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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 ...
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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.
21 Astor Place (also known as "Clinton Hall" and "13 Astor Place") stands on the site which was once the Astor Opera House. After the Astor Place riot, the building was turned over to the New York Mercantile Library, which used it until 1890, when they tore it down and built the current 11-story building. The Library left in 1932, and the ...
[119] [120] One Astor Plaza was one of 23 major office projects underway in New York City at the time. [121] During excavation, the contractors bored holes up to 10 feet (3.0 m) deep, then placed dynamite sticks in the holes, covering the openings with 14-by-14-foot (4.3 by 4.3 m) blasting mats before detonating the dynamite.
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 ...
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