Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Village East by Angelika (also Village East, originally the Louis N. Jaffe Art Theatre, and formerly known by several other names [a]) is a movie theater at 189 Second Avenue, on the corner with 12th Street, in the East Village of Manhattan in New York City.
While most of the early Yiddish theaters were located in the Lower East Side south of Houston Street, several theater producers were considering moving north into the East Village along Second Avenue by the first decades of the 20th century. [13]: 31 In 1903, New York's first Yiddish theater was built, the Grand Theatre.
Metrograph is an independent two-screen movie theater located at 7 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As a theater, it focuses primarily on repertory cinema screenings as well as occasionally hosting new premieres and Q&A events.
TNC's Art Gallery grew out of the annual art exhibit for the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, and is now a year-round program of curated shows. Theater for the New City's annual summer performance festival known as Dream Up Festival started in 2010. The festival is dedicated to new works and performances run in August and September.
The area was known as the "Jewish Rialto" at the time. After four seasons it became the Yiddish Folks Theatre, [56] then a movie theatre, the home of the Phoenix Theatre, the Entermedia Theatre, and now a movie theater again, the Village East Cinema. [57] It was designated a New York City landmark in 1993. [56]
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917 [1] – June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and, as adults, The Bowery Boys.
The theatre at 105 Second Avenue that became the Fillmore East was originally built as a Yiddish theater in 1925–26, designed by Harrison Wiseman in the Medieval Revival style, at a time when that section of Second Avenue was known as the "Yiddish Theater District" and the "Jewish Rialto" [1] because of the numerous theatres that catered to a Yiddish-speaking audience.
Theatre 80 was an Off-Broadway theater located at 80 St. Mark's Place in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was owned and operated by Lorcan Otway, who restored and renovated the building with his father and opened it as a theater in the 1960s.