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The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, originally the Globe Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 205 West 46th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1910, the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was designed by Carrère and Hastings in the Beaux-Arts style for Charles Dillingham .
The new theatre was larger than the building it replaced, with the older timbers being reused as part of the new structure; the Globe was not merely the old Theatre newly set up at Bankside. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] It was probably completed by the summer of 1599, possibly in time for the opening production of Henry V and its famous reference to the ...
John Orrell (December 31, 1934 – September 16, 2003) was a British author, theatre historian, and English professor at the University of Alberta.The New York Times described him as the "historian whose intellectual detective work laid the groundwork for the 1997 re-creation of Shakespeare’s original Globe Theater."
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The original globe theatre was built in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, destroyed by a fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern Globe Theatre is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings.
On the south bank of the River Thames in London, near where the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe stands today, is a plaque that reads: "In Thanksgiving for Sam Wanamaker, Actor, Director, Producer, 1919–1993, whose vision rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside in this parish". [12]
National Theater: 1912 1959 New Century Theatre: 1921 1962 New Theatre Comique: 1839 1884 New York Hippodrome: 1905 1939 New York Vauxhall Gardens: 1767 1859 Niblo's Garden: 1823 1895 Old Broadway Theatre: 1847 1859 Park Theatre (Brooklyn) 1863 1908 Park Theatre (Manhattan) 1798 1848 Playhouse Theatre: 1911 1969 Roxy Theatre: 1927 1960 Theatre ...
As the Globe Theatre. The Church of the Messiah at 728–30 Broadway, near Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, was dedicated in 1839 [1] and operated as a church until 1864.