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Anita refused and took her company to the rival theater, The Lafayette Theatre. [2] In 1916, due to financial difficulties, Bush sold her company to the theater. One of the actors, Charles S. Gilpin, took over the players and helped establish the Lafayette Players Stock Company, which became the first legitimate Black stock company in Harlem. [3]
The Lafayette Theatre was named for Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette who fought, along with General George Washington, in Suffern and the Town of Ramapo. The theater's history began when the Suffern Amusement Company hired noted theatre architect Eugene De Rosa to design a movie theatre for a location on Lafayette Avenue in downtown ...
The Lafayette Theatre was a 1,500-seat two-story theater built by banker Meyer Jarmulowsky that opened in November, 1912. [2] Located at 132nd Street and 7th Avenue, it was designed in the Renaissance style by architect Victor Hugo Koehler, who also designed the two three-story buildings flanking the theater on the corners of 131st and 132nd Streets.
It opened between the world wars, three years before Jolson's "The Jazz Singer" taught movies to talk. Suffern's Lafayette Theater turns 100.
The single-screen Lafayette Theater in Suffern, now celebrating its 100th anniversary, will offer the American premier, big-screen showing of "Brats."
If things go smoothly, Roswarski said he believes design plans for the Lafayette Theatre will be ready by the end of 2024 with construction completed in 2026. Completed renovations on the 601 and ...
In March 1916, the Lafayette Theatre purchased the rights to her company and changed its name to The Lafayette Players. Bush then organized four additional companies of the Lafayette Players which toured throughout the United States. At the Lafayette Theatre, Bush's company would mount a new play every week.
It later operated the Shubert Lafayette Theatre [1] until its demolition in 1964 and the Riviera Theatre, both in Detroit. Since then, the organization has grown to include nine Broadway theaters , making it the second-largest owner of Broadway theaters after the Shubert Organization , and a number of theaters across the United States ...