly and Sidney R. Ellis.[1][2] It premiered at the Chestnut Street Opera House in Philadelphia on September 18, 1893 with Donnelly as the credited playwright and Ellis credited as director and manager of the production.[3] Later sources credit both men as the work's playwrights.[1][2] It toured in the 1893-1894 season which included a run at the Fourteenth Street Theatre on Broadway where it opened on January 8, 1894.[4] Well received in New York, it ran there longer than initially planned for six weeks.[5] It returned to New York later that year for a run at the Columbus Theatre.[6]
Other stops on the Darkest Russia tour included performances at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware (1893),[7] (1893) the Grand Opera House in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1893).[8] the Bijou Theater in Pittsburgh (1893),[9] the Lyceum Theatre in Cleveland (1893),[10] the Academy of Music in Buffalo (1893),[11] the Taylor Opera House in Trenton, New Jersey (1893),[12] the Hyperion Theater in New Haven, Connecticut (1893),[13] the Bowdoin Square Theatre in Boston (1893),[14] the Chestnut Street Theatre (1894) in Philadelphia,[15] the Academy of Music in Washington, D.C. (1894),[16] the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1894),[17] the Academy of Music in Jersey City, New Jersey (1894),[18] and the Bijou Theatre in Brooklyn (1894).[19]
The play was adapted by screenwriter Frances Marion into the 1917 silent film of the same name directed by Travers Vale.[1]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c Goble 2011, p. 145.
- ^ a b "Darkest Russia". The Moving Picture World. April 28, 1917. p. 642.
- ^ "Chestnut St. Opera House". The Philadelphia Times. September 19, 1893. p. 3.
- ^ "Darkest Russia a Success". The New York World. January 9, 1894. p. 3.
- ^ "Themes of the Theatres". New York Herald. February 14, 1894. p. 2.
- ^ "In New York". Brooklyn Eagle. March 25, 1894. p. 5.
- ^ "Amusements: Grand Opera House". The Morning News. September 30, 1893. p. 6.
- ^ "Darkest Russia". The Patriot-News. October 5, 1893. p. 2.
- ^ "Bijou". The Pittsburgh Press. October 15, 1893. p. 15.
- ^ "In the Theatres". The Plain Dealer. October 22, 1893. p. 4.
- ^ "Darkest Russia at the Academy". The Buffalo News. October 31, 1893. p. 31.
- ^ "Taylor Opera House". Trenton Sunday Advertiser. December 10, 1893. p. 4.
- ^ "Hyperion Theater". The Morning Journal-Courier. December 12, 1893. p. 3.
- ^ "In Darkest Russia". Boston Post. December 17, 1893. p. 11.
- ^ "In the Way of Amusements". The Philadelphia Times. February 18, 1894. p. 16.
- ^ "Darkest Russia at the Academy of Music". The Washington Post. March 1, 1894. p. 4.
- ^ "Fulton Opera House". Lancaster Daily Intelligencer. March 1, 1894. p. 8.
- ^ "Amusements: Academy of Music". The Jersey City News. March 19, 1894. p. 2.
- ^ "Concerns of the Stage". New York Herald. April 4, 1894. p. 7.
Bibliography
[edit]- Goble, Alan, ed. (2011). "Ellis, Sydney R.". The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Bowker-Saur. ISBN 9783110951943.