- (1896 - 1918) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1896) Stage Play: My Friend from India. Farce. Written by Henry A. Du Souchet. Bijou Theatre: 6 Oct 1896- unknown (unknown performances). Cast [as known]: Edward Abeles (as "Charles Underholt") [Broadway debut], Walter E. Perkins (as "A. Keene Shaver").
- (1900) Stage Play: The Sprightly Romance of Marsac. Comedy. Written by Molly Elliot Seawell and William Young. Theatre Republic: 3 Dec 1900- Dec 1900 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Macklyn Arbuckle (as "Marsac"), Edward Abeles, Sally Berg, Henry Bergman, Marie Blanchard, Claude Brooke, Viola Carlstedt, Charles Charters, Laura Clement, John F. Denton, William J. Ferguson, Margaret Fuller, Horace Lewis, Sandol Milliken, Leonie Norbury, Ffolliott Paget, Edward Walker, Annabelle Whitford.
- (1901) Stage Play: Under Two Flags. Drama. Written by Paul M. Potter. Garden Theatre: 5 Feb 1901- Jun 1901 (closing date unknown/135 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, James Allen, Macklyn Arbuckle, Blanche Bates (as "Cigarette"), Mrs. F.M. Bates, Mary Bayly, Arthur Benson, Frank Browning, Arthur Bruce, Albert Bruning, Francis Carlyle, Grace Elliston, George Gaston, Campbell Gullan, Malcolm Gunn, Tefft Johnson, Frank Leyden, Lem Roberts, Margaret Robinson, William Sissons, Winchell Smith, Matt Snyder, Rose Snyder, Robert Tice, Beresford Webb, W.J. Welch, Madge West. Produced by Charles Frohman. Note: Filmed several times (usually without play credit) as a silent as early as 1912, but most notably by 20th Century Fox as Under Two Flags (1936).
- (1902) Stage Play: Lady Margaret. Comedy. Adapted from the French by Edward Rose. Bijou Theatre: 27 Jan 1902- Feb 1902 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Amelia Bingham, Edith Blair, Verner Clarges, Madge Carr Cook, Arnold Daly, Miss De Rondamayo, Robert Dudley, Minnie Dupree, Bijou Fernandez, Alfred Fisher, Marion Gardiner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Annie Irish, Annie Morton, T. Roberts, Harriett Sawyer, Cora Tanner, Alice Theiss, Charles Walcot, Harold Walsh, Henry Warwick, Ivah Wills, Evelyn Wood, Frank Worthing. Produced by Amelia Bingham.
- (1902) Stage Play: The Diplomat. Comedy. Written by Martha Morton. Directed by Jacob Litt. Hoyt's Theatre: 20 Mar 1902- May 1902 (closing date unknown/76 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Louise Allen, Charles Arthur, S. Broughton, William Collier Sr., Morgan Coman, Nanette Comstock, Noira Dyer, Etienne Girardot, Roderic Harrison, Bessie Heaton, M.L. Heckert, Edward Krauser, Richie Ling, George W. Parsons, John Saville, William E. Shay, Lizzie Strachen, David Torrence, Isabelle Urguhart, Virginia Warren.
- (1902) Stage Play: The Lady of Lyons (Revival). Written by Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Garrick Theatre: 19 May 1902- May 1902 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Macklyn Arbuckle, Edwin Arden, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew, W.E. Chase, Russell Crauford, Charles Haskins, Robert Homans, Leonard Ide [Broadway debut], Mrs. W.G. Jones, Mary Mannering, Kate Pattison Selton, Becton Radford, May Seymour, W.H. Thompson, Brandon Tynan. Produced by Frank McKee. Note: Filmed as In the Name of Love (1925).
- (1902) Stage Play: Mrs. Jack. Comedy. Written by Grace Livingston Furniss. Directed by R.A. Roberts. Wallack's Theatre (moved to The Victoria Theatre from 6 Oct 1902- close): 2 Sep 1902- unknown (72 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Mrs. Thorndyke Boucicault, Edith Bowan, Edward L. Clark, Charles M. Collins, Thomas Evans, Alice Fisher (as "Mrs. Jack"), George Fox, William Harcourt, Anne Huntington, Jacques Kruger, Alice Leigh, Florence Lloyd, Mary E. Post, George Schaeffer, Myrtle Vinson. Produced by Henry B. Harris.
