Quick Listing of New York Theatre and Concert Hall Addresses

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Abbey’s New Park Theatre (NYC) – 932 Broadway between 21st and 22nd Sts – 1874 – burned to ground 1882 – never rebuilt – see Park Theatre

Abbey's Theater (NYC) -1893 - 1500 seats - next door to Casino Theater at 1394 Broadway and 39th St. - opened with Sir Henry Irving’s Repertory Company- 1896 it was renamed Knickerbocker - Red Mill 1906 (40 weeks); L’Aiglon (Maude Adams); Quality Street (Maude Adams); Shrlock Holmes (William Gillette); Mr. Bluebeard (Eddie Foy); Rome and Juliet 1904 (E.H. Southern and Julia Marlowe); Yankee Prince 1908 (George M. Cohan); Chantecler 1911 (Maude Adams); New Henrietta 1913 (Douglas Fairbanks); Disraeli (George Arliss_; Listen Lester 1918 (Clifton Webb) (34 weeks); Dearest Enemy 1925 (286 perf); Honeymoon Lane 1926 (Kate Smith) (317) - demolished 1930

Aberle’s Theatre - Broadway below Randall Place – abandoned St. Anne’s Catholic Church – 8th St. between Broadway & Fourth – 1879 – leased to various companies – known for a time as Germania Theatre – closed 1902 – demolished 1903

*Abington(NYC) - 432 West 42nd Street – 4th Floor

Abingdon Theatre Arts (NYC) - 312 West 36th Street - 1st floor - two theatres - new June Havoc Theatre opening Fall 2003, and other Stage II - 98 and 56 seats - home to Abington Theatre Company and Titans Theatre Company

Aborn Opera Company – U.S. touring company – 1902 – Brooklyn and Baltimore – toured for 20 years

*Abrons Art Center(NYC) - 466 Grand St. @ Pitt Street – see Henry Street Settlement

Academy Hall - see Old Stuyvesant Hall

Academy Motion Picture Theatre - closed & demolished

Academy of Music - 1926 - 3,517 seats - Razed, 1998

Academy of Music (NYC) - 14th Street between 3rd Avenue and Irving Place - (1279 seats) - 1854 – 14th St & Broadway – originally Peter Stuyvesant’s farm - succeeded Astor Place Opera House - over 30 years city’s leading opera house – opera performances ceased early 1900s after establishment of the Met - predates Brooklyn Academy of Music - In Old Kentucky 1893 (160) - burned to the ground in 1866 – restored – In 1870, the literary Lotos Club was founded here. After fashion moved uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House, the Academy presented vaudeville and later silent movies. It had another incarnation across the street that later became the Palladium - building demolished 1925

Academy Theatre (NYC) - see Apollo

Access Theatre (NYC) – 380 Broadway (at White Street) - see Upright Citizens Brigade

Acme Theatre (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Acting Company – founed 1972 by John Houseman – offshoot of Julliard – originally known as City Centre Acting Company – Robber Bridegroom (1975)

Actors Collective (NYC) - Perfect Crime 1987 (still running at another theatre) – demolished

Actor’s Equity Association – founded 1912 – following dissolution of the Actor’s Society of America

Actors’ Institute(NYC)

Actors Outlet (NYC) – Olympus on My Mind 1986

*Actors Playhouse(NYC) - 100 7th Avenue S. - reopens Feb 20/09 - between Bleecker St. & 4th St - off Broadway theatre for more than 40 years - 170 seats - to close as performance space 2007 - Saturday's Children 1927 (310); I Am A Camera (1956), He Who Gets Slapped (1956), Wedding (1958), 1962; Pocket Watch 1966 (725); Fortune and Men's Eyes 1967 (382) and 1987; Boy Meets Boy 1975; Crimes Against Nature 1978 (10 weeks); Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (1980), Marry Me a Little 1981; Torch Song Trilogy (1982), Evening with Quentin Crisp (1983), What's a Nice Country Like You...Doing in a State Like This 1985 (252); Ten Percent Revue (1988), in Rage and Rehab (1989), Sex (1991), Crabtree’s Whoop-Dee-Doo 1993; The Only Worse Thing You Could Have Told Me (1995), Porn (Rex Chandler) 1996 (395); Naked Boys Singing 1999 (5 years July 22/04), among many others - theatre closed - reopens with Blood Type: Ragu - Feb 20/09 - opening March 5/09;

Actor’s Society of America – formed 1895 – dissolved 1912

Actors’ Studio Drama School(NYC)- Three Sisters 1964

Actors' Studio Theatre (NYC) - 432 West 44th St. (9th & 10th) - founded by Lee Strasburg in 1947 - Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1977

Actors' Temple - 339 W 47th St - newest off-Broadway house late 2006

Actor's Theatre (NYC) - 1922 - housed in Greenwich Village Theatre and Provincetown Playhouse - Beyond the Horizon (Judith Lowry,Aline MacMahon) 1926

Adelphi Theatre (NYC) – 54th Street East of Broadway - On The Town 1944 (463); Around the World (Cole Porter) 1946; Street Scene 1947; Look Ma I’m Dancin’ 1948 – see George Abbott Theatre – demolished

Adelphi Theatre (NYC) - see Craig Theatre, 54th Street, George Abbott

Adolph Phillipps Theatre (NYC) - 1912 – see Bandbox Theatre

Adonis Theatre - 839 8th Avenue – started as Tivoli in 1921 – in 1970s it became porn house – closed & demolished in 1990

Aerial Gardens (NYC) - see New Amsterdam Theatre

African Grove Theater (NYC) - 1821-1823 - Thomas Street, – West side of Broadway between Duane & Anthony Sts -was a theater where black actors and producers put on shows. Henry Brown was the artistic director who directed Shakespearean plays including Othello and Hamlet - later moved to Bleecker and Mercer Streets – pleasure garden theatre for black population – rear of City Hospital

African Theatres - 1. near Anthony, below Canal St; 2. near Mercer below Houston; 3. near Mercer above Houston

Al Hirschfield Theatre - see Martin Beck - Curtains 2008;

Alice Tully Hall (NYC) – Lincoln Center – Broadway and 66th Street - see Philharmonic Hall

Algonquin Hotel(NYC) - see Oak Room, Round Table, Algonquin Room - nightspot - Peccadillo Theater Company's world premiere of the original musical The Talk of the Town will feel very much at home on May 23/05 when they move into their new quarters: Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room - Algonquin Round Table arose late in the second decade of the 20th century when a press agent turned powerful drama critic Woollcott onto the charms of the Algonquin Hotel's Rose Room. Woollcott began inviting his friends to dining hall including Vanity Fair writers Parker and Benchley, New York Times drama editor and playwright Kaufman, novelist Edna Ferber, New York World columnist Heywood Broun, playwright Robert Sherwood and popular columnist Franklin P. Adams. Occasional joiners included actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Tallulah Bankhead, Ring Lardner, Harpo Marx and Broun's wife Ruth Hale

Algonquin Room - see Algonquin Hotel

Algonquin Theater - see Blue Heron Theater

Al Hirschfeld Theatre - 302 West 45th St – built as Martin Beck Theatre 1924 – Madame Pompadour 1924 – housed Theatre Guild, Group Theatre, Abbey Players and D’Oyly Cart Co - 2003 renamed Al Hirschfeld Theatre - Curtains 2008;

Alhambra Theatre – vaudeville house -closed

All Cartoon Movie Theatre(NYC) -see Bijou Theatre

Allen Room – see Frederick P. Rose Hall

Allerton (Bronx) - 1927 - 1,232 seats - Triplex; Closed

Alice Tully Hall - see Lincoln Centre - reopened February 2009 - refurbished - interior now called Starr Theatre

Alpine Theatre - closed & demolished

*Altered Stages(NYC) - 212 West 29th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - company formed 1958 - see Joan Weill Center for Dance - moved into a new home on West 55th Street November 2004

Alvin Theatre (NYC) -250 West 52nd Street – (1344 seats) - opened 1927 with Funny Face (Fred and Adele Astaire) - see Neil Simon (renamed in 1983 in honour of the playwright)- Girl Crazy 1930; Music in the Air 1932; Anything Goes (Ethel Merman,Victor Moore) 1934 (over a year); Porgy and Bess 1935 (124); Red Hot and Blue 1936; I'd Rather Be Right (George M. Cohan) 1937 (9 mos); Boys From Syracuse 1938; Very Warm For May 1939; Lady in the Dark 1941; Something For The Boys (Ethel Merman) 1943 (422); Billion Dollar Baby 1945; Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Shirley Booth) 1951 (267); Darkness at Noon (Claude Rains) 1951; Two’s Company 1952; House of Flowers 1954; No Time For Sergeants 1955 (796); Oh Captain (Tony Randall) 1958 (192); First Impressions 1959; Greenwillow (Anthony Perkins,Pert Kelton,Cecil Kellaway) 1960 (97); Wildcat (Lucille Ball) 1960 (171); Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1962; High Spirits 1964; Flora the Red Menace 1965; Yearling 1965; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Brian Murray,John Wood)1967 (421); It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s Superman 1966; Great White Hope 1968 (556); Company 1970 (690); Shenandoah 1975; Annie 1977; Merrily We Roll Along 1981(Jason Alexander,Liz Callaway)(16); Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? 1982;

AMAS Repertory (NYC) - 4 Guys Named Jose; Beowulf 1977

Amateur Theatre - see Lyceum (3rd)

Amato Opera Theater - 319 Bowery - founded 1948 - Bowery their home since 1962 being sold - company to disband but some plan to carry on as Amore Opera

* Ambassador (NYC) - 215 West 49th St. opened 1921(Shubert-seats 1125)- First of six theatres the Shuberts will build on 48th and 49th Streets - opening show was Rose Girl 1921; followed by Blossom Time 1921 (576); Queen High 1921; Great Gatsby (Florence Eldridge) 1926 (14 weeks); Racket 1927 (119); Night of January 16 (Walter Pidgeon) 1935 (232); Straw Hat Revue 1939 (Danny Kaye,Alfred Drake,Imogene Coca,Jerome Robbins); showed films in the 1940s – 1956 became legitimate again - Eugenia (Tallulah Bankhead) 1957 (12); You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running 1967 (755);Celebration 1969; dark 1973-74; Me and Bessie 1974 (453); Godspell (1976) appeared at 3 theatres after leaving off-Broadway (Ambassador, Broadhurst and Plymouth to log up 2,124 performances); Eubie (Gregory Hines,Maurice Hines) 1978 (439); Division Street (John Lithgow,Christine Lahti) 1980 (21); Lion in Winter, Miss Margarida's Way, Leader of the Pack 1985; Ain't Misbehavin - revival 1988 (176); Bring in da Noise, Bring in Da Funk 1996; You're a Good Man Charlie brown (revival B.D. Wong) 1999; Ride Down Mount Morgan 2000; Class Act 2001; Chicago moved here 2003

AMC Empire 25 – 234 W 42nd Streets newest theatre complex which has incorporated other theatres – Harris Theatre will be joined with the Empire (built 1912 as Eltinge became Empire 1954 after original Empire demolished at B’Way & 40th St) and Liberty Theatres to form part of the AMC movie complex and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum – The Harris in1933 turned to films for 55 years - theatre will be gutted and be part of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

American Academy of Dramatic Arts(NYC) - founded 1884 at the Lyceum Theatre School for Acting – for a time used the name New York School of Acting – 1974 opened a West Coast branch in Pasadena

*American Airlines Theatre(NYC) - 229 West 42nd Street - built as Selwyn Theatre - 1918 - 1000 seats - Prodigal Daughter 1893 - From 1934 to the 1990s was a movie house – in 2000 theatre was restored by Roundabout Theatre Company and renamed American Airlines - Royal Family 1927 (343), Information Please, Crowded Hour, Buddies - reopened as American Airlines Theatre (750 seats)- Man Who Came to Dinner (Nathan Lane) 2000;The Women (Cynthia Nixon,Jennifer Tilly,Kristen Johnston,Rue McClanahan)2001; Caretaker 2003;39 Steps 2008

American Comedy Institute(NYC)

American Company – mid 1700s most famous and long-lived troupe of travelling professional actors – eventually based at the John Street Theatre – moved to new Park Theatre

American Dramatic Fund Association – founded 1848 – abandoned with founding of Actors; Fund of America

American Globe Theatre (NYC)

*American Jewish Theatre (NYC) - see Maverick Theatre - 307 West 26th St.- Bertha The Sewing Machine Girl 1906 (9)

American Laboratory Theatre (NYC) –1920s – training school and producing company

American Museum (NYC) – opened 1810 – moved several times and was housed at Broadway and Ann Street - 1841 when P.T. Barnum took charge in 1842 became accepted as Barnum’s Museum – remodelled 1949 into full-fledged theatre seating 3,000 – enlarged 1850 – 1865 building burnt down – reopened but destroyed by fire again 1868

American Music Hall (NYC)- 141 E 55th Street 1930 – originally a church - see American Theatre

American National Theatre and Academy – 1935 – 1950 purchases the Guild Theatre and renamed it the ANTA

American National Theatre and Academy - proposed for site of the World Trade Center (Ground Zero)ANT to build a complex housing three-theatres (of 1,000, 700, and 400 seats) with 15-play season - ANT would not produce new work, instead an advisory board would select the 15 best regional productions and transfer them to the WTC site, in essence becoming a showcase for the best of American theatre

American Negro Theatre(NYC) - founded in Harlem - 1940 by playwright Abram Hill and actors Frederick O'Neal and Austin Briggs-Hall - presented original scripts at 135th Street Branch of New York Public Library – first production was Natural Man 1941 – company abandoned early 1950s

American Opera Company – 1885 – Academy of Music

American Opera Society – 1951 – Carnegie Hall

American Opera House (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

*American Place Theatre (NYC) - 111 West 46th St.(between 6th Ave & Broadway)- 300 seats - founded in 1964 - 2 smaller spaces of 299 and 74 seats - (currently under renovation by Roundabout Theatre) original group founded in 1963 at St. Clement's Church and moved to present location in 1971 – opened with Fingernails Blue as Flowers and Lake of the Woods - Hogan's Goat 1965 (607); Karl Marx Play 1973; Cold Storage (Martin Balsam) 1977 (6 weeks); A…My Name Will Always Be Alice 1984; I'm Not Rappaport (Judd Hirsch,Cleavon Little) 1985 (181 - transferred to Booth Theatre); Night and Her Stars 1995; Runt 2001 (100 perf. Aug 19/01)- see also information at Studio 54 as being taken over by Roundabout, and Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, and Laura Pels, and Black Box Theatre

American Repertory Theatre – 1946 – housed in old theatre on Columbus Circle – disbanded at end of 1st season

American Roof Garden (NYC) - above American Music Hall - earlier called American Theatre 1893

American Show Shop (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

American Theatre - (NYC) - 1893 - 260 West 42nd Street and 8th Avenue – 1893 - with entrances on 41st, 42nd and 8th Avenues - 2100 seats - opened with Prodigal Daughter 1893 – featured 10 horses running across stage – Voyage of Suzette with Maxine Elliott and Harry Davenport; 1908 renamed American Music Hall, had American Roof Garden – above American Music Hall - atmospheric – 1911 became Loew’s American Theatre – then burlesque house 1929 - burned 1930 and never reopened as a theatre – demolished 1932 - now a parking lot; 2nd American Music Hall opened 1934 in converted church at 139-41 East 55th Street; American (Bronx) - 1939 -1,400 seats Movies, 7-plex

American Theatre Critics Association – founded 1974

* American Theater of Actors (NYC) - 314 West 54th St - houses 3 theatres - Chernuchin, Beckman, Sargeant – see ATA – Urinetown 2001

American Theatre Wing – established 1939 – established the Stage Door Canteen

Amusement Park (NYC) – Freedomland U.S.A. 1960

Anco Theatre (NYC) - see Lew M. Fields Theatre, Hackett, Harris, Frazee, Wallack’s

Anderson Theatre - was located at 66 2nd Ave. in the lower east side of NYC - 5,000 seats - theater entrance structure is still there but it is now a pharmacy - theater wrapped around a corner building and part of the theater was also on the south side of 4th Street. The 4th St. side of the theater long gone - began as Yiddish Playhouse circa late 1800s or early 1900s, then used as a music venue in the late 1960s - Rock n'Roll Hall of Fame Group, the Yardbirds (1968); Cockettes - early 1970s

Angelika 57 - closed & demolished

Angelika Film Center - open

Anne G. Wilder Theater (NYC) – 416 West 42nd Street see Playwrights Horizon

Ansbacher Theatre (NYC) – see Public Theatre – Hair 1967

Ansonia Baths (NYC) - (see Continental Baths - became known as "The Tubs," west 70s - performances by Bette Midler, Barry Manilow

Anspacher Theatre (NYC) – see Public Theatre

ANT (NYC) - see American Negro Theatre

ANTA (NYC) (American National Theatre and Academy) - 245 West 52nd St. – (see Virginia) - built by Theatre Guild 1925 – opened as Guild Theatre with Caesar and Cleopatra 1925 - changed 1950 to Anta Playhouse and Anta Theatre in 1954 - in 1981 became Virginia - theatre sold in 1981 - renovated 1995 - Second Man 1927 (178), Porgy 1927 (217), Marco Millions 1928 (92), Mourning Becomes Electra 1931 (157), Ah Wilderness 1933 (289), End of Summer 1936 (152), Biography 1932 (267);Seventh Heaven 1955; Great Sebastians (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) 1956; Say Darling 1958; J.B. 1958 (364);Middle of the Night (Edward G. Robinson,Gena Rowlands) 1956 (477),Thurber Carnival (Paul Ford,Peggy Cass,John McGiver,Alice Ghostley,Tom Ewell) 1960 (16 weeks and additional 12 weeks later); Man for All Seasons 1961 (637); Blues For Mr. Charlie (Rip Torn,Al Freeman Jr) 1964 (148); Owl and the Pussycat(Alan Alda,Diana Sands) 1964 (421); Royal Hunt of the Sun (Christopher Plummer,David Carradine) 1965 (261); Maggie Flynn 1968; Different Times 1972; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - revival-(Elizabeth Ashley,Keir Dullea,Fred Gwynne,Kate Reid) 1974 (160);Bubbling Brown Sugar 1976 (766); Summer Brave (Alexis Smith)1975, Heartaches of a Pussycat 1980; Oh, Brother 1981;

A.N.T.A Washington Square Theatre (NYC) – opened 1964 with After the Fall (208); But For Whom Charlie (Ralph Meeker)(47); Man of La Mancha (Richard Kiley,Joan Denier) 1965 (2328)- moved to Martin Beck, then the Eden and Mark Hellinger, - torn down

Anthony Street Theatre (NYC) - 79-85 Worth Street - 1812 opened as Olympic Theatre - theatre was built by the Circus of Pepin and Breschard which was a French/Spanich circus which toured the US from 1807 until 1815. They also built The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and intoduced at least one Shakespeare's play to America - 1813 became present name - later became Commonwealth and the Pavillion - demolished 1821

Apartment 929 - new theatre company - MOTEL BLUES - 2004

Apollo Hall (NYC) (Fifth Avenue Theatre) 1873 – lower Broadway (5 points Park,Worth & Orange later Baxter) - several name changes and burned in 1891 and was rebuilt as vaudeville/film and burlesque theatre operated by Minsky - torn down in 1938 (depicted in film Gangs of New York)

*Apollo Theatre (NYC) - 253 West 125th Street (between Adam Clayton Powell Blvd & Frederick Douglass Blvd) - 1,463 seats - (2009 75th Anniversary) - opened in 1914, blacks were not allowed in the audience - originally known as Hurtig & Seamon's (New) Burlesque Theater - 1928 the building was taken over William Minsky - renamed the theater, 125th Street Apollo Theater, and changed from burlesque to variety shows geared to growing black population - 1934, its first black patrons were allowed in - amateur nights began - Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Bobby Short, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown, the Isley Brothers and the Jackson Five Jewel Box Revue 1968, Johnny Mathis; Harlem Song 2002) - comedians from Pigmeat Markham and Moms Mabley to Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle; and dazzlingly dressed singing groups like the Four Tops, the Temptations and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - -closed from 1976 to 1978 - refurbished - $6 million renovation, the theater is planning to install a production with an open-ended run - theater is to start its renovation in June 2001- Dance Theater of Harlem will perform its season at the Apollo; Dreamgirls (revival) Nov 2009; 2nd Apollo - Apollo Theatre (NYC) -223 West 42nd Street - built 1920 (1194 seats) opened as Bryant in 1910 for vaudeville and films - rebuilt as the Apollo – opened with Jimmie (Oscar Hammerstein II) (71); Macbeth 1921 (Lionel Barrymore); Poppy 1921 (W.C.Fields); George White's Scandals 1924; and 1926 (424); Manhattan Mary (Ed Wynn) 1927 (264); Flying High (Bert Lahr,Kate Smith) 1930 (347); Take a Chance 1932 (Ethel Merman); Blackbirds of 1933 - closed 1933 to show movies, became burlesque house from 1934 to 1937 but in 1938 returned to foreign films and in 1968 action films - 1978 renovated and entrance moved to 43rd Street - back to live theatre as the New Apollo - On Golden Pond 1979, Bent (Richard Gere) (240), Fifth of July 1980 (511) – Guys in the Truck 1983 and in 1983 returned to showing films - name changed to the Academy - featuring rock concerts - gutted in 1996 along with the Lyric to build Ford Centre for the Performing Arts engulfing the Apollo and Lyric theatres; 3 other theatres were Apollo for short time – Third Avenue Variety Theatre 1885; Playhouse on Chuter Street 1926 and a burlesque house on 125th Street – West 43rd façade still standing

Apollo (Bryant) - 1910 -1,197 seats - Razed, parts salvaged

Apollo (lower east side) - 1925 - 1,712 seats - Razed

Applause Books - 211 West 71st Street - opened 1980 - closing June 30/05 after 25 years in business

*Arci's Place (NYC) - 450 Park Avenue South (between 30th and 31st Streets) - opened 1998 as an intimate cabaret venue – closing March 15/02 - to open a new space in theatre district July/August 2002 - Arci's Place opened its doors in 1998, and its first headliner was current Mamma Mia! star Karen Mason, Donna McKechnie, Christine Ebersole, Sam Harris, Tom Wopat, Marilyn Sokol, Baby Jane Dexter, John Barrowman, Carol Woods, Margaret Whiting, Priscilla Lopez, Paige Price

*ArcLight Theater(NYC) - 152 West 71st St (between 6th Ave & Broadway) - 99 seat theatre in basement of a church

Arden Theatre - closed & demolished

Arena Theatre - closed & demolished

Armondo’s – 54 East 55th – 1940s nightclub

Armory - see Bowery Amphitheatre

*Arno Ristorante (NYC) - 141 West 38th Street (between Broadway and 7th Avenue) - Murdered By The Mob - in its 5th year

Ars Nova Theatre - 511 West 54th Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)- space to develop and perform new works in an intimate setting - ARS NOVA PGM is a film, television, and theatre production company that owns and operates The Ars Nova Theater, a 99-seat theatre space

Artef Theatre (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre, Mercury, President, Midget, American Show Shop, Gilmore’s, 48th Street, Erwin, Piscator’s Dramatic Workshop and Comedy Theatre

Art Greenwich (Twin) - Greenwich Avenue and West 12th Street - closed February 2001

Arthur - opened 1965 by Sybil Burton at site of the defunct El Morocco

Artists Crossing - new theatre company and school

Art Party (NYC) - see Zipper Theatre - new company formed 2002 by Alan Cumming and associates

Arts Connection (NYC) – 120 West 46th Street

Arts Theatre (NYC) - Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land 1976 (1667)

Assembly Theatre (NYC) – see Princess Theatre

Association for the Promotion and Protection of an Independent Stage in the United States – founded 1897-8

Association of Producing Artists (APA) - 1960 – later became resident company at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor – 1964 joined Phoenix Theatre

Astor Hotel (NYC) – 44th Street – 1930s had a nightclub Astor Cocktail Lounge -Fly With Me 1920

Astor House - Broadway & Vesey St – 1836 – catered to specialized clientele

Astor Library (NYC) - Hair opened here in 1967 before transferring to Broadway in 1968, stopping off first at a discotheque on the Upper West Side

* Astor Place Opera House(NYC) – Broadway at E 8th St & Astor Place – built for Italian Opera in 1847 – Macbeth 1849 - anti-English mobs set fire to the theatre 1849 – minstrel shows - theatre repaired and reopened – closed 1850 - 1854 building was renamed Clinton Hall – a library and lecture room – demolished 1860s

*Astor Place Theatre (NYC) - 434 Layfayette St. (7th & 8th)- residential building converted to theatre in 1969 (298 seats) - Paid in Full 1908 (167), Man From Home 1908 (496), Seven Days 1909 (397), Why Marry 1917 (120), Seven Keys to Baldpate 1913 (320), Hit-The-Trail Holliday 1915 (336), East is West 1918 (680), Boss 1911 (88), Indian Wants the Bronx (Al Pacino,John Cazale)/It's Called the Sugar Plum (Marsha Mason) 1968 - converted to a theatre in 1969 (298) - Peace 1969 (192); Gertrude Stein’s First Reader 1969; Dirtiest Show in Town 1970 (509); Blue Man Group in recent years - Cockeyed Tiger, Family Business, Dirtiest Show in Town 1970(509), My Astonishing Self (Donal Donnelly) 1978; Dining Room 1982 (583), Foreigner 1984 (686), Tubes 1991 (over 900 performances)

Astor Plaza – 44th and Broadway - 1,440-seats - opened in 1974 – to be converted into live rock concert hall. Leaving only two multiplexes (Loews E-Walk and AMC Empire 25) in the area, on West 42nd Street near 8th Avenue - no single-screen motion picture theaters left in the area

Astor Theatre (NYC) -built 1906 - 1537 Broadway at 45th Street – 1,300 seats - opened with A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1906 with Annie Russell and John Bunny; 1925 became a film house for 50 years - closed in 1972 - with adjoining Victoria, Helen Hayes, Morosco and Bijou Theatres became a new hotel tower - plans were delayed due to the glut of office space - in 1982 the five theatres were demolished – Tom Jones 1908; Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (Douglas Fairbanks Sr) 1912; Seven Keys to Baldpate; Hello Broadway; Hit-the-Trail Holliday; Why Marry; Rock-A-Bye Baby; Artists and Models; Sweet Little Devil (Gershwin); 1913 film Quo Vadis (22 weeks); Her Soldier Boy 1916 (198); Why Marry? 1917; East is West 1918 (680); Artists and Models 1924; June Days 1925 (11 weeks) – 1925 converted to films – 1959 renovated – 1982 along with 4 other theatres razed for Marquis Hotel which houses The Minskoff

Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) - young Equity company that has operated as guests of The Presbyterian Church of Astoria for four years, is experiencing growing pains - growing troupe left the church in recent weeks and is seeking a new home in Astoria, the Queens community across the East River from Manhattan

Astoria Performing Arts Center - 31-30 33rd Street, Astoria

*ATA (NYC) (American Theatre of Actors) - 314 West 54th Street – 3 theatres Chernuchin (140 seats); Sargent (65) and Beckmann (35)

Athenaeum - see Globe Theatre, A.T. Stewart’s Athenaeum

Atlantic Garden - beside Thalia Theatre – demolished 1916

* Atlantic Theater (NYC) - 336 West 20th St. (182)- housed in 100 yr old former church - Atlantic Company moved here in 1991 - Santaland Diaries 1996 (63); Hothouse 1999; Brave 1999 - the company will relocate its second stage to 111 Eighth Avenue, between 15th and 16th Streets - new space will house 99-seat black box theatre at 330 W 16th St - It is expected to be fully operable in January 2006 as Linda Gross Theatre - 165 seats - mainstage home remains on West 20th Street

Atlas Theatre - closed

A.T. Stewart’s Athenaeum - see Globe Theatre

Audubon Theatre - 1912 - 2,368 seats - Razed, 1996 (c) & demolished

Audrey Wood Theatre (NYC) 0 Kuni-Leml 1984; Love 1984

August Wilson Theatre - new name of Virginia Theatre as of Oct 17/05 - in honour of playwright - Jersey Boys 2005;

Automatic Vaudeville Company - 14th Street – 1903

Aux Puces - one of the first gay discos

Avalon(Bronx) - 1927 - 1,440 seats - Razed, 1951 (c.); 2nd - Avalon Theatre - 1927 – Brooklyn

Avenue Playhouse - closed

*Avery Fisher Hall(NYC) - see Philharmonic Hall (Lincoln Center)- home to New York Philharmonic - but moving back to Carnegie Hall in the upcoming future

Avon 42 - closed

Avon Hudson – see Hudson

Avon-at-the-Hudson (NYC)-see Henry Miller's Theatre

Avon Theatre (NYC) -see Klaw Theatre – 251 West 45th St - opened as Klaw Theatre 1921 – Nive People 1921; Strictly Dishonorable 1929 (557) – 1934 leased to CBS for studio – few years later bought outright – theatre demolished 1954

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Babalu Restaurant/Theatre/Night Club - 323 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th Aves)

Backdrop - 52nd Street - hot spot where Frank Loesser began practicing his craft

Backstage (NYC) (Ted Hook's Backstage) - 318 West 45th Street - intimate cabaret/restaurant - Ethel Merman, Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Anne Miller, Liza Minnelli

Backstage Club – 56th Street – nightclub owned by Billy Rose

Ballets Grandiva - 1996

Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo – 1974 – small Greenwich Village venues i.e. Westside Discussion group on W. 14th St; Joyce Theatre and tour extensively

Ballroom (NYC) - Chelsea cabaret of 1970s – Charles Pierce 1988; Eartha Kitt, Martha Raye, Yma Sumac, Margaret Whiting

*BAM (NYC) (Brooklyn Academy of Music) - (Harvey Theatre - 875 seats) - 651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn; Howard Gilman Opera House - 2000 seats - 30 Lafayette St - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1988 - Long Day's Journey into Night (Jason Robards Jr.,Zoe Caldwell) 1976 (11); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; American Premiere of Hamlet 2001 - 3rd theatre space (Samuel Scripps Stage, interior dubbed Judith R. & Alan H. Fishman Space) - 263 seat black box to open 2013 behind Gilman Opera House

BAM Rose Cinemas - 30 Lafayette, Brooklyn – 1998, previously Helen Carey Playhouse – built as Majestic 1903 – turned into Harvey Theatre, former 2110 seat historic Opera House – now all part of BAM

Bamboo Club – 7th Avenue, Harlem nightclub 1930s

Bandbox – nightclub across from Connie’s – 131st Street – 1930s

Bandbox Theatre (NYC) – opened 1912 as Adolph Phillip Theatre – 1914 changed to present name– 205 East 57th Street – (299 seats)- closed 1917 and cinema was built on site

*Bank Street Theatre (NYC) - 155 Bank Street (between Washington & West St)

Banvard’s Museum (NYC) – see Daly’s Theatre

Barbarann Theatre Restaurant(NYC) - Starting Here Starting Now 1977 – Demolished

Barbe’s - rock club

Barbizon Plaza (NYC) – Shoestring ’57 1956

Barney’s – 86 University Place – nightclub 1930s

Barnum's American Museum (NYC) - (see Chinese Rooms, Buckley’s Minstel Hall) - lower Broadway (5 Points Park, Worth & Orange (later Baxter) - Tony Pastor 1846; Drunkard or the Fallen Saved 1850 (100)– (depicted in film Gangs of New York) - corner Ann St & Broadway – joining Park Theatre, City Hall Park, City Hall and Astor House – originally Scudder’s Museum – 3,000 seats – 1865 burned down – became New York Herald’s offices

Barnum’s New Museum (NYC) – opened in 1865

Baron Wilkens – 7th Avenue and 134th Street – 1920s – Wilkens murdered 1926

Baronet Theatre - 1920s to 2001 – 993 3rd Avenue – opened as Arcadia - demolished

Barrow Street Theatre - 27 Barrow Street - formerly Greenwich House Theatre -new rental space - up to 199 seats - Bug 2004

Barrymore's Restaurant - 267 West 45th Street - theatrical restaurant - closing its doors end of January 2006

Barrymore Theatre (NYC) - see Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Barry’s Theater – 5 points – Park, Worth & Orange (later Baxter) – Uncle Tom’s Cabin (depicted in film Gangs of New York)

Baruch College - Bernie West Theater at 17 Lexington Avenue

Baryshnikov Center for Dance - housed in new building—along with three off-Broadway theaters—in complex at 450 W. 37th Street (between 9th and 10th). Scheduled to open in the summer of 2003/4

Basement Brownies – West 133rd St – nightclub 1930s

Basin Street – 51st Street – nightclub 1950s

Basin Street East (NYC) - nightclub 1940s - Duke Ellington (1963-1964); Peggy Lee (1960)

Bay Cinema - closed & demolished

B.B. King Blues Club and Grill (NYC) - 550-seat club that presents blues, rock and jazz music in the E Walk entertainment complex on the north side of 42nd Street, near Eighth Avenue.

