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The Park Theatre, originally known as the New Theatre, was a playhouse in New York City, located at 21–25 Park Row in the present Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan, about 200 feet (61 m) east of Ann Street and backing Theatre Alley. The location, at the north end of the city, overlooked the park that would soon house City Hall.
The Park Central Hotel is a 25-story, 761-room [2] hotel located southwest of Carnegie Hall at 870 7th Avenue (between West 55th and 56th Streets) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed in the Renaissance Revival style and opened on June 12, 1927.
The Century Theatre, originally the New Theatre, was a theatre at 62nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Opened on November 6, 1909, it was noted for its fine architecture but due to poor acoustics and an inconvenient location it was financially unsuccessful.
Joseph Papp (born Joseph Papirofsky; June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director.He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan.
The Roxy Theatre was a 5,920 [a]-seat movie palace at 153 West 50th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, just off Times Square in New York City. It was the largest movie theater ever built at the time of its construction in 1927. [1] It opened on March 11, 1927 with the silent film The Love of Sunya starring Gloria Swanson. It was a leading ...
Strand Theatre, June 1914. The Strand Theatre was an early movie palace located at 1579 Broadway, [1] at the northwest corner of 47th Street and Broadway in Times Square, New York City. Opened in 1914, the theater was later known as the Mark Strand Theatre, [2] the Warner Theatre, and the Cinerama Theatre. It closed as the RKO Warner Twin ...
John Street Theatre, situated at 15–21 John Street, sometimes called "The Birthplace of American Theatre", [1] was the first permanent theatre in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York. [2] It opened on December 7, 1767, and was operated for several decades by the American Company .
Walter Reade, Sr. in a 1927 publicity photo for Reade Theatre Enterprises. Walter Reade Sr. (1884–1952) was the man behind a chain of theatres which grew from a single theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey to a chain of forty theatres and drive-ins in New Jersey, New York and neighboring states that lasted into the mid-seventies.