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The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan, New York City. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row, originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain. Bruce Mailman bought the building in 1965. [1]
NYU Skirball presents live events in genres ranging from dance, theater and performing arts to comedy, music and film. It is known for presenting international contemporary performing artists including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, [2] Toshiki Okada, [3] Jérôme Bel, [4] and Forced Entertainment [5] as well as local artists such as Elevator Repair Service, [6] The Wooster Group, [7] Big Dance ...
John Butler Trio performing at Thursday at the Square in August 2007. Thursday at the Square was a free weekly concert series held annually from May through August at Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York.
The Pub is known as one of New York City's live showcase venues, catering to an eclectic mix of music genres. [6] This defining feature of Joe's Pub – its extraordinary variety – was the vision of Public Theater Associate Producer Bonnie Metzgar and principal booking agent Bill Bragin, an aficionado of music in all forms and a world-music ...
By 1965, it was in disuse and faced demolition. The Public Theater, then the New York Shakespeare Festival, persuaded the city to purchase it for use as a theater. It was converted for theater use by Giorgio Cavaglieri between 1967 and 1976. [18] [19] The building is a New York City Landmark, designated in 1965. [20]
It opened between the world wars, three years before Jolson's "The Jazz Singer" taught movies to talk. Suffern's Lafayette Theater turns 100.
The Players Theatre, located at 115 MacDougal Street between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, is one of the oldest commercial Off-Broadway theatres in operation in New York City. The Players Theatre contains a main stage with more than 200 seats and a 50-seat black box theatre, as well as four ...
Plaza Lafayette is a 0.09-acre (0.036 ha) pocket park and surrounding streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City.Named after the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, the park is roughly trapezoidal in shape, and is bounded by Riverside Drive – originally called Boulevard Lafayette in this area – on the west, the ...