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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] On January 17, 1968, the ...
Nevertheless, it was the deadly infamous Astor Place riot, only a year and a half after opening on May 10, 1849 which caused the theatre to close permanently – provoked by competing performances of Macbeth by English actor William Charles Macready (1793–1873), at the Opera House (which was then operating under the name "Astor Place Theatre ...
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.
Cooper Union New Academic Building 4. Cooper Square Hotel 5. Village Voice 6. Public Theater (Astor Library) 7. Colonnade Row / Astor Place Theatre (Blue Man Group) 8. Clinton Hall (site of the Astor Opera House) 9. KMart (Wanamaker Department Store Annex) (permanently closed as of 2021) 10. Hamilton Fish House
Astor Place Theatre, off-Broadway, New York City; Astor Theatre, New York City, on Broadway, New York City; Dixie Center for the Arts, formerly the Astor in Ruston ...
The Astor Theatre was located at 1537 Broadway, at the corner with 45th Street, on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It opened on September 21, 1906, with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream [1] and continued to operate as a Broadway theatre until 1925. From 1925 until it closed in 1972, it was a first-run movie theater.
New York: Peabody & Co.:31-4. Henderson, Mary C. (2004). The City and the Theatre: The History of New York Playhouses - A 250 Year Journey from Bowling Green to Times Square (Rev. and expanded ed.). New York: Back Stage Books. ISBN 0823006379. Ireland, Joseph N. (1866). Records of the New York Stage, from 1750 to 1860. Vol. 1. New York: T. H ...
Eighth Street–New York University station; 51 Astor Place; 770 Broadway; A. Alamo (sculpture) ... Astor Place Theatre; Astor Place Tower This page was ...