Beacon (NYC) - 2124 Broadway at 74th St. - built in 1929 (2,657 seats) - still used for performances – Young Man,Older Woman 1995 - renovated - reopens Feb 13/14,2009 with Paul Simon

Beast of Belgium -

Beekman Street Theatre (NYC) – 1952 - 597 seats -Razed, 2005 - see Chapel Street Theatre

*Belasco (NYC) - West 42nd Street – (see New Victory) - originally known as Republic Theatre; 2nd Theatre – opened as Stuyvesant Theatre 1907 – 111 West 44th St. (Shubert-1,018 seats) – opened with A Grand Army Man 1907 - renamed Belasco 1910 – 1935-1941 was headquarters of Group Theatre –1910 changed to the Belasco - later returned to Republic Theatre - Darling of the Gods 1902 (182), Music Master 1904 (627); Girl of the Golden West 1905 (224), Music Master 1904 (627), Polly With a Past 1917 (315), Return of Peter Grimm 1911 (231), Rose of the Rancho 1906 (327), Easiest Way 1909 (157), Secret 1913 (143); Boomerang 1915 (522), Kiki 1921 (600); Hit the Deck 1927 (352), Lulu Belle 1926 (461), Dead End 1935 (687), Awake and Sing 1935 (184), Gentle People 1939 (141), Golden Boy 1937 (250), Gentle People Sam Jaffe,Franchot Tone) 1939; Kiki (600), Mr. & Mrs. North 1941; Clash by Night (Lee J. Cobb,Tallulah Bankhead) 1941; Mrs. January and Mr X (Billie Burke,Barbara Bel Geddes) 1944; used for broadcasting 1949-1953 when it was once again a theatre -Solid Gold Cadillac 1953 (526) – became NBC studio – 1953 back to legitimate - All The Way Home 1960 (334), Killing of Sister George (Beryl Reed,Eileen Atkins) 1966 (205); Oh Calcutta (over 1300 performances total - 704 Off Broadway); Almost Perfect Person, American Buffalo 1977 (135); Rocky Horror Show (Tim Curry) 1980; Crucible (Michael York,Martin Sheen,Martha Scott) 1991 (32); A Little More Magic 1994 (Famous People);James Joyce's The Dead (Christopher Walken,Blair Brown,Emily Skinner,Alice Ripley) 2000 (transferred from Playwrights' Horizon); If You Ever Leave Me...I'm Going With You (Joseph Bologna,Renee Taylor) 2001;Follies (Blythe Danner,Treat Williams,Gregory Harrison,Marge Champion,Joan Roberts) 2001;Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Edie Falco,Stanley Tucci)2002; Enchanted April; Passing Strange 2008;

Belmont (NYC) - You and I 1923 (174), Hero 1921 (80), Miss Lulu Bett 1920 (201) – demolished

Belmont Playhouse - 2385 Arthur Avenue, Bronx

Belmont Plaza – Glass Hat room – famous nightspot

Belmont Theatre (NYC) - see JackNorworth Theatre – 125 West 48th St – originally Norworth built 1918 – Odds and Ends 1917 1918 (moved from Bijou) - name changed 3 months later to Belmont Theatre - no success until Miss Lulu Bett 1920; Kempy 1922 Crops and Croppers; You and I 1923; Young Woodley 1925 (260+ perf); – vacant 1933-36 became cinema 1936 – ret’d to legitimate – 1937 converted to films – demolished 1951

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre - name changed from Royale as of May 9/05 - see Royale Theatre

Bernie West Theatre - Baruch College's Bernie West Theater - 17 Lexington Avenue

Bert Wheeler Theatre (NYC) - 250 West 43rd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue - named after actor comedian/actor Bert Wheeler (1895-1968) - Autumn's Here 1966; Curley McDimple with Bernadette Peters 1967 (931), Christy 1975 – demolished

Beverley Theatre - closed & demolished

Big Apple (NYC) - famous Harlem nightclub - 7th Avenue - Billie Holiday 1936 - now a pharmacy

Big Top Cinema - 1604 Broadway at 49th St - became male porn house in mid 1970s –open 24 hours - closed & demolished

Bijou Cinema - closed

Bijou Opera House (NYC) – (see Brighton Theatre) - opened 1880 at Broadway between 30th and 31st St as the Brighton Theatre in 1878 - Sparks 1882; Adonis 1884 (603), Climbers 1901 (163), Gentleman From Mississippi 1908 (407)

Bijou Theatre (NYC) – 1239 Broadway – started as saloon - opened as the Brighton 1878 – also known as Wood’s Broadway Theatre and Broadway Opera House – Lillian Russell 1882 - Adonis 1884 (603); Nancy Brown 1903; Mr. Wix of Wickham (Julian Eltinge) 1904; Skidding (448); 1883 demolished and a larger theatre built, the Bijou – demolished 1915; 2nd Bijou Theatre - 209 West 45th St - built 1917 - 603 seats - adjacent to Morosco Theatre – opened with The Knife (11 weeks) 1917; His Honor, Abe Potash 1919 (215); Dover Road 1921; What Every Woman Knows 1926 (Helen Hayes); Springtime for Henry 1931 (199)- 1931 became a cinema the Toho, showing Japanese films - in 1935 was all-cartoon movie theatre – Sap Runs High 1936; dark from 1936 to 1943 – reopened as theatre 1945 – Life With Father moved from Empire; Cave Dwellers; movies from 1947 to 1953 and another 6 years of stage shows - Moon For the Misbegotten 1957 (68); 1959 Bijou closed while Astor Theatre was expanded and reopened in 1962 as the D.W. Griffith - a 300 seat cinema – 1962-1972 became Toho Cinema and back to the Bijou in 1965 until 1970 when Foreplay 1970 did a brief stint; Enemy is Dead 1973; and Mummenshantz 1977 (1326), Moon For The Misbegotten 1957 (68); Potting Shed (Sybil Thorndyke) 1957; Play's The Thing (David Dukes) 1973 (11 weeks) – 1981 became film theatre - demolished 1982 for the Marriott Marquis Hotel along with the Morosco, Astor, Victoria and Helen Hayes; 3rd Bijou – 200 seats in off Broadway Playhouse Theatre at 359 West 48th St – opened 1970

Billie Holiday Theatre (NYC)

Billy Munk (NYC) - Love Death Plays of William Inge - demolished

Billy Rose (NYC) - see Nederlander – 208 West 41st St – opened 1921 as National (1162 seats) – opened with Swords 1921; Cat and the Canary 1922 - alterations 1941 and in 1959 bought by Billy Rose and given his name – chnaged to Trafalgar in 1979 - Family Affair 1962; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Uta Hagen,Arthur Hill,Melinda Dillon,George Grizzard) 1962 (664); Earl of Ruston 1971; Heathen 1972; Who’s Life is it Anyway – then theatre renamed Nederlander in 1980

Billy Rose's Music Hall (NYC) - 1697 Broadway at 53rd St - see Hammerstein's Theatre

Biltmore Hotel – 44th Street – famous nightspot

*Biltmore Theatre (NYC) - see Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (renamed as of Sept 4/08) - 261-5 West 47th St. (Nederlander) - reopening 2003 as home to Manhattan Theatre Club (after being closed 16 years) - originally opened 1925 with Easy Come Easy Go (Victor Moore) (transferred from George M. Cohan Theatre) - 948 seats – first hit 1928 Pleasure Man with Mae West (closed by police) - Manhattan Theater Club has agreed to renovate and take over operation of Biltmore Theater – Kongo (Walter Huston) 1926; Loose Ankles (Osgood Perkins); The Barker (Walter Huston,Claudette Colbert) 1927; Tin Pan Alley Claudette Colbert); Pleasure Man (Mae West) 1928; Children of Darkness, Philip Goes Forth, Carry Nation (James Stewart,Mildred Natwick,Joshua Logan), Big Hearted Herbert, Brother Rat 1936 (577), What a Life (Butterfly McQueen,Eddie Bracken) 1938 (538), My Sister Eileen (Shirley Booth) 1940 (864); Kiss and Tell (Richard Widmark) 1943 (957); Heiress (Wendy Hiller,Basil Rathbone) 1947 (410), from 1952-1962 used for broadcasting and then back to theatre – Take Her She’s Mine (Art Carney,Elizabeth Ashley) 1961; Man in the Moon 1963; Barefoot in the Park Robert (Redford,Elizabeth Ashley) 1963 (1532), Hair 1968 (1742); Find Your Way Home (Michael Moriarty); Robber Bridegroom (Barry Bostwick) 1976, Appearing Nightly (Lily Tomlin)1977 (84), Kingfisher (Claudette Colbert,Rex Harrison), Cheaters, Knock Knock, Murder Among Friends, Staircase, Up in One, Butterflies Are Free, Honky Tonk Nights, Boys of Winter, A Woman of Independent Means, Whodunnit, Deathtrap (transferred from Music Box), A Talent for Murder (Claudette Colbert), To Grandmother’s House We Go, American Clock, Nuts, Doonesbury 1983 - leased to CBS in 1951 for 10 years as Studio No 62 - then back to legitimate theatre – last show was Stardust 1987 and in Dec. 1987 arsonists set fire on stage and in auditorium and vandals left theatre in unsafe condition; Following a fire in 1987, building suffered damage from rain coming through the ceiling and abuse from vandals; Federal Theatre Project presented works there in the 1930 and the theatre was later run by Warner Bros. as home for theatre director George Abbott's productions. From 1952-61, the theatre was leased to CBS – refurbished and reopened 2003 with The Violet Hour (Mario Cantone,Scott Foley,Jasmine Guy,Robert Sean Leonard) 2003;

Birdland – name of three venues – the first opened 1949 at 1678 Broadway west of 52nd St - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Erroll Garner, and many, many others - attracted its share of celebrities. Regulars to the nightly festivities included such household names as Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Joe Louis, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Sugar Ray Robinson - closed 1965 – became Flash Dancers, was originally Ubangi, Ebony and Clicque; 2nd at 2745 Broadway 1980s; 3rd at 315 West 44th Street;

Bitter End – 147 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and LaGuardia)- famous cabaret/nightclub since 1961 – has been home to such talents as Woody Allen, Peter Allen, Joan Baez, George Carlin, Judy Collins, John Denver, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan 1975, Cass Elliot, Everly Brothers, Jose Feliciano, Janis Ian, Billy Joel, Patti La Belle, Les Paul, Rod McKuen, Bette Midler, Anne Murray, Johnny Nash, Rick Nelson, Odetta, Peter Paul and Mary, Helen Reddy, Joan Rivers, Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt, Pete Seeger, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Lily Tomlin, Flip Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young and many famous comics – now The Other End – metalplaque indicates “Manhattan’s Oldest Surviving Rock Club”

Black Angus – 148 E 50th Street – famous nightclub

Black Bottom Club – Harlem 1930s – Duke Ellington

Black Box Theatre – see Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

Black Cat – 557 Broadway nightclub – 1930s

Black Horse Tavern - itinerant entertainers

Black Theatre - 3rd – One-Mile Stone on Broadway – Prince & Mercer Sts

Blanchard’s Amphitheatre (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

Bleecker Street Cinemas - closed

*Bleeker 45 (NYC) - 45 Bleeker Street between Broadway & Lafayette St. - one of the newer off Broadway theatres in the area

Blenheim (Bronx) - 1940s - 1,800 seats -Closed, 1940s

*Blue Angel (NYC) - 152 East 55th Street – (1943-1964) - cabaret famous in the 1960s - Barbra Streisand (1961-1963); Charles Pierce; Pearl Bailey; Bobby Short; Eartha Kitt; Yul Brynner; Carol Burnett; Dorothy Loudon; Mike Nichols and Elaine May; Mildred Bailey (1944 to 1947) 2nd - Blue Angel Theatre (NYC) - 323 West 44th St (between 8th & 9th Aves) – Barbara Cook - early 1980s; Pageant 1991; Swingtime Canteen 1995;

*Blue Heron Arts Centre (NYC) - 121 East 24th St. (between Park & Lexington)- see Algonquin Theater - new arts complex dedicated to theatre - two theatres, 99 seat Kaufman and the 45 seat Parker which will be made available for rental - Blue Heron Theatre will be new artistic sounding board for the not-for-profit Algonquin Theater Productions - Founded in 2004, Algonquin Theater Productions presents reading and showcases of "production ready" works with aim of successful transfers to Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional production, film and television - company has acquired the lease of what was formerly the Blue Heron Theatre and renamed it the Algonquin Theater; they will provide company with a home base for its endeavors, complete with rehearsal studios and two performances spaces – the 99-seat Kaufman and the 45-seat Parker; the .

Blue Hill Troupe (NYC)

Bon Soir(NYC) - (1949-1967) - 40 West 8th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues - intimate cabaret of 1960s and 1970s - Barbra Streisand (@18 years) (1960-1962)was the opening act for Phyllis Diller; Charles Pierce; Kaye Ballard; Ethel Waters; James Lipton;

Bon Ton Theatre (NYC) – see Koster and Bial’s Music Hall

Booth’s Theater (NYC) - 1869 - 23rd and SW corner of 6th Avenue - razed few years later 1883 and large department store built - Romeo and Juliet with Edwin Booth 1869; Zip or Point Lynne Light 1874 (21) – demolished 1965; 2nd - >*Booth (NYC) - 222 West 45th St. (Shubert-781 seats) – opened in 1913 to honour of great actor Edwin Booth –Great Adventure 1913; Children of Earth 1914; Experience 1914 (255), Seventh Heaven 1922 (704), Saturday's Children 1927 (310), Bird in Hand 1929 (500), Grand Street Follies (James Cagney) 1929 (93); Kind Lady (Grace George) 1935 (102); You Can't Take It With You (Henry Travers,Josephine Hull) 1936 (837), Time of Your Life (Pulitzer & NY Drama Critics Awards - Gene Kelly,Celeste Holm) 1939 (185); Claudia 1941 (722), Two Mrs. Carrolls 1943 (585), You Touched Me (Tennessee Williams, playwright, with Montgomery Clift,Edmund Gwenn) 1945 (109); Playboy of the Western World (Maureen Stapleton,Julie Harris,Burgess Meredith) 1946 (10 weeks); Come Back Little Sheba 1950 (190); Magic and the Loss (Uta Hagen) 1954 (27); Visit to a Small Planet 1957 (388), Two For the Seesaw (Henry Fonda,Anne Bancroft) 1958 (750); Tenth Man 1959 (623), Spoon River Anthology; Butterflies Are Free 1969 (1128), Luv (Alan Arkin,Eli Wallach,Anne Jackson) 1964 (901), Birthday Party (Henderson Forsythe,Ruth White) 1967 (4 months); New Faces of 1968, That Championship Season 1972 (700); Bad Habits 1974 (after run at Astor Theatre); For Coloured Girls.... (after run at Public Theatre) 1976 (742), Sunday in the Park With George (Mandy Patinkin,Bernadette Peters) 1984 (540); Tru (Robert Morse) 1989 (295); Shirley Valentine 1989; Old Neighborhood 1997 (197); Elephant Man Philip Anglim,Carole Shelley,Kevin Conway) 1979 (916), Sunday in the Park With George (Mandy Patinkin,Bernadette Peters) 1984; I'm Not Rappaport (Judd Hirsch,Cleavon Little) 1985 (890), All Over Town, Very Good Eddie; Tru 1989 (295); Once on This Island 1990 (469) - transferred from off-Broadway; Old Neighbourhood (Patti LuPone) 1997 (197); Evening with Jerry Herman (Lee Roy Reams) 1998; Via Dolorosa 1999; Dame Edna - The Royal Tour 1999 (260); Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends 2002; Retreat From Moscow (John Lithgow,Eileen Atkins)2003 (147); Good Body 2004 (40); Sunday in the Park With George

Bop City – 52nd Street nightclub – 1940s

Boston Museum Theatre (NYC) - Silver Spoon 1852

Boston Road, Bronx 1,500 seats - Retail

Bottom Line - 15 West 4th Street - has been presenting live music since 1974 - With the economic downturn in the NYC area, attendance to shows (i.e. Bruce Springsteen et al) has declined - closed 2004 after almost 30 years as a landmark 400 seat club

Boulevard, Bronx - 1913 - 1,975 seats - Retail

*Bouwerie Lane Theatre (NYC) - 330 Bowery (Bond & 2nd Sts) - converted bank building - home to Jean Cocteau Repertory (140)- Dames at Sea (Bernadette Peters) 1968 (575); DeSade Illustrated 1969 - see also Jean Cocteau Repertory as company disbanded March 2007

Bowery Amphitheatre (NYC) – 1821 - Zoological Institute at 37-9 Broadway was adapted as theatre in 1835 - (used for Minstrel shows from 1840s to 1880s) – remodelled to house equestrian and circus acts – later became Minstrel Hall - in 1844 became Knickerbocker, by 1854 was the Stadt Theatre - Witchcraft or the Martyrs of Salem 1847 (5), Broker of Bogota 1834 – became Armory 1866 after many more names – 1879 became Thalia Theatre for its remainder – demolished

Bowery Ballroom - rock club – Delancey St – 575 capacity

Bowery Theatres (NYC) – first Bowery Theatre opened 1826 – 46-8 Bowery – opened as New York Theatre, Bowery with Road to Ruin 1826 – burned down 5 times over 7 years - 1828 theatre burnt down, the second in 1828 and burnt down 1836; the third 1837 and again destroyed by fire 1838 – reopened 1839 – presented dog dramas (Planter and His Dogs; Dogs of the Wreck– later act moved to National Theatre and continued until early 1870s) - burned down 1845 and rebuilt again and closed 1878 – reopening as the Thalia – destroyed by fire 1923 and again in 1929 but not rebuilt – for a time was American Theatre, Bowery; 4th – the New Bowery opened 1859 – 1866 destroyed by fire and never rebuilt

Brandy's Piano Bar (NYC)

Bowery Volks Garden (NYC)

Box - rock club – Christie St

Brandon Fradd Theatre - 161 seats - in new Whyte Hall at Fire Island Pines Community Center - opening Barbara Cook June 2007

Breakfast Club – West Erie Street, Harlem nightclub – 1920s – was originally Liberty Inn

Brighton Theatre (NYC) – (see Bijou Opera House) – 1239 Broadway – between 30th & 31st Sts – later became Bijou – razed 1915 – replaced by office bldg

*Broadhurst (NYC) - 235 West 44th (Shubert-1,186 seats) Opened 1917 for playwright George Broadhurst with Misalliance 1917 - Hold Everything 1928 (413), June Moon 1929 (273), Green Hat (Katharine Cornell) 1925; Beggar on Horseback 1924 (224), Broadway 1926 (603); Animal Kingdom (Leslie Howard) 1932 (183), High Kickers 1931; Twentieth Century 1932 (152), Men in White 1933 (351), Petrified Forest (Leslie Howard,Humphrey Bogart,Peggy Conklin) 1935 (197), Victoria Regina (Helen Hayes) 1935 (517), Happy Birthday 1946 (564); Flahooley (Barbara Cook,Yma Sumac) 1951 (5 weeks); Seventeen (Kenneth Nelson) 1951 (23 weeks); Pal Joey 1952 (540), Prescott Proposals (Katharine Cornell) 1953 (15 weeks); Anniversary Waltz 1954 (615), Auntie Mame 1956 (639), World of Suzie Wong 1958 (508), Fiorello 1959 (796), Sail Away 1961, Bravo Giovanni 1962; 110 In The Shade 1963; Kelly 1965; Half a Sixpence 1965 (512), Cabaret (Joel Grey,Lotte Lenya,Jack Gilford,Jill Haworth) 1966 (original 1165), Little Murders (Barbara Cook,Elliot Gould,Ruth White) 1967 (7), More Stately Mansions (Colleen Dewhurst,Ingrid Bergman,Arthur Hill) 1967 (142); Fig Leaves Are Falling 1969; Play It Again Sam 1969 (453), Cry For Us All 1970; 70 Girls 70 1971; Godspell 1971 (2124 - moved from Cherry Lane), Sunshine Boys 1972 (538), Sunshine Boys 1972 (538), Godspell 1976 (527); Dancin' 1978 (1774), Tribute 1978 (212); Amadeus (Iam McKellen,Tim Curry 1980 (1181), Tap Dance Kid (Savion Glover) 1983 (669), Odd Couple (female version Rita Moreno,Sally Struthers) 1985 (295); Broadway Bound (Linda Lavin,Phyllis Newman,Jason Alexander) 1986 (756), Rumors 1988 (531), Texas Trilogy, Only Game in Town, Sherlock Holmes, Sly Fox, Death and the Maiden (Glenn Close,Richard Dreyfuss,Gene Hackman) 1992; Kiss of the Spider Woman (Chita Rivera,Brent Carver,Anthony Crivello) 1993 (906);Once Upon a Mattress (Heath Lamberts,Sarah Jessica Parker,Jane Krakowski 1996 (187); Judas Kiss (Liam Neeson) 1998 (102); I’m Telling You for the Last Time (Jerry Seinfeld) 1998; Fosse 1999; Dance of Death (Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren)2001; Never Gonna Dance 2003 (84)

Broadway at Sea

Broadway Boudoir - see Fellows Opera House

Broadway Circus - 1812-14 – then became New Theatre 1813 season

Broadway Dance Center - 221 West 57th St - Extell acquired the property, once home to the Hard Rock Cafe, and an adjacent building in June/05. The Broadway Dance Center's lease does not expire until 2012 - studio moved into its present location in 1998; the site of its old home on Broadway and 55th Street has been transformed into Random House's headquarters and luxury condominiums

Broadway Jones Supper Club – 65 W 129th Street – 1920s nightclub

Broadway Music Hall (NYC) – see Wallack’s Lyceum

Broadway Opera House (NYC) – see Bijou Theatre

Broadway Theatre (NYC) – (7 theatres have used this name ) - 1445 Broadway - Southwest corner at 41st St – originally site of concert hall and Cosmopolitan Skating Rink - opened as Metropolitan Casino in 1880 and then Broadway - rebuilt 1888, seating 1,800 – opening show La Tosca 1888; Little Lord Fauntleroy 1888 (4 mos); Edwin Booth & Helene Modjeska in repertory 1889; Ben Hur (cast of 261with real horses) (nearly 6 months); Utopia Limited;Ugly Duckling (Mrs. Leslie Carter) 1890; Edwin Booth in Hamlet 1891; El Capitan 1896 (112),Midnight Sons (Vernon Castle) 1909 (8 mos);American Maid (Sousa) 1913; 1913 became a cinema - Broadway Fever 1929 demolished 1929 after trials of film and vaudeville; 2nd Broadway Theatre - Broadway Theatre (NYC) – see Metropolitan Concert Hall - 326 Broadway – 1847 – between Pearl & Anthony (Worth) – 3rd - structure to bear this name – 4,500 seats - modelled after London’s Haymarket Theatre opened with School for Scandal 1847 - 1855 theatre collapsed – rebuilt - Francesca da Rimini 1855 (8), Danites, or the Heart of the Sierras 1877 (30),– closed 1859 – demolished – warehouse erected on site; 4th Broadway Theatre – 410 Broadway – originally the Euterpean Hall – renamed Broadway for brief period in 1837; 5th – Broadway Theatre – Wallack’s Lyceum in last years was called the Broadway; 6th - Broadway Theatre (NYC)- built as the B.F. Moss’s Colony Theatre, a cinema at 1681 Broadway @ 53rd – 1924 - (Shubert-1,765 seats) - became legitimate house in 1930 and name changed to Broadway 1930 when the old Broadway Theatre on Broadway at 41st was torn down – opened with New Yorkers (Cole Porter) (Jimmy Durante)(20 weeks) 1930Troilus and Cressida;Green Pastures 1930; briefly called Earl Carroll’s Broadway for Earl Carroll's Vanities (Milton Berle) 1932 (87);O'Flynn 1934 - back to Broadway and films in 1934 and became legitimate again in 1940 - Too Many Girls 1940 (moved from Imperial); This is the Army 1942; My Sister Eileen 1942 - moved from Biltmore; showed films in the 1940s Disney’s Fantasia and Steamboat Willie were introduced here - Student Prince 1943; Little Johnny Jones 1943 (502), Carmen Jones 1943 (502); Lady in the Dark (Gertrude Lawrence) 1943 (3 mos); Up in Central Park 1945 (9 mos) - moved from Century Theatre; Beggars Holiday 1946; Song of Norway 1946 - moved from Imperial; Flag is Born 1946 - moved from Music Box; Beggar's Holiday (Alfred Drake,Avon Long,Zero Mostel) 1946; Cradle Will Rock (Alfred Drake) 1948 - moved from Mansfield; Pardon Our French (Olsen and Johnson) 1950 (100); Where's Charley (moved from St. James); Green Pastures 1951 (44)- for brief time showed Cinerama films 1952 - Diamond Lil 1951; Four Saints in Three Acts 1952; Shuffle Along 1952; South Pacific - moved from Majestic; Saint of Bleecker Street 1954 (92); Mr. Wonderful (Sammy Davis Jr.,Chita Rivera) 1956 (383); Shinbone Alley (Eartha Kitt,Eddie Bracken) 1957 (49); Most Happy Fella - transferred from Imperial (3 mos); Body Beautiful 1958; Gypsy (Ethel Merman) 1959 (702); Kean (Alfred Drake) 1961 (92); Tovarich (Vivian Leigh,Jean-Pierre Aumont) 1963 (264); Girl Who Came to Supper (Florence Henderson,Jose Ferrer,Tessie O'Shea) 1963;Baker Street (Fritz Weaver,Martin Gabel,Inga Swenson) 1965 (9 mos); Devils (Jason Robards Jr.,Anne Bancroft) 1966; Time For Singing 1966; Annie Get Your Gun (Ethel Merman) - from Lincoln Center 1966; Funny Girl - transferred from Winter Garden; Happy Time (Robert Goulet,David Wayne) 1968 (286), Cabaret and Mame moved to finish their runs 1968/69; Purlie (Cleavon Little,Melba Moore) 1970 (690); Fiddler on the Roof - 1972 - moved here; Dude 1972; house was gutted and renovated for Harold Prince's revival of Candide - moved from Chelsea Theatre (1974) (740); Guys and Dolls 1976-77; Wiz - transferred from Majestic; Sarava 1979 - transferred from Mark Hellinger; Evita (Patti LuPone,Mandy Patinkin) 1979 (1,567), Zorba (Anthony Quinn,Lila Kedrova); King and I (revival Yul Brynner) 1984; Three Musketeers 1984; Big Deal (Fosse) 1986 (62); Les Miserables 1987 - moved to Imperial; Miss Saigon (Jonathan Pryce,Lea Salonga,Hinton Battle)1991; Guys and Dolls 1992 (revival 1144 - original 1200); La Boheme (Baz Luhrmann) 2002 (228); Bombay Dreams 2004 (284); 7th - Broadway – Daly’s Theatre at 1221 Broadway in 1877-8 was called the Broadway Broadway 1888 -1,700 seats - Razed, 1930

Bronx Theater, Bronx - 1913 - 1,500 seats - Church

Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC) - see BAM

*Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts (NYC) - Walt Whitman Theatre - campus of Brooklyn College - 2900 Campus Road & Hillel Place

Brooklyn Lyceum/Gowanus.com - 227 4th Avenue at President St - Park Slope - used to be old bathhouse - 1909 - converted into two theatres

Brooklyn Paramount (NYC) - Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue - 4,100 - opened in 1928 - used for rock and roll concerts in the 1950s - has been converted to a gym in 1963

Brooklyn Theatre - Brooklyn (NYC) – 1871 – burnt down in fire 1876 - – 300 lives lost

*Brooks Atkinson (NYC) - 256 West 47th St. (Nederlander-seats 1086) - opened as Mansfield in 1926 - renamed in 1960 in honour of the N.Y. Times drama critic – Night Duel 1926; Ladder 1926 (794), Dybbuk 1927; Green Pastures 1930 (640), Anna Lucasta 1944 (957), 1946 used for radio and tv until 1960 reopened as Brooks Atkinson - Come Blow Your Horn 1961 (677), Lenny (Cliff Gorman) 1972; Lolita; River Niger (NEC) 1973 (280), Same Time Next Year 1975 (1453), Same Time Next Year 1975 (1453), Tribute (Jack Lemmon) 1978 (212); Talley's Folly 1980 (277), Noises Off (Dorothy Loudon,Brian Murray,Victor Garber) 1983 (553), Edmund Kean (Ben Kingsley) 1983; Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Night Life, Wally's Café; Buried Child 1996; Play On (Andre DeShields)1997; Wait Until Dark (Quentin Tarantino,Marisa Tomei) 1998 (97); Fool Moon 1998; Iceman Cometh (Kevin Spacey) 1999 (91); Uncle Vanya (Derek Jacobi,Laura Linney) 1999; Noises Off (Patti LuPone,Peter Gallagher) 2001;Grease (revival)2007

Brothers and Sisters(NYC) - West 46th Street - intimate club of the 1970s in the theatre district i.e. first saw the legendary Barbara Cook 1974 in her new cabaret career, Julie Wilson, Sylvia Syms, Marcia Lewis - torn down late seventies

Brougham’s Lyceum Theatre (NYC) – (see Wallack’s) - 1850 – Broadway and Broome Streets – see Fifth Avenue Theatre/Opera House

Bryant’s Opera House (NYC) – see Tony Pastor’s, Koster and Bial’s Music Hall – 1870 – N side of 23rd St – W of 6th Ave

Bryant Theatre (NYC) - see Apollo Theatre

B.S. Moss’s Colony - see Broadway Theatre

Buckley’s Hall - Broadway below Houston St – 1856 – 585 Broadway – opposite Niblo’s Garden and Metropolitan Hotel – minstels then variety; then German & French language house – became Tony Pastor’s (1875 to 1881)

Buckley’s Minstrel Hall - later became Barnum’s New American Museum, known as Chinese Rooms before Buckley – burned 1868

Buckley’s Olympic Theatre/Opera House (NYC) – see Olympic Theatre and Chinese Rooms

Bullet Space (NYC) - 292 East 3rd Street

Bull’s Head Inn - see New York Theatre

Burnside, Bronx 2,178 seats - now Pharmacy

Burton's Chambers Street Theatre (NYC) - see Palmo’s Opera House - Toodles 1848

Burton’s New Theatre (NYC) – see Tripler Hall - Broadway opposite Bond Street – Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1858; Richard III (Barry Sullivan)

Burton’s Theatre (NYC) – 1848 – formerly Palmo’s Opera House built in 1844

Bushes (NYC) - intimate club on the west side of Central Park (in 70s) - Joe Masiell 1980s

Butler’s American Theatre - see Mechanics Hall

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Cabaret 1050 (NYC)

Cabaret Rheinland

(Cadillac) Winter Garden Theatre (NYC) - see the 91 year old (2002) Winter Garden Theatre - reverted to Winter Garden as of Jan 1/07

*Café Carlyle (NYC) (Bemelmans Bar)(Carlysle Hotel)- Madison Avenue at 76th Street - 100 seat dining/cabaret room - Bobby Short debut in 1968 (ending 37 year run as of New Year's Eve 2005) - This fall the landmark Cafe Carlyle, which has played host to such legendary talents as Bobby Short, Woody Allen, Elaine Stritch, Eartha Kitt and Judy Collins will unveil a new look for its grand reopening on September 18/07 with the legendary Eartha Kitt, who opens the fall season with an engagement through October 27 (celebrating her 80th birthday year).

Cafe Cino (NYC) - see Caffe Cino

Café de Paree – nightclub managed by Billy Rose

Café des Beaux Arts – 6th and West 46th St – 1895

Café Esplanade – 1930s nightclub

Café La Mama (NYC) – see La Mama Experimental Theatre Club

Café Martin – 1890s

Cafe Pierre (NYC)

Café Review – early 1900s

Cafe Royal - see Yiddish Theatre

Cafe Society Club (NYC) - intimate cabaret – Sheridan Square - Billie Holliday – 1940s

Café Wha? - 115 MacDougal St – Bob Dylan 1961

Caffe Cino (NYC) – New York's first "Off-Broadway" theatre in 1958 - 31 Cornelia Street – 1958 – regarded as the beginning of off-off Broadway

Cain’s Warehouse – late 1880s – specialized in storing theatrical scenery for closed Broadway shows – closed 1938

Cake Shop - rock club – Ludlow St

Camelot Twin Cinemas - closed

Cameo Theatre - art house - open

Camera Theatre

Campus – 104th Street 1930s nightclub

Canal Theatre - 1927 - closed

Candler Theatre (NYC) - 226 West 42nd St – see Sam H. Harris Theatre, Harris - 1914 - opened as a movie house with Anthony and Cleopatra, but soon became legitimate house - (1,200 seats) – On Trial 1914 (365); in 1916 name changed to Cohan and Harris - A Tailor Made Man 1917 (300+); Three Faces East (300+); Tavern 1920 (252); Welcome Stranger 1920 (300+) and in 1921 changed to Sam. H. Harris Theatre – Hamlet (John Barrymore) 1922 (101); Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em; We Americans (Paul Muni); Mendel, Inc; Last Mile (Spencer Tracy); Rhapsody in Black (Ethel Waters); Pigeons and People (George M. Cohan) 1933 (2 mos) - by 1933 became a movie house for 55 years - redevelopment Harris will be joined with the Empire and Liberty Theatres to form part of the AMC movie complex and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

Capitol Theatre (NYC) - 1645 Broadway at 51st - Times Square - built in 1919 by Thomas W. Lamb (5,230 seats) - world's largest theatre when it opened – 4,820 seats - Aimee Semple McPherson – converted to Cinerama 1962 and renamed Loew’s Cinerama – 1972 two theatres added – Uris – 2000 seats – Circle in the Square 1983 – Uris renamed George Gershwin

Capri Cinema - closed & demolished

*Cap 21 (NYC) - 15 West 28th St (between 5th & 6th Aves)

Caribe Theatre - closed & demolished

Carlton Theatre (Riverview) - 1913 - 1,042 seats - Razed, 200? & demolished

Carmine Theatre - closed

*Carnegie Hall (NYC) - 154 West 57th St at 7th Avenue – 1881 - 2,835 seats 1882 - Remodelled in 1986 - Barbara Cook 1975; Bette Midler; Chavela Vargas 1981; Lights On 1986 (benefit concert)- Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall opening in Sept 2003 (644 seats), formerly the site of the Carnegie Cinema, making 3 halls, main Isaac Stern Auditorium (2,804 seats), Weill Recital Hall (268 seats) - in the future to be once again the home of the New York Philharmonic

Carnegie Hall Cinema - closed

Carnival Club – 1940s nightclub

Caroline's Comedy Club - 1626 Broadway

Carousel – 52nd Street – 1940s

Carrere and Hastings – noted architectural firm – New York Public Library; Frick Mansion; Abbey Theatre (later Knickerbocker); New (later Century); Globe (later Lunt-Fontanne)

Carter Theatre (NYC) – Ka-boom! 1980

Caruso Cinema (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Casa Cugat – 1940s nightclub

Casa Manana (NYC) - 50th & 7th Ave – 1930s – Billy Rose managed - see Earl Carroll Theatre

Casanova Roof – 134 West 52nd St – 1920s nightclub

Casino de Paris – see Earl Carroll Theatre – Billy Rose, Fanny Brice; 2nd Casino de Paris – see New Theatre; 3rd – see Gallo Opera House, Studio 54

Casino Theatre (NYC) -(1882-1930)– Southeast corner of Broadway and 39th Streets (1300 seats)- best example of Moorish architecture in the country - atmospheric style - opened with Queen’s Lace Handkerchief (Strauss operetta) 1882 - first to be entirely lit by electricity, and the first to feature a chorus line--the Floradora Girls, who included Evelyn Nesbit, over whom Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White - first theatre to have shows on its roof –stood until 1930 when it and Knickerbocker gave way to expanding garment district - next door to Henry Abbey's Theatre (804seats) - in 1882 the first roof garden opened atop the theatre - old Metropolitan Opera House later erected on Northwest corner)first legitimate theatre designed exclusively for the performance of musicals – Ermine (571); Passing Show 1894; In Gay New York 1898 - see Earl Carroll Theatre - Belle of New York 1897 (56), Passing Show of 1894; Origin of the Cake Walk or Clorindy 1898; Floradora 1900 (553); Runaways 1903 (21 weeks) - after fire in 1903 reopened in 1905 with 1,300 seats – The Earl and the Girl (Eddie Foy) 1905; Sally, Irene and Mary; Faust (American Opera Company); Chinese Honeymoon 1923; I'll Say She Is (Marx Brothers) 1924; Vagabond King 1925 (511); Desert Song 1926 (465), razed 1930; 2nd – was Continental before becoming Earl Carroll Theatre was renamed Casino from 1932-1934

*Castillo Theatre (NYC) - 500 Greenwich St., 2nd Floor (between Spring and Canal Streets) - multicultural arts centre (72)