- (1903) Stage Play: My Wife's Husbands. Farce. Written by Edwin Milton Royle. Directed by William H. Post. Hoyt's Theatre: 24 Aug 1903- Sep 1903 (closing date unknown/41 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles (as "Mr. Drinkwater"), Louise Bates, Robert Peyton Carter [Broadway debut], Ralph Delmore, Moses Fairfax, Madeleine Hazlett, Grace Henderson, Charlotte Lander, Cam. Mauvel, W.H. Post, Edwin Milton Royle (as "Ralph Kirtley"), Selena Royle (as "Gwendolin Winston"), Jennie Satterly, Edward See, Hugo Toland, Laura Wood.
- (1903) Stage Play: The Whitewashing of Julia. Comedy. Written by Henry Arthur Jones. Directed by Joseph Humphries. Garrick Theatre: 2 Dec 1903- Jan 1904 (closing date unknown/39 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Annie Lee Burson, W.H. Crompton, Fay Davis (as "Julia"), George Douglass, Louise Drew, Maggie Holloway Fischer, Doris Keane [Broadway Debut], Herbert McKenzie, Frederick Raymond, Guy Standing, Caroline Starbuck, Elizabeth Stewart, Lillian Thurgate, Ida Vernon, Ida Waterman. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1903) Stage Play: Glad of It. Drama. Written by Clyde Fitch. Savoy Theatre: 28 Dec 1903- Jan 1904 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Gypsey Alcott, E.H. Barlab, John Barrymore [Broadway Debut], Alice Brittain, Frank Brownlee, Thomas Burns, Karlene Carman, Edward Collins, Clifford E. Constable, Rosa Cook, J.R. Cooley, Adelaide Hendricks, Rose Hubbard, Millie James, Emma Janvier, Gerald Kelly, Josephine Mack, Rosa Marston, Thomas Meighan, Georgie Mendum, Prince Miller, Grant Mitchell, William Palmer, Florida Pier, Fanny Addison Pitt, Phyllis Rankin, Anita Rothe, Leonora Ruiz, Zelda Sears, Hassard Short (as "Reginald Norton"), Olive Spencer, Robert Warwick, Lucile Watson (as "Clarita Baxter"), Charles Wentz, Claire Winston, Jim Wyke. Produced by Charles Frohman. Note: Historically significant as John Barrymore's Broadway debut.
- (1904) Stage Play: Glittering Gloria. Musical comedy. Music by Bernard Rolt. Book by C.M.S. McLellan [credited as Hugh Morton]. Lyrics by C.M.S. McLellan [credited as Hugh Morton] and Bernard Rolt. Featuring songs by Jean Schwartz and A. Baldwin Sloane. Featuring songs with lyrics by William Jerome and Edward Abeles. Daly's Theatre (moved to The Grand Opera House from 4 Apr 1904- close): 15 Feb 1904- Apr 1904 (closing date unknown/30 performances). Cast: Marie Allen, Percy Ames (as "Archie Toddleby, Jack's friend") [Broadway debut], Sybil Anderson, Katherine Black, Viola Clayton, Belva Don Kersley, Gertrude Douglas, Lotta Ettinger, Edna Farrell, Amy Forsland, E. Lovat Fraser, Edward Gore, Ferdinand Gottschalk (as "Zebedee Poskett, a rural solicitor"), Olive Haskell, John Hendy, Flora Hengler, May Hengler, May Hopkins, Ethel Intropidi (as "Chorus"), Eugene O'Rourke, Carol Oty, Adelaide Prince, Jessie Radcliffe, Phyllis Rankin, Adele Ritchie (as "Gloria Grant, known as Glittering Gloria"), Forrest Robinson (as "Colonel Pasquale Gallegher, from El Paso, Texas"), Frieda Salber, George A. Schiller, Cyril Scott, Lottie Vernon, Marie L. Wilson. Produced by John C. Fisher and Thomas W. Ryley.
- (1904) Stage Play: The Dictator. Farce. Written by Richard Harding Davis. Criterion Theatre: 4 Apr 1904- 30 May 1904 (64 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, William Collier Sr. (as "Brook Travers, alias Steve"), Louise Allen, John Barrymore (as "Charley Hyne"), Nannette Comstock, Louis Eagan, Augustus Goodson, Wallace McCutcheon Jr., Thomas McGrath, Robert McWade, Thomas Meighan, George Nash, Frances Sedgewick, Harry Senton, Lucile Watson (as "Mrs. John T. Bowie"), Henry J. West, Emmet Whitney (as "Samuel Codman"). Note: Production resumed at the Criterion Theatre from 24 Aug 1904- Sep 1904 (closing date unknown) for 25 additional performances (see below). Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1904) Stage Play: The West Point Cadet. Musical comedy. Music by Alfred Muller Norden. Adapted from the original French by Paul Bilhaud and Alfred Barre. Material adapted by Alfred Muller Norden. Musical Direction by Jose Vandenberg. Directed by Joseph W. Herbert. Princess Theatre: 30 Sep 1904- 3 Oct 1904 (3 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Josephine Angela, Laura Butler, James Cameron, Mabel Carrier, Viola Clayton, Scott Cooper, Arthur Cunningham, John Cunningham, Roy Cutter, Harry DeRango, Della Fox, Lucy Georgi, Joseph Graham, Madeleine Hazlett, Joseph Herbert, Edward Le Hay, Richie Ling (as "Ernest Everett"), James Nichols, Clara Palmer, Elsa Reinhardt, Hazel Roberts, J. William Stelz, Agnes Stone, Paul Russell Stone, Robert Ward, May Willard. Produced by Nathaniel Roth.
