- Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- My Innocent Boy (1899). Comedy.
- The Royal Chef (1904). Musical comedy.
- The Mountain Climber (1906). Farce. Adapted from the German farce by C. Kraatz. Written by M. Neal. Directed by Ben Teal. Criterion Theatre: 5 Mar 1906- Apr 1906 (closing date unknown/55 performances). Cast: Joseph Allen Sr., Harrison Armstrong, Edith Barker, Joseph Brennan, Walter Dickenson, Augustin Duncan, Elsa Garrett, Charles J. Greene, Angela Keir, William Lewers, Herbert Marion, Grant Mitchell, Ellen Mortimer, Sidney Rice, May Robson, George S. Spencer, Francis Wilson. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- The District Leader (1906). Musical comedy/drama.
- When Knights Were Bold (1907).
- Three Twins (1908). Musical.
- The Love Cure (1909). Romantic musical.
- The Red Widow (1911). Musical. Music by Charles J. Gebest. Book by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf. Lyrics by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf. Based on the story "My Official Wife" by Archibald Clavering Gunter. Musical Director: Charles J. Gebest. Directed by Frederick G. Latham. Musical Staging by James Gorman. Astor Theatre: 6 Nov 1911- 24 Feb 1912 (128 performances). Cast: Joseph Allen Sr. (as "Baron Maximilian Scareovich"), Donald Archer, Sophye Barnard, William Barube, Poney Cantor, Lee Carriere, Stanley Carter, Helen Cheevers, Harry Clarke, Sylvia Clarke, Mona Clifford, Dorothy Courtney, Fay Darling, Kitty Devere, D. Dickson, Dorothy Dickson, Martin Enwright, Tempe Evans, Marie Fanning, Stanley Fields, Mary Gordon, Glory Gray, Ralph Harlow, John Hendricks, Raymond Hitchcock (as "Cicero Hannibal Butts"), Mr. Jenkins, Rokey Johnson, Owen Jones, William Lafferty, Augusta Lang, Helen Lee, Lola Lorraine, George E. Mack, Christine Mangasarian, Elsie Markert, Olga Markusson, Daisy Marshall, Theodore Martin, Evelyn May, Paul McShane, Margie Melvin, Edward Morrison, Jean Newcombe, Julie Newell, Ann O'Kane, Ann Pauley, B. Pennington, Lincoln Plumer, Harry Pond, Elsie Richmond, Vivian Rogers, George Ross, Ray Russell, Clara Schroeder, S. Sommerville, Constance Talbot, Gladys Taylor, Mattie Vance, Gertrude Vanderbilt. Produced by Cohan & Harris.
- Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913).
- Hit-the-Trail-Holiday (1915). Written by George M. Cohan. Suggested by George Middleton. Based on a work by Guy Bolton. Astor Theatre (moved to The Harris Theatre from 7 Feb 1916 to close): 13 Sep 1915- unknown (336 performances). Cast: Joseph Allen Sr. (as "Jed Cusick"), Lorena Atwood, Laura Bennett, Clifford Dempsey, Al Gilmore, Harold Grau (as "Pete"), Edgar Halstead, Horace James, Katherine La Salle, Ernest Lynd, Frederick Maynard, C.R. McKinney, Fred Niblo (as "Billy Holiday"), John D. O'Hara, Purnell Pratt (as "Dean Granger"), Grant Stewart. Produced by Cohan & Harris.
- Oh, My Dear! (1918). Musical comedy.
- The Tavern (1921). Burlesque (revival). Written by Cora Dick Gantt. Directed by John Meehan and George M. Cohan. Hudson Theatre: 23 May 1921- Jun 1921 (closing date unknown/27 performances). Cast: Joseph Allen Sr., Eugenie Blair, George M. Cohan, William Gaunt, Robert Gleckler, Joseph Guthrie, Norman Hackett, Virginia Irwin, Clyde North, Rita Romilly, Joseph Selman, William L. Thorne, Edwin Walter, Isabel Withers. Produced by George M. Cohan.
