Show THE STAGE New York 5Patti gives her first concert next week at Steiaway Hall She will probably sing selections from Traviata Semiramide and Trovatore assisted by Nicolina and other artist Ticket tilling for choice places at 10 The J ecelpts will be about 14000 Gerster will be supported in Italian opera by Miss Abbie Carringion ando and-o hers She will sing in Hamlet J1 Esmerslda Ernani Hugenots Magic Flute and other favorite operas She contemplates including California In her tour The Maurice Grau Company is expected ex-pected here soon from Buenos Ayres It will open in Boston on the 28th and in New York at the Academy of Music Active preparations are making for the May Festival which promises to be the most memorable musical event New York has ever known Geo Wm Curtis is President and Theodore Thomas musical director Bandels Israel in Egypt will be sung by the chief singing societies of Boston Brooklyn Baltimore Balti-more Philadelphia and New York The solos will be sung by some of the leading artists of Europe and America Possi has been well received but popular popu-lar criticism assigns him a place rather below Salvini Seats at Booths during his engagement range from 2oc to 2 The houses are ratner poor Esmeralda a new play by Mrs Bur nett proves fairly successful at Madison Avenue Hazel Kirk is now being played at tbe Windsor in the bowery Lydia Thompson reappeared on the London stage recently as Mrs Smylie in Nine Points of the Law John McCullough appears at the Fifth Avenue on the 4th inst J K Emmit is billed for Haverlys on the 7th Joe Jefferson plays Rip Van Winkle Win-kle at the Grand Opera House on the 4thIt It is stated that John ilcCullough recently re-cently paid 5000 for a tragedy called Memnor by Guy Casleton of New Orleans Twentyfive places of theatrical amusement amuse-ment are now open here The Union Square opens the regular season on the 4th Janauschek appears on Monday in n new play Doctor of Lima written by Salmi Morse It is said to be highly emotional and physiological Deacon Crankett will be produced at Haverlys Fourteenth street on Monday Mon-day with Ben Maginley as Deacon and Jaa Olfeil as Joe Thatcher At Union Square on Thanksgiving week e new play The Lights of London Lon-don will be produced a Fred Paulding is lying sick of malaria ma-laria at Mcon Ga and has cancelled all engagements A Philadelphia capitalist is to build Haverly a theatre thereon Market street between Ninth and Broad |