- (1904) Stage Play: The Rich Mrs. Repton. Written by R.C. Carton. Criterion Theatre: 16 Nov 1904- Nov 1904 (unknown closing date/5 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Beatrice Agner, Frederick E. Beane, Herbert Budd, Fay Davis, Arthur Elliott, Harold Hartsell, Ernest Lawford, Arthur Lawrence, Edgar Norton, Florida Pier, Vincent Serrano, Katherine Stewart. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1905) Stage Play: Cousin Billy. Comedy/farce. Written by Clyde Fitch. Based on "Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon" by Eugene Labiche and Edouard Martin. Scenic Design by Ernest M. Gros, Homer Emens and Edward G. Unitt. Directed by Clyde Fitch. Criterion Theatre: 2 Jan 1905- Mar 1905 (closing date unknown/76 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Beatrice Agnew, Edith Barker, Freeman Barnes, Marion Brooks, Alexander Brunn, Rosa Cook, Charles J. Greene, Jean Hubbell, Angela Keir, Ora Lee, William Lewers, Grant Mitchell, Sydney Rice, May Robson, Arthur Row, Zelda Sears, Francis Wilson. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1905) Stage Play: Man and Superman. Comedy. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Hudson Theatre: 5 Sep 1905- Feb 1906 (closing date unknown/192 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles (as "Henry Straker"), Pauline Anthony (as "Parlour Maid"), Richard Bennett (as "Hector Malone Jr."), J.D. Beveridge (as "Hector Malone Sr."), Clara Bloodgood (as "Violet Robinson"), Lois Frances Clark (as "Mrs. Whitefield"), Fay Davis (as "Anne Whitefield"), Alfred Hickman (as "Octavius Robinson"), Robert Loraine (as "John Tanner"), Louis Massen (as "Roebuck Ramsden"), Sally Williams (as "Susan Ramsden"). Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1906) Stage Play: Brewster's Millions. Comedy. Written by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley. Based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon. Directed by Frederic Thompson and Winchell Smith. New Amsterdam Theatre, (moved to The Hudson Theatre from 25 Feb 1907- close): 31 Dec 1906- unknown (163 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles (as "Montgomery Brewster"), Leslie Bassett, Gaston Bell, Cecile Breton, George Clare, Walter Clifton, Jack Devereaux, Willie Frank, Sumner Gard, Martin Hoag, John Hodge, Willard Howe, Nestor Lennon, Emily Lytton, Darle MacBoyle, Arthur Morris, Olive Murray, Josephine Park, George Probert, Roy Prosser, William Rawson, Eugene Redding, Albert Sackett, George Spelvin, Albert Sperry, Amy Sumers, Joseph Turpin, Joseph Woodburn, George Wright. Produced by Thompson and Dundy.
- (1909) Stage Play: The Goddess of Liberty. Musical/farce. Music by Joseph E. Howard. Book by Frank Adams and William M. Hough. Lyrics by Frank Adams and William M. Hough. Musical Director: Hugo Fry. Directed by Ned Wayburn and Percy F. Leach. Weber's Music Hall: 22 Dec 1909- 15 Jan 1910 (29 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles (as "Lord Jack Wyngate"), Charles Aveling (as "Lord Algernon Banbury"), Louis Casavant (as "Horace Butterworth"), Joseph Clark (as "Taxi Driver"), George W. Dachshund (as "Sigmund"), May De Sousa (as "Phyllis Crane"), Frances Demarest (as "Hope Butterworth"), Charles Fletcher (as "Adolph Muscle"), Florence Gerald (as "Lady FitzHugh Murray"), The Grey Trio (as "Coachers"), C.K. Kittridge (as "Mimi/Fifi"), Herbert Leonard (as "Rudolph Tuscle"), Miles McCarthy (as "Bill"), Grace McMeen (as "Chorus"), Edward Noble (as "George Spelvin"), W.T. Pinkham (as "Augustus Butterworth"), Marie Richmond (as "Mrs. Horace Butterworth"), Bert Smith (as "A Detective"), Sol Solomon (as "Lord Jack's Tailor"), Wilton Taylor (as "Harry McCormick"), Stella Tracy (as "Doris Butterworth"). Produced by Joseph E. Howard.