Castle Garden/Castle Garden Theatre (NYC) - Between 1808 and 1811 a fort was constructed on the rocks off tip of Manhattan Island named "The Southwest Battery," it was renamed Castle Clinton in 1817 - army vacated the fort in 1821 and structure was deeded to New York City in 1823. In 1824, a new restaurant and entertainment center opened at the site, now called Castle Garden - roof was added in 1847 and Castle Garden served as an opera house and theater until 1854 (Sept. 11,1850 - lst appearance of Jenny Lind 1850 - organized by P.T. Barnum); 1855 to 1891, Castle Garden, leased to New York State, opened as an immigrant landing depot. - closed on April 18, 1890. On April 19, 1890 a temporary center was set up in the old Barge Office near the Customhouse on the southeast foot of Manhattan and used until January 1, 1892 when Ellis Island opened - altered once again and reopened as the New York City Aquarium on December 10, 1896 - one of the city's most popular attractions until it closed in 1941. It was reopened later as Castle Clinton National Monument

Catagonia Club (NYC) - Harlem nightspot - Bill Bojangles Robinson; Ethel Waters

Caterinas - 316 E 53rd Street - cabaret piano lounge venue opening July 2004

CBGB's - Punk Venue - opened 1973 - Closing After 33 Years - Oct/06 - Ramones, Blondie, the Talking Heads, Patti Smith - capacity of barely 300 people

CB’s - rock club – 1970s

CBS Radio Playhouse No 2 (NYC) - see Klaw Theatre

CBS Radio Theatre – see Royale Theatre

CBS Studio 52 – see Studio 54

Cedar Street Tavern - 24 University Place at 8th Street – Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac – now women’s clothing store

Celebrity Club – 1940s nightclub

Centerfold Theatre (NYC) - 263 West 86th St. (75)

*Center Stage NY (NYC) - 48 West 21st, 4th floor (5th & 6th)- 74 seats - In Arabia We'd All Be Kings 1999 (Labyrinth Theatre Co); Jesus Hopped the A Train 2000

Center Theatre (NYC) - 6th Avenue and 48th St – also named RKO Roxy – opened 1932 as motion picture house RKO Roxy – spectacles on stage, later became Center Theatre – 1934 became legitimate house, 3000+ seats – Great Waltz (300+ perf); 1934-40 mostly dark – American Way (200 perf); Swingin' the Dream (Louis Armstrong,Moms Mabley,Louis Armstrong) 1939; 1940 began ice shows - Stars on Ice 1942 (830), Hats Off to Ice 1944 (889); San Carlo Opera – 1950 converted to NBC studios - demolished 1955 2nd - Center Theatre

Central Theatre (NYC) - 1918 - 1567 Broadway at 47th Street - across from the legendary Palace Theatre - 1,100 seats – opened with Forever After (Conrad Nagel and Alice Brady) 1918 (312); Always You 1918 (66); Poor Little Ritz Girl 1920 (119) (Rodgers & Hart); - leased to Universal in 1921 – Melody Man 1924 (Rodgers & Hart); As You Were; Solid Ivory; Connie’s Inn Revue 1932; Minsky’s Burlesque 1932; in 1934 renamed Columbia for burlesque but went back to old name quickly - in 1944 name was changed to Gotham and remained movie theatre for 7 years - 1951 theatre renovated and reopened as Holiday – A Night in Havana 1952; Deadfall 1955 (Joanne Dru and John Ireland) - but by 1957 it was back to striptease and then to movie house under names Odeon, the Forum, the Forum 47th Street, and Movieland - it was sold in 1989 and became a disco, Club USA1992 and the lobby a Roxy Deli - vacant since 1997 – demolished 1999

Central Park (NYC) – see Delacorte Theatre, Jolson’s 59th

Century Theatre (NYC) - 46th Street in Century Paramount Hotel - (299 seats) - Follow the Girls 1944 (882); High Button Shoes 1947 (727); American Dance Machine, Boccaccio; Exact Center of the Universe (Frances Sternhagen,Reed Birney) 1999 (142)

*Century Center for the Performing Arts (NYC) - 111 East 15th Street (Union Square) – opened March 1997 (299 seats)- White Chocolate 2004

Century Grove Theatre (NYC) – see Century Theatre

Century Roof (NYC) - see New Theatre

Century Theatre (NYC) – (see Jolson’s) - Central Park and 62nd Street – 1909 – opened as New Theatre with Antony and Cleopatra 1909 – reopened as Century in 1911 – closed 1929 and demolished 1930 – on roof was small theatre, Cocoanut Grive/Century; 2nd Century – 932 7th Avenue between 58th & 59th – opened as Jolson Theatre in 1921 – from 1934-37 known as the Venice – renamed Century in 1944 - Inside USA 1948 – demolished 1961

Chaloner (Town) - 1922 - 1,568 seats - Razed, 2002

Chambers Street Theatre (NYC) – 39-41 Chambers St – opened 1844 as Palmo’s Opera House on site of Steppani’s Arcade Baths – 1848 became Burton’s Chamber Street Theatre – for season 1857 called the American Theatre – closed 1857

Chanfrau’s New National Theatre (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre (NYC) – see 46th Street Theatre, Richard Rodgers Theatre – 226 W 46th St – 1924 – Greenwich Village Follies 1924 – 1,500 seats – 1926 became 46th Street Theatre, but back to original after French play – 1990 renamed Richard Rodgers – On Your Toes 1954; Do I Hear a Waltz 1965; Hellzapoppin; Guys and Dolls; How to Succeed in Business; 1776; Counsellor-at-Law; Junior Miss; Dark of the Moon; Fences; Lost in Yonkers; Seussical (00)

Chapel Street Theatre (NYC) – Chapel Street (later Beekman) (1761-1766) – Hamlet 1761

Chapman’s Temple of the Muses (NYC) – a floating theatre opened in 1845

Charles Hopkins Theatre (NYC) – 153 West 49th St , E of 7th Ave – 1914 – 300 seats - Marriage of Columbine 1914 – opened as Punch & Judy Theatre - Devil in the Cheese (Bela Lugosi) 1926; Clever Ones; Treasure Island (250 perf) – 1926 became Charles Hopkins – 1934 became film house as Westminster – 1960s & 1970s showed porno – 1982 became Embassy World – 1987 demolished and became part of Rockefeller Center

Charles Theatre - closed

Charley's - intimate dining establishment - see Sam's

Charley White’s Opera House - transformed from Washington Hall 1860

Chashama Theatre (NYC) - 111 - 135 West 42nd Street - ceased operations March, 2004 in preparation for demolition of the block - organization plans to move further east to 201 E. 42nd Street - will operate a performance space at 217 on the same block.

Chateau Madrid – 231 West 54 Street – 1920s nightclub

Chateau Moderne – 42 E 50th Street – featured all-girl band – 1930s nightclub

Chatham Garden Theatre(NYC) – 1823 – white canvas tent – N side of Chatham St between Pearl and Duane – permanent theatre built 1824 – 1829 became American Opera House – then Blanchard’s Amphi-theatre – 1932 concerted to Presbyterian chapel – later a hotel

Chatham Theatre (NYC) – see Purdy’s New National - referred to as the New Chatham Theatre - between Duane and Pearl Streets – originally opened as the Pavilion in 1823 – 1300 seats – 1829 renamed American Opera House – closed 1832 and became Presbyterian Chapel; 2nd Chatham Theatre – New Chatham – SE side of Chatham Street between Roosevelt & James - 1839 – 2200 seats – 1848 renamed New National Theatre, also known as Purdy’s National – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – 1852 - damaged by fire 1860 but continued use as Union Theatre, the National Concert Hall, and again as the Chatham – finally became National Music Hall and demolished in 1862

Cheetah - 12 West 21st St (between 5th and 6th)

Cheetah - Broadway & 53rd Street - widely regarded as the city's first super-sized, multi-media mega-club Cheetah held two thousand people - - Its previous incarnation was as Arcadia Ballroom, a jazz and dancing establishment which had played host to the likes of Ray Miller, Roy Eldridge, Larry Fotine, Benny Carter, Sonny James, and Les Brown. (The Arcadia itself had been remodeled in 1924 from a prior ballroom called the Blue Bird.) I'm not sure when the Arcadia closed, but the Cheetah took its place in April, 1966 - held two thousand people - The Squires played there in 1966, featuring Curtis Knight and pre-fame Jimi Hendrix; Velvet Underground and Tiny Tim played the Cheetah on April 11, 1967 - Between its Public Theater debut and its long Broadway run at the Biltmore Theater, HAIR had an engagement at the Cheetah from December 22, 1967 through January 28, 1968 - I'm not absolutely sure when it closed down. I've come across numerous references to a Cheetah in midtown Manhattan that specialized in boogaloo and salsa music in the early '70s--but I haven't been able to ascertain whether that was an evolution in the B'way & 53rd Cheetah or a different club altogether - not sure which corner at 53rd the Cheetah was on, nor what stands in its place today

Chelsea Cinemas - open

*Chelsea Playhouse (NYC) - 125 West 22nd St. (6th & 7th)- Lark Theatre Company & Gilgamesh Theatre Co. (72)- Contractor (Reid Shelton) 1973 (72); Diamond Studs, Tuscaloosa's Calling Me, Vanities

Chelsea Theatre Centre (NYC) – founded 1965 in Chelsea area but in 1968 moved to Brooklyn Academy of Music - Total Eclipse 1974 (4 weeks)

Chelsea West Cinemas - open

Chelsea Westside Theatre (NYC) - Vanities (1785)

*Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC) - 38 Commerce St. (Bedford & Hudson Street) (178) – extensive renovation - reopening 2008 - Cherry Lane Theatre – at 80 years old New York’s longest, continuously-running Off-Broadway theatre - street was once a rural path lined by the cherry trees of the Gomez farm - early 19th century silo converted to theatre in 1924 opened with Saturday Night 1924 - productions by F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos in the 1920s – 1927 became New Playwright’s Theatre – reverted to Cherry Lane in 1928 - did works by Gertrude Stein, Odets and O'Casey in 1940s - was home to Living Theatre Company before opening their theatre in 1951 - theatre renovated - Endgame 1957; Boyfriend 1958 (763); Smiling the Boy Fell Dead 1961; Happy Days 1961; Albee's The American Dream and Richardson's Gallow Humor; Duck Variations and Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Pinter Plays 1962 (578); Jones’ Dutchman 1964; works by Lanford Wilson and Sam Shepherd 1965; In Circles 1968; Godspell 1971 - moved to Promenade and on to Broadway in 1976 (2124); Passion of Dracula 1977 (714); To Bury a Cousin 1980; True West (Gary Sinese,John Malkovich) 1982 (762); Nunsense 1985 (3672); Closer Than Ever 1989; Taffetas 1989; Sum of Us 1990 (355); Inside Out 1994; Beautiful Thing 1998; 2009 90 seat black box venue the Cherry Pit becomes it's 3rd stage - opens with Jailbait March 25/09;

Cherry Pit - see Cherry Lane Theatre

*Chez Suzette (NYC) - 675 B Ninth Avenue, NYC - Closing 2004 - this restaurant/jazz club at one time was located in the space occupied by the recently closed FIREBIRD CAFE on West 46th Street

Chicago City Limits Theatre(NYC) - new home 2004 at the New York Improv - 318 West 53rd Street - New York's longest-running comedy revue, had to close its doors Nov. 2/03, after 8,500 performances, the improvisational comedy troupe will end its 23-year run. The company's current show, America Idles, opened in June/04 - given repreive to at least Dec 31/03

Chickering Hall (NYC)- 5th Avenue and 18th St (1,247 seats) – demolished

Childs Spanish Theater/Garden – 1940s nightclub

Chinese Rooms - see Barnum’s New American Museum – 539 Broadway – Buckley’s Serenaders 1853 – became Buckley’s Opera House – closed 1862 – reopened 1865 when P.T. Barnum moved after American Museum destroyed by fire

Christian C. Yegan Theatre (NYC) - Springtime for Henry (Roundabout)(Tovah Feldshuh)1985;

Christy & Wood’s Music Hall - in City Assembly Rooms – also incorporated Coliseum – NY’s most famous mistrel bldg

Christy’s Minstrels - Broadway & Grand St

Church of Saint Paul and Saint Andrew (NYC) – 263 West 86th Street

Church of the Heavenly Rest (NYC)– 2 East 90th Street

Cine 42 - closed

Cinema Dante (NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Cinema 49 (NYC) - see 49th Street Theatre

Cinema I & II - 1001 3rd Avenue – 1962 to present

Cinema Verdi (NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Cinema Village - open

* Circle in the Square - Uptown(NYC) - see Capitol Theatre, Henry Miller’s - 1633 Broadway @ 50th St. - (founded 1951 under direction of Jose Quintero in association with Theodore Mann - opened uptown in 1972 with Mourning Becomes Electra (Colleen Dewhurst,Pamela Payton-Wright) (53)) - celebrated 45th anniversary under threat of bankruptcy - Iceman Cometh 1956 revival (565), Uncle Vanya (Lillian Gish,George C.Scott,Nicol Williamson,Julie Christie,Cathleen Nesbitt,Barnard Hughes,Conrad Bain,Elizabeth Wilson) 1973; Loose Ends 1979 (284), Ah Wilderness, Balcony, Club, Coastal Disturbances; Glass Menagerie, Hot L Baltimore 1973 (1166), Lady From the Sea, Loose Ends, Night of the Iguana, Once in a Lifetime, Pal Joey; Death of a Salesman (George C.Scott,Teresa Wright,Harvey Keitel,James Farentino) 1975;Marriage of Figaro (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Christopher Reeve,Dana Ivey) 1986 (77); Caretaker 1986 (45); Oil City Symphony 1987; Getting Married 1991 (70); Hughie 1996 (56) with Al Pacino; Not About Nightingales (1999 the theatre reopened with this play after bankruptcy); Getting Married 1991 (70); Hughie (Al Pacino) 1996 (65); Tartuffe:Born Again (John Glover) 1996; Salome and Chinese Coffee (Al Pacino) 1999; Rocky Horror Show 2000 (437); Metamorphoses 2002; 2nd - Circle in the Square-Downtown (NYC) – 5 Sheridan Square 1951 – 1954 building closed as fire hazard – 1960 building demolished and company moved to former New Stages Theatre at 159 Bleecker St @ Thompson St. - started as a movie theatre (299)- winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1976 – opened with Dark of the Moon 1951; Iceman Cometh 1956 (565); Quare Fellow 1958 (126); Balcony 1960 (672); Trojan Women 1963 (600); Eh (Dustin Hoffman) 1966 (232); 1972 moved uptown to 1633 Broadway in basement of Uris Theatre (650 seats); Trojan Women (600), Club 1976 (674), Greater Tuna 1982 (501), Oil City Symphony 1987 (626) - closed

Circle in the Square Theatre School(NYC)

*Circle Repertory Company (NYC) - 99 Seventh Ave. S. – formed in loft at Broadway and 83rd St 1969– company moved in 1974 to former Sheridan Square Playhouse which became Circle Repertory Company Theatre – 100-150 seats – Three Sisters 1969; Gemini 1977 (1778 with move to Broadway), Fifth of July (William Hurt) 1978 (158) moved to Broadway (511), Angels Fall, 5th of July, Glorious Morning, Harvesting, Tale Told, Talley's Folly, Tribute to Lily Lamont, Ulysses in Traction, Fool For Love (Ed Harris) 1983 (1,000); Balm in Gilead (Gary Sinise) 1984; Prelude to a Kiss (Alec Baldwin,Mary-Louise Parker - transferred to Helen Hayes with Timothy Hutton 1990; - closed in 1996 after 28 years of great theatre featuring the plays of Albert Innaurato, Edward Moore and Lanford Wilson - During its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, Circle Rep sent several plays to Broadway, including Wilson's The Hot l Baltimore, Talley's Folly, 5th of July and Angels Fall, Knock Knock, Gemini, and As Is by Hoffman.

Circle Theatre (NYC) - 1825 Broadway at 60th Street – 1900 – 1671 seats - reopened 1902 with Herbert Stock Company’s Aristrocracy - 1906 remodelled by Thomas Lamb – Wine,Women and Song ran one and a half years; The Merry-Go-Round 1908; School Days (4 weeks); Queen of the Moulin Rouge (5 mos); In Hayti 1909 (7 weeks) – after 1908 became vaudeville, then movie theatre - 1935 a bomb damaged parts of the theatre - sold at auction - interior demolished 1939 - torn down to make way for the Convention Centre in 1954

Circle East - Founded in 2000, Circle East boasts a group of associated artists more than three hundred strong - many of them were members of the defunct Circle Repertory Company, a major force in the creation of new American plays for more than thirty years - Circle East has produced, among others, Mother Bird and Barbara Bush Never Slept Here

Circus Amphitheatre - 1797 – company from Philadelphia

Circus Cinema - closed & demolished

Circus in America – early 18th Century – heyday last 3 decades of 19th Century – P.T. Barnum; Barnum and Bailey; Adam Forepaugh Circus; Great Wallace Circus; Lemen Brothers Circus; Ringling Brothers Circus; Sells Brothers Circus; b7 1903 approximately 100 circuses were touring the country – frontrunner the amalgamated, Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus

Ciro’s – famous nightclub with world famous Ciro’s Girls

Cirque du Soleil - looks to upgrade from Randall's Island to downtown Gotham. Sources close to the org's newest, biggest project said the Canadian-based troupe has plans to build a permanent structure in the area of the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan

*City Center/City Center Stage 1/City Center Stage 2 (NYC) - 131 West 55th St. (between 6th and 7th Avenues) - built in 1923 as Masonic Temple (2935 seats) with its unique Moorish facade - was slated for demolition in 1943 but saved by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and opened as New York City Center of Music and Drama in 1943 with New York Philharmonic and later Susan and God starring Gertrude Lawrence - both New York City Opera and the New York City Ballet had their beginnings here until they moved to Lincoln Centre - home to dozens of musical revivals - in the early 1970s it was slated for demolition once again but was instead given landmark status – Festival 1979 - also now home to the Manhattan Theatre Club - former home to Ancient and Accepted Order of the Mystic Shrine, Carousel (revival) (Barbara Cook,Jo Sullivan) 1954; Brigadoon (revival) (Peter Palmer) 1962; Music Man (Dick Van Dyke) 1980 (21); Extra Man (Manhattan Theatre Club) (Adam Arkin) 1992; Wonderful Town 2000 revival (City Centre Encores) (2000), My Favorite Broadway (with Julie Andrews 2000)

City Cinemas East 86th St. Cinemas - open

City Hall Theatre - closed

City Hotel - 1796 – 115 Broadway – near Trinity Church – scene of concerts, etc.

City Photoplays - 1910 - 2,267 seats -Razed

City Saloon - see City Theatre

City Theatre (NYC) – 15 Warren St (Broadway & Murray Sts) – 1822 – outbreak of yellow fever closed theatre 1823 – Merchant of Venice with Edmund Kean 1831; 2nd City Theatre - upper part of City Saloon on Broadway between Fulton and Ann Streets – 1837 – opened with Turnpike Gate 1837 – closed same year; 3rd City Theatre – 116 East 14th Street – 1910 – 1855 seats - opened with Miss Innocence 1910 - converted to vaudeville house and then Yiddish Art Theatre 1928 – to cinema 1929 – demolished 1952

City Winery - an elegant but cozy new performance space opened Jan 2009 by Michael Dorf, who founded the Knitting Factory (He left the company in 2003) - on Varick Street in the South Village, is the Knitting Factory’s opposite. Instead of a warren of cramped, dank rooms, it is a spacious 21,000 square feet with table seating for 350 and walls of wood and exposed brick - opening-night entertainment was Joan Osborne - upcoming shows include Boz Scaggs, Steve Earle and Philip Glass

* Classic Stage Co (NYC) - 136 East 13th St. (between 3rd Ave & 4th Ave) (175)

Civic Repertory Theater (NYC) - 105 West 14th St - opened 1926 - opened 1866 as Theatre Francaise - was old 14th Street Theater - built 1866 (1100 seats) - changed to Civic Repertory in 1926 - in 1932 became the Labor Theatre - Alison's House 1930 (41)- closed 1935 - demolished

Claire Shulman Playhouse (NYC) - see Queens Theatre in the Park

Clam House (NYC) - 133rd Street between Lennox and 7th Aves – Gladys Bentley

Clam House - 133rd Street – Gladys Bentley

Claremont Theatre - closed

Clark Center for the Performing Arts (NYC) - see Playwrights Horizon

Clark Studio Theater - Rose Building - 7th Floor at West 65th Street and Amersterdam Avenue

Classical Theatre of Harlem (Harlem School of the Arts) (NYC) – 645 St. Nicholas Avenue

Classic Stage Company Theatre (NYC) - 136 East 13th Street - celebrating 35th Anniversary 2003

Clearview Beekman - closing 2005

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (NYC) - 107 Suffolk St - Teatro La Tea theatre

Cleo's (NYC) - 656 9th Avenue, between 45th and 46th Street - Mabel Mercer

Clifton Theatre - closed & demolished

Clinton Hall (NYC) - see Astor Place Opera House

Clinton Theatre - 1917 - 1228 seats - closed - retail

Clockworks Theatre (NYC) - 508 East 12th Street (Cosmic Bicycle Company) (25)

Club - opened 1960

Club Alabam – 44th Street – later became Club Kentucky – 1920s nightclub

Club Black/Pink Room - 605 West 55th Street - cabaret venue

Club Deluxe – Douglas Casino – later Cotton Club – Lennox, 142nd Street 1920-1923

Club 82 – drag revues – closed 1978

*Club El Flamingo (NYC) - 547 West 21st Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)

Club Fez - East village burlesque revue

Club 57 - Livin’ Dolls

Club Gaucho – 245 Sullivan Street – 1930s nightclub

Club Hot Cha – 134th Street – 1930s nightclub

Club Kentucky – see Club Alabam

Club Lido – Edythe & Reardon Sts – 1920s nightclub

Club Midway - rock club

Club Sudan – Lennox 1945

Club USA (NYC) - see Central Theatre

Club Zanzibar – Broadway & 49th – 1940s nightclub

Cobble Hill Theatre

Coburn Theatre (NYC) - see 63rd St. Music Hall, Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

Cocoanut Grove (NYC)- basement of original Apollo Theatre – 125th Street – became Rathskellers, then Apollo 1910s to 1930

Cocoanut Grove (NYC) – see Century Theatre

Coconut Grove (NYC) - see New Theatre

Cohan and Harris (NYC) - see Candler Theatre, see Sam H. Harris Theatre - see Harris (Candler) Theatre - Royal Vagabond 1919 (208)

Cohan's Theatre (NYC) - see George M. Cohan Theatre - Broadway and 43rd Street – 1911

Cohan Theatre (NYC) - Potash and Perlmutter 1913 (441)

Colden Center for the Performing Arts - Queen's College, Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Queens - programs in performing and visual arts

Coliseum - see Christy & Wood’s Minstrel Hall – 448 Broadway – minstrel shows 2nd - Coliseum Theatre - 4 screen theatre at 181st and Broadway - closed June 2002

*Collective Unconscious (NYC) - 145 Ludlow Street (between Rivington & Stanton Sts)- storefront theatre

Collier’s Comedy Theatre<.b> - see Comedy Theatre

Colonial Club – 62nd St & Madison Ave

Colonial Theatre (NYC) - 1887 Broadway at 62nd St - 1265 seats - near the Circle Theatre - opened 1905 as as legitimate theatre with A Duel in the Snow – a British pantomime and one act musical The Athletic Girl - but quickly became a vaudeville house for 20 years - 1912 became Keith's Colonial - 1917 became New Colonial with Fred and Adele Astaire; Running Wild 1923; Chocolate Dandies 1924 (96 perf); Lucky Sambo 1925 - 1925 became Hampden's Theatre - became movie house in 1931 and in 1956 NBC acquired as televison studio - in the mid 1960s sold to ABC, and finally in 1971 bought by Rebekah Harkness to house her ballet company - opened as the Harkness in 1974 - Sweet Bird of Youth; Harkness Ballet; So Long 174th Street 1976; Ipi Tombi - demolished in 1977 and replaced by condominiums

Colonnades Theatre Lab (NYC) - Moliere In Spite of Himself 1978 (100)

Colony Theater (NYC) – see Broadway Theatre

Colony Theater (NYC) – 152 West 71st Street

Colosseum Theatre(NYC) – 1874 – see Herald Square Theatre

Columbia Theatre (NYC) - see Central Theatre – opened 1910 – heyday of burlesque – Broadway’s first burlesque house – demolished

Columbia University Theatre (NYC) – Brander Matthews Theater - Upstage and Down (Varsity Revue)1919 (first song by Rodgers and Hammerstein)"There's Always Room for One More"

Columbian Gardens - see Niblo’s Gardens

Columbian Theatre - see Lyceum (3rd)

Columbus Circle Theatre (NYC) - see Majestic Theatre

Comedy Club - 1885

Comedy Theatre (NYC) - 108 West 41st Street - built 1909 (796 seats) – opened with The Melting Pot 1909 (4 months); became Collier’s Comedy Theatre 1910 - Fanny’s First Play 1912; reverted to Comedy Theatre 1913 - The Cub (Douglas Fairbanks Sr); Speed; Bushido (Katharine Cornell) 1916; In the Zone (Eugene O’Neill) 1917; Ruth Draper 1917; Maya 1928 - closed from 1931 to 1935 - Theatre used by Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman in 1937 and renamed the Mercury to 1939 - Shoemaker's Holiday 1938 - group collapsed in 1938 - 1940 renamed the Artef - In The Zone 1917, Kitty Mackay 1914 (278)- stood empty until demolished in 1942

Comet Theatre (NYC) -

Comix - 353 West 14th St @ 9th Ave

Commodore – Lexington and 42nd Street – Century Room - Tommy Dorsey 1930s

Common Basis Theatre (NYC) - 750 Eighth Avenue (46th & 47th) – 30 seats

Commonwealth Theatre (NYC)– see Anthony Street Theatre

Concert Elysee – see John Golden Theatre

Concert Salons - by 1869 more than 600 throughout city – densest in Houston St and Bowery – replaced minstrel and variety halls (alcohol served as long as curtin did not separate actors and customers)

Concert Theatre (NYC) – see John Golden Theatre – 202 W 58th St

Coney Island - amusement park built in 1800s with loop roller coaster (1901), U.S. history, and Nathan's hot dogs (1916), cyclone (1926); Sideshow by the Seashore, boardwalk and beach - new project planned with waterfront residences, seafood market, cinema complex and arcades, facelifts for Aquarium and rides at Astroland Park

Congress (Ace), Bronx 1,800 seats - Closed

*Connelly Theatre/Metro Playhouse (NYC) - 220 East 4th St. (between Avenue A and Avenue B) (orphanage in late 19th Century) Reopened February 1997 - houses Connelly and Metro Playhouse (52 seats)

Connie's Inn (NYC) - 2221 7th Avenue at 131st Street - Louis Armstrong - whites only policy – seeLatin Quarter

Context (NYC)- 28 Avenue A (74)

Continental Baths - basement of Ansonia Hotel - Bette Midler and Barry Manilow 1971, Melba Moore, Labelle, Peter Allen, Cab Calloway, the Manhattan Transfer, John Davidson, Wayland Flowers

Conway's Theatre - Dec. 5, 1876 fire - 285 killed

Cookery - Alberta Hunter

Cooper Cohen Amas Musical Theatre - 334 West 39th Street

Copacabana – 10 E 60th Street – 1940s nightclub

*Copacabana (NYC) - 617 West 57th St (between 11th and 12th Avenues) - Since it first opened in 1941 on the fashionable East Side, it has morphed from the glitziest nightspot in town to disco on the West Side, the scene of Manilow's 1978 song "Copacabana," and now to a catering business and thumping hip-hop and salsa club - "When it first opened it was the most famous nightclub in the world," Juliano said - featured Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne (1948); Jimmy Durante (1951); Sophie Tucker, Lena Horne (1948); Nat King Cole (1958); Sammy Davis Jr (1959); Gordon McRae; Joni James; Howard Keele, and the Copa Girls (Joan Collins and Raquel Welch got their start in the troupe); Enrique Iglesias - first opened on East 60th - In the '50s the club brought in rock acts, but its popularity waned as home television sets became the favourite source of entertainment - closed 1960 and club sat vacant for several years until taken over in 1976, reopening it as a discoStreet at a time when the Great Depression was over - Bette Midler, Robin Williams, Red Fox, Peter Allen and Sammy Davis Jr appeared - 1992 they moved the club across Manhattan to West 57th Street, where it was used in the filming of "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas" and "Tootsie," which starred Dustin Hoffman as a cross-dresser - has to move locations again as building condemned by city for subway line extension - new locale tba

COQ Rouge – 65 East 56th St – 1930s nightclub

Corbett Tavern - 1732

Corio Theatre - 337 West Broadway at Grand St - This is Burlesque (1 year)

Cornelia Connelly Center (NYC) – 220 East 4th Street

Coronet 1 & 2 - closed & demolished

Coronet Theatre (NYC) – see Eugene O’Neill Theatre - Dream Girl (Betty Field) 1945 (348), Angel in the Wings (Elaine Stritch) 1947 (over a year); All My Sons (Arthur Kennedy,Ed Begley,Karl Malden) 1947 (328), View From the Bridge (Van Heflin,Jack Warden,Eileen Heckart) 1955 (149), demolished

*Cort Theatre (NYC) - 138 West 48th St. (Shubert-1,084 seats) - Opened in 1912 with Peg O' My Heart (Laurette Taylor) (603), - (from 1969 to 1974 theatre was used for "The Merv Griffin Show") - Under Cover 1914 (349), Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlyn) 1919 (193); Merton of the Movies 1922 (398), Blonde Sinner 1926; Behold the Bridegroom 1927 (88), Uncle Vanya (Lillian Gish) 1930; Three-Cornered Moon (Ruth Gordon,Brian Donlevy) 1933 (10 weeks); Boy Meets Girl 1935 (669), Room Service 1937 (500), Male Animal 1940 (243), Wallflower 1944; Grapes of Wrath; Candida 1946 (Marlon Brando); Bell for Adano; Shrike (Jose Ferrer) 1952 (161), Fifth Season 1953 (654), Rainmaker (Geraldine Page) 1954 (128); Diary of Anne Frank (Susan Strasberg,Joseph Schildkraut) 1955 (717), Sunrise at Campobello 1958 (556), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Purlie Victorious (Ossie Davis,Ruby Dee,Godfrey Cambridge,Alan Alda) 1961 (261); Zulu and the Zayda 1965; Magic Show (Doug Henning,Nathan Lane) (5/74 to 12/78 - 1,920 performances), 1969-1972 became TV studio, back to legit house - Richard III (Al Pacino) 1979; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 1984 (275), Sarafina 1988 (597), Advise and Consent, Apparition Theatre of Prague, Home, Grapes of Wrath (Gary Sinese) 1990; Twilight: Los Angeles,1992; Face Value 1993 (closed in previews); Sex and Longing Dana Ivey,Sigourney Weaver) 1996 (45);Freak (John Leguizamo) 1998 (145); Marlene 1999; Kat and the Kings 1999 (157); The Green Bird 2000; Hollywood Arms 2002 (76); Bobbi Boland (Farah Fawcett) 2003 (closed after 1 week of previews);39 Steps 2008;

Cort's 58th Street (NYC) - see John Golden Theatre

Cort's 63rd Street (NYC) - see 63rd Street Music Hall

Cosmopolitan Theatre (NYC) - see Majestic Theatre on 58Th St. - (1043 seats) – demolished

Cosmo Varieties (NYC) - see Majestic Theatre

Costello Theatre - closed

Cotillion Room (NYC) - intimate cabaret in Hotel Pierre – Yma Sumac

Cotton Club(NYC) - 142nd Street and Lennox - opened 1923 and operated for 17 years as top Harlem nightspot of notoriety - all white policy with black performers - the biggest names played here - Duke Ellington 1927; Ethel Waters 1933; Fred Astaire; Gladys Bentley; Al Jolson; Cab Calloway; Lena Horne started here at 16 years of age – tapdancers a specialty – moved to 48th Street in 1930s – Ubangi Club in 1936 and 1942 became Latin Quarter 2nd - Cotton Club (NYC) - 48th Street - Duke Ellington; Bill Bojanges Robinson; Ethel Waters - see also Cotton Club in Harlem on 142nd St., and Latin Quarter

Courtyard Theatre (NYC) - see Grove Street Playhouse - Porno Stars at Home 1978 (7); Perfect Crime (now uptown over 3,000 performances)

Covent Garden Theatre - see Grove Theatre

Craig Theatre (NYC) - 152 West 54th St - 1928 - 1400 seats – opened with Potiphar’s Wife 1928 (2 weeks); The Well of Romance; Jonica; Street Scene 1944; Look Ma I’m Dancin; On the Town; Brigadoon 1957 (from City Center); Damn Yankees (moved here); 1931 theatre closed and reopened in 1934 as the Adelphi and in 1940 was renamed the Radiant Center - 1944 Shuberts returned the theatre to Adelphi - 1949 DuMont Television Network signed a lease and shot the Honeymooners there - renamed 54th Street Theatre in 1958 - Bye Bye Birdie 1958; Brigadoon (revival); No Strings – transferred here; What Makes Sammy Run; - in 1965 it became the George Abbott Theatre - Darling of the Day; Buck White, Gantry (1) - bought by New York Hilton and demolished for a tower addition 1970

Crazy Cat Club – Broadway – 1930s nightclub

Creative Acting Company - 122 West 26th Street, Suite 1102

*Creative Place Theatre (NYC) - 750 Eighth Avenue

Cricket Theatre (NYC) - Blood Knot (James Earl Jones) 1964

Criterion Theatre (NYC) – see Herald Square Theatre, Olympia and New York Theatres - Barbara Frietchie 1899 (83); 2nd - Criterion Theatre (NYC) - A Grand Night For Singing 1993 (52); 3rd - Criterion Theatre (NYC) - 1514 Broadway (on East side between 44th and 45th) - see Olympia – built as part of Hammerstein’s Olympia completed to seat 2800 with roof garden – opened as Lyric Theatre 1895 – Barbara Frietchie 1899 (first success) - 1899 changed to Criterion - Scrap of Paper 1914; Happiness (Laurette Taylor)1917 (136) – became cinema – demolished 1935 together with old Olympia Music Hall – 4th - 2nd Herald Square Theatre, originally Colosseum, was named Criterion from 1882-1885

Criterion Center Stage Right (NYC) - 1530 Broadway - (526 seats) see Roundabout Theatre Company – Starmites 1989

Crossing Jamaica Avenue Organization (NYC)

Crotona, Bronx - 1912 - 2,210 seats - Warehouse

Crowder’s Music Hall (NYC) – see Greenwich Theatre

Crown Gotham - closed

Crucial Arts Organization (NYC)

Cruger’s Wharf Theatre (NYC) – opened 1758 below Water Street with Jane Shore 1758 – see also Wharf Theatre – not used after 1759

Currican/Altered Stages (NYC) - 154 West 29th St.(between 6th and 7th Aves) (74)

Dance Theatre Workshop (NYC) - 219 West 19th Street

*Danny's Skylight Room Cabaret (NYC) - 346-348 West 46th Street - opened 1985 - Blossom Dearie et al - closing Jan 1/07 and restaurant follows on Jan 6/07

Danse de Follies (NYC) - see New Amsterdam Theatre

*Daryl Roth Theatre/De La Guarda (NYC) - former American Savings Bank building at 20 Union Square E @ 15th Street (499 seats) - In the next few weeks, construction will begin on a 99-seat, black box second stage at the Daryl Roth Theatre - D-Lounge is name of the new cabaret space located within theatre - De La Guarda 1998

Davenport Theatre (NYC)– see Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

David Cinema - 236 W. 54th St. - became porn cinema mid 1970s - closed

David H. Koch Theater - formerly New York State Theatre - being renamed Fall 2008

Dazian’s Theatrical Emporium – founded 1842 – supplier of costumes to theatrical trade – closed 1919

*Delacorte Theatre (NYC) - Central Park - see New York Shakespeare Festival (1892 seats) 81st and Central Park - built as temporary structure and opened in June, 1962 – Merchant of Venice (George C. Scott) 1962; All's Well That End's Well & Richard III (Christopher Walken,Barbara Barrie) 1966; Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971; Henry V (Paul Rudd,Meryl Streep,Michael Moriarty,Philip Bosco) 1976; Mystery of Edwin Drood 1985; 4.35 million renovation and opened with Taming of the Shrew 1999; Tartuffe 1999; Julius Caesar (David McCallum) 2000; Seagull (Meryl Streep,Kevin Kline,Christopher Walken,John Goodman)2001

Delmar Theatre - closed

Delmonico’s – 1900s nightclub (featured in “Hello Dolly”)

Deluxe Club – East 63rd St – 1940s nightclub

Deluxe, Bronx 1,500 seats - Gutted; Retail

Deptford Players (NYC)

Derby & Harry’s – 1920s nightclub

Dewey Theatre (NYC) – 14th Street – Wine,Women and Song

Diamond Horseshoe (Billy Rose's) (NYC)- 1940s nightclub situated under the Paramount Hotel on 46th Street - currently under construction

Dicapo Opera Theatre (NYC) - 184 East 76th Street

Dicken’s Dance House – 5 Points district nightspot - circa 1840s

Dickie Wells – 169 West 133rd St – 1930s nightclub

Dillon's - 245 West 54th Street - back room cabaret with 100 seats - across from former Studio 54

Dimson Theatre (NYC) - 108 East 15th Street (between Union Square E. & Irving Place)

Directors Guild of America Theatre - open

*Dixon Place (NYC) - 309 East 26th Street – relocated - was at 258 Bowery

Dockstader's Minstrel Hall (NYC) - 1886 - Broadway near 29th St.

