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New World Stages is a five-theater, Off-Broadway performing arts complex in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is between 49th and 50th Streets beneath the plaza of the Worldwide Plaza complex at Eighth Avenue .
It was designed by Alexander Saeltzer and opened in 1866 as the Theatre Français, as a home for French language dramas and opera. [2] The theatre was renamed the Lyceum in 1871. In 1879, it was taken over by producer J.H. Haverly who renamed it Haverly's 14th Street Theatre. By the mid-1880s, it had become simply the Fourteenth Street Theatre. [3]
The 44th Street Theatre was a Broadway theater at 216 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City from 1912 to 1945. It was originally named Weber and Fields' Music Hall when it opened in November 1912 as a resident venue for the comedy duo Weber and Fields, but was renamed to the 44th Street Theatre in December 1913 after their tenure at the theatre ended.
The Public Theater is an arts organization in New York City. Founded by Joseph Papp, The Public Theater was originally the Shakespeare Workshop in 1954; its mission was to support emerging playwrights and performers. [1] Its first production was the musical Hair in 1967. [2]
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The Minetta Lane Theatre is a 391-seat off-Broadway theatre at 18 Minetta Lane in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. [1] The theatre is owned by Liberty Theatres, a subsidiary of Reading International , which also owns the Orpheum in the East Village, Manhattan .
John Street Theatre, situated at 15–21 John Street, sometimes called "The Birthplace of American Theatre", [1] was the first permanent theatre in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York. [2] It opened on December 7, 1767, and was operated for several decades by the American Company. It closed on January 13, 1798.
The 48th Street Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 157 West 48th Street in Manhattan. It was built by longtime Broadway producer William A. Brady and designed by architect William Albert Swasey. [1] The venue was also called the Equity 48th Street Theatre (1922–25) and the Windsor Theatre (1937–43).