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New Theatre, 1909. The New Theatre was once called "New York's most spectacularly unsuccessful theater" in the WPA Guide to New York City.Envisioned in 1906 by Heinrich Conried, a director of the Metropolitan Opera House, its construction was an attempt to establish a great theatre at New York free of commercialism, one that, broadly speaking, would resemble the Comédie Française of Paris.
Teatro Nuovo presented its inaugural Bel Canto Festival in the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College in July and August 2018, performing Rossini's Tancredi, Mayr's Medea in Corinto, and a second version of Tancredi featuring the eight alternative pieces Rossini composed after the premiere, which the company called Tancredi rifatto [redone].
Photo of the theatre's interior in 1959. The Loew's State Theatre was a movie theater at 1540 Broadway on Times Square in New York City.Designed by Thomas Lamb in the Adam style, [1] it opened on August 29, 1921, as part of a 16-story office building for the Loew's Theatres company, with a seating capacity of 3,200 [2] and featuring both vaudeville and films.
INTAR Theatre was founded in New York in 1966 as Asociación de Arte Latinoamericano (ADAL) by a group of Cuban and Puerto Rican writers and artists. Cuban-born Max Ferrá served as INTAR's artistic director since its founding until 2004, when Cuban-American playwright Eduardo Machado assumed artistic leadership of the organization. [2]
The new Lyric's interior retains the proscenium arch from the Apollo, which was expanded significantly when the new theater was built. [36] [48] The proscenium opening in the new theater is 50 ft (15 m) wide, [38] [48] compared to 30 ft (9.1 m) in the old Apollo. [48] The new theater's proscenium measures around 31 ft (9 m) high.
The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater at 214 West 42nd Street, at the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City.One of the first Broadway venues to open in the Times Square neighborhood, the New Amsterdam was built from 1902 to 1903 to designs by Herts & Tallant.
The Paramount Theatre was a 3,664-seat movie palace located at 43rd Street and Broadway on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1926, it was a showcase theatre and the New York headquarters of Paramount Pictures .
The Shuberts announced plans for their six new theaters in September 1920. [29] [30] [31] The Ambassador, announced that November, was the first new theater that the Shuberts planned to build along 48th and 49th Streets. [26] [32] The Shuberts held a 21-year lease on the theater that extended from August 1919 to August 1940. [33]