Dodgers Costumes - established 1998 - closed Feb 25/05

Dodger Stages(NYC) - opening 2003 - at Worldwide Plaza - formerly Cineplex Odeon - 340 West 50th Street, between Eighth & Ninth Avenues - name being changed to New World Stages April 1/06 - 5 performance spaces and one rehearsal space - two 499 seat theatres, 2 400 seat theatres and one with 299 seats - Included in the complex:Theater I, 499 seats;Theater II, 360 seats;Theater III, 499 seats;Theater IV, 360 seats; Theatre V, 199 seats;see also Worldwide Plaza

Donaldson’s Opera House - Broadway opposite Bond St – minstel shows – see Old Stuyvesant Hall

Don't Tell Mama (NYC) - 343 West 46th St-intimate bar/cabaret – Hard Time to Be Single 1990; Honky-Tonk Highway 1994; That Time of the Year 1996

Douglas Casino – later Cotton Club – 142nd Street – 1910s

*Douglas Fairbanks (NYC) - 432 West 42nd St. (between 9th & 10th Sts)(286 seats) - Geniuses; When Pigs Fly 1996 (334); If It Was Easy 2000; Forbidden Broadway 2001; Mr. President 2001; Forbidden Broadway 20th Anniversary Celebration 2003 - as of 2004 Douglas Fairbanks Theatre and John Houseman Theatre are being vacated in preparation for demolition - it is likely a large residential tower will go up on the south side of 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues - currently home to the long-running musical spoof Forbidden Broadway

Douglas Theatre - closed & demolished

Downstairs at the Upstairs (NYC) - see also Upstairs at the Downstairs - Bette Midler (early 1970s) - Joan Rivers, Julius Monk Revues

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre (NYC)

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre - below Sofia's Restaurant (Edison Hotel) - Girl's Night: the Musical 2009

Downtime - rock club – see Rebel

Downtown Theatre (NYC) - Prodigal 1960 (several months)

Drama Book Shop - opened 1917 as card table in lobby of a Broadway theatre - after 20 years in 2nd floor space on 7th Avenue near 47th Street, moved 2001 to 40th Street near 8th Avenue

Dramatists Guild – established 1925

Dramatists Play Service – established 1936

Dramatists Theatre – founded 1923

Dresden Theatre (NYC) - see New Amsterdam

DR2 Theatre - 103 E. 15th Street, off Union Square - being used by new repertory company - Epic Repertory

Drury Lane Theatre - closed

*Duffy (NYC) - 1553 Broadway @ 46th St. - former strip club called Paris Burlesque which was shut down in 1991 for harboring prostitution - 165 seats - Perfect Crime has been playing since 1987 (has outgrown 4 theatres including Theatre Four and 47th Street Theatre) - theatre moved to 1627 Broadway at 50th St

*Duke on 42nd Street (NYC) - 229 West 42nd Street (between 7th & 8th Sts)- part of the redevelopment of 42nd Street - 199 seats - theatre housed in a 10 story building - on 2nd floor - Jewish Repertory Theatre resident company - Spitfire Grill 2001

DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) - performance space used by such troupes as GAle GAtes et al

Duo Theatre (NYC) – 62 East 4th Street - Born to Rumba 1991; Chez Garbo 1996

*Duplex Cabaret (NYC) - 61 Christopher Street (at 7th Avenue) - New York's oldest continuing cabaret - Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Dawn Hampton – Bed, Boys and Beyond 2000

D.W. Griffith Theatre (NYC) - see Bijou Theatre

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Eagle (Variety) Theatre (NYC) – (see Standard Theatre and Manhattan Theatre) – Broadway below 33rd St – 1875 – name changed to Standard Theatre 1878 – D’Oyly Carte Opera Co – 1883 destroyed by fire – rebuilt in became Manhattan Theatre 1898 – 1907 showed motion pictures – 1909 razed for Gimbel’s

Eagle - 1927 - 1200 seats - now retail

Earl Carroll Theatre (NYC) - 753 Seventh Avenue (SE corner of 7th and 50th)- built in 1922 with 1026 seats - atmospheric type – Bavu 1922; Earl Carroll's Sketchbook (400); Jimmy Durante - theatre demolished in 1930 and reopened as a new Earl Carroll Theatre 1931 with Earl Carroll’s Vanities; Gingham Girl - Manhattan's largest playhouse opened in 1931 - Ziegfeld took over theatre in 1932 and renamed it the Casino Theatre – W.C. Fields, Milton Berle, Jack BennyShowboat revival 1932; Desire Under the Elms - became film house after Ziegfeld's death and a cabaret called the French Casino - 1936 Billy Rose took the reins and it became Casa Manana - 1939 the theatre closed and reopened as Woolworths but in 1990 the businesses were evicted and the remains of the theatre were demolished; 2nd theatre – opened on same site 1931 – 3000 seats – opened with Bavu (Carlotta Monerey and William Powell) 1931; Just Because; The Gingham Girl 1922 (8 mos); Vanities of 1923; Kid Boots (Eddie Cantor); Desire Under the Elms; Earl Carroll Vanities of 1928 (W.C.Fields); Fioretta 1929 (Fanny Brice,Leon Errol); Earl Carroll’s Sketchbook (400); Broadway’s Second Earl Carroll Theatre opened August 1931 with ninth edition of the Vanities in 6 months the theatre was foreclosed, Ziegfeld took over – and renamed it the Casino and mounted revival of ShowBoat starring Paul Robeson - reopened 1932 as Casino – George White’s Music Hall Varieties of 1933; Melody – In 1934 became French Casino, in 1936 Billy Rose took over and in 1938 became Casa Manana – demolished 1990

East 74th Street Theatre/Eastside Playhouse (NYC) – see also Phoenix - Crystal Heart 1960; Last Sweet Days of Isaac 1970; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel – demolished

East Side Beauty Theatre - closed & demolished

Eastside Cinema - closed

Eaves-Brooks – principal costume maker for modern plays – formed 1981 – company formed by merger of Brooks (est. 1861) and Eaves (est. 1864)

Eaves Costumes - founded 1861 on E 12th Street - acquired Brooks-Van Horn Costume Company (est. 1864) in 1981 - moved to Long Island

Ebony Club – 1678 Broadway, was Ubangi, Birdland

Eden Roc – 148 E 48th Street – famous nightclub

Eden Theatre (NYC) – see Phoenix - Oh Calcutta 1969 (1314)(revived 1969 with record of one of longest running musicals (5,969 performances), Grease 1972 (3388 with move to Broadway),

*Edison (NYC) - (Vegas Room ) 240 West 47th St. – Show Me Where the Good Times Are 1970; Oh Calcutta 1971 (5959); Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope (Micki Grant) 1972 (1,065); Hard Job Being Good 1972 - now known as the Supper Club, an inviting nightclub venue

Edison (Columbia, 103rd st) - 1913 - 600 seats - Razed

Edmonds Cellar – 130th Street – 1910s nightclub – Gladys Bentley

Ed Sullivan Theatre (NYC) - see Hammerstein's Theatre – 1697 Broadway between 53rd & 54th – opened as Hammerstein’s 1927 – Golden Dawn 1927 – Billy Rose converted to nightclub Manhattan – Murder in the Cathedral – 1936 became radio studio – 1967 renamed Ed Sullivan Theatre – now home to David Letterman

*Educational Alliance (NYC) - Mazer Theatre - 197 East Broadway

Edyth Totten Theatre (NYC) - 247 West 48th Street - 1926 - 299 seats – opened with Secret Sands (1926) – Lido Girl 1928; Guinea Pig (69); renamed the President 1929 – see also 48th Street - changed names many, many times - showed German films 1932 as the Hindenburg - 1933 became the Caruso Cinema showing Italian films - then Midget Theatre for plays - back to the President in 1934, then the Artef, Acme Theatre for films in 1937, American Show Shop in 1937 for stage performances and then Show Shop in 1938 for films - then became 48th Street Theatre when that theatre was renamed the Windsor but gave it up in 1943 when 48th Street theatre went back to original name, it became the President once again - then Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop before being purchased by Mamma Leone's and extending their restaurant - the entire structure demolished in 1988

8th Street Playhouse (NYC)- 52 West 8th Street - was home of the 8th Street Players - The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1981 - now a video shop - see the Village Barn

Eighty-Eights Cabaret (NYC) – 228 West 10th Street - intimate cabaret – Pictures in the Hall 1990; Cast of Thousands 1995 - closed May 1999

81st Street Theatre (NYC) - The Kitchen (Rip Torn,Sylvia Miles) 1966 (136)

86th Street Casino Theatre - 1934 - 600 seats

86th Street Grande Theatre - closed & demolished

86th Street Theatre (NYC) - 86th Street - Ethel Merman in vaudeville show 1930 – closed & demolished

El Chico – 30 Grove Street – 1930s nightclub

Electric Circus - opened 1967 on St. Mark’s Place

El Flamingo (NYC) - 547 West 21st Street - Donkey Show 1999 (still running Aug 18/02 - 3 years)

Elgin Theatre - open

Elk’s Rendezvous – Harlem 1920s nightspot

Ellen Stewart Theatre (NYC) – House of Leather 1970; Colette 1970

El Morrocco – 154 54th Street – 1930s nightclub

Elmwood Theatre - Elmhurst, Queens - Atmospheric style - closed -renovations

Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre (NYC) - 236 West 42nd St - opened 1912 as the Empire Theatre (900 seats) - premiere production was Within the Law (Jane Cowl) 1912 (541); First Night 1912 (541), Song of Songs 1914; Yellow Ticket (John Barrymore) 1914 (183); Fair and Warmer 1915 (377); Business Before Pleasure 1917 (357); Up in Mabel's Room 1919 (229), Murder on the Second Floor 1919 (Laurence Olivier) (45 perf); Girl in the Limousine; Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath 1920 (375); East of Suez 1921 (100); Fall Guy 1925 (177); Her Cardboard Lover (Jeanne Eagels) 1927 (13 weeks); Love, Honor, and Betray 1930 (Clark Gable); - became burlesque & movie house 1930 – First Night 1931 (88); Barretts of Wimpole Street 1931 (372); Old Maid 1935 (305); Life With Father 1939 (3224); closed 1942 and in 1943 became cinema - Member of the Wedding (Julie Harris,Ethel Waters,Brandon DeWilde) 1950 (501); I Am a Camera 1951 (262); Long Days 1951 (3); Time of the Cuckoo 1952 (263); Song of Songs, Girl in the Limousine - 1931 became a burlesque house - in 1942 mayor shut down theatre for moral reasons and became movie theatre - renamed "Laff Movie Theatre" - dedicated to filmed comedy - 1954 became the Empire Theatre - closed mid 1980s - exterior will be restored as entrance to AMC movie center complex

Eltinge Theatre (NYC) - Girl I Left Behind Me 1893 (208), Masquerade 1894; Bohemia 1895; Peter Pan (Maude Adams) 1905; Within the Law 1914 (541);

El Toreador – Harlem nightspot 1930s

Elysee (NYC) - see John Golden Theatre

Embassy Cinema - closed & demolished

Embassy Five (NYC) - see Gaiety Theatre

Embassy 49th Theatre (NYC) - 1938 - 588 seats - Razed - see Punch & Judy Theatre

Embassy 72nd Street Theatre -193? - 516 seats - Razed, 1988 (c.)

Embassy Theatre – 1560 Broadway - 1925 to present – now Times Square Visitors Center - see Gaiety

Embassy 2,3,4 - closed

Embassy World - see Charles Hopkins Theatre

Embers – 161 E 54th Street – jazz – famous nightclub

Emerging Artists Theatre Company (NYC)

Empire Theatre (NYC) - 1430 Broadway and 40th St - built 1893 - 1099 seats – across from Metropolitan Opera House - one block up from Casino – opened with The Girl I Left Behind Me 1893; Little Minister (Ethel Barrymore) 1896; My Wife (Billy Burke) 1897 (129); Mummy and the Humming Bird 1902; renovated 1903 – Mamba’s Daughters; Barretts of Wimpole Street; Mistress Mine; Peter Pan (Maude Adams); Legend of Leonora (Maude Adams) 1914; Declassee 1919 (257); Czarina 1922 (136); Senorita Raquel Meller 1926 (1 month); Age of Innocence 1928; Threepenny Opera (Burgess Meredith) 1933 (12); Hamlet (John Gielgud,Lillian Gish,Judith Anderson) 1936 (132); Life With Father (Howard Lindsay,Dorothy Stickney) 1939 (3224); Member of the Wedding 1950 (501); Time of the Cuckoo; Highlights of the Empire; I Am a Camera (Julie Harris) - for many years oldest and most prestigious playhouse in New York – same name used by Eltinge; final show Time of the Cuckoo (Shirley Booth) 1952 (263) - demolished 1953 2nd - Empire Theatre(NYC) - opened 1912 as the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre – 900 seat legitimate theatre – Laurence Olivier, Clark Gable, Abbott and Costello graced the stage – theatre became burlesque house in 1931 and in 1942 was renamed the Laff Movie – renamed again in 1954 as the Empire – a movie house until closed in the mid 1980s – the landmark theatre was moved 168 feet toward 8th Avenue in 1998 and now serves as the entrance, lobby and box office for the AMC Empire 25 and Times Square Café - tenants Madame Tussaud’s, 25-screen American MultiCinemas (AMC) - entertainment and retail complex has also restored historic facades of Liberty and Empire Theaters - Czarina (Basil Rathbone) 1922 (136); Empire, Bronx 1894 - 1,800 seats - Church

Empress Theatre - closed

Encore - piano bar and show room - 266 West 47th Street - opening February, 2005 - seats approximately 70-75 people

*Ensemble Studio Theatre/Medicine Show (NYC) - 549 West 52nd St. (10th & 11th)two theatres - a second floor theatre of 99 seats, and 6th floor theatre of 60 seats; NYCHPD in which The Dermot Company, Inc. will develop new homes for Intar Theater and Ensemble Studio Theater at a proposed city-owned Clinton Green

Entermedia (NYC) - Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1978 (1576); Taking My Turn 1983

Epic Repertory - 103 E. 15th Street - DR2 Theatre off Union Square

Epic Theatre Center - founded 2001 - becomes Epic Theatre Ensemble Sept 4/07

Epiphany Theatre - 154 Christopher Street

*Equity Library Theatre (NYC) - founded 1943 by Sam Jaffe – since 1949 it has operated its own theatre – first at Lenox Hill Playhouse and later at other auditoriums - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1977 – Follies; Two 1978

Equity Players – formed 1922 – later changed to Actors’ Theatre – 1927 group absorbed by Kenneth MacGowan’s Company in Greenwich Village

Erlanger’s Theatre (NYC) – 1927 – 44th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue – opened with Merry Malones (Cohans); Fine and Dandy 1930 (255) – later changed to the St. James

Eros Cinema - 732 8th Avenue near 46th St - later a male porn house – a conversion of former retail space and operated under several names over the years - closed

Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Erwin Theatre – see Edyth Totten Theatre

Essex House – 160 Central Park South – Casino-on-the-Park - popular nightspot in 1930s

Essex Theatre - closed

Estelle R. Newman Theatre (NYC) – see Public Theatre

*Ethel Barrymore Theatre (NYC) - 243 West 47th St. (Shubert-1,096 seats) Built in 1928 in honour of Ms. Barrymore - Kingdom of God 1928 (opening production of renamed Ethel Barrymore)(Ethel Barrymore)1928 (3 months);Design for Living; Gay Divorce 1932 (248), Whistling in the Dark (Claire Trevor) 1932; Women 1936 (657); Bury the Dead 1936 (3 months); Women 1937 (657); Knickerbocker Holiday 1938; Key Largo 1939 (105), No Time For Comedy (Katharine Cornell,Laurence Olivier) 1939 (185), Pal Joey (Gene Kelly,Van Johnson) 1940 (374), Best Foot Forward 1941; Tomorrow the World 1943 (500), Streetcar Named Desire (Jessica Tandy,Marlon Brando,Kim Hunter,Karl Malden) 1947 (855); Bell, Book,and Candle (Lilli Palmer,Rex Harrison) 1950 (233); Fourposter (Jessica Tandy,Hume Cronyn) 1951 (632), Tea and Sympathy 1953 (712), Desperate Hours (Paul Newman,Karl Malden 1955 (212); New Faces of 1956; Look Homeward Angel 1957 (564), Small War on Murray Hill (Leo Genn,Jan Sterling,Daniel Massey) 1957 (12); Don’t Drink the Water; Raisin in the Sun (Claudia McNeil,Ruby Dee,Louis Gossett,Diana Sands) 1959 (530), Moby Dick (Rod Steiger) 1962 (2 weeks); Wait Until Dark 1966 (373), Black Comedy (Michael Crawford,Lynn Redgrave) 1967 (337); Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death 1971; Inner City 1971; Don’t Play Us Cheap 1972; Travesties (John Wood,Tim Curry) 1975 (155); Robber Bridgegroom 1975 (145) transferred from Harkness Theatre; I Love My Wife 1977 (872), American Buffalo - 1977 (135); Romantic Comedy (Anthony Perkins,Mia Farrow) 1979 (396), Hurly Burly 1984 (343) after an off-Broadway run; Is There Life After High School? 1982; Baby 1983; Hurlyburly (Harvey Keitel,William Hurt,Ron Silver,Jerry Stiller,Cynthia Nixon,Sigourney Weaver,Judith Ivey) 1984 (343); Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Angela Bassett) 1988; Foxfire (Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn); Streetcar Named Desire (Alec Baldwin,Amy Madigan,Jessica Lange) 1992; Sisters Rosenweig (Jane Alexander,Robert Klein,Madeline Kahn) 1993 (85); The Life 1997 (466);Putting It Together (Carol Burnett,George Hearn,Ruthie Henshall,Bronson Pinchot)1999 (103); Amy's View (Judi Dench) 1999 (115), Lunch Hour, Poor Murderer; Real Thing 2000; Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000);Imaginary Friends (Cherry Jones,Swoosie Kurtz) 2002 - renovated 2004

*Eugene O'Neill Theatre (NYC) - 230 West 49th St. (Jujamcyn-1,108 seats) - Built in 1925 as the Forrest – Mayflower 1925; first success Tobacco Road 1934-41 which transferred from the John Golden - renamed in 1959 for the only U.S. playwright to receive the Nobel prize for Literature – closed 1945 – reopened as Coronet Theatre –In 1959 it was renamed the Eugene O’Neill - Dream Girl; All My Sons; Let It Ride 1961; Show Girl 1961; She Loves Me 1963; Something More (Barbara Cook) 1964 (15); Last of the Red Hot Lovers 1969 (706), Prisoner of Second Avenue 1971 (780), Yentl (Tovah Feldshuh) 1975 (224); California Suite (Tammy Grimes,George Grizzard,Jack Weston,Barbara Barrie) 1976 (445); Big River (John Goodman,Rene Auberjonois) 1985 (1005), M. Butterfly 1988 (777), Canterbury Tales, I Ought To Be In Pictures (Dinah Manoff,Joyce Van Patten,Ron Leibman) 1980 (324), Big River 1985; M. Butterfly (John Lithgow,B.D.Wong) 1988 (777); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Kathleen Turner,Charles Durning) 1990 (149); Five Guys Named Moe 1992; Grease (revival - Rose O'Donnell) 1994; Death of a Salesman (Brian Dennehy) 1999; The Full Monty (2000);Nine (Antonio Banderas,Chita Rivera,Jane Krakowski)2003 (285);Spring Awakening 2006;

Euterpean Hall (NYC) – see Broadway Theatre

Evergreen (NYC) - see Theatre Four - Boys in the Band, Geese, House of Flowers – demolished

Exchange - Theatre Row, 42nd St

Exclusive Club – Harlem nightspot 1920s

*Expanded Arts (NYC) - 85 Ludlow Street (between Delancey & Rivington St. (25)- storefront theatre

Experimental Theatre (NYC) – West 63rd, East of Broadway – established 1935 to offer work for theatrical professionals idled by the Depression – by 1936 some 5,385 professionals were at work in NYC alone – numerous companies sprang up across country – 1939 project abolished - see 63rd St. Music Hall/Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

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Factory - rock club – 1960s

Famous Door – 66 West 52nd Street – Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Prima 1930s

Famous Kitchen – 318 West 45th Street – famous nightclub

Fat Black Pussycat - Minetta Lane – Bob Dylan 1962 – now Mexican restaurant – Fat Black Pussycat moved to West 3rd and 6th Ave, across from the famous Blue Note

Fazil’s Times Square Studio - closed Feb, 2008, after 73 years as a ramshackle, homey rehearsal center that served as a mecca for everyone from movie stars to struggling tap, flamenco and Middle Eastern dancers - talents such as Honi Coles and Charles Cook, Alvin Ailey, Savion Glover, rehearsals for Broadway musicals - Fazil’s was first known as Michael's - immortalized in the 1948 film musical “Easter Parade” when Fred Astaire invites Judy Garland to run over to Michael’s and go through some steps. The center’s next owner was Jerry LeRoy, a vaudevillian whose specialty was tap dancing in ice skates, who renamed it after himself - Woody Allen’s “Broadway Danny Rose” and Nick Castle’s “Tap.” Gregory Hines, a fixture at Fazil’s, modeled Sonny’s, the hoofers’ hangout in “Tap,” after Studio A-1. When Fazil’s received a move-out date from its landlord in July, work began on “And 5, 6, 7, 8 ...,” a documentary about the studio by the filmmaker Timur Civan, Ms. Civan’s son - building is one of several on the block slated for demolition to make way for new construction -Fazil’s still has a branch in Istanbul, in an old building where posters for Turkish movies were once printed

Federal Music Theatre (NYC) - see Gallo Opera House, Studio 54

Federal Theatre (NYC) – Macbeth; R.U.R.; Battle Hymn 1936

Feinstein's (NYC) - (Regency Hotel) - 540 Park Avenue @ 61st Street- 140 seat cabaret room – opened 1999 - Michael Feinstein, Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook

Fellow’s Opera House & Hall of Lyrics - “444” Broadway above Howard & Canal Sts – next to old Olympic Theatre which changed to 442 Broadway – had been Tattersall’s Stables which was razed 1850 and replaced by City Assembly Rooms – 1854 burned to ground but hall at 444 was reconstructed as a minstrel theatre – many name changes – 1860 was Broadway Boudoir – 1866 burned again but not rebuilt

Fenway (Beneson), Bronx - 1921 1,400 seats -1921 Razed

Festival Theatre - closed

*Fez Theater/FEZ Under TIME CAFE (NYC) - 380 Lafayette St @ Great Jones St.

Fifth Avenue Club – 5th Avenue & Broadway – 1920s nightspot

Fifth Avenue Hotel – Salon Madrid – 5th Avenue & 9th St – 1930s nightspot

Fifth Avenue Opera House – see Fifth Avenue Theatre - 1865 - 5th Avenue at 24th Street – later 5th Avenue, Broughman’s – demolished 1873 by fire ; Fifth Avenue Theatre (NYC) – (see Madison Square Theatre and Daly’s Fifth Avenue) – first built on 24th Street in 1862 as adjunct to Fifth Avenue Hotel – built originally as stock exchange – became theatre in 1865 when occupied by George Christy’s Minstrels – redecorated in 1867 but lasted short time – 1868 became Brougham’s Theatre - 1869 first great company until destroyed by fire 1873 – lay in ruins for several years site was later used for Fifth Avenue Hall - became Madison Square Theatre 1877, then became Hoyt’s Theatre, H.C. Miner’s 5th Avenue – Pirates of Penzance 1879 – underwent several name changes – burned 1891 – rebuilt as vaudeville, film and burlesque house closed 1908, before being torn down 1938 – 2nd at 27 West 28th St, Fifth Avenue and 28th Street West , near Broadway; – built as Fifth Avenue Opera House (1254 seats) specializing in Negro Minstrel shows – 1867 – 1869 became Daly’s Fifth Avenue Theatre – 1873 burnt down and not rebuilt; 3rd Fifth Avenue Theatre (1254 seats) – opened at 1185 Broadway and 28th Street – 1873 - not located on 5th Avenue but took name from prior venue which was destroyed by fire in 1891 - rebuilt in 1900 - slipped into decline and showed movies and vaudeville -had many name changes and was demolished 1908; 4th - the New Fifth Avenue Theatre opened in 1892 on West 28th Street on the site of its namesake which had burned down in 1891; 5th - 5th Avenue Theatre (Apollo Hall) (NYC)- Madison Square Theatre built on this site when Fifth Avenue destroyed by fire in 1873 - 5th Avenue & 26th St (1,254 seats) - built in 1862 at 24th Street and 5th Avenue but closed abruptly when man killed – reopened 1869 - destroyed by fire in 1873 - demolished; 6th at Broadway and 28th Street – Love’s Labour Lost 1874; Shore Acres 1893 (244), Saratoga or Pistols for Seven 1870 (101), Divorce 1871 (200), Big Bonanza 1875 (137) Pique 1875 (237), In Mizzoura 1893 (64)

50th Street Theatre – see Princess Theatre

Fifty-Eighth Street Theatre (NYC) – see John Golden Theatre

58th Street Theatre (NYC) – see John Golden Theatre

55th Street Playhouse - closed

51st Street Theatre (NYC) - see Hollywood Theatre, see Mark Hellinger Theatre

54th Street Theatre (NYC) - see Craig Theatre, George Abbott Theatre - 302 West 45th St. - (see Martin Beck) - Caligula 1960 (38); Kwamina 1961; 13 Daughters 1961; No Strings 1962 (580), What Makes Sammy Run 1964 (540), Bye Bye Birdie 1960 (607), Kiss Me Kate 2000 (revival)

59E59 - 59 East 59th Street - $7 million theatrical boost to house 3 theatres with seating of 199, 99 and 50 - largest will house Primary Stages - opening March 2004 with The Stendahl Syndrome (Isabella Rossellini and Richard Thomas); new British plays will occupy all 3 spaces from April 5 to July 4/04

Filmarte (NYC)- see John Golden Theatre

Film Forum 1 & 2 - closed & demolished

*Firebird Café (NYC) - 363 West 46th Street (between 8th and 9th) - the Firebird Upstairs Supperclub opened 2003 showcasing top cabaret talent - intimate cabaret space that is part of Firebird Restaurant - upstairs supper club has closed down as of Feb/03 - remainder closed 2003 - the space is being gutted and reportedly will be converted to an Irish Pub as of Jan/04

Fine Arts (NYC) - 1953 - 540 seats - see John Golden Theatre

First Avenue Screening Room - closed

Flamboyan Theater (NYC) - 107 Suffolk Street (at Delancey)

*Flatiron Playhouse (NYC) - 119 West 23rd St (between 6th & 7th Aves)- 60 seats in 3rd floor of office building - Flatiron Playhouse, 23rd Street one block from the historic Flatiron Building - was home to Italian American Theatre Company and known as the Duality Playhouse - revival of Bent; Shadowbox, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; an all-male Medea

**Flea Theatre (NYC) - 41 White St. (Church & Broadway)- home of Bat Theatre Company

Fleetwood, Bronx - 1927 - 1,700 seats - 1927 Closed; altered

Flushing Town Hall - 137-35 Northern Blvd - programs in performing and visual arts

Flying Bridge Community Arts (NYC) – 522A Court Street, Carroll Gardens

Folies Bergere Theatre (NYC) - 210 West 46th St - 1911 - opened as a dinner theatre with vaudeville Hell/Temptation/Gaby 1911 (92); - closed after a few short months – originally built as a hall in 1869 - reopened as The Fulton in 1911 with Cave Man (2 weeks) – Yellow Jacket 1912; Damaged Goods 1912; Misleading Lady (Lewis Stone,George Abbott) 1913 (183), Twin Beds (411), Abie's Irish Rose - transferred to the Republic for majority of 8 year run; Jazz Singer 1925 (303), Oh, Please (Beatrice Lillie); Dracula 1927 (Bela Lugosi); New Faces of 1934 (Imogene Coca,Henry Fonda); Arsenic and Old Lace 1941 (1,444) and eventually changed to Helen Hayes Theatre in 1955 - Gigi 1950s; Seven Year Itch; Long Day’s Journey Into Night 1956; Mary Mary 1961 (1572), Hadrian VII; The Me Nobody Knows; Royal Family - 1982 demolished after the Astor, Victoria, Bijou, and Morosco had been razed

Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre (Peoples’ Stage) – Yiddish amateur groups – formed 1915 by merger of several older companies including Progressive Dramatic Club and Hebrew Dramatic League - Second Avenue was the address of New York's Yiddish theatre community during its heyday in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The street was lined with playhouses from Houston Street to 14th Street and supported the careers of countless Yiddish actors and playwrights - 90-year-old Folksbiene is America's only professional Yiddish theatre - see Folksbiene Playhouse

Folksbiene Playhouse (NYC) – 123 East 55th Street - see Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre

Follies Theatre (NYC)

Fools Company Space (NYC) (96) – 356 West 44th Street

Fontana’s - rock club – Eldridge St

*Ford Center for the Performing Arts (NYC) - 213 West 42nd St. - being renamed to Hilton Theatre early 2005 - (1,839 seats) - Lyric Theatre torn down but façade is still intact, but the Apollo Theatre was completely demolished - a cost of 30 million dollars - opened in 1998 (previews Dec. 26, 1997) with Ragtime (Marin Mazzie,Brian Stokes Mitchell,Audra McDonald,Judy Kaye) (861), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat 2000, Forty Second Street 2001

47th Street Theatre (NYC) -(home to Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre) - 304 West 47th St. (8th & 9th) (196 seats) Wild Blue; Perfect Crime - transferred To Duffy Theatre 2nd - 47th Street Theatre (NYC) – Jelly Roll 1995; Last Session 1997

46th Street Theatre (NYC) - see Richard Rodgers Theatre – 226 West 46th Street – 1338 seats – opened as Chanin’s Forty-Sixth Street Theatre 1925 and got present name in 1932 - Good News 1927 (551); DuBarry Was a Lady 1939; Panama Hattie 1940 (501); Finian’s Rainbow 1947 (725); Arms and the Girl 1950; Guys and Dolls (Sam Levene,Robert Alda,Isabel Bigsley,Vivian Blaine,Stubby Kaye) 1950 (1194); Damn Yankees 1955; New Girl in Town 1957; Redhead 1959; Christine 1960; Tenderloin 1960; Donnybrook 1961; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1961; Do I Hear a Waltz 1965; I Do I Do 1966 (560); Pousse Café 1966; 1776 - 1969; Raisin 1973; Chicago (Gwen Verdon,Chita Rivera,Jerry Orbach) 1975; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Henderson Forsythe) 1978; Working 1978; Nine 1982 (732); Fences 1987 (526);

46 Walker Street (NYC) – between Church and Broadway

Forum 47th Street (NYC) - see Central Theatre; Forum Theatre (NYC) - see Central Theatre; 2nd - Forum Theatre (NYC) – see Vivian Beaumont Theatre; Forum, Bronx - 1922 - 2,300 seats 1922, prior Triplex; Church

*14th Street Theatre (NYC) - (see Theatre Francais, Civic Repertory Theater) – 105-9 West 14th Street & 6th Ave - built 1866 as Theatre Francais (1100 seats) – changed to Lyceum 1873 – and from 1886-1926 as Fourteenth Street - Old Homestead 1887 (160), Blue Jeans 1890 (176); Running For Office (Cohan family) 1903 (6 weeks) – demolished 1938

*14th Street Y(NYC) - 344 East 14th St (between 2nd Ave & 3rd Ave)- home to Hypothetical Theatre Company

4th Street Theatre (NYC) - 83 East 4th St

Fourth Unity -

Franklin Museum - see Franklin Theatre

Franklin Theatre (NYC) – 175 Chatham St – 550 seats – 1835 – known as the Little Drury, then Franlin Museum - opened with School of Reform – closed 1854 – became furniture store

Frazee Theatre (NYC) - see Lew M. Fields Theatre and Wallack’s Theatre - Gold 1921 (6); Dulcy 1921 (246)

Freddy's (NYC) - intimate cabaret - Marcia Lewis

Frederick P. Rose Theatre - opening in AOL Time Warner Building – Columbus Circle – houses the Rose Theatre, 1000 seats, and Allen Room – 470 seat club-style space

Freehold Theatre (NYC) – see La Mama

Freeman, Bronx - 1922 - 1,604 seats - Closed

French Casino (NYC) - see Earl Carroll Theatre (also was Casa Manana, Folies Bergere) – 7th Avenue & 50th Street – 1930s

