Maude Adams, actress, starred in James Barrie's Peter Pan, which opened on 6 November 1905 and ran for six months.

On 23 August 1905 director G. M. Anderson released Raffles, Amateur Cracksman, for Vitagraph Studios; it was the most elaborately produced film to date.

Ethel Barrymore uttered the famous line "that's all there is, there isn't any more" in Thomas Raceway's Broadway show Sunday, which premiered 15 November 1904 and ran for ten weeks.

On 4 September 1909 John Barrymore appeared in his first nonmusical hit production, Ongley and Smith's The Fortune Hunter. The play ran for 345 performances.

Producer-playwright David Belasco discovered Blanche Bates and starred her in two productions, Naughty Anthony and Madame Butterfly, in 1900. In 1906 Bates starred in the Girl of the Golden West.

On 20 November 1900 French actress Sarah Bernhardt arrived in the United States for her first visit since 1896; in 1906 "the Divine Sarah" began an American tour that grossed $1 million...