- (1915) Stage Play: The Last Laugh. Written by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. Directed by Paul Dickey. 39th Street Theatre: 29 Jul 1915- Sep 1915 (closing date unknown/52 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Everett Butterfield, Louise Corbin, Albert Gran, Henry Harmon, Herbert Main, Stephen Maley, Marian Murray, Inez Plummer, Bernard Riggs, Albert Sackett. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1916) Stage Play: A Pair of Queens. Written by Otto A. Harbach, A. Seymour Brown and Harry Lewis. Longacre Theatre: 29 Aug 1916- Sep 1916 (15 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Charles Butler, Hugh Cameron, Kathleen Clifford, Regina Conelli, Maude Eburne, Carleton Macy, Frank McGinn, Joseph Santley, Elise Scott. Produced by H.H. Frazee.
- (1916) Stage Play: The Master. Written by Benjamin F. Glazer. From the German of Hermann Bahr. Fulton Theatre (moved to The Bandbox Theatre from 8 Jan 1917- close): 5 Dec 1916- Jan 1917 (closing date unknown/47 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles [erroneously credited as Edward Abels], Royal Byron, Arnold Daly, Carl Eckstrom, William Frederic, George Gaston, Charles Halton, Edyth Latimer, Florence Oakley, Edna May Oliver [Broadway debut], Ramsey Wallace, Philip Wood. Produced by The Estate of Henry B. Harris.
- (1917) Stage Play: The Lassoo. Written by Victor Mapes. Lyceum Theatre: 13 Aug 1917- Oct 1917 (closing date unknown/56 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles, Robert Adams, George Backus, Florence Beresford, Berton Churchill, Samuel Coit, Walter Colligan, Lillian Cooper, Phoebe Foster, Eleanor Gordon, Shelly Hull, Florence Johns, Guy Milham, Beatrice Noyes, Beatrice Warren.
- (1917) Stage Play: On With the Dance.
- (1918) Stage Play: Oh, Lady! Lady! Musical comedy. Book by 'Guy Bolton (I)' and P.G. Wodehouse. Music by Jerome Kern. Musical Director: Max Hirschfeld. Music orchestrated by Frank Sadler. Costume Design by Harry Collins. Scenic Design by Clifford Pember. Conducted by Max Hirschfeld. Directed by Robert Milton and Edward Royce. Princess Theatre (moved to The Casino Theatre from 17 Jun 1918- close): 1 Feb 1918- 10 Aug 1918 (219 performances). Cast: Edward Abeles (as "Spike Hudgins") [final Broadway role], Dorothy Allan (as "Miss Sal Munn"), Constance Binney (as "Parker"), Billie Booker (as "Miss Marie Schino"), Bobby Brewster (as "Miss Lotta Pommery"), Harry C. Browne (as "Hale Underwood"), Charles Columbus (as "Mr. C. Ollie Flower"), Margaret Dale (as "Mrs. Farrington"), May Elsie (as "Miss Della Catessen"), Harry Fisher (as "William Watty"), Mildred Fisher (as "Miss Mollie Gatawaney"), Bettie Gereaux (as "Miss Virginia Hamm"), Charles Hartmann (as "Mr. B. Russell Sprout"), Edna Hettler (as "Miss Marion Etta Herring"), Irving Jackson (as "Mr. Con Kearney"), Elsie Lewis (as "Miss Hallie Butt"), Reginald Mason (as "Cyril Twombley"), Carroll McComas (as "May Barber"), Gypsy Mooney (as "Miss C. Ella Rhy"), J. Randall Phelan (as "Mr. H. Ash-Brown "), Carl Randall (as "Willoughby Finch"), Mildred Roland (as "Miss Barbara O'Rhum"), Vivienne Segal (as "Mollie Farrington"), Florence Shirley (as "Fanny Welch"), Jeanne Sparry (as "Miss Clarette Cupp"), Mabel Stanford (as "Miss May Anne Ayes"), Janet Velie (as "Miss Cassie Roll"), Jack Vincent (as "Mr. Stewart Prune"), William Walsh (as Mr. Artie C. Hoke"), Lois Whitney (as "Miss Lettice Romayne"). Produced by F. Ray Comstock and William Elliott.
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