French Theatre - see Theatre Francais

Friars Club - members of the New York Friars Club, famous for their celebrity roasts, gathered MondayJune 14/04 to celebrate its 100th birthday - Founded 1904, club soon had century's greatest funnymen as members, like Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett and Pat Cooper - club's midtown Manhattan building, known as "the monastery," has a restaurant, a bar, a steam room and a barbershop - in 1988, after 84 years, the club allowed women to join, starting with Liza Minnelli

Fringe Festival (NYC) – see New York International Fringe Festival

Frohman's Empire Theatre (NYC) - see Empire Theatre

Frolic Theatre (NYC) - see New Amsterdam

Fugazy Theatre - closed & demolished

Fulton Theatre (NYC) – 1911 built as the Folies Bergere Theatre, and in 1955 became the Helen Hayes Theatre - Yellow Jacket 1912 (80), Twin Beds 1914 (411), Abie's Irish Rose 1922 (2,327); Jazz Singer (George Jessel) 1925 (303); Arsenic and Old Lace 1941 (1444); Deep Are the Roots 1945 (477); Another Part of the Forest (Patricia Neal,Mildred Dunnock,Leo Genn) 1946; Command Decision 1947 (409); Seven Year Itch (Tom Ewell,Vanessa Brown)1952 (1141)

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Gage and Tollner’s - opened 1879 – famous nightclub at 303 Fulton Street, Brooklyn – moved in 1892 to 372-374 Fulton Street

Gaiety (NYC) - built 1908 - 1547 Broadway at 46th Street - 1000 seats – opened 1908 with The Yankee Prince featuring the entire Cohan family; Gaiety Burlesque - burlesque house – House Next Door 1909; Fortune Hunter (John Barrymore) 1909 (345), Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 1910 (424), Stop Thief 1912 (149); Daddy Long Legs 1914 (264); Turn to the Right 1916 (435), Lightnin 1918 (1291) – Tell Me More (Gershwin) 1925 (12 weeks); Tommy 1927; Peter Pan Flies High 1931; Collision 1932; 1926 became a movie house until 1931 when it became a Minsky’s burlesque house renamed Victoria - Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee, Abbott and Costello – Phil Silvers 1934; Harlem on Broadway 1942 (Stepin Fetchit); 1943 turned to vaudeville and became Victoria and showed films - few blocks up from George M. Cohan Theatre - 1982 became the Embassy Five with entrance on 46th St – closed 1980 - demolished in 1982 for Marriott Hotel

Gaiety Burlesque – 201 West 46th St at Broadway – 1920s - 811 seats - became gay male adult theatre operated from mid 1970s and still open – formerly known as the Orpheum Dance Palace, also known as Kings Cinema

Galapagos Art Space - rock club

GAle GAtes et al - Main Street, Brooklyn based avant-garde company - troupe ceases operations July 2003 - also used DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) for some performances

Gallery of Modern Art - 2 Columbus Circle - opened 1964 - created by Huntington Hartford - gallery, restaurant, Gauguin Room, small auditorium in basement with daily pipe organ recitals - Salvador Dali exhibit - closed 1964 - renamed New York Cultural Center - temporary shows and nightclub "Cabaret in the Sky" in penthouse restaurant (Jackie Curtis,Holly Woodlawn,Cherry Vanilla etc) - 1980 purchased by Gulf + Western - donated to city for use by Dept. of Cultural Affairs - now to be transformed into new home for the Museum of Arts and Design

Gallo Opera House (NYC) - 254 West 54th St - 1927 - 1200 seats – opened with La Boheme 1927; Electra (Antoinette Perry); Juno and the Paycock; Rainbow (21) - 1929 renamed the New Yorker – The Vikings 1930; Hummin’ Sam 19331933 became the Casino de Paris - closed in 1935 and reopened as the Palladium in 1936 - 1937 it became the Federal Music Theatre and in 1939 became the New Yorker again – The Swing Mikado 1939 – transferred to 44th Street Theatre - in 1942 CBS acquired the New Yorker and became Radio Playhouse No 4 and then Studio No 52 - sold and reopened as the infamous Studio 54 - the marquee still reads Studio 54 and entertains rock concerts

Garden Theatre (NYC) – opened 1890 – 61 Madison Avenue at 27th Street - (1200 seats on the ground floor of Madison Square Garden and for 35 years housed major productions) - Sarah Bernhardt (in French) (Camille/La Tosca/Cyrano/Hamlet/L'Aiglon) 1900 (5 weeks); Hamlet (E.H. Sothern) 1900; College Widow 1904 (278) – 1919 became Jewish (later Yiddish) Art Theatre – demolished 1925

Garrick Theatre (NYC) – (see Harrigan’s) - 65-9 West 35th Street built in 1890 as Harrigan’s Theatre – premiered with Arms and the Man - renamed Garrick in 1895 – Arms and the Man - home of the Theatre Guild - Sherlock Holmes 1899 (256), Secret Service 1896 (176), Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines 1901 (168), Scarecrow 1911 (23), Her Own Way 1903 (107); from 1917-1919 was Vieux Colombier – in 1919 reverted to Garrick - John Ferguson 1919 (177); in 1919 it became the Jewish Art Theatre - Enter Madame 1920 (350); Heartbreak House 1920 (250); He Who Gets Slapped 1922; The Failures (Jacob Ben-Ami) 1923 (40); Adding Machine 1923 (72), They Knew What They Wanted 1924 (192); Garrick Gaieties (Sterling Holloway) 1925 (lyric and composer debut of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart) – demolished 1932

Gaslight Café - 116 MacDougal St – Bob Dylan 1963 – upstairs Kettle of Fish bar – Bob Dylan – long gone

Gate Theatre (NYC)- 2nd Avenue - Heloise (Alan Arkin) 1958; O Marry Me 1961; Cindy 1964

Gatehouse Theatre - 135th Street and Convent Avenue - 192-seat theater for Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall - rugged 1890 building, vacant since 1984 - being transformed into a brand-new 192-seat performance space for Harlem -

Gem Theatre - closed & demolished

*Gene Frankel Theatre (NYC) - 24 Bond St. (at Lafayette Street)

Genesius Guild Theatre (NYC)

George Abbott Theatre(NYC) – 152 West 54th Street – 1401 seats – opened 1928 as the Craig Theatre – Potipher’s Wife 1928; closed 1931 and changed to Adelphi in 1934 – One Third of a Nation; It Can’t Happen Here; Sing for Your Supper – became Truth Center for the Arts, follwed by Yiddish Arts Theatre – 1944 Shuberts took over – On the Town; Three to Make Ready; Street Scene – became studio – 1958 became Fifty-Fourth Street Theatre and 1966 the George Abbott - Darling of the Day 1968 – demolished 1970

George M. Cohan's Theatre (NYC) - 1911 - 1482 Broadway at 43rd St. - 1100 seats – Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford with George M. Cohan 1911(moved from Gaiety); The Little Millionaire (with Cohans) 1911; Broadway Jones 1912; Potash and Perlmutter 1913 (441) It Pays to Advertise 1914; Change Your Luck (Alberta Hunter) 1930; Shoot the Works (Imogene Coca) 1931; The DuBarry 1932 - 1932 turned to films but struggled with proximity of Roxy, Rialto, Paramount, State, Rivoli, Strand and others - 1938 demolished for retail stores

George Washington – “23” Room – famous nightclub

Gerald J. Lynch Theater - at John Jay College - 10th Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre - name changed May 9/05 from Plymouth - see Plymouth Theatre - Chita Rivera: Dancer's Life 2005 (72 perf);

Gerde’s Folk City Club - West 4th & Mercer St – music venue - Bob Dylan 1961 - demolished

Germania Theatre (NYC) – Broadway & 13th Street – see Wallach’s, Aberle’s Theatre - Mascot 1882

Gershwin Hotel (NYC) – Why We Don’t Bomb the Amish 2000

*Gershwin Theatre (NYC) - 1633 Broadway & 50th or 222 West 51st St. (Nederlander-1,933 seats) Built as the Uris in 1972 – on site of old Capitol Movie Palace - Broadway's largest theatre– occupies 1st 6 floors 50 story office tower – home of new Theatre Hall of Fame -Via Galactica 1972 (7); King and I 1977 (revival 807), Seesaw; Sammy Davis Jr.; Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra; Ella Fitzgerald; Count Basie; Paul Anka; Bing Crosby; Barry Manilow etc. - Sweeney Todd (Len Cariou,Angela Lansbury) 1979 (557), Pirates of Penzance 1981 (772), - renamed in honour of George and Ira Gershwin 1983 - Showboat (Elaine Stritch,Rebecca Luker) 1994(revival 951), Tony Awards, Singin' in the Rain 1985 (367); Starlight Express (Andrea McArdle) 1987 (761); Candide (Jim Dale) 1997 (103); Men Are From Mars; Candide (revival Jim Dale,Andrea Martin) 1997 (103); Men Are From Mars,Women Are From Venus 1997; Wicked (Kristin Chenoweth,Idina Menzel,Carole Shelley,Norbert Leo Butz,Joel Grey) 2003;

Gilmore’s Garden - see Madison Square Garden

Gilmore's 63rd Street (NYC)- see 63rd St. Music Hall, Daly’s 63rd St. Theatre, Edyth Totten

Gilsey’s Apollo Hall - see New Fifth Avenue Theatre

Glen Island Casino – New Rochelle – famous nightclub

*Glines (NYC) - gay theatre house - Gulp

Globe Theatre - proposed Elizabeth style theatre for Governor's Island; or defunct Castle Williams, a stone fortress built in 1811, and now in a state of advanced disrepair, as another Globe Theatre (which they, indeed, intend to call The New Globe Theatre) - a version of Shakespeare's famous theatrical home that would employ the old, cylindrical building, which one served as a prison; 2nd Globe – 1870s had been church – opened as A.T. Stewart’s Athenaeum 1865 – 1881 became New Theatre Comique – name changed frequently; 3rd Globe - (see Lunt Fontanne and New York Theatre) - 1475 seats - opened with Old Town (Peggy Wood) 1910; Rose Maid 1912; Chin Chin 1914 (295), No No Nanette 1925; Cat and the Fiddle 1931 (395), – converted to a film house in 1932 – Ring Round the Moon (Paul Scofield,Claire Bloom,Margaret Rutherford) 1950 (682); 1958 remodelled and reopened as the Lunt-Fontanne

**Gloria Maddox Theatre (NYC) - 151 West 26th St (between 6th & 7th Aves)- houses T. Schreiber Studios

Glory Theatre - closed & demolished

Golden (NYC) - (see John Golden Theatre, Royale Theatre, Theatre Masque) – Irish and How They Got That Way 1997

Golden Rule Theatre - closed

Good Shepherd Faith Church (NYC) - Lincoln Centre - Trial of the Catonsville Nine 1971 (130) - moved to Lyceum for additional 29 performances; School For Scandal (Kevin Kline,Patti LuPone) 1972

Gotham Theatre (NYC) - 1903 - see Central Theatre – 950 seats – razed 1965

Governor Theatre - closed

Gramercy Arts Theatre (NYC) - 138 East 27th St. (150) Oldest Off-Broadway theatre in America – Ernest in Love 1960

**Gramercy Theater (NYC) - 127 East 23rd St. (Union Square)(between Park Ave & Lexington) (490) - newest Off-Broadway theatre opened June 1998 - originally built in 1937 as a movie house - houses Roundabout Theatre Company - Hotel Suite 2000 - The Gramercy Theatre, beginning 2004, will again serve the legitimate theatre - for the last year and a half, used by the Museum of Modern Art for film program, which went homeless when MOMA's midtown home was closed – to be rock club – 600 capacity

Grand Central Theatre - closed

Grand Finale (NYC) - (250 seats) cabaret of the 1970s which featured Chita Rivera, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Marcia Lewis

Grand Opera House (NYC)– (see Pike’s) - NW corner of 8th Avenue & 23rd St. (1,890 seats) – 1868 opened as Pike’s Opera House – 1875 theatre closed - 1869 name changed to Grand - Heroines of Shenandoash 1889 – 1938 became cinema and demolished 1961 *

Grand Prospect Hall (NYC) - Brooklyn - built 1892 in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn as a "temple of music and amusement" - featured an opera house, ballroom, roof garden and speakeasy - home to Crescent Motion Picture Company in 1908 - featured here were the likes of Enrico Caruso, Sophie Tucker, Lena Horne, Mae West, Sonja Henie, Bob Hope, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire - used in the motion pictures Cotton Club and Prizzi's Honor

Grand Theatre - early 1900s - 2100 seats

Grange Theatre - closed

Greater Vitagraph Theatre - motion picture theatre circa 1917 – demolished

Greeley Theatre - 1911 - 1,799 seats - closed & demolished 1944

**Greenwich House Theatre (NYC) - 27 Barrow Street (@ 7th Avenue South)- 99 seats - formerly house to the Drama Department - Author's Voice/Imaging Brad 1999; Les Mizrahi 2000 - name changed to Barrow Street Theatre, a new off-Broadway rental space (up to 199 seats) - as of December, 2003

Greenwich Mews Theatre (NYC) - Adaptation/Next 1969 (707)

Greenwich Street Circus - renamed Pantheon

Greenwich Street Summer Theatre - see Rickett’s Amphitheatre

**Greenwich Street Theatre (NYC) - 547 Greenwich St. (between Charlton & Vandam) - Villar-Hauser Theatre Co., Common Ground & Chain Lightning are resident companies - 74 seats

Greenwich Village Inn – 5 Sheridan Square – 1920s nightclub

Greenwich Village Theatre (NYC) - built 1917 – see Provincetown Players - White Cargo 1923 (686); Desire Under the Elms (Walter Huston) 1924 (208)Fountain (Walter Huston) 1925 (28); Great God Brown 1926 (271), moved to Garrick Theatre March 1, 1926, Desire Under the Elms 1924 (208),

Ground Floor Theatre (NYC) - opens Sept 30/02 - 312 West 11th Street - around corner from White Horse Tavern - home to Fat Chance Productions

Ground Zero - see also World Trade Center - resident performing arts group in the facility, will be The Joyce Theater and the Off-Broadway Signature Theatre Company - the downtown homes for the troupes will be called the Joyce Theater International Dance Center and the Signature Theatre Center

Group Theatre (NYC) - (1931-1941) – founded 1931 to create permanent acting company – first performance House of Connelly 1931 - Elia Kazan with the theatre in 1935 – ceased production 1940 and disbanded

**Grove Street Playhouse (NYC) - 39 Grove St.@ 7th Avenue (formerly Courtyard Theatre) (Hudson & Bedford-1 block S. of Christopher West of 7th Ave (77)- located in a block of brownstones

Grove Street Playhouse (NYC) – 39 Grove Street (West of Sheridan Square)

Grove Theatre (NYC) – opened 1804 on Bedlow Street now Madison Street E of Catherine – later became Covent Garden - lasted only a couple of seasons and closed 1805

Guild Theatre (NYC) - 52nd Street West of Broadway- built 1925 – 1,360 seats - opened with Caesar and Cleopatra (Helen Hayes) - was radio playhouse from 1943 to 1950 and then purchased by American National Theatre and Academy (A.N.T.A.) and returned to live theatre as the A.N.T.A.; Silver Cord 1926; Juarez and Maximillian 1926; Garrick Gaities; Major Barbara 1928; Marco Millions 1928; Mourning Becomes Electra 1931; Too True To Be Good 1932; Biography 1932 - changed to ANTA in 1950; renamed Virginia in 1981

Guild 50th St - 1938- 450 seats - Gutted; Retail

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Hackett Theatre (NYC)- - see Lew M. Fields Theatre - Witching Hour 1907 (212), Salvation Nell 1908 (71),

Hamlet of Bank Street (NYC)- - 155 Bank Street (Westbeth Artists Complex) (70) Pandemonium Stage Co-resident company

Hammerstein's Ballroom/Manhattan Center - 311 West 34th Street; 2 - Hammerstein's Lyric Theatre - built 1895 - between 44th and 45th Streets - demolished 1935; Hammerstein's Music Hall (NYC)- - see Olympia; 3 - Hammerstein’s Olympia (NYC)- see Olympia, Criterion – 1895 – 4 theatres in the same building – Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets (2800 seats) – plus Concert Hall, Lyric Theatre and Roof Garden – later New York – demolished 1935; 4 - Hammerstein's Theatre (NYC)- 1697 Broadway at 53rd Street - 1927 - 1265 seats – opened with Golden Dawn (Cary Grant); Good Boy 1928; Sweet Adeline 1929 (Helen Morgan); Ballyhoo (W.C.Fields) - 1931 renamed the Manhattan; then Billy Rose's Music Hall and then the Manhattan Music Hall, then just the Manhattan – Murder in the Cathedral 1936 - 1936 CBS took a long lease as Radio Playhouse No 1, then Television Studio No 50 - home to Ed Sullivan and in 1967 renamed the Ed Sullivan Theatre - now housing the Late Show with David Letterman; 5 - Hammerstein's Victoria (NYC) - east of Victory Theatre - opened 1895 at Broadway and 44th St - see Victoria Theatre – 1200 seats - had a roof garden joined to Republic Theatre - opened 1899 - – Reign of Terror 1899; Chris and the Wonderful Lamp 1900; Sweet Adeline 1929 (234) - was the top vaudeville house in the country - closed 1915 – demolished 1916 – most of building replaced by movie theatre – Rialto – demolished 1935 – new structure included smaller Rialto movie house – razed 2002; 6 - Hammerstein's Theatre Republic (NYC)- see Theatre Republic

Hampden's Theatre (NYC)- - see Colonial Theatre - Merchant of Venice (Walter Hampden,Ethel Barrymore) 1925 (7 weeks);

Harkness Theatre (NYC)- see Colonial Theatre, New Theatre - rebuilt to house the Harkness Ballet (1964-1974) under the direction of Rebecca West Harkness (1915-1982) - Robber Bridegroom (Kevin Kline,Patti LuPone) 1975 (15) - tranferred to Ethel Barrymore (145); Sweet Bird of Youth; final show there – So Long 174th Street 1976 - demolished 1977

Harlem Opera House (NYC)- 125th Street – closed & demolished

Harlem School of the Arts (NYC) – see Classical Theatre of Harlem

Harmony Theatre - 161 West 22nd Street (Chelsea) - was home to Upright Citizens Brigade for since 1999 - was a former burlesque house (74 seats) on November 18/02 theatre was closed by City building inspector - company used a temporary space at Access Theatre, before moving to Chelsea Playhouse, 125 West 22nd Street

Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre – 111 West 46th Street – previously known as the American Place Theatre – has 425 seat Laura Pels Theatre and 75 seat Black Box Theatre – opening late 2003

Harold Clurman Theatre (NYC)- 412 West 42nd Street - may be demolished in 2000 to make room for modern complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact - Samuel Beckett one act plays Ohio Impromptu,Catastrophe and What Wer (Donald Davis) 1983 (350)

Harold Square Theatre (NYC)- Arms and the Man 1894;

Harrigan & Hart Theatre - ; 2 - Harrigan’s Park Theatre (NYC) – (see Garrick Theatre) - 63 West 35th Street – 1890 - see Herold Square Theatre, Harrigan’s Theatre – demolished 1932; 3 - Harrigan’s Theatre – see Harrigan’s Park Theatre – 1890 – Ni side of 35th St, just E of 6th Ave – became Garrick 1895 – 1916 slated for demolition but became 1st home of Theatre Guild – 1932 damaged by fire and later demolished

Harris (Candler) Theatre (NYC) - see also Candler Theatre, Lew M. Fields Theatre, Sam H. Harris Theatre, and Wallack’s Theatre – 226 West 42nd St – opened as Candler Theatre, motion picture house 1914 - 1040 seats – Anthony & Cleopatra (film) 1914 – same year changed to legitimate – On Trial 1914; Lie (C. Aubrey Smith) 1914 (172); 1916 became Cohan and Harris Theatre; 1921 became Sam H. Harris Theatre – referred to as the Harris; Hamlet (John Barrymore) 101 perf; I Loved You Wednesday; Pigeons and People (George M. Cohan) 1933 (70) – razed 1996; Harris Theatre – see Harris Candler Theatre -

Havana-Madrid – 1650 Broadway – 1930s nightclub

Haverly's 14th Street Theatre (NYC)- see Theatre Francais - 14th St. West of 6th Avenue (1,283 seats) - Widow Bedott 1880 (56), White Slave 1882 (40), Peck's Bad Boy 1884 (40), Galley Slave 1879 (101) demolished

H.C. Miner’s 5th Avenue Theatre – see Fifth Avenue

Heckscher Theatre (NYC) – 1230 Fifth Avenue - Mama,I Want to Sing 1983; Mama I Want to Sing Part II 1990

Heights Players (NYC)

Heights Theatre - closed

Helen Hayes (NYC)- 240 West 44th St. - (499 seats) – see Times Hall - Built in 1912 as the Winthrop Ames then Little Theatre, as smallest of the older Broadway houses, renamed Anne Nichols’ Little Theatre for short time – Pigeon 1912; Let Us Be Gay 1929 (363), First Year 1920 (725), One Sunday Afternoon 1933 (322), Pre-Honeymoon 1935; 1951 leased as studioLong Day's Journey into Night 1956 (390); Touch of the Poet (Eric Portman,Kim Stanley,Helen Hayes) (1958) (284); 1963 became Withrop Ames again - Me Nobody Knows 1970 (587); 1974 became Little Theatre again - Gemini (6/77 to 9/81 - 1,819 performances), Touch of the Poet (Jason Robards Jr,Geraldine Fitzgerald) 1978; Strider 1979 (27 weeks)Charlie and Algernon 1980 (17); Runner Stumbles, Torch Song Trilogy 1982 (1222); 1983 theatre renamed the Helen Hayes after one on 46th Street demolished - Romance Romance 1988; Defending the Caveman 1995 (399); Last Night of Ballyhoo (Paul Rudd) 1997 (557); Band in Berlin 1999; Epic Proportions 1999; Dirty Blonde (Claudia Shear) (2000); By Jeeves 2001 (72); Xanadu 2008; 39 Steps 2008; - theatre being purchased by Second Stage who will establish it as permanent home in 2010; 2nd Helen Hayes - Helen Hayes (NYC) - 1911 – 210 West 46th Street – originally a theatre/restaurant - see Folies Bergere – opened as the Fulton, 1160 seats, and later on Helen Hayes in 1955 – first success The Yellow Jacket; Damaged Goods(1 performance, but ran 66 a month later) 1913; Abie’s Irish Rose 1922 – transferred to larger theatre for long run; Jazz Singer 1925; Last of Mrs. Cheney 1925; New Faces 1934; 1937-39 leased for film and burlesque - Arsenic and Old Lace 1941(also transferred to another theatre); Searching Wind (Cornelia Otis Skinner,Montgomery Clift) 1944 (10 mos); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Frederic March,Florence Eldridge,Jason Robards Jr,Bradford Dillman) 1956 (390), Touch of the Poet 1958 (284), Period of Adjustment (Barbara Baxley,James Daly,Rosemary Murphy) 1960 (132); Crown Matrimonial, Crucifer of Blood, Duel of Angels, Mary Mary 1961 (1572); Me Nobody Knows 1970 (587)moved from Off Broadway, To Live Another Summer,To Pass Another Winter 1971; Perfectly Frank, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1968, Rodgers and Hart, Royal Family - demolished in 1982 along with the Astor, Gaiety, and Morosco, to make way for Marriott Marquis Hotel

Helen's Restaurant, Cabaret & Piano Lounge - opening March 2004 - 169 Eighth Avenue

Hellinger – see Mark Hellinger

Henderson’s Music Hall - situated on Coney Island

Henry Abbey's Theatre (NYC) - see Abbey's Theatre - Broadway and 38th Street (1893-demolished in 1930 - renamed "Knickerbocker Theatre" in 1896 - Dearest Enemy 1925 (286)

*Henry Miller's Theatre (NYC)- - 124 West 43rd Street - 1918 - 950 seats - (see Kit Kat Klub) – opened with The Fountain of Youth 1918; Victoria Regina; Caesar and Cleopatra; Mis’ Nellie of N’Orleans (4 mos); La La Lucille (Gershwin); Quarantine (Helen Hayes); Famous Mrs. Fair 1919 (343), La,La,Lucille 1919 (104); National Anthem (Laurette Taylor,Ralph Morgan) 1922 (114); Vortex 1925 (Noel Coward); The Play’s The Thing 1926 (260); Journey’s End 1929; Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1931 (206), The Good Fairy 1931 (Helen Hayes); Personal Appearance 1934 (501); Days Without End 1934 (57); Our Town 1938 (336), National Anthem (Laurette Taylor)(114); Libel; Tortilla Flat 1938 (5); Our Town (Martha Scott) 1938 (336) – moved to Morosco); Harriet (377), Janie 1942 (642), Harriet (Helen Hayes) 1943 (377); Dear Ruth 1944 (683), Story of Mary Surratt (Dorothy Gish)1947 (11); Cocktail Party (Alec Guiness,Irene Worth,Cathleen Nesbitt) 1950 (409); Moon is Blue 1951 (924), Trip to Bountiful (Lillian Gish,Jo Van Fleet,Eva Marie Saint) 1953 (39); Oh Men Oh Women (Franchot Tone, Anne Jackson,Larry Blyden,Betsy von Furstenberg,Gig Young) 1953 (48 weeks); Witness for the Prosecution 1954 (645), Look After Lulu (Tammy Grimes)1959 (5 weeks); Nervous Set 1959; World of Carl Sandburg (Bette Davis) 1960, Under the Yum Yum Tree; Enter Laughing (Alan Arkin) 1963 (419); Diamond Orchid 1965 (5); 1966 leased to Circle in the Square, then became porno house - Morning,Noon and Night (Robert Klein) 1968 (52); Affair, 1969 became a cinema - Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys premiered there - for a time known as the Park-Miller and Avon-at-the-Hudson, a pornographic film house for 5 years - in 1978 reopened as Xenon, a discotheque - the space still survives as a nightclub/discotheque – became Kit Kat Klub for Cabaret (revival) (Alan Cumming,Natasha Richardson,Mary Louise Wilson) 1998 (still running May 2002); then Henry Miller once again for Urinetown (John Cullum) 2001 - 57-story skyscraper, New York headquarters of Bank of America to be built on the Avenue of the Americas between 42nd and 43rd Streets, a site that includes the theater rebuilt as part of the new building. The original theater, had 950 - when it is rebuilt its original seating capacity will be restored. (It currently holds 631.) 86-year-old theatre will be back in business in 2008, with largely modern interior, expanded lobby, improved box office, dressing room area and fly gallery. Seating capacity will be 900—the original count of the Henry Miller's orchestra and mezzanine - Roundabout Theatre Company, which owns or leases Broadway's American Airlines Theatre and Studio 54, is in negotiations to add a third Broadway house to its list - in the final stages of negotiations for a 20-year lease on the Henry Miller Theatre, which is due to reopen Sept 2009, 1,055 seat theatre located behind preserved and restored neo-Georgian facade of original 1918 theatre with Bye Bye Birdie

*Henry Street Settlement (NYC)- - see Louis Abrons Arts Center - 466 Grand St.- houses Harry DeJur Playhouse, Experimental Theatre, Recital Hall (100)

Henry Wood’s Marble Hall/Minstrel Hall - 561 Broadway below Spring St – converted from Jewish Synagogue 1862 – minstrel theatre – (1857-1859) - renamed Theatre Comique – bldg sold to Merchants & Manufacturers Bank 1859 – theatre reopened at 514 Broadway near Prince St

Herald Square Theatre - see New Park Theatre

HERE (NYC) – 145 Sixth Avenue (between Broome & Spring Streets)

*HERE Arts Center (NYC)- - 145 6th Avenue (south of Spring St. and Dominick)- large building houses two theatres and performance club - mainstage 99 seats/smaller downstairs seats 74

Hermann’s Gaiety Theatre - see San Francisco Music Hall

Herold Square Theatre (NYC) - 1331 Bropadway - NW corner of Broadway and 35th Street – 1894 - remodeled the Colosseum Theatre which was built in 1874 – also known as the Criterion 1882, Harrigan’s Park 1885 and in 1889 the Park Theatre – rebuilt as Herald Square in 1894 - first success was Arms and the Man (Richard Mansfield)1894; Parlor March 1896; Heart of Maryland 1895 (229), Naughty Anthony (Blanche Bates) 1900; Arizona 1900 (140); Road to Yesterday 1906 (216), Widower's Houses 1907 – converted to vaudeville - damaged by fire in 1908 – demolished 1915

Hickory House – 52nd Street nightclub in 1930s

Hideaway Bar – 1950s nightspot

*Hideaway Cabaret and Supper Club (NYC)- - John Barrymore Room - intimate cabaret and dining establishment - closed suddenly as of March,2002 - 32 West 37th Street - what was "The John Barrymore Room" is being renamed "The Julie Wilson Room."

High Five (NYC)-

High Spirits Room(NYC)- - 369 West 46th Street - open less than a year, at St. Famous Bakery closed August 2001 - discontinuing both the retail bakery and the cabaret room. The building has been sold

Hilton Theatre - new name 2005 for Ford Center for the Performing Arts - Young Frankenstein 2007;

Hindenburg Theatre (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Hippodrome (NYC) - wood and canvas roofed stadiums at Broadway, 5th Avenue and 23rd Streets - variety of circus acts - torn down in 1856 for 5th Avenue Hotel

Hippodrome Theatre (NYC)- 6th Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets - opened in 1905 with A Yankee Circus on Mars and Andersonville (280 chorus girls and 480 soldiers and elephants) (120) - (5200 seats plus 800 standing room - entire block between 43rd and 44th Streets) - ran for 17 years - legendary theatre which housed spectacles like Society Circus 1905 (596), A Yankee Circus on Mars 1905; Harry Houdini; Neptune’s Daughter; Better Times 1922 (400), in 1923 became a vaudeville theatre B.F. Keith’s Hippodrome, a cinema – closed 1932 and reopened 1933 as New York Hippodrome - 1925 RKO bought the property and sold in 1929 - vacant for 5 years - largest theatre of its day - stage 100 feet deep and over 200 feet long - Billy Rose's Jumbo (Jimmy Durante) 1935 (233 performances) – closed in 1936 and demolished in 1939 site not developed until 1952

Hirschfield Theatre - see Martin Beck

Holiday Theatre (NYC) - see Central Theatre

Hollywood Cabaret – Broadway & 48th – 1920s nightclub; 2 - Hollywood Club – 1600 Broadway @ 49th St – 1920s nightclub; 3 - Hollywood/Mark Hellinger – see Mark Hellinger – 237 West 51st Street; 4 -

Hollywood Theatre (NYC) - 1655 Broadway and 237 West 51st Street – 1930 – opened as film theatre and by 1934 presented stage show – Calling All Stars – Romeo and Juliet (Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh) as 51st Street Theatre – as Mark Hellinger 1956 My Fair Lady (Rex Harrison,Julie Andrews) (2,717); Jesus Christ Superstar; Sugar Babies; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Coco; Joyful Noise; 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; Grind; Rags; Legs Diamond (in 1984 used for film version of A Chorus Line) - see Mark Hellinger; 5 - Hollywood Twin Cinemas – closed

*Homegrown Theatre (NYC)- - 2628 Broadway @ 99th St.

Hope Chapel - 720 Broadway – below 8th St – became religious assembly hall – minstrels took over 1855 and became Kelly and Leon’s (Francis Leon leading female impersonator of his day)

*Horse Trade Theatres (NYC)- - see Kraine, Red Room and St. Mark’s

Hotel Ambassador Garden – famous nightclub

Hotel Astor Roof – Harry James, Benny Goodman – famous nightclub

Hotel Biltmore – Roof – famous nightclub

Hotel Carlysle (NYC)- - see Cafe Carlysle

Hotel Dixie – Plantation Room – famous nightclub

Hotel Edison – Green Room – 47th Street - famous nightclub

Hotel Koenig - E. 4th St near First Ave – cabaret performances featuring drag

Hotel Lexington – Hawaiian Room – famous nightclub

Hotel Lincoln – Blue Room – famous nightclub

Hotel Madison – famous nightclub

Hotel McAlpin – famous nightclub

Hotel Riverview Ballroom(NYC)- - 113 Jane St.

Hotel Sheraton – Skyline Roof – famous nightclub

Hotel St. Moritz – Café de la Paix – famous nightclub

House of Candles (NYC)- - 99 Stanton St.

