Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare and produced at the Winter Garden Theatre, on Broadway, on November 25, 1864, for one night only, by three famous Booth Brothers:

   A scene from Julius Caesar written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) and produced at the opulent Winter Garden Theatre, on Broadway and West 3rd Street, on November 25, 1864, for one night only, by three famous actors.

   The Booth Brothers: Edwin Booth as Brutus, John Wilkes Booth as Cassius, and Junius Brutus Booth as Mark Antony. The Booth brothers, who had never performed together, hoped to raise funds for a Shakespeare statue in the new Central Park.

Ages Ago is a musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Frederic Clay that premiered on 22 November 1869 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration.

Ages Ago, sometimes stylised as Ages Ago! or Ages Ago!!, is a musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Frederic Clay that premiered on 22 November 1869 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration. 

Poster advertising Ages Ago, 1869

Song from Ages Ago

A scene from Ages Ago, The Illustrated London News, 15 January 1870

A sketch of the scenery by Matvey Andreevich Shishkov for The Death of Ivan the Terrible (a historical tragedy) written by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817 - 1875).

   A sketch of the scenery by the Russian theater artist Matvey Andreevich Shishkov ( 1832−1897) for The Death of Ivan the Terrible (a historical tragedy) written by the Russian playwright  Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817 - 1875).

   The Death of Ivan the Terrible was first performed at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in 1867. It was not a success, due to the lead role having been given to a comic actor.
   The world-famous Moscow Art Theatre began its second season with a production of the play, which opened on 29 September 1899. It was directed by the seminal theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, who also played the lead role initially. When Stanislavski fell ill after the first few performances, he was replaced by Vsevolod Meyerhold.

   Matvey Andreevich Shishkov was a Russian theater artist. He studied at the Stroganov School and with the theater decorator H. Shenyang in Moscow. From 1852 he worked under the guidance of A. A. Roller in St. Petersburg. Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1869), Professor (1884). Sh. strove to introduce historical everyday authenticity into Russian theatrical and decorative art, which, however, often turned into excessive naturalism and props. Shishkov's best works are the scenery for the performances "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" by A. K. Tolstoy (1867, Alexandria Theater, together with V. G. Schwartz and G. G. Gagarin), "Blacksmith Vakula" by Tchaikovsky (1877, Mariinsky Theater, together with M. I. Bocharov).

A sketch of the scenery by V. Hugo for his play Les Burgraves (The Burgraves, a historical play) written by Victor Hugo (1802-1885).

   A sketch of the scenery by V. Hugo for his play Les Burgraves (The Burgraves, a historical play) written by the French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885).

   Les Burgraves is a historical play by Victor Hugo, first performed by the Comédie-Française on 7 March 1843.

Set design by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Humanité René Philastre for the second act in the première production of Les Burgraves

Rip Van Winkle; or, The Sleep of Twenty Years, dramatised by Dion Boucicault, and first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on September 4, 1865.

   Scenes from Rip Van Winkle; or, The Sleep of Twenty Years, dramatised by Dion Boucicault, and first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on September 4, 1865.  The famous American actor, Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905), played the role of Rip.

   Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle first appeared at the Adelphi Theatre in London on September 4, 1865. It was not an immediate success, in part because Jefferson’s acting overshadowed the

Joseph Jefferson at the Adelph Theatre, London, in 1865

Mrs. Billington as Gretchen, Miss Buckston as Meenie

At the Adelphi! That brought back the very precious picture of Jefiferson at thirty-five, playing Rip Van Winkle

The new play of "Rip Van Winkle," a dramatised version, by Mr. Dion Boucicault, of Washington Irving's most genial and humorous story--in which, the hero, one of the early Dutch settlers in New York, falls in with the goblins who haunt the Katskill [sic] mountains, and drinks their magic liquor, causing him a sleep of twenty years--is likely to have a long run at the Adelphi Theatre.  The new American actor, Mr. Jefferson, who appears as Rip Van Winkle, seems as though he had created the character himself

Measure for Measure written by William Shakespeare and produced around 1870, starring Isabella Glyn as Isabella and William Hoskins as Lucio

A scene from Measure for Measure written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and produced around 1870, starring Isabella Glyn (well-known Victorian-era Shakespearean actress, 1823-1889) as Isabella and William Hoskins (d.1886) as Lucio.

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The School for Scandal (1777) written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and performed at the Drury Lane, London, in 1778

A stage sketch of The School for Scandal (1777) written by the British playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) and first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on May 8, 1777.