- Trilby (1921). (revival). Written by George L. Du Maurier. National Theatre: 23 Dec 1921- Jan 1922 (closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: Joseph Allen Sr. (as "Alexander McAllister"), Violet Anderson, Frank Doane, Desmond Gallagher, Diana Gray, Ruth Harding, Geneva Harrison (as "Mimi"), I.B. Johnson, Harry Kittredge, Wilton Lackaye (as "Svengali"), Wilton Lackaye, Jr. (as "Theodore de la Farce"), Rose Le Vere, Jeffreys Lewis, Edmund Lowe (as "William Bagot"), Ignacio Martinetti, Harry Mestayer (as "Gecko"), George Nash (as "Talbot Wynne/Taffy"), Carrie Radcliffe, Cyril Ring (as "Lorimer"), Charlotte Walker (as "Trilby O'Ferrall"), Laura Walters. Produced by Coöperative Players, Inc.
- Zander the Great (1923). Comedy.
- Dear Sir (1924). Musical comedy. Music by Jerome Kern. Book by Edgar Selwyn. Lyrics by Howard Dietz. Musical Director: Gus Salzer. Music orchestrated by Allan K. Foster. Choreographed by David Bennett. Directed by David Burton. Times Square Theatre: 23 Sep 1924- 4 Oct 1924 (15 performances). Cast: Joseph Allen Sr. (as "Peters"), June Baldwin, Ida Berry, William Boren, Hazel Bunting, Betty Campbell, Helen Carrington, Walter Catlett (as "Andrew Bloxom"), Austin Clark, Ritchy Craig, Clifford Daly, Regina Daw, Marion Donnelly, Josephine Dunn, Victoire Dutel, Dorothy Fitzgibbon, Raymond Hall, Madeline Janis, Norman Jefferson, Janearl Johnson, Katherine Kohler, Trudy Lake, Ainsley Lambert, Lovey Lee, Arthur Lipson (as "Louis, Maitre d'Hotel at Sherry's"), Clair Lipton, Claire Luce (as "Clair"), Kathlene Martyn, Margery Martyn, John McCullough, Beth Meakins, Francis Murphy, Helen Orb, Evelyn Plumador, Geraldine Reavard, Dorothea Richmond, Rita Royce, Frank Schulze, Oscar Shaw (as "Laddie Munn"), Allen Stevens, George Sweet, Genevieve Tobin (as "Dorothy Fair"), Julia Warren, Peggy Watts, William Wilder, Billy Wilson, Devah Worrell. Produced by Philip Goodman.
- The Patsy (1925).
- The Heaven Tappers (1927).
- Baby Cyclone (1927). Farce.
- The Tavern (1930). Comedy (revival).
- The Song and Dance Man (1930). Comedy/drama.
- Reunion in Vienna (1931). Comedy. Written by Robert E. Sherwood. Directed by Worthington Miner. Martin Beck Theatre: 16 Nov 1931- Jul 1932 (closing date unknown/264 performances). Cast: Lynn Fontanne (as "Elena"), Alfred Lunt (as "Rudolph Maximillian von Hapsburg"), Joseph Allen Sr. (as "Chef"), Joseph Allenton, Hendrik Booraem, Virginia Chauvenet, Eduardo Ciannelli (as "Poffy"), Phyllis Connard, Charles Douglass, Edward Fielding, Mary Gildia (as "Kathie"), Frank Kingdon (as "General Hoetzler"), Bjorn Koefoed, Ben Kranz, George Lewis, Bela Lublov, Owen Meech, Lloyd Nolan (as "Emil"), William R. Randall, Otis Sheridan, Murray Stevens, Noel Taylor, Cynthia Townsend, 'Henry Travers Herr Krug"), Minor Watson (as "Dr. Anton Krug"), Justina Wayne, Helen Westley (as "Frau Lucher"), Stanley Wood.
- Bulls, Bears and Asses (1932).
- Whatever Possessed Her (1934). Farce.
- If a Body (1935). Mystery/drama.
- I'd Rather Be Right (1937).
- Village Green (1941).
- The Men We Marry (1948).
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