Howard Gilman Opera House (NYC)- - see BAM

Hoyt’s Theatre (NYC)- – see Fifth Avenue Theatre, Madison Square Theatre

*Hudson Guild Theater (NYC)- - 441 West 26th St (between 9th & 10th Aves)- 105 seats in a community centre - On Golden Pond 1978; Madwoman of Central Park West 1979; No Way to Treat a Lady 1987

Hudson Theatre (NYC) - 141 West 44th Street West of 6th Avenue - 1903 – see also Avon Hudson - entrance on 44th and 45th Streets - 1100 seats – opened with Cousin Kate (Ethel Barrymore)1903 (6 weeks); Man and Superman 1905; Show Shop 1914 (156); Friendly Enemies 1918 (440), Clarence (Alfred Lunt,Helen Hayes) 1919 (300); Song and Dance Man 1923; Wall Street (Sam Levine) 1927; Whispering Friends 1928 (14 weeks); Arsenic and Old Lace (moved from Fulton); 1934 to 1937 used for broadcasting - Hasty Heart (Richard Basehart) 1945 (207); State of the Union 1945 (765); Detective Story 1949 (581), State of the Union; in 1934 CBS bought theatre and converted to radio studio - 1937 returned to live theatre - Arsenic and Old Lace moved here from Fulton Theatre - State of the Union 1945 (765)- sold to NBC in 1950 and housed the Tonight Show - 1959 the theatre was restored - Toys in the Attic 1960 (556), Strange Interlude 1963 - theatre dark for 2 years - 1965 This Was Burlesque; How to Be a Jewish Mother 1967 - 1967 theatre became a porn house until 1975 when it became a double feature theatre - closed - reopened as The Savoy in 1980 - became part of large hotel and used as auditorium and conference centre - 101-year-old Hudson Theatre recently underwent restoration - theatre previously housed 40 plays as well as "The Tonight Show" with Steve Allen - now available for weddings & social events

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (NYC)-

Hungerford Music-Hall(NYC)- – see Gatti’s

Hurrah (NYC)- Neon Woman (Divine) – 1970s nightspot – demolished

Hurricane Club – 49th Street nightspot – 1940s

Hurtig and Seamon’s New Theatre – 1913 – in 1934 became Apollo

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*Ibis Supper Club (NYC)- - 321 West 44th St (between 8th & 9th Sts)

Il Campanello (NYC) - new cabaret venue - 136 West 31st Street

Il Mio - (an Italian "discoteca")

ImaginAsian Theatre – open

Imperial Music Hall (NYC) - Broadway and 29th St

Imperial Theatre (NYC)- – renamed Weber and Fields Music Hall in 1902; 2nd - Imperial Theatre (NYC)- - 249 West 45th St. (Shubert-1,421 seats) Opened in 1923 – Mary Jane McKane 1923; Rose Marie 1924 (557); Oh Kay 1926 (256), New Moon 1928 (509), Let Em Eat Cake 1933; Hamlet (Leslie Howard) 1926; On Your Toes (Ray Bolger) 1936 (315), revival 1983, Leave It To Me 1938 (307); Too Many Girls 1939; Let's Face It (Danny Kaye,Eve Arden,Vivian Vance,Nanette Fabray) 1941 (547), One Touch of Venus 1943 (567); Song of Norway 1944 (860), Annie Get Your Gun (Ethel Merman) 1946 (1147), Miss Liberty 1949; Call Me Madam (Ethel Merman) 1950 (644), Peter Pan (Mary Martin) 1950; Wish You Were Here 1952 (598), Silk Stockings 1955 (478); Most Happy Fella 1956 (676), Jamaica 1957 (558), Destry Rides Again (Andy Griffith,Delores Gray) 1959 (472); Gypsy 1959 (702), Carnival 1961 (719), Oliver 1963 (774), Fiddler on the Roof 1964 9/64 to 7/72 - 3,242 performances), Zorba 1968; Minnie’s Boys 1970; Two By Two 1970; Pippin (Ben Vereen,John Rubinstein,Irene Ryan,Jill Clayburgh,Leland Palmer) 1972 (1944), Lost in the Stars (Brock Peters) 1972 (5 weeks); Chapter Two 1977 (857); They're Playing Our Song 1979 (1082), Dreamgirls (Jennifer Holiday) 1981 (1522), Mystery of Edwin Drood (Betty Buckley,George Rose,Donna Murphy) 1985 (608), Chess 1988 (68); Jerome Robbins' Broadway (Jason Alexander) 1989 (634), Les Miserables (opened Mar 12/87 – 6,680 performances); Boy From Oz (Hugh Jackman) 2003; August: Asage County 2008;

IMUA (NYC)-

*Intar (NYC)- - 420 West 42nd St(between 9th & 10th Aves) - may be demolished in 2000 to make room complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact; NYCHPD will develop new homes for Intar Theater and Ensemble Studio Theater at 10th Avenue between West 51st and West 53rd Streets (March 2003) - Manhattan's Latino theatre company, INTAR, which was set to premiere In Paradise and She Plundered Him, may have to postpone its season after the sudden closure of the Zipper Factory - finds new home at Cherry Lane Theatre

Interboro, Bronx - 1926 - 1,450 seats -Razed

L’Interdit - disco

International Theatre (NYC) - see Majestic Theatre – 5 Columbus Circle - Sing Out Sweet Land 1944

*Inverse Theater (NYC)- - New York Press considers this the city's best downtown theatre company for 2001

Invictus Theatre Company - new professional troupe devoted to undiscovered talent

Inwood - 1925 - 1,874 seats - Gutted; Retail

Iridium Jazz Club - 1650 Broadway @ 51st St

*Irish Arts Center (NYC)- - 553 West 51st St (between 10th & 11th Aves)- 99 seats

**Irish Repertory Theatre (NYC)- - 132 West 22nd St.(between 6th & 7th Aves)- small building in mixed residential/office block - Dec/06 $6 million capital campaign to buy its current home on West 22nd Street

Irondale Ensemble Project - new Off-Broadway Brooklyn venue to use new home in Fort Greene - Located within steps of BAM, to be housed within the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church's former Sunday school - renovation will include a flexible 168-seat performance space (capable of a 199-seat expansion) as well as office space - Construction targeted for completion in July with plans to officially open in the fall of 2008

Irving Place Theatre (NYC)- - 118-120 E. 15th St - built 1888 - block off Union Square - early 1930s Gypsy Rose Lee made her name here - became a warehouse and was torn down in 1985

Italian Opera House (NYC)- – opened 1833 – see National Theatre, Richmond Hill Theatre – sold at auction 1836 – NW corner of Leonard & Church Sts – became National Theatre – destroyed by fire 1839 – reopened 1840 – fire again 1841 but not rebuilt

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Jack Delaney’s – 72 Grove Street, Sheridan Square – famous nightclub

Jack Dempsey’s – 344 West 46th Street moved from 50th St & 8th Avenue – 1930s nightspot

Jack Lawrence (NYC)- - 359 West 48th St. - Golden Age

Jack Norworth Theatre – 125 West 48th Street – 1918 – see Bijou, Norworth - demolished 1951

Jacobs Theatre – see Royale Theatre

Jade Cinema – closed & demolished

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (NYC)- - 161-04 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, Queens

*Jane Street Theater (NYC)- - 113 Jane Street @ Westside Highway - 257 seats - located in Hotel Riverview at the Hudson River which housed the survivors of the Titanic in 1912 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch 1998 (857); Tick,tick….BOOM 2001

Jan Hus Playhouse (NYC) – 351 East 74th Street - King of the Whole Damn World 1962; Athenian Touch 1964; Man With a Load of Mischief 1966; Salvation 1969

Jan Street Theatre (NYC)- - Lifegame 2000

Japanese Garden Theatre – 1914 - 1,579 seats -Exotic-Oriental Razed, 1975 (c.) & demolished

Japan Society (NYC)-

Jardin de Paris – Broadway and 44th Street – 1895 – see Olympia Roof Garden, also New York Roof – demolished 1935

Jazz - Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home on Columbus Circle - three performance venues, a 140-seat club-like space, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, used for smaller concerts - Frederick P. Rose Hall, including the 1,100- to 1,230-seat Rose Theater, and the Allen Room, a 300- to 600-seat performance space;

Jazz Clubs (NYC)-

Jazz Gallery(NYC)- - Picnic on the Battlefield, Sandbox - demolished

Jean Cocteau Repertory (NYC)- - disbanded March 2007 - vacated Bouwerie Lane Theatre, its home since 1974 - company founded 1971

Jean Renoir Cinema – closed

Jefferson Theatre (NYC) - West 14th Street near 3rd Avenue - razed

Jerome, Bronx - 1926 - 1,660 seats - Church

Jerry Orbach Theater - see Snapple Theater Centre

J.E.T. Theatre (NYC)- - 134 West 26th St.

Jewel Box Revue - (1944-1967) – began 1939 as Miami gay bar (The Jewel Box) - revue featuring female impersonators - i.e. Ray Bourbon - 1960s using various venues i.e. Apollo Theatre, and smaller theatres named for themselves - Storme DeLarverie, black woman and former MC, and male impersonator with revue - forerunner to Cage aux Folles - favourite of black theatre circuit tour

Jewel Box Theatre (NYC)- (see Workshop Theatre)-Workshop Theater’s Jewel Box -- 312 W. 36th St, 4th Floor

Jewish Art Theatre (NYC)- see Garden Theatre

Jewish Repertory Theatre (NYC) – 316 East 91st Street

Jimmy Kelly’s – 181 Sullivan Street – 1930s nightspot

Jimmy Ryan’s – 52nd Street nightclub – 1940s

Joan Weill Center for Dance - new home 2004 to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on 55th Street at Ninth Avenue - Since its inception in 1958, the Ailey company has moved seven times and has often been forced to find additional space to accommodate the spillover from its main dance company, junior dance company and school

Jock’s Place – Harlem nightspot – 1930s

Joe's Pub (NYC)- - 425 Lafayette Street (between E. 4th Street and Astor Place)- (off Public Theatre)- cabaret named for Joseph Papp, founder of the Public Theater (of which it is a part), features "the most wide-ranging array of musical theatrical talent - David Raksin

John Barrymore Room (NYC)- - see Hideaway Cabaret

John Golden Theatre (NYC) - 202 West 58th St – opened in 1926 -825 seats – 1st of 3 named for John Golden - opened with transfer from Little of Two Girls Wanted 1926 (moved from Little); Strange Interlude (Lynn Fontanne) 1928 (18 months)- in 1935 became Cort's 58th Street – Few Are Chosen 1935; and in 1936 showed art films as Filmarte specializing in foreign films, and then Fine Arts, Concert Elysee and Fifty-Eight Street Theatre and then the Concert in 1942 when stage returned – Of V We Sing 1942 - and in 1943 became the Rock Church - 1946 ABC radio for 2 years - then films as the Elysee and back to ABC for the Dick Cavett show before being demolished in 1985; 2nd - John Golden (NYC)- - 252 West 45th Street (Shubert-805 seats) named after theatrical producer - 1927 - built as Theatre Masque - 252 West 45th St - Silver Cord 1926 (112); Puppets of Passion 1927; Strange Interlude (Lynn Fontanne) 1928 (426); As Husbands Go 1931 (148), Tobacco Road 1933 (3182) - in 1933 became John Golden - Shadow and Substance (Cedric Hardwicke,Sara Allgood) 1938; Angel Street 1941 (1295), Comedy in Music 1953 (Victor Borge) (849), operated as a film house from 1940s to early 1950s - Waiting for Godot (E.G.Marshall,Bert Lahr) 1956 (59); Mask and Gown 1957; Party With Betty Comden and Adolph Green 1958; Beyond the Fringe (Dudley Moore,Peter Cook,Jonathan Miller,Alan Bennett) 1962 (667), Wrong Way Light Bulb (Barnard Hughes,Claudia McNeil) 1969 (7) ; Shelter 1973; Words and Music 1974; Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land 1977 (5 months)- home to Pulitzer Prize winners Gin Game (Jessica Tandy,Hume Cronyn) 1977 (517); Tintypes 1980; Day in Hollywood/Night in Ukraine 1980 (588), Crimes of the Heart 1981 (535), Night Mother (Kathy Bates) 1983 (388); Glengarry Glen Ross 1984 (378), Gingham Dog, It Had to Be You; Eastern Standard (transferred from Manhattan Theatre Club) 1989; Master Class (Zoe Caldwell,Audra McDonald) 1995 (601);Much Ado About Everything (Jackie Mason) 1999 (180); Goat, or Who is Sylvia; Vincent in Brixton; Avenue Q 2003 Tony Award Best Musical 2004;

*John Houseman (NYC)- - 450 West 42nd St.(between 9th & 10th)- on Theatre Row is to be demolished spring 2005 - (287 seats)- houses the Houseman, Studio and Studio Too - Driving Miss Daisy (Dana Ivey,Morgan Freeman); Broadway Jukebox 1990; Lyndon (Laurence Luckinbill) 1991; Ethel Merman’s Broadway 1992; Over the River and Through the Woods 1998; Four Guys Named Jose (moved to Blue Angel) 2000 - as of 2004 Douglas Fairbanks Theatre and John Houseman Theatre are being vacated in preparation for demolition in May, 2005, final show will be Lazer Vaudeville - it is likely a large residential tower will go up on the south side of 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues

*John Jay College Theatre (NYC)- - 899 10th Avenue (between 58th & 59th Sts)(611 seats)- part of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York

John Montgomery Theatre (NYC)- - 134 West 26th St.

John Street Theatre (Theatre Royal or Royal Theatre) (NYC)- lst permanent playhouse in New York opened in 1767 with Beaux Stratagem – 15-21 John Street East of Broadway - became Royal Theatre during the war and later New York Theatre – was the leading theatre for 30 years – 1794 opera house - demolished after erection of Park Theatre 1797 - Father or American Shandyism 1789, As You Like It 1786, Contrast 1787; Tammany or Indian Chief 1794, Contrast 1787 – last used 1798, and later sold

Jolson's 59th Street Theatre (NYC) – (see Century Theatre) - 932 Seventh Avenue @ 58th St - 1921 – opened with Bombo starring Al Jolson 1921; Student Prince 1924 (608); My Maryland; Moscow Art Theatre 1923; - theatre on 58th Street with entrance on 7th Avenue - 1700 seats - 1931 turned to films as Central Park - in 1932 renamed the Shakespeare for 249 performances of his classics - then the Venice - Africana 1934 (3) then Yiddish Art Players; as the Venice Theatre 1937 - The Cradle Will Rock 1937 (19 perf before moving); name changed frequently – Yiddish Art, Molly Picon - Comes a Revelation 1942; and back to Jolsons by 1943 when the theatre switched to foreign films - 1944 became the New Century – Follow the Girls (Jackie Gleason) 1944 almost 900 perf), Up in Central Park, High Button Shoes (Phil Silver); Inside U.S.A. (Bea Lillie); Venice, Molly Picon - Kiss Me Kate 1948 (1070); Carnival in Flanders (John Raitt,Dolores Gray) 1953 - closed 1953 and NBC leased in 1954 and theatre was demolished in 1962 and is now an apartment building; 2nd - Jolson Theatre (NYC)- see Century Theatre and New Century – Student Prince 1924 (608)

Jonah Theatre - see San Francisco Music Hall

Jones Beach Marine Theatre (NYC)- open air amphitheatre specializing in summer musicals – Arabian Nights 1954

Joseph Papp Public Theatre (NYC) – 425 Lafayette Street - see Public Theatre

*Jose Quintero Theatre (NYC)- - 534 West 42nd Street(between 10th & 11th Aves) - (93 seats)Kaufman Theatre was rechristened the Jose Quintero on May 2nd, 2000

*Joyce (NYC)- - 175 8th Avenue - major theatre for dance companies - Season's Greetings 1985

*Judith Anderson Theatre (NYC)- - 422 West 42nd St – Take It Easy 1996; Valentino-the Musical 1998; Boy's Life 1998; Summer in Gossensass 1999; - demolished in 2000 to make room complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact

Judith Shakespeare Company (NYC)-

Judson Hall Theatre (NYC) – Prince and the Pauper 1962

Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall - see Carnegie Hall

*Judy's Chelsea Cabaret (NYC)- - 169 8th Avenue - downtown supper club, Judy's Chelsea, which houses a piano bar and cabaret will shut down March 29,2003

Julian Eltinge (NYC)- see Eltinge

Juliet I & II – closed & demolished

Julie Wilson Room (NYC)- see Hideaway Cabaret

Julliard Drama Theater - 65th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues; 2 - Julliard School (NYC)- - most highly endowed music school in U.S.; 3 - Julliard Theater - 65th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues

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Kaufman (NYC)- 534 West 42nd St - see Martin Kaufman and Jose Quintero Theatre

Keith & Albee - see Palmer’s Union Square

Keith's Colonial (NYC)- see Colonial Theatre

Kelly & Leon’s - see Hope Chapel, Lina Edward’s Theatre - Broadway below Waverly Place

Kelly’s Stable – 6th Avenue & 52nd St – 1940s nightclub

Kentucky Club (NYC)- nightclub on West 49th Street between 7th and Broadway - Duke Ellington – later became Hollywood Club – 1920s

Kew Gardens Cinema - built as Austin Theatre - Lefferts Blvd near Queen's Blvd

KGB Theatre (NYC)- 85 East 4th St.

King Kong Room - new supper club and cabaret - 240 West 47th Street - closed as of Jan 12/04 - Cabaret in Manhattan has faced a lot of closures - King Kong Room, Firebird Room, Arci's Place, Judy's and Rainbow & Stars

Kings Cinema – became porn house – see also Gaiety Burlesque

Kings Theatre (NYC) - Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn - 1929 - talk of restoration - now shuttered

Kirk Theatre - Theatre Row, 42nd St

Kit Kat Club – 152 East 55th Street – 1930s nightspot

Kit Kat Klub (NYC)- (also known as Club Expo) - the original Henry Miller's Theatre – Cabaret – moved to Studio 54 (2,378)

Klaw Theatre (NYC) – 251-7 West 45th Street - opened 1921 with Nice People (Katharine Cornell and Tallulah Bankhead) 1921 (247) - 806 seats - renamed the Avon in 1929 - Hell Bent for Heaven 1924 (122), 1925-1926 Theatre Guild - Lilies of the Field (169), Meet the Wife (232)- renamed in 1929 to the Avon - Strictly Dishonorable 1929(557); Gypsy 1929 (2 months) - 1934 theatre leased to CBS and renamed CBS Radio Playhouse No. 2 - 1954 theatre was demolished and is now a parking garage

Knickerbocker Theatre (NYC)- see Henry Abbey's Theatre and Miners’ Bowery Theatre, also Abbey’s – 1396 Broadway at 38th Street – opened as Abbey’s Theatre in 1893 with Becket (Irving and Ellen Terry) – 1896 became the Knickerbocker - Toreador 1902 (146); Mam'selle Napoleon (Anna Held) 1903 (43); Red Mill 1906 (274), Mlle. Modiste 1905 (202), Yankee Prince (featuring 4 Cohans) 1908 (28); Kismet 1911 (184), Crinoline Girl (Julian Eltinge) 1914 (11 weeks); Girl From Utah 1914 (Jerome Kern); Lillies of the Field 1921 (169); Meet the Wife (Humphrey Bogart,Clifton Webb) (232); Hell Bent for Heaven 1923; Androcles and the Lion; Dearest Enemy (Rodgers and Hart) 1925 (286), as the Avon Strictly Dishonorable 1928 (557); Hay Fever; Wives of Henry VIII; Christian 1898 (160)- demolished 1930; 2nd Knickerbocker – Bowery Theatre called Knickerbocker for a short time in 1844

Knitting Factory (NYC)- - Alterknit Theatre - 74 Leonard St. - has been celebrating noise and eclecticism since it opened on East Houston Street in 1987, and in its earlier days the club gained a wide reputation as a defining stage of downtown music, that clamorous and unclassifiable New York amalgam of jazz, punk, art-rock and experimental new music - But eventually, gentrification came to claim the arty Manhattan outpost, and on December 31/08 the last show in the TriBeCa building that has been its home for the last 14 years. In May it is to reopen in a considerably smaller and less expensive space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Koster and Bial's Music Hall (NYC) – West 23rd and Avenue of Americas – originally Bryant’s Opera House – minstrel theatre – reopened 1879 – closed 1893 when Koster and Bial moved to their New Music Hall on 34th Street, which had opened in 1892 by Oscar Hammerstein as Manhattan Opera House – theatre closed 1901 - - for brief time New York's most prestigious vaudeville house - demolished in 1901 for Macy's Department Store; Their former music hall reopened as Bon Ton and was demolished 1924

*Kraine Theatre (NYC) - 85 East 4th St.(between Bowery & 2nd Aves) (74-99) (Steppin' Out Productions residence since 1996)- founded 1998 and houses Kraine/Red Room and St. Marks (40 seats); New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama E.T.C. and a number of other theatre spaces including the Kraine Theatre and Red Room complex will soon see their Off-Off Broadway block become the East Fourth Street Cultural District; Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) plan to give six buildings to the arts organizations which currently reside in them. (East Fourth Street is nestled within the Cooper Square area - which lays between Bowery and First Avenue, bordered by 14th Street to the north and Delancey to the south.)

Krause's Music Hall (NYC) - 34th Street - renamed to Savoy

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Labor Stage (NTC) (NYC) - see Princess Theatre , 48th St Theatre - Pins and Needles 1937 (1108)

La Casina – 160th Street nightspot in 1930s

La Conga – 57 West 57th Street – 1930s nightclub

La Conga Club – 51st Street & Broadway – 1950s nightspot

La Dom - downstairs from Electric Circus; run by Andy Warhol

LaFayette Amphitheatre (NYC) – see LaFayette Theatre - 1914 - 2,000 seats - prior Church; 2nd - LaFayette Theatre – 227th Street – 1910s; 2nd LaFayette - opened 1825 as the LaFayette Amphitheatre – changed to Theatre in 1827 – Laurens St near Canal St – elaborate equestrian shows – destroyed by fire 1829 and was not rebuilt; 3rd LaFayette - 7th Avenue and 132nd St - (House Beautiful) - most pretigious of Harlem's theaters - built 1912 – along with the Apollo, a vaudeville house, most famous theatres in Harlem - in 1930s became Harlem Center for the Federal Theater – for awhile was a church- burned in 1968 – Androcles and the Lion (A Negro Production) 1937

Laff Movie Theatre (NYC) - see Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre

La Guardia Concert Hall - West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue; 2 - La Guardia Drama Theater - West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue

Lake George Opera Company – founded 1962

*LaMaMa ETC/La Mama Experimental Theatre Club (NYC) - opened 1961 as Café La Mama - 74A East 4th St. (between 2nd & 3rd Aves) - 4 performance spaces (74) (99)and a Club – Carmilla 1972; New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama E.T.C. and a number of other theatre spaces including the Kraine Theatre and Red Room complex will soon see their Off-Off Broadway block become the East Fourth Street Cultural District; Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) plan to give six buildings to the arts organizations which currently reside in them. (East Fourth Street is nestled within the Cooper Square area - which lays between Bowery and First Avenue, bordered by 14th Street to the north and Delancey to the south.) – Hair originated here 1967

La Martinque (NYC) - famous 1950s New York nightclub - Danny Thomas

*Lambs (NYC) - 130 West 44th Street (349 seats)(between Broadway & 6th Ave) - one of the largest off-B'Way theatres - has a long theatre history. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote Oklahoma! there. Members of the Lamb's Club, for which the building was erected, included Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, Alan J. Lerner and Bert Lahr. More recently, the structure's theatre housed such favorites as A Room of One's Own, Painting Churches and jon & jenCotton Patch Gospel 1981; Gifts of the Magi 1990; John and Jen 1995; On May 31/06, the Lamb's Theatre Company, received eviction notice - Company plans to find a new space - Church of the Nazarene bought the building in 1973 to use as a mission - edifice had originally been built in 1904 as a home for the Lambs, a theatrical club modeled after a similar one in England. The London club was founded in 1869 - American version came to life in 1874 - club originally met at Delmonico's restaurant on 14th Street, then rented quarters on W. 26th Street - Lambs is currently situated at 3 W. 51st Street

Lane Theatre – 1,416 seats - Razed

Lark Theatre (NYC)

La Rue – 45 East 58th Street – 1930s nightclub

Last Minute Productions (LMP)- uses various venues - Maverick Theatre

Latin Quarter (NYC) - 200 West 48th Street – at Broadway – 1933 - infamous New York nightclub - Frank Sinatra; Milton Berle; Sophie Tucker; DeCastro Sisters – featured acts from Paris’ Lido – 1940s nightspot – was also known as Palais Royal, Connie’s Inn, Cotton Club, 22 Steps, and Princess until 1990

Laura Keene’s Theatre (NYC) – 1856 (1800 seats); 2nd - Laura Keene’s Varieties (NYC) – see Olympic Theatre, Tripler Hall – moved to 622 Broadway, just above Houston 1856 – later became Olympic Theatre – Humpty Dumpty 1868 (463 perf) – broke record of Black Crook – demolished 1880

Laura Pels Theatre (NYC) - 1514 Broadway at 45th (425 seats)- see also Roundabout Theatre and Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (originally American Place Theatre) – also houses Black Box Theatre - Grace and Glorie (Estelle Parsons,Lucie Arnaz) 1996; (134); Mineola Twins (Swoosie Kurtz) 1999; The Foreigner (Matthew Broderick) 2004;

*Laurie Beechman Theatre (NYC) - 407 West 42nd Street (9th Avenue) - reopened 2006

La Vie en Rose – became NY Basin St. East

LCT3 - to open at Lincoln Center's Upper West Side campus near the Library for the Performing Arts - 99 seats - For the first three seasons, though, LCT3 work will be presented off-site, i.e. - "Clay"; second LCT3 production, yet to be selected, is planned for early 2009

League of American Theatres and Producers – founded 1930 as League of New York Theatres – present name adopted 1985

League of Historic American Theatres – founded 1977 – to promote preservation and use of historic auditoriums

League of Resident Theatres – founded 1965

Leblang’s Ticket Office – situated in basement of Grey’s Drug Store on Broadway between 42nd and 43rd Streets – ran until shortly after WWII – during 1920s – up to 3,000 discounted seats a night were sold – forerunner of TKTS organization

Lee Strasburg Theatre Institute (NYC)

LeFrak Theatre – open

Lenox Club – 144th Street – next to Cotton Club – 1920s

Lenox Hill Playhouse - since 1949 Equity Library Theatre has operated its own theatre – first at Lenox Hill Playhouse and later at other auditoriums

Leon & Eddies – 33 West 52nd St – nightclub

Leon and Kelly Minstrel Company - The Great Leon – early 1880s

LeRoy’s – 135th Street – 1910s nightclub

Le Ruban Bleu – 4 East 56th St – 1930s nightspot

Lew Fields 44th Street (NYC) - rooftop theatre - see Weber & Fields Music Hall; 2nd - Lew M. Fields Theatre (NYC) - 254 West 42nd St - 1904 - 770 seats – opened with It Happened in Nordland with Lew M. Fields – music by Victor Herbert 1904; Chorus Lady 1906 (8 mos); renamed Hackett Theatre in 1906 – Maggie Pepper; The Riddlein 1911 became the Harris - in 1920 became the Frazee - reopened as Wallack's in 1924 - Sapho 1900 (29 perf. - reopened and played 55 more); Disraeli 1911 (280); Lie 1914 (172); Under Sentence (Edward G. Robinson,Thomas Mitchell,Frank Morgan) 1916; he Woman of Bronze 1920; Dulcy 1921 (Lynn Fontanne & Howard Lindsay); Shipwrecked 1924; Hell’s Bells 1921 (Shirley Booth, Humphrey Bogart); Laugh That Off 1930 (262) Shirley Booth; Find the Fox 1930 - 1930 became a film house - 1940 renamed the Anco Cinema and remodelled - 1988 interior gutted and converted into retail space

Lexington Avenue Opera House - 2418 seats - 1923 Marcus Loew purchased Lexington Avenue Opera House, which was built by the late Oscar Hammerstein - Loew turned this theatre into a motion picture house - closed & demolished

Lexington Hotel – Hawaii Room – Lexington & 48th Street – 1940s nightspot

Liberty Inn – 1920s nightclub

Liberty Theatre (NYC) - 234 West 42nd St. - built 1904 - 1054 seats - entrances on 41st and 42nd Streets – opened with Gus and Max Rogers in Rogers Brothers in Paris 1904 (moved from New Amsterdam); Little Johnny Jones (George M. Cohan) 1904, Education of Mr. Pipp 1905 (10 weeks); Polly of the Circus 1907; Wildfire 1908; Fascinating Widow 1911; Elevating a Husband (Edward Everett Horton) 1912 (120); Milestones 1912; Purple Road (Valli Valli) 1913; Going Up 1917 (351); George White’s Scandals 1918; Hitchy-Koo of 1919 (Cole Porter); Night Boat (Jerome Kern 1920; George White’s Scandals 1921; To The Ladies 1922 (128), Little Nellie Kelly 1922; Gershwin's Lady Be Good (Fred & Adele Astaire)1924 (330), Tip Toes (Jeanette MacDonald) 1925 (194), Blackbirds of 1928 (Bill Robinson) (518), Brown Buddies 1930s; Have a Heart, Night Boat, George White's Scandals; Masks and Faces - by 1932 it turned to vaudeville and movies for 50 years – The Waste Land 1996 (limited run) - current plans call Liberty to be gutted – tenants to include Madame Tussaud’s wax museum and 26-screen American MultiCinemas (AMC) movie theater - new entertainment and retail complex has also restored the historic facades of the Liberty and Empire Theaters

Liberty Theatres – huge, temporary wooden auditoriums, erected during WWI – touring companies of Broadway shows or vaudeville would perform for soldiers

Lido Club – 160 West 146th Street – 1930s nightspot

Lido East – closed & demolished

Lido Theatre – closed

Lina Edward’s Theatre - formerly Kelly & Leon’s

*Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts (NYC) - opened 1964 - housing New York State Theatre and City Center of Music and Drama, Metropolitan Opera, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Julliard School, Walter Reede Theatre, Clark Studio Theatre, New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsLincoln Centre Theatre comprised of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre (140 seats), and the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre (299 seats)- Kismet (Alfred Drake) 1965; Chippy 1994; Contact 1999

Lincoln Hotel – Blue Room – 1940s nightspot

Lincoln Plaza Cinemas –open

Lincoln Royal Gardens – 31st Street nightspot

Lincoln Square Studio Theatre (NYC) – 218 West 64th Street

Lincoln Square Theatre (NYC) – 250 West 65th Street at Broadway - 1906 - 1600 seats – later became vaudeville – 1909 showed films – demolished 1960s for construction of Lincoln Centre

Lincoln Theatre – 1926 - 830 seats - closed - now church

Linda Gross Theatre - see Atlantic Theatre Co.

Lion Theatre (NYC) – 410 West 42nd Street (Theatre Row) - Pageant in Exile 1977

Little Carnegie Cinema - 1952 - 560 seats

Little Carnegie Playhouse – closed & demolished

Little Church Around the Corner (Protestant-Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration) – 1 E. 29th Street – popular for theatrical weddings and funerals

Little Club – 70 East 55th St – opened 1947 – Doris Day

Little Drury - see Franklin Theatre

Little Lenox Theatre – closed

Little Met (NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Little Old New York – 120 East 14th Street – 1930s nightspot

Little Picture House – closed & demolished

Little Shubert Theatre (NYC) – 422 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th) – 499 seats – opens November 26,2002 with Tommy Tune:White Tie and Tails

Little Theatre (NYC) – 1912 (299 seats) – 240 West 44th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue – first year productions included Anatol (John Barrymore); Prunella; Philanderer; Truth; First Year 1920 (760); 1964 changed to Winthrop Ames and back to Little 1965 - later became the Helen Hayes - Gemini 1977 (1,789)

Living Theatre (NYC) – off Broadway group formed in 1951 by Julian Beck & Judith Melina – used Cherry Lane Theatre – from 1954-56 performed in lift at Broadway & 100th Street – 1959 opened theatre with 162 seats at 14th and Sixth Avenue – Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights; Connection 1959 (722); Red Eye of Love 1961 (169); Mann Ist Mann 1962 (175) – 1963 they were evicted and toured Europe - new permanent home 19-21 Clinton St - 100 seats - opening with The Brig 2007

Loew's American Theatre - Atmospheric style - closed & demolished – see American Theatre

Loew’s Astor Plaza - 1974 to present – 1515 Broadway – 1400 seats

Loews Avenue B – closed & demolished

Loew's Burland, Bronx - 1916 - 1,817 seats - Supermarket

Loews Canal - 1927 - 2379 seats - closed

Loew's Cineplex Lincoln Square - Broadway and 6th Street

Loews Columbus Circl – closed & demolished

Loews Commodore Theatre – 1926 - Fillmore - 2830 seats - closed & demolished 2000

Loews Delancey - 1912 - 1788 seats - gutted - retail

Loews 84th Steet Theatre – open

Loews 83rd St - 1923 - 2633 seats - razed

Loews 86th Steet Theatre – closed & demolished

Loews 83rd Steet – closed & demolished

Loew's Elsmere, Bronx 1914 - 1,542 seats - Razed, 2005

Loew’s E-Walk Theatre - 42nd Street multiplex – 1999 – 13 screens – 3500 seats

Loew's Fairmont, Bronx 1928 - 2,559 seats - Part gutted, retail

Loews 42nd Street – closed & demolished

Loews 42nd Steet E-Walk Theatre – open

Loew's 46th Street Theatre - Brooklyn - Atmospheric style – closed

Loew's Grand, Bronx 2,472 seats - Gutted; Retail

Loew’s Herald Square Theatre -

Loew's Imax Theatre - 1998 Broadway (68th Street) - cineplex plus giant screen

Loews Inwood Theatre – closed

Loews King's Theatre - ornate 1929 Flatbush movie house where Barbra Streisand once ushered - currently shut

Loews Kips BayTheatre – open

Loew's Lexington Theatre - 1914 - see Lexington Avenue Opera House - 3100 seats – closed & demolished 1962

Loew’s Lincoln Square - 1998 Broadway @ 68th St – 1994 – 4200 seats – closed & demolished

Loews Lincoln Square 12 and the Loews IMAX – open

Loew's National, Bronx - 1910 - 2,397 seats - Razed, 1970s

Loews New York Theatre and Roof – 1895 - 2800 seats - closed & demolished 1935

Loew's 167th St., Bronx - 1928 - 2,600 seats - Razed

Loews 19th Street East 6 – open

Loew's 175th Street (NYC) - built 1930 by Thomas W. Lamb (3,565 seats) - still in existence, being used as a church (Ike's United), and most of the elaborate details are still intact

Loews 175th Street – 1930 - Washington Heights movie palace - 3,000+ seats - closed - used for services and occasional rock concert

Loews 116th St - 1933 - 1009 seatsnow church

Loews Orpheum – closed & demolished

Loew's Paradise (NYC) - 188th Street, Bronx - 1929 - 3,845 seats - Atmospheric - talk of restoration but nothing materialized - remains shuttered

Loew's Pitkin Theatre - Brooklyn - Atmospheric style – closed

Loews Rio – 1920 - 2603 seats - closed - gutted - retail

Loew's 72nd Street (NYC) - built in 1932 by Thomas W. Lamb & Eberson (3,200 seats) – Atmospheric style – closed & demolished

Loews 72nd Street East – 1932 - atmospheric - razed

Loew’s 7th Avenue – 124th Street - 1910 - 1606 seats - church

Loews Sheridan – closed & demolished

Loew's Spooner, Bronx 1910 - 1,809 seats - Gutted; Retail

Loew's State Theatre (NYC) - 1921 to present - opened a block south of the Palace in Times Square – 3,450 seats - appearances by W.C. Fields, David Warfield, Frank Fay, Rudy Vallee and others – see also State Theatre – currently in basement of Virgin megastore as Loews State Theatre 4 (closed) razed 1989

Loews 34th Steet – open

Loews 34th Street Showplace – closed & demolished

Loew's Valencia Theatre - Queens - Atmospheric style - closed

Loew's Victoria Theatre - West 125th Street - 2,394 seats - built 1917 by Thomas W. Lamb - as vaudeville and movie palace - neighbour to the more famous Apollo Theatre - became 5 screen multiplex in 1987 and closed in 1989 - several developers are currently interested in renovating the theatre, and hopefully restoring the theatre to its original glory

Loew's Victory, Bronx - 1910 - 1,772 seats - Razed

Log Cabin – Harlem nightspot of 1920s

Loft - opened 1970

London Theatre (NYC) – old burlesque house in the Houston district

*Longacre (NYC) - 220 West 48th Street just off Broadway – (1115 seats) – 1913 – Are You a Crook 1913; Great Lover 1915 (245), Nothing But the Truth 1916 (332), Leave It To Jane 1917; Adam and Eva 1919 (312), Butter and Egg Man 1925 (243), Overture (Pat O'Brien) (41); Waiting For Lefty 1935 (168); Seige 1937 (6); Mornings at Seven 1939 (44), On Borrowed Time 1938 (321) – 1944 turned to broadcasting until 1953 – Mademoiselle Columbe, Lark, Little Moon of Alban, Belle of Amherst 1976 (15 weeks) (all Julie Harris vehicles); Pleasure of His Company 1958 (474), Slapstick Tragedy (Kate Reid,Margaret Leighton)(7); Mark Twain Tonight (Hal Holbrook)1966 (9 weeks); I Never Sang for My Father 1968; Ritz 1975 (400), Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (Al Pacino) 1977 (363); Ain't Misbehavin' (Nell Carter,Ken Page, Andre DeShields)1978 (1604)- moved from Manhattan Theatre Club; Children of a Lesser God 1980 (887); Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window; I Never Sang For My Father, My Sweet Charlie, Passion, Trip Back Down; Cuba and His Teddy Bear (Robert DeNiro) 1986 (53); Medea (Diana Rigg) 1994 (82); Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm 1999 (17); Taller Than a Dwarf (Matthew Broderick,Parker Posey) 2000 (56); Def Poetry Jam 2002 (198); Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Ellen Burstyn) 2003 (1) - renovated 2008;Boeing Boeing (revival) 2008;

