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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]
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 ...
Astor Place was the site of the Astor Opera House, at the intersection of Astor Place, East 8th Street, and Lafayette Street. Built to be the fashionable theater in 1847, it was the site of the Astor Place Riot of May 10, 1849.
The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House [1] in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than 120 people injured. [2] It was the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in Manhattan, which generally pitted immigrants and nativists against each other, or together ...
A number of The Public's productions have moved to larger Broadway theaters upon the conclusion of their run at Astor Place. The three most commercially successful of these works have been Hair (1967), A Chorus Line (1975), and Hamilton (2015). The Public Theater has won 54 Tony Awards, 152 Obie Awards, 42 Drama Desk Awards and five Pulitzer ...
Basel at Musical Theater Basel (2008) Zürich at Theater 11 (2010) [22] United Kingdom. London at the New London Theatre (2005–2007) [23] United States. New York City at the Astor Place Theatre (1991–2025) [24] Chicago at the Briar Street Theatre (1997–2025) [25] Las Vegas Luxor Theater (2000–2005) The Venetian Las Vegas (2005–2012) [26]
Astor Theatre or Astor Cinema can refer to: Australia. Astor Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria; ... Astor Place Theatre, off-Broadway, New York City; Astor Theatre, ...
As a journalist and a civil rights activist, he was widely respected. He was also an actor and leader of an African American theatre troupe, the Astor Place Tragedy company. Together with his friend Benjamin J. Ford, he was the leading black Shakespearean actor of his period. [1]