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The Apollo Theater (formerly the Hurtig & Seamon's New Theatre; also Apollo Theatre or 125th Street Apollo Theatre) is a multi-use theater at 253 West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is a popular venue for black American performers and is the home of the TV show Showtime at the Apollo.
This year, the theater has moved events to a new venue down the street, dubbed The Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater, while the original venue undergoes renovation and expansion. “It’s ...
The venerable Harlem theater The Apollo, which has launched generations of Black artists, also was recognized. Longtime Deadheads, including actors Miles Teller and Chloe Sevigny and talk show ...
It recognizes the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement and honors landmarks like the Apollo Theater and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
In the 1930s, Wood was the dance captain at the Apollo Theater where the young dancers first met. Wood led the Apollo Theater chorus line to strike for higher wages and a week's vacation pay on February 23, 1940. [5] [6] [7] Sixteen chorus girls shut down the theater by refusing to go onstage and held a 24-hour picket line. The strike was the ...
Chocolate Soldiers opened at the new Apollo Theater, Harlem, starring Hall in Harlem, New York, 14 February 1934. The show was produced by Clarence Robinson and garnered great attention and acclaim, [95] helping to establish the recently opened Apollo as Harlem's premier theatre.
When a 9-year-old Leslie Uggams made her debut at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater in 1952, she instantly won over the notoriously tough crowd as the “extra added attraction” on a bill with ...
[2] [3] It opened at the Apollo Theater and was successful, featuring a depiction of a migrant family coming to New York for a better life but meeting hardship in the city. [ 2 ] Its entry on the Harlem Renaissance , Encyclopædia Britannica describes the play as depicting vice and crime with "vernacular and slang-ridden dialogue".