Louis Martins – Café de l’Opera – Broadway & 42nd nightspot – 1900s

Lower East Side Club - rock club

Luchows – 110 East 14th Street – 1882 – famous nightclub

Lucille La Verne Theatre (NYC) – see Princess Theatre

*Lucille Lortel Theatre (NYC) - 121 Christopher St (between Hudson & Bleeker Sts) - 299 seats - changed from Theatre De Lys - original productions - Cloud 9; Eden; Life in the Theatre; Gertrude Stein and a Companion (Jan Miner,Marian Seldes) 1986 (54); Steel Magnolias 1987 (817); Top Girls (299); Destiny of Me/Normal Heart (Piper Laurie) 1992 (175); As Bees in Honey Drown 1997; If Love Were All (Twiggy) 1999; Suite in Two Keys (Hayley Mills,Judith Ivey,Paxton Whitehead) 2000

Lucky StarTheatre – closed & demolished

Lucy Rushton’s Theatre (NYC) - see New York Theatre, New Theatre Comique – Broadway above Waverly Place

Luna Lounge - rock club – Williamsburg – 300-350 capacity – formerly on Lundlow St

*Lunt-Fontanne (NYC) - 205 West 46th St. (Nederlander-1,492 seats) Opened in 1910 as the Globe Theatre – Old Town 1910; Ziegfeld Follies 1921; George White’s Scandals 1922 and 1923 - due to depression it ran as a cinema from 1932 to 1957 - renamed in 1958 Lunt-Fontanne to honour Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne – 1714 seats - recently renovated - No No Nanette 1925 (321), Cat and the Fiddle 1931 –showed films in 1940s as The Globe - The Visit 1958 (featuring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne); Goldilocks (Elaine Stritch) 1958 (161); Sound of Music (Mary Martin,Theodore Bikel) 1959 (original 1443), Little Me 1962 (257); Ben Franklin in Paris 1964; Skyscraper 1965, Walking Happy 1966, How Now Dow Jones 1967, You Know I Can’t Hear You…; Her First Roman 1968; Look to the Lilies 1970; Rothchilds 1970 (507), Rex 1976; Paul Robeson (James Earl Jones) 1978; Peter Pan 1979 (revival Sandy Duncan) (551), Sophisticated Ladies 1981 (767), Uptown...It's Hot 1986; Smile 1986; Catskills on Broadway (Marilyn Michaels) 1991; Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public 1994 (16); Hello Dolly 1995 - revival with Carol Channing (188); Titanic 1997 (804); Night Must Fall (Matthew Broderick) 1999; Little Mermaid 2008;

Luxor, Bronx - 1923 - 1,542 seats - Exotic-Egyptian - Liquor Store

Lyceum Theatre (NYC) - 1885 – opened 1885 on the West side of 312-16 4th Avenue between 23rd and 24th – (referred to as the New Lyceum Theatre) – Dakolar 1885; Charity Ball 1889 (200), Gold Diggers of 1919 (720), Lion and the Mouse 1905 (686), Mrs. Bumpstead'-Leigh 1911 (64), One of Our Girls 1885 (200), Pocahontas or The Gentle Savage 1855 (played off and on for 30 years)demolished in 1902 and became Metropolitan Life Insurance; 2nd Lyceum - *Lyceum Theatre (NYC) - 149 West 45th St East of Broadway (Shubert-924 seats) Built in 1903 – see also Wallach’s – Proud Pince 1903 (moved from Herold Square Theatre); Admiral Crichton – first new play; oldest Broadway theatre still in use - (1965 to 1969 home of the Phoenix Theatre and the APA Repertory Company - (You Can't Take It With You, The Show Off, The Cocktail Party and The Misanthrope), winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1968 - Lion and the Mouse 1905 (686); Boys of Company "B" (John Barrymore,Mack Sennett) 1907; Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh (Mrs. Fiske) 1911; Gold Diggers 1919 (720), Sailor Beware 1933 (500); Pre-Honeymoon 1936; Having Wonderful Time 1937 (372); Bachelor Born 1938; Junior Miss 1941 (710), - home of Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre - upper floor now home of Shubert archives - Beautiful People 1941 (120); Doughgirls 1942 (671), their longest run was Born Yesterday 1946 (1642); Caretaker, Country Girl 1950 (235); Hat Full of Rain (Ben Gazzara,Anthony Franciosa,Shelley Winters) 1955 (50 weeks); Anna Christie (Celeste Holm); Take a Giant Step (Louis Gossett) 1953; Hatful of Rain 1955 (398), Goodbye Charlie (Lauren Bacall) 1959 (109); Angel Street, Cold Storage, Taste of Honey (Angela Lansbury,Joan Plowright,Nigel Davenport,Billy Dee Williams) 1960 (49 weeks); Caretaker 1961; Your Arm's Too Short To Box With God 1976;Wings (Constance Cummings) 1979 (117); Morning's at Seven 1980 (564); Master Harold..and the Boys (Zakes Mokae,Danny Glover) 1982; Whoopi Goldberg solo show 1984 (148); Players, 1991-1992 season Tony Randall’s National Actors Theatre took over but moved to Belasco following season; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (revival) 1995; Taste of Honey; A Little Like Magic 1996 (Famous People);Sunshine Boys (Jack Klugman,Tony Randall) 1997 (230); Night Must Fall (Matthew Broderick) 1999; Lonesome West 1999; I Am My Own Wife 2003 Tony Award Best Play 2004; Macbeth (Patrick Stewart) 2008; 2nd – Lyceum – 312-16 4th Avenue (23rd and 24th – 1902 theatre demolished; 3rd – Lyceum – 1808 - Broadway and Warren Street – converted from a church - survived a single season in 1808 – then became Amateur Theatre, Theatre of the Arts, Columbian Theatre and Washington Theatre – closed 1809; 4th – Lyceum – Wallack’s Lyceum when opened in 1850 was known as the Lyceum, as was 5th – Lyceum – Fourteenth Street Theatre from 1873 to 1886

Lyric Theatre (NYC) - see Olympic - 100 Third Avenue between 12th and 13th St. (1274 seats) - built 1880 as a restaurant - converted into Music Hall – see Hammerstein’s Olympic - 1910 renovated into motion picture house doubling its seating - building still intact as a 274 seat movie theatre - City 1909 (190)- 1923 rebuilt with 550 seats - later became porn cinema "All-Male Jewel Theatre"; 2nd - Lyric Theatre (NYC) - 213 W 42nd Street - built 1903 (1261 seats) - also entrance on 43rd Street - tucked between the Republic Theatre and Times Square Theatre - facade left intact, but interior demolished when Ford Centre for the Performing Arts constructed – opened with Old Heidelburg (Richard Mansfield) 1903; Fantana (Douglas Fairbanks) 1905; York Idea 1906 (66); Chocolate Soldier 1909 (296); Lady and the Sea 1911, Firefly 1912 (120); Firefly (Rudolf Friml & Arthur Hammerstein) 1912; High Jinks; For Goodness Sake (Fred and Adele Astaire) 1922, Coconuts (Marx Brothers) 1925, Ramblers (Bobby Clark) 1926 (289); Three Musketeers (Dennis King,Vivienne Segal) 1928 (7 mos), Fifty Million Frenchmen (Cole Porter) 1929 (257); Run, Little Chillin 1933; - in 1934 converted to a movie house and in 1966 Lyric and Apollo were purchased by Livent and the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1999 - see Ford Center for the Performing Arts; 3rd Lyric – Criterion Theatre was known as Lyric for its first four years

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Mabou Mines (NYC) – avant garde ensemble founded 1970 – specialized in original works – group travelled widely - see La Mama

Macomba – E 39th Street – 1940s nightspot

Madhattan Room – Hotel Pennsylvania – 1930s nightspot

Madison Square (NYC) - 7th Avenue & 32nd Street – Hazel Kirke 1880

Madison Square Garden (NYC) – evolved from old passenger station – converted to concert hall known as Gilmore’s Garden from Madison to 4th Ave & 26th & 27th – 1880 demolished, new Madison Square Garden built – demolished 1890 & new structure with theatre on ground floor was erected, called Garden Theatre at Madison & 27th St area – building torn down and New York Life Insurance erected on site; new Madison Square Theatre built on 8th Ave & 50th St and survived for 43 years before moving to site of Pennsyvania Railroad Station in 1968 - singers engaged at 1.00 per night to sing before the fights – Liberace; 2nd - Madison Square Theatre (NYC) – see Fifth Avenue Theatre, Hoyt’s Theatre - South side of 24th Street West of Broadway (between 5th & Madison (688 seats) - built 1880 for use as repertory house on site of Daly’s first 5th Avenue Theatre – Hazel Kirke 1880 (ran nearly 2 years) - 1891 renamed Hoyt’s Theatre - On The Quiet 1901 – demolished 1908; 3rd - Madison Square Garden Theatre (Hoyt's Theatre) (NYC) - 7th Avenue & 34th St.- built 1879 on site of 5th Avenue Theatre (700) - demolished in 1908 - rebuilt with 5,000 seats - Hazel Kirke 1880 (486), Held By the Enemy 1886 (70), Rajah or Wyncot's Ward 1883 (190), Trip to Chinatown or An Idyl of San Francisco 1891 (657), Young Mrs. Withrop 1882 (190), Esmeralda 1881 (350), Beau Brummell 1890 (150), Alabama 1891 (37); home to 10 years of A Christmas Carol (Jim Dale 2003 (final one); Past Christmas misers have included F. Murray Abraham (2002), Tim Curry (2001), Frank Langella (2000), Tony Roberts (1999), Roger Daltrey (1998), Hal Linden & Roddy McDowall (1997), Tony Randall (1996), Terrence Mann (1995) and Walter Charles (1994)- 2005 - owners of Madison Square Garden in talks to build its fifth incarnation, a block west of its current home atop Pennsylvania Station - would be demolished and replaced by skyscrapers containing a mix of apartments, offices and stores - In 1874, P. T. Barnum opened Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome in an old train depot at Madison Avenue and 26th Street - in 1876 renamed Gilmore's Garden. Then, in 1879, William H. Vanderbilt took control of the building and christened it Madison Square Garden - knocked down in 1889, replaced with entertainment hall with country's largest auditorium, a concert hall and cabaret, home to the National Horse Show, Westminster Kennel Club show, boxing, circuses, rodeos - 1925, Garden II was demolished to make way for the headquarters of New York Life Insurance - new Garden opened uptown, at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street, becoming famous for boxing, basketball and the New York Knicks. Sonja Henie took her Hollywood Ice Revue there in 1938. (It is now the site of the Worldwide Plaza office tower) - It was replaced in 1968 by the current Garden, a circular arena atop Pennsylvania Station - 19,000 seats - record holders - Billy Joel (11 sell-out Garden Shows, maybe 12 2006); Bruce Springsteen (10 sell-out Garden Shows) ; May 2007 became known as WaMu Theatre (NYC); 4th - Madison Square Theatre - – see Fifth Avenue Theatre, Madison Square Garden Theatre

Maidman Theatre (NYC) - Greenwich Village - Pocket Watch; Streets of New York 1963

Main Stage Theatre (NYC) - see Queens Theatre in the Park

Maisonette Russe – 1930s nightspot

Majestic Theatre - Brooklyn - Fulton Street near Ormond Place

Majestic Theatre (NYC) - 1903 - 5 Columbus Circle - fronting 58th and 59th Street - 1354 seats – opening Wizard of Oz starring Fred Stone (293 perf), Dave Montgomery 1903 (293), Babes in Toyland 1903 (192); Top of the World; Bandanna Land; 1911 became Park Theatre - Quaker Girl 1911; Pygmalion (Mrs. Patrick Campbell) 1914; Merry Wives of Windsor (Constance Collier, Herbert Tree) 1917 - Louie the 14th (Romberg) (Leon Errol and Ethel Shutte) (9 mos); Sing Out Sweet Land (Alfred Drake, Burl Ives) 1944 - 1922 became Minsky's Park Music Hall; 1923 it became Cosmopolitan - in 1931 it became a film and vaudeville house called Cosmo Varieties - 1934 became The Theatre of Young America - 1935 became The Park once again - renamed the International in 1944 - 1945 became the Columbus Circle – Hamlet (Maurice Evans) - and changed to International - 1949 became NBC studios "Your Show of Shows," - demolished June 1954 for new convention center; 2nd Majestic - Majestic Theatre (NYC) - 245 West 44th St. (Shubert-1,655 seats)- opened 1927 with ephemeral production Rufus LaMaire’s Affairs 1927; and in 1928 John Gielgud made lst N.Y. appearance in The Patriot (8 perf) - Considered Broadway's best theatre with a history of highly successful hit musicals - Pardon My English 1932; Stars in Your Eyes 1939; Yokel Boy (Buddy Ebsen) 1939 (208); Carousel 1945 (890), Allegro 1947 (315); South Pacific 1949 (1925), Me and Juliet 1953 (358); Fanny 1954 (888); By the Beautiful Sea (Shirley Booth) 1954; Happy Hunting 1956; Music Man (Robert Preston,Barbara Cook) 1957 (1375), Camelot (Richard Burton,Julie Andrews,Robert Goulet,Roddy McDowell,Mel D’owd) 1960 (873), Jennie 1963; Golden Boy 1964 (569); Anyone Can Whistle (Angela Lansbury,Lee Remick) 1964 (9); Sugar (Tony Roberts,Robert Morse,Elaine Joyce) 1972 (505); Mack and Mabel (Bernadette Peters,Robert Preston) 1974 (65); Wiz 1975 (1672); I Remember Mama (Liv Ullmann) 1979 (108), Act (Liza Minnelli) 1977, Ballroom 1978; Harry Blackstone 1980; 42nd Street 1981; First Monday in October, Most Happy Fella, *Phantom of the Opera (Michael Crawford,Sarah Brightman) (1/88 still running - 4689); 3rd Majestic – 5 Columbus Circle – opened as Cosmopolitan in 1903 – 1911 renamed Park – 1923-1944 used as cinema – renamed International (1946-1949); then tv studio – demolished 1954 and New York Coliseum built on site; 4th Majestic -

Majestic Theatre - Brooklyn

Major Theatre – closed

Mama Rose's - 219 Second Avenue (upstairs) - new cabaret venue June 2003

Mama's Turn - opening in July/04 - will be located on the Upper West Side, in the 70s - in the area of the original BROADWAY BABY piano bar/cabaret that was situated on Amsterdam Avenue at 72nd Street. It will be called MAMA'S TURN, and the space will have a large piano bar with cabaret room upstairs that will seat close to 100 patrons

Manhattan Casino - interracial drag costume balls

Manhattan Center - 311 West 34th Street – 1906 - see Hammerstein's Ballroom, Manhattan Opera -

*Manhattan Class Company Theater (NYC) - 120 West 28th St (between 6th & 7th Aves)- Glory of Living 2001

*Manhattan Ensemble Theatre (NYC) - 55 Mercer Street (140 seats)

Manhattan Music Hall (NYC) - see Hammerstein's Theatre

Manhattan Nightclub - see Hammertstein’s Theatre

Manhattan 1 & 2 – closed & demolished

Manhattan Opera – 311 West 34th Street – 1906 – see Manhattan Center – Manhattan Opera Company opened here; 2nd - Manhattan Opera House – 1906 – competed with Met until 1910; 3rd - Manhattan Opera House (NYC) – see Koster & Bial’s New Music Hall, Hammerstein’s - built 1892 on 34th Street West of Broadway – built and owned by Oscar Hammerstein on the site where Macy's is today - Eternal Road (Lotte Lenya) 1937

Manhattan School of Arts and Technology - 132 West 89th Street - see P.S. 166 and Richard Rodgers School of Arts and Technology

Manhattan Theatre (NYC) - 6th Avenue and 33rd Street, see Standard Theatre - Way Down East 1898 (152), Leah Kleschna (Mrs. Fiske) 1904 (131) – demolished 1909; 2nd - Manhattan Theatre (NYC) – see Eagle Theatre - 1697 Broadway between 53rd and 54th – opened 1927 as Hammerstein's Theatre – 1931 renamed Manhattan – 1934 became Billy Rose Music-Hall and later Manhattan Music Hall – renamed Ed Sullivan Theatre 1967; 2nd Manhattan Theatre – from 1897 to 1901 Standard Theatre was known as Manhattan Theatre, built as Eagle Theatre

Manhattan I and II - 1969 - 800 seats - Razed, 1995 (c.)

*Manhattan Theatre Club (NYC) - founded 1970 in old Bohemian National Hall on East 73rd Street in a complex that included 3 major stages – moved to 131 West 55th St.(between 6th & 7th Aves)- Crimes of the Heart (Mary Beth Hurt) 1980; It's Only a Play (Joanna Gleason,Dorothy Tutin,Christine Baranski) 1986; Eastern Standard - transfers to John Golden 1989; Love! Valor! Compassion - 1994 - moved to Walter Kerr in 1995; Comic Potential 2000; Wild Party 2000; Class Act 2000 (transferred to Ambassador Theatre 2001) Stages I (299 seats) and Stages II (150 seats) - founded in 1970 and has been located at City Center since 1984 - see Biltmore Theatre - The Contractor 1973 (72); Ain't Misbehavin 1978 (moved to Longacre); Crimes of the Heart 1981; It's Only a Play 1986; Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune (Kathy Bates,Kenneth Welsh) 1987 (533); Loman Family Picnic (City Center Stage 2) 1989; Lips Together,Teeth Apart (City Center) (Nathan Lane,Swoozie Kurtz,Christine Baranski) - transfer to Lucille Lortel 1991; Perfect Ganesh (Zoe Caldwell,Frances Sternhagen) 1993; Love,Valor,Compassion 1994 (transferred to Walter Kerr Theatre); Labor Day 1998; Fuddy Meers 1999; East Is East 1999; Class Act 2000; Wild Party 2000 (transferred)

*Manhattan Theatre Source (NYC) - 177 MacDougal Street – houses Playhouse (50 seats) and WindowBox Café – can be used as cabaret

Mansfield Theatre (NYC) - 256 West 47th St – opened1926 – with Night Duel – in 1960 became the Brooks Atkinson – Ladder 1926 (789); Green Pastures 1930 (640);

Marble Palace – 561 Broadway – Minstrel Shows 1850s

Mark Hellinger Theatre (NYC) - 237 West 51st St. - see Hollywood Theatre - opened as a cinema in 1930 (Warner Hollywood)- designed by Lamb, 1,600 seats, but was soon converted to a playhouse and the name changed, then a showcase film theatre in 1930, the Hollywood Theatre - reverted to legitimate theatre in 1934 – Calling All Stars 1934; name changed to 51st Street Theatre on 2 occasions 1936 –entrance moved to 51st St – Sweet River (5 perf) - and again in 1940 – Romeo and Juliet (Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh) - 1949 became the Mark Hellinger – Texas L’il Darlin’ 1949; Two on the Aisle 1951; Three Wishes for Jamie 1952; Hazel Flagg 1953; Girl in Pink Tights 1954; Ankles Aweigh 1955; Plain and Fancy 1955 (461), My Fair Lady (Rex Harrison,Julie Andrews,Cathleen Nesbitt,Stanley Holloway) 1956 (2717), Fade Out Fade In (Carol Burnett) 1964; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Barbara Harris) 1965, Joyful Noise 1966; Illya Darling (Melina Mercouri,Orson Bean) 1967 (319); Coco (Katharine Hepburn) 1969; Dear World (Angela Lansbury) 1969; Jesus Christ Superstar 1971 (720), 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 1976; Timbuktu 1978 (221); Sugar Babies 1979, Doll's Life 1982, film version of A Chorus Line was filmed here - Jesus Christ Superstar 1971 (720), Sunset (Alexis Smith) 1978; As You Like It, Sugar Babies 1979 (1208), Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall 1979; A Doll’s Life 1982; Merlin 1983; Grind 1985; Rags 1986; Legs Diamond 1988; Tony Awards - now the Times Square Church

Mark Morris Dance Group - 1980 – opened in new Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn 2001

*Marquis (NYC) - 1535 Broadway (45th & 46th) (Nederlander-1,584 seats) - Built in the Marriott Marquis Hotel – 3rd floor - inauguration Shirley Bassey & George Kirby; Me and My Gal 1986 (George S. Irving,Jane Connell) (1420); Shogun 1990; Nick and Nora (Joanna Gleason,Christine Baranski,Barry Bostwick,Debra Monk,Faith Prince) 1991 (9); Goodbye Girl (Martin Short,Bernadette Peters)1993; Victor Victoria (Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts) 1995 (734); Capeman (Ruben Blades) 1997 (68); Annie Get Your Gun (Bernadette Peters,Tom Wopat/Cheryl Ladd)1999; Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sutton Foster, Leslie Uggams, Delta Burke) 2003; Cry Baby 2008; – three treasured theatres bit the dust for this complex

*Martin Beck (NYC) - 302 West 45th St. (Jujamcyn-1,302 seats) (Being renamed the Al Hirschfield Theatre on June 21, 2003, the artist's 100th birthday) - Built in 1924 for a vaudeville showman – Madame Pompadour 1924; Shanghai Gesture 1926 (331); Wings Over Europe 1928; Dynamo 1929 (50), Apple Cart (Claude Rains) 1930 (11 weeks); Hotel Universe (Ruth Gordon,Franchot Tone) 1930 (10 weeks); Winterset 1935 (195), High Tor 1937 (171), Reunion in Vienna 1931 (264), Cabin in the Sky (Ethel Waters,Katharine Dunham) 1940 (156), Watch on the Rhine 1941 (378),The Army Play-by-Play 1943 (40); This Foolish Notion (Tallulah Bankhead) 1945 (13 weeks); Iceman Cometh 1946 (136), St. Louis Woman (Pearl Bailey) 1946 (113); Barefoot Boy With Cheek (Red Buttons,Nancy Walker) 1947; Rose Tattoo 1951 (306), Teahouse of the August Moon 1953 (1027), Crucible (Madeleine Sherwood,E.G. Marshall) 1953 (197); Major Barbara(Glynis Johns,Eli Wallach,Corneilia Otis Skinner,Burgess Meredith) 1956 (232); Candide (Barbara Cook) 1956 (73); Mister Johnson (Earle Hyman) 1956 (44); Orpheus Descending (Maureen Stapleton,Cliff Robertson) 1957 (68); Sweet Bird of Youth (Geraldine Page,Paul Newman,Rip Torn)1959 (375), Bye Bye Birdie 1960 (607); Beg Borrow or Steal (Estelle Parsons,Eddie Bracken,Betty Garrick,Larry Parks) 1960 (5); Happiest Girl in the World 1961; Milk and Honey 1961 (541), Ballad of a Sad Cafe (Colleen Dewhurst,Roscoe Lee Browne,Michael Dunn) 1963 (123); I Had a Ball (Buddy Hackett) 1964; Physicists (Jessica Tandy,Hume Cronyn) 1964 (55); Drat the Cat 1965; Marat/Sade 1965; Delicate Balance (Jessica Tandy,Hume Cronyn,Rosemary Murphy,Carmen Mathews,Marian Seldes,Henderson Forsythe) 1966; Hallelujah Baby (Leslie Uggams) 1967 (293); Grass Harp 1971; All Over (John Gielgud,Jessica Tandy,Colleen Dewhurst) 1971 (42); Habeas Corpus 1975; Dracula 1977 (revival 925), Onward Victoria 1980; Bring Back Birdie 1981; Little Foxes (Elizabeth Taylor,Maureen Stapleton) 1981; Come Back to the 5 and Dime,Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Sandy Dennis,Cher,Karen Black,Kathy Bates) 1982 (52); Rink (Liza Minnelli,Chita Rivera) 1984, Into the Woods (Bernadette Peters,Joanna Gleason,Barbara Bryne) 1987 (765), Grand Hotel:The Musical (Tommy Tune) 1989 (1018), Guys and Dolls (Nathan Lane,Faith Prince,Peter Gallagher) - revival 1992 (over 800 performances ), Moon Over Buffalo (Carol Burnett) 1995 (308); Habeus Corpus, Happy End, Saturday Sunday Monday, Strange Interlude; Annie (revival Nell Carter) 1997 (238); revival Sound of Music (Rebecca Luke, later Richard Chamberlain 1998 (553); Man of La Mancha (Brian Stokes Mitchell) 2002 (6 months)

Martinique Theatre(NYC) – Crucible 1958 (571), Six Characters in Search of an Author 1963 (529)

*Martin R. Kaufman Theater (NYC) - 534 West 42nd St. (between 10th & 11th Aves) (97 seats)

Martinique Theatre (NYC) – Kittiwake Island 1960; All in Love 1963; Othello (James Earl Jones) 1964 (224); In White America (Gloria Foster) - now defunct

Martinson Hall (NYC) – see Public Theatre

Marymount Manhattan Theatre (NYC) - housed within Marymount Manhattan College on Upper East Side - Uncommon Women and Others (Jill Eikenberry,Glenn Close,Swoosie Kurtz) 1977 (22); Getting Out 1978 (22), Scribes – demolished

Masque Theatre (NYC) - see John Golden - Post Road 1934 (212); Mann Ist Mann 1962 (175)

*Maverick Theatre (NYC) - 307 West 26th St – former home of the American Jewish Theatre - Chelsea - founded in 1996

Mayfair Theatre (NYC) (Embassy, DeMille – 1,736 seats - Fly Blackbird 1962; Ballad For Bimshire 1963; Dance With Me – boarded up - Gutted 2007, to be retail

Maxine Elliott's (NYC) - 1908 - 109 West 39th Street East of Broadway (900 seats) - surrounded by the Casino, Empire, Abbeys, Princess, Nazimovas and Comedy Theatres – opened with Chaperon starring Maxine Elliott (6 weeks); Passing of the Third Floor Back 1909 (first success); Gamblers 1910; Playboy of the Western World (Abbey Theatre) – caused riot in 1911; See America First (Cole Porter) 1916; Eyes of Youth 1917 (414), Romance 1913 (160), Mountain Man (Sidney Blackmer) 1921 (163); Rain 1922 (648), Coquette 1927 (366); Coquette 1919; Art and Mrs. Bottle (Katherine Hepburn) 1930; Constant Wife (Ethel Barrymore); Rain (Jeanne Eagels); Coquette (Helen Hayes); Children's Hour (Ann Revere) 1934 (691), Horse Eats Hat 1936; Separate Rooms 1940 (613); Ballet Joos 1941 - CBS produced Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan from this theatre - closed theatre in 1959 - demolished in 1960

Max's Kansas City - notorious bar with three floors - infamous stars showed up here - Cockettes, Warhol crowd, Wayne/Jane County

*MCC Theatre (NYC) - 120 West 28th St.- Wit 1998 (75) - then moved to Union Square (545)- currently without a home and using Theatre Row - 20th Anniversary March 13/06

McElfatrick, J.B., and Company – leading firm of theatrical architects early 1900s – New York houses include Broadway, Empire, Hudson, Music Hall (later the New York), Lyric (later the Criterion), Republic, Victoria and Wallacks Theatres – designed more than 100 theatres across the country

*McGinn-Cazale Theatre (NYC) - 2162 Broadway (fourth floor) & 76th - 108 seats - see also Promenade Theatre (downstairs) - named after two actors who died much too soon - Walter McGinn (1936-1977) (Canterbury Tales,Here’s Where I Belong, Bobby Deerfield, Dog Day Afternoon, Deadliest Season, Kill Me If You Can), and John Cazale (1935-1978) (Deer Hunter, Conversation, Godfather) - previously home to Second Stage - new home of Vital Theatre Company November 2004

McHales's Bar - 46th and 8th Avenue - theatrical establishment - shut on January 16/06

Mecca Auditorium (NYC) – 1926 - 1,947 seats -Razed, 1945 (c.) For An Answer 1941

Mechanics’ Social Hall (NYC) – 472 Broadway - Christie’s Minstrels 1847 & 1864 (almost 10 years) – J. Reese Europe killed here – later became Butler’s American Theatre

Medicine Show (NYC) – see Ensemble Studio Theatre; 2 - Medicine Shows – early years of 19th Century and ran from 1840s to beginning of 20th Century – offerings of patent medicines – one man shows originally but were soon enlarged

Mercer Arts Center (NYC) - El Grande de Coca Cola 1973 (1114)

Mercer-Hansberry Theatre (NYC) - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (William Devane) 1971 (1025)

Mercer-O'Casey Theatre (NYC) - Effect of the Gamma Rays (Sada Thompson,Swoosie Kurtz) 1970 (819); Exchange 1970; Doctor Selavy’s Magic Theatre 1972; Hark 1972

Mercury Lounge - rock club – Houston St – 250 capacity

Mercury Theatre (NYC) - founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman as repertory company in 1937 – used Comedy Theatre - Julius Caesar (Orson Welles) 1937 (157);Shoemaker's Holiday 1938 – group collapsed in 1938

Mermaid Theatre (NYC) - Greenwich Village - Pocket Watch

Merry Go-Round – 49 E 54th St – 1930s nightspot

Metro Playhouse (NYC) - 220 East Fourth Street – see Connelly

Metropol. Opera - 1880 opera house - 3,600 seats - 1880 - Razed, 1963

Metropole – 1950s nightspot

Metropolis – Mabel Mercer; Metropolis, Bronx - 1897 - 1,600 seats - Razed, 1940s

Metropolitan Alcazar (NYC) - 40th and Broadway - built 1880 - demolished 1930s

Metropolitan Casino (NYC) – see Broadway Theatre

Metropolitan Club – East 60th St – 1890s nightspot

Metropolitan Concert Hall - 1880 – SW corner of Broadway & 41st St – for a time roller rink & exhibition hall – demolished 1888 and Broadway Theatre erected on its site – razed 1919 for skyscraper

Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) - Broadway between 39th & 40th Streets - founded 1883 – rival to NY Academy of Music - built as the New Opera House (3,045 seats) - damaged by fire in 1892 – endured until Lincoln Centre opened - demolished in 1967

*Metropolitan Playhouse of New York (NYC) - 220 East 4th St.(Avenues A & B)

Metropolitan Room - 34 West 22nd St (bet 5th & 6th) 9Chelsea)- new cabaret space 2006 - 110 seats - former comedy club

Metropolitan Theatre (see Tripler Hall) (NYC) – see New York Theatre – 667-77 Broadway – built on site of Tripler Hall which was burnt down 1854 – became circus – 1859 became Winter Garden – 1867 theatre burnt down and not rebuilt

Metro Theatre - West 99th Street- built 1932/33 - year after its completion there were 18 movie theatres along Broadway between 59th and 110th Streets - closed Jan 26/03 and reopened but maybe only temporarily - was onetime porn theatre known as the Midtown

Mexico’s Gin Mill – 133rd Street – 1920s hotspot

M. Franconi's Hippodrome (NYC) - Broadway and 23rd St - 1853 - torn down in 1856 to make way for Fifth Avenue Hotel

Miami Theater - early 1940s - no information available presently

Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts (NYC) - situated at Pace Uiversity on the downtown campus, facing City Hall - box office and Theatre entrance are located on Spruce Street, east of Park Row, near the corner of Gold Street - new home of the National Actors Theatre

Michael's Pub (NYC) - (Renaissance Hotel)- 7th Avenue between 47th and 48th St. (was 57 East 54th St.) - intimate cabaret - Mel Torme, Woody Allen - closed December 98 and now situated at Park Restaurant in Hotel Lombardy, 111 East 56th Street - Julie Wilson

Midget Theatre (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre, President Theatre

Midtown (NYC) - 99th & Broadway - built in 1933 by Boak and Paris – demolished

Midway Theatre - 74th St & Broadway – renamed Warner’s Beacon when opened 1929

Mime – never played important role in mainstream American theatre – i.e. Marcel Marceau, Mummenshanz

Mimic Club – 1930s nightspot

Mimo Club – Harlem nightspot 1940s

Mind the Gap Theatre (NYC)

Miner’s Bowery Theatre (NYC) – old burlesque theatre in the Houston district – Fridays were first amateur nights in burlesque – 1896 – changed name to Knickerbockers – Wine, Women and Song

Miners’ Eighth Avenue Theatre(NYC)- 310 8th Avenue above W 26th St – variety theatre – 1881 destroyed by fire – 1902 rebuilt – ended life as movie house

Minerva Rooms - 460 Broadway below Grand St

*Minetta Lane Theatre (NYC) - 16 Minetta Lane (Just East of 6th Ave. to West 3rd St.) (407) – Personals 1985; Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down 1985; Other People's Money 1989 (990); Jeffrey 1993 (10 months); Cowgirls 1996; Gross Indecency:the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde 1997; Thwak 1999;

Minor Latham Playhouse (NYC) – Barnard College Campus – 117th Street and Broadway

*Minskoff (NYC) - 1515 Broadway/200 West 45th St. (44th and 45th) (Nederlander-1,621 seats) - Opened in 1973 on third floor of 1 Astor Plaza, site of former Astor Hotel with Irene (Debbie Reynolds,Patsy Kelly,George S.Irving) revival (604), Clams on the Half Shell Revue (Bette Midler) 1975 (67); Rockabye Hamlet 1976; Angel 1978; King of Hearts 1978, Dance a Little Closer 1983; Teddy and Alice 1987; Black and Blue 1989 (824), Marilyn, West Side Story revival; Tap Dance Kid; Sunset Boulevard (Glenn Close,George Hearn) 1994 (977); Scarlet Pimpernel (Christine Andreas) 1997 (640) – revised and ran to (772) performances; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (less than 2 weeks) 2001; Dance of the Vampires (Michael Crawford) 2003 (56); Engelbert Humperdinck; Shirley Bassey; Patti La Belle; and Peter, Paul & Mary as well as revivals of Hello, Dolly!; Can-Can; The Pirate of Penzance; Sweet Charity; Cabaret; Peter Pan; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; and, most recently, Fiddler on the Roof. Other recent shows include Saturday Night Fever;

Minsky’s – see New Victory Theatre, Republic - 1931 became Minksys - Phil Silvers, Abbott and Costello, Red Buttons, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio etc. owed their careers to Minskys; 2nd - Minsky’s Burlesque – Broadway and 51st Street – 1930s; 3rd - Minsky’s Oriental Theatre (NYC) - Broadway; 4th - Minsky's Park Music Hall (NYC) - see Majestic Theatre; 5th - 1,000 seat theatre on 6th floor of National, which was Yiddish theatre's most prominent venue - 11 E Houston - now a parking lot

Minstrel Shows – basically started at Bowery Amphitheatre 1843 of Virginia Minstrels although blackface performers had been popular for a decade – other groups included Ethiopian Serenaders; Mr. Bones; Mr. Tambo; Buckley’s Serenaders; Bryant’s Minstrels; Christy Minstels; Ordways Aeolians; San Francisco Minstrels; and Wood’s Minstrels – by 1880s it had largely disappeared except for Philadelphia where Sanford’s Minstrels and Dumont;s Minstrels kept tradition into the 20th century – Park Theatre, Astor Place Opera, Mitchell’s Old Olympic Theatre, Niblo’s Garden, Barnum’s Museum – dominated Broadway for nearly 20 years

Minton’s Playhouse – Harlem 1940s

Mint Theatre Company (NYC) 311 West 43rd St.(between 8th & 9th Aves) (74 seats)- in small office building on 5th floor - Macbeth (all female) 2000

Mirage – 125 East 54th Street – 1930s nightclub

*Miranda Theatre (NYC) - 259 West 30th St. (66) (7th & 8th)

Mitchell’s Olympic Theatre (NYC) – see Olympic – 444 Broadway, between Howard & Grand Sts - opened 1839 – former Broadway Theatre – 1852 converted to business structure – burned down 1854 – became City Assembly Rooms

*Mitzi E. Newhouse (NYC) - @ Lincoln Center (see Vivian Beaumont also) 150 West 65th St (Lincoln Centre-299 seats) - Streamers 1976 (478), Sing Happy, You're the Top; Waiting for Godot (Robin Williams,Steve Martin,F.Murray Abraham) 1988 (25); Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen (William H. Macy) 1991; Sisters Rosenweig (Jane Alexander,Madeline Kahn,Robert Klein,Frances McDormand) 1992 (149)(transferred to Ethel Barrymore in 1993); Hello Again 1994; Suburbia 1994; New Brain (Malcolm Gets,Kristin Chenoweth,Penny Fuller) 1998; Contact 1999 (transferred to Vivian Beaumont);Old Money (John Cullum,Mary Beth Hurt) 2000; Spinning Into Butter 2000; Bad Friend 2002

Mocambo (NYC) - famous New York nightspot – Will Mastin Trio starring Sammy Davis Jr (1957)

Modjeska - 192? - 1500 seats -Razed

Molly Picon Theatre – see Jolson’s 59th

Mon Paris – 142 East 53rd Street – 1930s nightclub

Monroe Theatre – closed & demolished

Monroe’s Uptown House – Harlem 1940s nightspot

Moore’s Place – 133rd Street – 1930s – Billy Holiday

Moriarty’s Saloon – Third Avenue – 1850s nightspot

Moroccan Village - drag revue

Morosco (NYC) - 217 West 45th Street - 1917 - 954 seats – opened with Canary Cottage 1917 (112) (Eddie Cantor); Bat 1920 (867), Beyond the Horizon (Eugene O’Neill) (Pulitzer Prize) 1920 (111), Firebrand 1924 (287), Craig's Wife 1925 (360); The Letter (Katharine Cornell); Our Town (Frank Craven) 1938; Sim Sala Bim 1940; Blithe Spirit 1941 (657), Voice of the Turtle 1943 (1557), Sons and Soldiers (Geraldine Fitzgerald,Gregory Peck,Stella Adler,Karl Malden) 1943 (22); Death of a Salesman (Lee J. Cobb) 1949 (742); Relapse or Virtue in Danger (Cyril Ritchard) 1950; Second Threshold (Clive Brook) 1951 (126); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Barbara Bel Geddes,Burl Ives,Mildred Dunnock,Ben Gazzara) 1955 (694), Time Remembered (Richard Burton, Helen Hayes); Silent Night Lonely Night (Henry Fonda); Don't Drink the Water 1966 (598), Best Man (Melvyn Douglas) 1960 (520), The Private Ear and the Public Eye 1963; Forty Carats (Julie Harris) 1968 (780), Home (John Gielgud,Ralph Richardson); Price (Kate Reid) 1968; Butley (Alan Bates) 1972 (135); Moon For the Misbegotten (Jason Robards,Colleen Dewhurst) 1973; Norman Conquests (Ken Howard,Richard Benjamin,Paula Prentice,Estelle Parsons) 1975 (76); Gemini 1977 (696-moved theatres), Golda (Anne Bancroft) 1977 (13 weeks); Shadow Box 1977 (315), Da 1978 (697), Come on Strong, A Life 1980 (72), Billy Bishop Goes to War 1980 (12); - transferred to Theatre de Lys; I Won’t Dance 1981 - demolished 1982 along with the Astor, Victoria, Bijou and Helen Hayes to make way for Marriott Marquis Hotel and the Minskoff Theatre

Morse Recital Hall - 65th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues

Moulin Rouge (NYC) - see Olympia Theatre and New York Theatre

Mount Vernon Gardens - summer theatre 1800 – for 3 seasons – NW corner of Broadway & Leonard

Mt. Morris Theatre – closed

Movieland (NYC) - (Forum, 47th St) - 1918 - 1,100 seats - Razed, 1998

Movie-Plex 42 – closed & demolished

Mozart Hall - minstel shows – Broadway opposite Bond St

Mud Bone Collective

Murray Hill Cinema – closed & demolished

Musical Theatre Works (NYC) - 440 Lafayette St.

