 Hoyt's plays emphasized individualized characters drawn from the everyday experiences of ordinary people.His 10th play, "A Trip to Chinatown" (1891), with its hit tune "The Bowery" and its then-record 657 performance run, and his 1883 play, "A Milk-White Flag", were the most successful.Both were performed at Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre in New York, often called simply "Hoyt's Theatre" during the seven years he ran it.