*Music Box (NYC) - 239 West 45th St. (Shubert-1,010 seats) - Built in 1921 by Irving Berlin and Sam Harris to house Irving Berlin's revues – opened with Berlin’s Music Box Revue, which ran into several editions - Music Box Revues 1921-22-23 and 1924, Cradle Snatchers 1925 (485), Chicago (George Abbott) 1926 (172), Paris Bound 1927 (234), Once in a Lifetime 1930 (406), Of Thee I Sing (Victor Moore) 1931 (441), Dinner at Eight 1932 (232), As Thousands Cheer 1933 (400); First Lady (Jane Cowl)1935; Of Mice and Men (Broderick Crawford) 1937 (207), I'd Rather Be Right (George M. Cohan) 1938; Man Who Came to Dinner 1939 (739), Star and Garter 1942 (609), I Remember Mama (Marlon Brando) 1944 (714), Summer and Smoke 1948 (100), Lost in the Stars 1949 (273), Flight Into Egypt (Zero Mostel,Jo Van Fleet,Paul Mann) 1952; Picnic 1953 (477), Bus Stop (Kim Stanley) 1955 (478), Separate Tables 1956; Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Pat Hingle,Teresa Wright) 1957 (468), Rashomon (Claire Bloom,Rod Steiger) 1959 (20 weeks); Far Country 1961; Any Wednesday 1964 (982), Sleuth 1970 (1222), Absurd Person Singular 1974 (592), Comedians 1976; Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin,Julie N. McKenzie,David Kernan,Ned Sherrin) 1977 (384), Deathtrap 1978 (1809), Far Country, Five Finger Exercise, Veronica's Room, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Agnes of God (Geraldine Page,Elizabeth Ashley,Amanda Plummer) 1982 (599), Comedians, A Few Good Men (Tom Hulce) 1989 (497); State Fair (Donna McKechnie,John Davidson,Andrea McArdle) 1996 (118); Diary of Anne Frank (George Hearn,Linda Lavin) 1997 (221); Barrymore (Christopher Plummer) 1997 (240); Diary of Anne Frank (revival) 1998; Barrymore (Christopher Plummer) 1998 (240); Closer (Natasha Richardson,Rupert Graves) 1999 (173); Macbeth (Kelsey Grammer,Michael Gross) 2000 (13); Dinner Party 2000 (366);August: Osage County 2008;

Music Hall of Williamsburg - rock club – see Northsix

Music Palace – closed

Mutual Theatre (NYC) – built as a burlesque house

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*Nada (NYC) - 445 West 45th Street

*NADA (NYC) - 167 Ludlow St. (60)

Nassau Street Theatre (NYC) – 1750 – 64-6 Nassau Street between Maiden Lane and John Street – opened originally as New Theatre in 1732 - large room used for about 4 years; nothing known until Richard III (1750); Othello 1751 – 2nd Nassau Theatre - opened in 1753 with Conscious Lovers – abandoned 1754 – demolished 1765

National Black Theatre (NYC) - 2031-33 Fifth Avenue (125 & 126th) - founded 1968 (125)

National Concert Hall (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

National Critics Institute – founded 1968

National Music Hall (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

National Opera House (NYC) - N.W. corner of Leonard and Church Streets - burned 1841

National Playwright’s Conference - 1965

National Theatre (NYC) - 2nd Avenue and Houston - (3000 seats)- opened in 1838 – the renovated former Italian Opera House which opened in 1833 - Uncle Tom's Cabin 1853 (325) (Purdy's National), Tortesa the Usurer 1839 (6), Ten Nights in a Barroom 1858 (7), Trial of Mary Dugan 1927 (437), home of burlesque, run by Minsky's - Criminal Code 1929 (174), Cat and the Canary 1922 (349); 2nd - National Theatre (NYC) - stood where Shubert and Booth Theatres are now – 1921 - abandoned and demolished to create Shubert and Booth Theatres - Cat and the Canary (Florence Eldridge) 1922; Ethan Frome (Raymond Massey,Pauline Lord,Ruth Gordon) 1936 (15 weeks); Little Foxes 1939 (410); Patriots 1943 (172), Call Me Mister 1946 (734), Medea 1947 (214); Lend an Ear (Carol Channing,Gene Nelson) 1948 (460); Camino Real (Jo Van Fleet,Martin Balsam)1953 (7 weeks); Mrs. Patterson 1954; Inherit the Wind (Ed Begley,Paul Muni) 1955 (806), - demolished; 3rd - National Theatre (NYC) – 1921 – see Nederlander - 1959 changed to the Billy Rose - Patriots 1943; Inherit the Wind (Paul Muni) 1955 (see Nederlander); 4th - National Theatre - 1973-1996 – 1500 Broadway - 1445 seats – gutted for broadcast studios 1997; 5th - National Theatre – opened as Opera House 1833 – fire 1841; National Theatre/Roosevelt - 1913 - 2,863 seats - (Twin) - Razed, 1959

National Theatre Conference – mid 1920s but formally founded 1930

National Theatre of the Deaf – touring ensemble of deaf performers – 1966

National Twin – closed & demolished

National Vaudeville Artists – clubhouse on 46th Street

National Winter Garden Theatre (NYC) – Houston Street – served as a synagogue – then a movie house, and to burlesque operated by Minsky

Nazimova Theatre (NYC) – see 39th Street Theatre – 2nd - Nazimova's 39th Street Theatre (NYC) - 1910 - 119 West 39th Street (699) – opened with Little Eyolf starring Alla Nazimova 1910; Scandal (39 weeks); White Cargo; Laff That Off - became the 39th Street Theatre in 1911 - closed in 1926 and the theatre was razed and a 20 storey office building erected

*Nederlander (NYC) - 208 West 41st St. (Nederlander-1,206 seats) - see Trafalgar Theatre - 208 West 41st St. (Nederlander-1,206 seats) opened 1921 as the National – Swords 1921; Ethan Frome; Tonight at 8:30; Little Foxes; Corn is Green; Call Me Mister; Lend an Ear; Camino Real - in 1958 became the Billy Rose, only Broadway theatre below 42nd St. – 1978 theatre closed for a year, and was renamed the Trafalgar – Whose Life Is It Anyway; Betrayal - in 1980 became the Nederlander - Here's Where I Belong; November People; Rose Tattoo; Sherlock's Last Case; Devil's Advocate (Leo Genn) 1961 (116); Tiny Alice (Irene Worth) 1964 (167); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Uta Hagen,Arthur Hill,Ben Piazza)1962 (664), Death of Bessie Smith; One Night Stand 1980;Amen Corner 1983; currently Rent (Adam Pascal) 1996 is breaking records – 1980 became Nederlander

Negro Ensemble Company (NYC) - formed 1967/68 - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1969 - Brownsville Raid, Sty of the Blind Pig - located for a period at Theatre de Lys

*Neighbourhood Playhouse (NYC) - 340 E. 54th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)- First Man 1922 (27); Dybbuk 1925; 2nd - Neighbourhood Playhouse (NYC) - 466 Grand Street – 1915 – opened with Jephthah’s Daughter 1915 - closed 1927 and school of acting under same name opened at 340 East 54th Street

Neil Simon (NYC) - 250 West 52nd St. (Nederlander-1,334 seats) - built in 1927 as the Alvin - Funny Face 1927 (250); Girl Crazy (Ethel Merman) 1930 (272); Music in the Air 1932 (342); Mary of Scotland 1933 (248); Anything Goes (Ethel Merman) 1934 (420); Porgy and Bess 1935 (124); I'd Rather Be Right (George M. Cohan) 1937 (290); Boys From Syracuse 1938 (235); There Shall Be No Night (Alfred Lunt,Lynn Fontanne) 1940 (181); Lady in the Dark (Danny Kaye,Gertrude Lawrence) 1941 (467); Something for the Boys (Ethel Merman); Joan of Lorraine (Ingrid Bergman); Helen Goes to Troy 1944 (3 months); Mister Roberts (Henry Fonda) 1948 (1157); No Time For Sergeants (796);Darkness at Noon (Claude Rains) 1951; House of Flowers (Pearl Bailey,Diahann Carroll,Juanita Hall,Geoffrey Holder) 1954; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Shirley Booth); Point of No Return (Henry Fonda); Two’s Company (Bette Davis); Kind Sir (Mary Martin,Charles Boyer); Golden Apple; Oh Captain (Tony Randall) 1958 (192); Wildcat (Lucille Ball) 1960 (171); Greenwillow (Anthony Perkins, Pert Kelton,Cecil Kellaway) 1960 (97); Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Zero Mostel) 1962 (964); High Spirits (Beatrice Lillie,Tammy Grimes) 1964 (375); It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (Bob Holiday,Patricia Morand) 1966 (75), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1967 (421); Great White Hope 1968 (556) (James Earl Jones,Jane Alexander); The Music Man; Company (Elaine Stritch) 1970 (706); Shenandoah (John Cullum) 1975 (1050), Flora the Red Menace (Liza Minnelli); Annie (Andrea McArdle,Reid Shelton,Dorothy Loudon) 1977 (2377); High Spirits (Beatrice Lillie,Tammy Grimes); Your Arms Too Short to Box With God; Merrily We Roll Along; 1983 renamed Neil Simon Theatre with Brighton Beach Memoirs (Matthew Broderick)1983 (1530); Biloxi Blues (Matthew Broderick) 1985 (524); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Jason Robards,Colleen Dewhurst) 1988; Jake's Women (Alan Alda,Brenda Vaccaro,Joyce Van Patten,Kate Burton) 1992; King and I (Lou Diamond Phillips,Donna Murphy)1996 (807); Dinner at Eight, Swan Lake (all male) (Matthew Bourne) 1998; Scarlet Pimpernel (revised)1999; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; View From the Bridge; Cyrano, Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Orpheus Descending (Vanessa Redgrave); Ah Wilderness; Breaking the Code (Derek Jacobi); Blithe Spirit (Richard Chamberlain,Geraldine Page); Hairspray (Harvey Fierstein) 2002 Tony Award 2003 Best Musical

Nemo Theatre - 110th Street – closed & demolished

Nest Club – Harlem nightspot 1920s

New Actors Workshop (NYC)

New American Museum (NYC) – see American Museum - 539-41 Broadway – 1865 – had been the Chinese Rooms – 1868 burnt to ground and never rebuilt

*New Amsterdam Theatre (NYC) - 214 West 42nd St. (Disney - 1,771 seats) - (Celebrating 100 years 2003 - New Amsterdam is currently playing host to The Lion King, its 164th production, and only its second since the theatre was restored and reopened by Disney in 1997 after 60 years without a legitimate entertainment); - atmospheric theatre - opened in 1903 with Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, the same night as the Lyceum - next door to the Lyric Theatre - built by Hearts & Tallant) (1,100 seats); Mother Goose 1903 (3 months) - roof housed 680 seat Aerial Gardens (1904-1910)- Jardin de Paris - reopened 1915 as Danse de Follies until 1921; 1923 became The Dresden and later renamed the Frolic; in 1930 became a radio studio – Madame Sherry; The Pink Lady; Caesar and Cleopatra 1906, Free Lance 1906 (35); Brewster's Millions 1906 (163); Forty Five Minutes from Broadway (Fay Templeton,Victor Moore) 1906 (90);Merry Widow 1907; Madame Sherry 1910 (231), Pink Lady 1911 (312), Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 (12 separate editions staged here); Sweethearts 1913 (136), Watch Your Step 1914 (175), - housed Ziegfeld Follies 1913 to 1924, and talents like Fred Astaire, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, Eddie Canton, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields 1915, Anna Held, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, Red Skelton, Will Rogers (starred in 6 editions 1916 to 1925); Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 (Ed Wynn,Leon Errol) 112; in 1914 the rooftop theatre became Canse de Follies, and in 1923 became Frolic Theatre - Ziegfeld Follies 1918 (Will Rogers), 1921 (Will Rogers), 1922 (Will Rogers);Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 (Fannie Brice,W.C.Fields) 1920 (78); Sally (Marilyn Miller,Leon Errol) 1920 (570), Midnight Frolics 1921 & 1922; Rosalie 1928 (10 mos); Face the Music 1932 (21 weeks); Sunny 1925 (517); Earl Carroll's Vanities 1925; Whoopee 1928; Errol Carroll’s Vanities of 1930; Band Wagon (Fred and Adele Astaire) 1931 (260); Face the Music 1932; Roberta 1933 (295); Revenge With Music 1934; Midsummer Nights Dream, She Stoops to Conquer; George White’s Scandals of 1936 (Bert Lahr,Rudy Vallee); Forbidden Melody; Othello (Walter Huston) 1937 - then became a movie house in 1936, in 1983 theatre extensive renovations and completely restored by the Disney Company with parts leased to Madame Tussauds and AMC. In 1996 the sleaze died on 42nd Street, replaced by glowing new and refurbished theatres – King David 1997; The Lion King (Heather Headley) opened November 13, 1997 (still running as of Aug 2006, in different theatre) in what is once again the crown jewel of Broadway's theatres; Mary Poppins 2006;

New Apollo (NYC) - see Apollo - Bent (Richard Gere,David Dukes) 1979 (240); Fifth of July (Christopher Reeve,Swoosie Kurtz) 1980 (511);

New Bowery Theatre (NYC) – 1859 - see Bowery Theatre - Nick of the Woods 1839 (12)

New Century Theatre - 932 7th Ave @ 58th St - see Jolson Theatre

New Chatham Theatre (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

New Church (NYC) – 112 East 35th Street

New Cinema Playhouse – closed

New Coliseum Theatre (NYC) - 701 West 181st St. (Broadway ) - 1920 - 3,462 seats - Quad - open

New Colonial (NYC) - see Colonial Theatre

New Delancey Theatre – 1922 - 1,075 seats - Razed & demolished

New Drama Forum Association - 1975

New Europe Theatre – closed

New 5th Avenue Theatre - NW corner of Broadway & 28th St – built 1860s as Gilsey’s Apollo Hall – known as St. James Theatre during early 1870s – destroyed by fire 1891 – rebuilt so entrance faced Broadway – became Proctor’s Vaudeville House in 1900 – closed 1938 as seedy movie house

*New 42nd Street Theatre (NYC) - 348 West 42nd St (between 8th & 9th)

New 14th Street Theatre - see Tony Pastor’s

New Georges Theatre (NYC)

New Globe Theater - proposal to build Elizabethan-style theatre within Castle Williams on Governors Island in New York Harbor - modeled on the Globe of Shakespeare's day — and the modern Globe that now stands on the edge of the Thames in London - theatregoers would cross by ferry to attend performances - roofed, modern theatre structure designed by renowned British architect Norman Foster would allow for a proposed 40 weeks of performances annually, to include Shakespeare, modern plays, concerts, films and more - seat 1,200 and offer 400 "groundling tickets" for people standing on the ground below the stage, as in Shakespeare's day

New Group - 10th anniversary season 2005 - successful producer of critically applauded productions – Hurlyburly, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Avenue Q, Ecstasy, Smelling a Rat and The Women of Lockerbie

New Law Theatre – closed & demolished

New Metro Twin – closed

New National Theatre (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

New Olympic (NYC) - 1812; 2nd - New Olympic Theatre (NYC) – see Olympic Theatre

New Opera House (NYC) - The "Old Met" "New Opera House" is the "Old Met", the original Metropolitan Opera House. It opened in 1883, and was demolished in 1966 - see Metropolitan Opera

New Park Theatre (NYC) – see Park Theatre – 932 Broadway between 21st and 22nd Streets – 1874 – 1882 destroyed by fire and never rebuilt; 2nd was on NE corner of Broadway and 35th Street on site of old Aquarium – 1883 – materials bought when Booth Theatre demolished – 1884 became a museum – 1894 became Herald Square Theatre – converted to movies 1912 – sold 1914 for commercial structure

New Progress Theatre – closed Up in Central Park 1945 (504), High Button Shoes 1947 (727), Kiss Me Kate (Alfred Drake,Patricia Morrison) 1948 (1077); Out of this World 1950 – demolished 1930

New Stages Theatre - Bleeker Street - Respectful Prostitute (1948) - moved to Cort Theatre

New Theatre (NYC) – see Broadway Circus, Century, Globe, Jolson, Nassau Street Theatre and Park Theatre - 1753 Nassau St – 1732 - renamed John Street Theatre – Richard III 1767; Prince of Parthia 1767; 2nd New Theatre (changed to Century Theatre 1911) – see Jolson’s 59th St. Theatre - Central Park West and West 62nd and 63rd Streets opened 1909 as subsidized people’s theatre - (2300) - 62nd and Central Park West (2,318) - faced Central Park - roof theater called Century Roof - became Coconut Grove and then Casino de Paris, New Colonial, Harkess – opened with Antony and Cleopatra 1909; Nigger 1909; Century Girl 1916 (Irving Berlin & Victor Herbert); Miss 1917 (Jerome Kern); Yip Yip Yaphank 1918 (Irving Berlin); operettas (Rose of Stamboul, Princess Flavia, Floradora and Chocolate Soldier); The Miracle 1923 - closed 1929 - 1930 building was razed to accommodate apartment house; 3rd New Theatre - Up in Central Park 1945 (504), High Button Shoes 1947 (727), Kiss Me Kate (Alfred Drake,Patricia Morrison) 1948 (1077); Out of this World 1950; Scuba Duba 1967 (692); Knack 1964 (685), Mad Show 1966 (871); Oh Coward 1972 (294)

New Theatre Comique (NYC) – see New York Theatre, Lucy Rushton’s Theatre

New Theatre in the Park - 1797

*New Victory Theatre (NYC) - 209 West 42nd St.(between 8th & 9th) - see Theatre Republic, Victory and Republic Theatres - built in 1900 by Oscar Hammerstein; Sag Harbour 1900; Abie’s Irish Rose (2,327 perf) - in 1931 Gypsy Rose Lee played here when operated by Minsky as Minsky’s Burlesque, Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Star, Hope Diamond and many others, WWII became a movie house called Victory and then X rated movie house - technically an off-Broadway theatre - First theatre to be opened under 42nd Street redevelopment programme - façade restored along with the theatre in 1995 - New York's theatre for kids and families – 1997 became New Victory

New Wallack’s Theatre (NYC) – see Wallack’s Theatre

New World Stages - new name for Dodger Stages as of April 1/06 - Altar Boyz 2008;

New York Academy of Music (NYC) - see Academy of Music

New York Bar – 1930s nightspot

New York City Ballet - see also Lincoln Centre - 2004 is their 50th season

New York City Center of Music and Drama (NYC) – opened 1943 - see City Center of Music and Drama - Anna Christie (Celeste Holm) - transferred to Lyceum 1952

New York City Opera (NYC) - Lindoln Center - established 1944 - engagements in L.A. and Washington - houses in Mecca Temple 1944-1964 - New York State Theatre since 1964 - New York City Opera is in negotiations to build a new opera house on site of the former American Red Cross New York headquarters near Lincoln Center which would leave an opening at State Theater. City Opera has a lease at the theater through 2014, and it must fulfill its financial obligations there through that date. Many expect the American Ballet Theater to fill the hole

New York Drama Critics Circle – formed 1935

New Yorker Hotel – Terrace Room – ice shows – famous nightclub

*New Yorker Theatre (NYC) - opened 1930 on 254 West 54th Street - see Studio 54 – opened as Gallo 1927 with opera 1927 - and reopened 1930 as the New Yorker, with The Vikings - later become Studio 54 the name changed – 1933 became Casino de Paree – then Federal Music Theatre and once again New Yorker – 1943 converted to radio and tv studio

New Yorker Theatre - 1930? - Broadway near 89th Street - was called the Yorktown -1,255 seats - changed to New Yorker in 1962 - razed, 1979 (c.)- marquee shown in film Annie Hall

New York Hippodrome (NYC) – see Hippodrome

New York Historical Society (NYC) – 2 West 77th Street

New York Improv - 318 West 53rd St - see Chicago City Limits

New York International Fringe Festival (NYC)

*New York Performance Works (NYC) - 128 Chambers St (Just East of W. Broadway)

New York Theatre (NYC) – see Olympia and Criterion) - 724-8 Broadway – originally Church of the Messiah – 1866 renamed New York – later theatre known as Fox’s Broadway and then Globe – 1881 became New Theatre Comique – burnt down 1884 and not rebuilt; 2nd New York Theatre – on Broadway between 44th and 45th – originally Olympia Music Hall which opened 1895 as part of Hammerstein’s Olympia Music Hall complex, along with Lyric Theatre (later Criterion), see also New York Roof Garden, Jardin de Paris – reopened 1899 as New York Theatre – later used for vaudeville and films – demolished 1935 – see Lucy Rushton’s Theatre; 3rd New York Theatre – Bowery – see Bowery Theatre – site of former Bull’s Head Inn – 1826 – The Road to Ruin 1826 – later became the Bowery – underwent many changes in name – burned down 6 times – 1828-1836-1838-1845-1923 and finally 1929 after having been rebuilt 5 times; 4th New York Theatre - New York Theatre (NYC) – opened 1854 and was built on the site of the old Metropolitan Theatre (Tripler Hall) - Under the Gaslight 1867 (47), Naughty Marietta 1910 (136), In Dahomey 1903 (53); 5th - New York Twin - 1978 - 850 seats - 1978 Modern

New York Theatre Ballet (NYC)

*New York Theatre Workshop (NYC) - 79 East 4th St.(between Bowery & 2nd Aves) (150)- Slavs (Marisa Tomei,Joseph Wiseman) 1994 (64); Love’s Fowl 1998; Bright Lights,Big City 1999; Dirty Blonde (Claudia Shear)(40)-transferred to Helen Hayes; New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama E.T.C. and a number of other theatre spaces including the Kraine Theatre and Red Room complex will soon see their Off-Off Broadway block become the East Fourth Street Cultural District; Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) plan to give six buildings to the arts organizations which currently reside in them. (East Fourth Street is nestled within the Cooper Square area - which lays between Bowery and First Avenue, bordered by 14th Street to the north and Delancey to the south.)

New York Youth Theatre (NYC) - 422 West 57th St. (Looking Glass Company)

New Yorker Theatre (NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

Next Stage (NYC) - 145 West 46th St. (6th & 7th)

Niblo's Gardens/Niblo’s Garden Theatre (NYC) - (housed the Sans Souci Theatre) – NE corner of Broadway and Prince Street (537 Broadway (near Spring Street) & Prince Sts) on site of Columbia Garden – established 1822 on what had been horse ranch & circus grounds called the Stadium after War of 1812 - opened 1827 as Sans Souci Theatre - rebuilt (1762 to 3,200 seats)- reopened in 1829 as Niblo’s Gardens - burned down in 1846 - rebuilt in 1849 as New Niblo’s Gardens, part of the Metropolitan Hotel - Black Crook 1866 - and rebuilt again after another fire in 1872 - demolished in 1895 and was New York's oldest playhouse - Kit The Arkansas Traveller 1871 (40), Evangeline or Belle of Acadia 1874 (16), Leah the Forsaken 1863 (35), Black Crook 1866 (475)(first Broadway show to run for more than a year) – 1872 burnt down again, rebuilt, but demolished 1895 – replaced by office bldg

92nd Street YMCA (NYC) - 1395 Lexington Ave - lectures, concerts

95th Street Market (NYC) - see Symphony Space

Nokia Theatre Times Square – open

Nora Bayes Theatre (NYC) - 1913 – 216 West 44th Street - see Weber and Fields Music Hall and 44th Street Theatre - rooftop - destroyed when New York Times enlarged printing plant 1945

Normandie Theatre – closed & demolished

Northsix - rock club – Williamsburg – reopening as Music Hall of Williamsburg

Norworth Theatre (NYC) - 125 West 48th St - 1918 – see Jack Norworth, Belmont Theatre - just east of the Playhouse - about 500 seats – opened with Odds and Ends of 1917 moved from the Bijou starring Jack Norworth (8 weeks) - renamed Belmont and in 1919 – Crops and Croppers; I.O.U.; became Theatre Parisien but by 1920 was once again the Belmont – Miss Lulu Bett 1921; You and I 1923; Americana (Helen Morgan) 1926 (224); Stepping Sisters 1930; - theatre closed in 1933-1937 – In the Bag 1937 – until 1937 when it became a cinema - demolished and replaced by commercial buildings in 1951

Nova Theatre - West 147th Street - built 1913 as the Bunny Theatre (named after vaudevillian John Bunny) - have shut their doors in the last few months (Apr 2003)

*Nuyorican Poets Café (NYC) - 236 East 3rd St.

NYC Restaurant - 75 Greenwich Avenue

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Oak Room (NYC) - (see Algonquin Hotel) - 59 West 44th St (between 5th and 6th) - 85 seat cabaret room - Andrea Marcovicci, Julie Wilson

*Oasis Theatre (NYC) - 230 East 9th St.

Obie Awards – presented by Village Voice since 1955-56 season

Odeon Theatre (NYC) - East 145th Street, near 7th Avenue - now Union Baptist Church

Odeon Theatre (NYC) - see Central Theatre

Off-Broadway – term applied to widely dispersed group of small theatres away from principal commercial theatre centre – producing groups including Circle in the Square, La Mama, Living Theatre, Negro Ensemble, Phoenix, N.Y. Shakespeare Festival for example

Off-Off Broadway Review (NYC)

Odgen, Bronx - 1922 - 1,370 seats - Church

*Ohio Theatre (NYC) - 66 Wooster St.(between Spring & Broome St) (Soho Think Tank - resident company) - founded 1979 - loft area was a former hat factory (120)

Old Bowery Theatre (NYC) – see Bowery Theatre

Old Lyceum Theatre (NYC) – see Lyceum

Old Stuyvesant Hall - also known as Academy Hall, Donaldson’s Opera Hous – Broadway opposite Bond St, above Bleecker

Olympia Cinemas – closed & demolished

Olympia Music Hall & Lyric Theatre (NYC) - 1895 – East side of Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets – built for Oscar Hammerstein in 1895 - 2 main auditoriums Music Hall (later known as New York Theatre) and Lyric and Roof Garden (Jardin de Paris 1907) - 2800 seats - North of Metropolitan Opera – Lyric opened with Excelsior Jr. 1895; In Gay Paree 1899; Santa Maria; War Bubbles; Man in the Moon 1899– Music Hall renamed New York Theatre and Lyric Theatre became Criterion in 1899; The Girl From Maxim’s 1899; Little Minister (Maude Adams); Zaza (Mrs. Leslie Carter); Other Girl (Lionel Barrymore); Dictator (John Barrymore); Miss Hook of Holland; Bachelor’s Baby; Iphigenie en Aulide (Isadora Duncan); Naughty Marietta 1910; 1912 theatre changed to Moulin Rouge - theatre closes 1914 – 1915 vaudeville and movies for awhile and by 1916 all movies - Happiness (Laurette Taylor and Lynn Fontanne) 1917; Three Wise Fools (316); Letter of the Law (Lionel Barrymore) 1920; Winsome Widow 1921 (Moulin Rouge – 5 months Leon Errol and Mae West); Quo Vadis; Ben Hur; Little Johnny Jones (George M. Cohan) - Lyric's name changed to Vitagraph in 1914 but back to Criterion in 1916 –New York Theatre (Marie Dressler); Happiness (Laurette Taylor) 1917 (136); Ziegfeld Follies of 1912 (11 weeks) - see Hammerstein's Music Hall – 1935 New York, Criterion and remains of Olympia was demolished in 1935; 2nd - Olympia Theatre (NYC) – see Criterion, Tony Pastor’s and New York Theatres - Broadway and 107th Street - opened 1914 - 1279 seats - closed December 2002 after 90 years in business - Razed, 2003

Olympia Roof Garden – see Jardin de Paris

Olympic Theatre (NYC) – see Mitchell’s and Laura Keene’s Varieties - 444 Broadway between Howard and Grand Streets (later 442 Broadway) - opened as a burlesque house 1937 – 1839 became Mitchell’s Olympic and flourished for over 10 years with burlesque and extravaganzas – 1850 closed and again in 1851 – burnt down 1854; 2nd Olympic Theatre – 622-4 Broadway, above Houston St – 1856 and became Laura Keene’s Varieties – 1863 reopened as Olympic – Rip Van Winkle 1864 (35), Humpty-Dumpty 1868 (483); Horizon 1871 (63), Glance at New York 1848 (75), – closed 1880 and was demolished – shops built on site; 3rd New Olympic Theatre – 585 Broadway – 1856 – became Buckley’s Olympic; 4th – Anthony Street Theatre was known as Olympic 1812 – remade from circus building on Anthony (now Worth) between Broadway & Church Sts – 1814 – became Pavilion – then Anthony Street Theatre – demolished – became Christ Episcopal Church; 5th – there was a circus known as Olympic Arena 1858; 6th – short-lived Olympic on 8th Avenue in 1860; 7th – Olympic Music-Hall at 600 Broadway on site of old Alhambra (1860-1861); and 8th – Wallack’s Theatre was renamed Olympic in 1862 – demolished 1880 - first burlesque - Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Minneapolis in early 1880s part of the New York circuit

O’Neals Times Square (NYC) – Broadway Scandals of 1928 1982

One Dream Theater (NYC) – 232 West Broadway (at North Moore Street)

Ones - Discotheque, 1972-1982

116th Street Theater - closed

175th Street Theatre (NYC), at Broadway, in Washington Heights - opened in 1930- now used as a church - was a Loews theatre

135th Street Library Theatre (NYC) - Anna Lucasta 1944 (Earle Hyman) - American Negro Theatre production - transferred to Broadway

One Sheridan Square (NYC) - l Sheridan Square - Greenwich Village U.S.A. 1960, Hostage 1961 (545)

*Ontological Theatre at St. Mark's Church (NYC) - 131 E. 10th St.

Onyx Club – 72 West 52nd Street – 1930s nightclub

Open Door – Greenwich Village club 1950s

Open Theatre - group established in 1963 to explore live theatre - Viet Rock 1966; Serpent 1968; Terminal 1969; Mutation Show 1971; Nightwalk 1973 - disbanded

Operettas - first few decades of 20th Century art form - Naughty Marietta; Desert Song; Rose-Marie; Merry Widow (1905); Student Prince; Enchantress; Song of Norway; Red Mill; Pirates of Penzance; Toyland, etc.

Opia Restaurant - 130 East 57th Street- cabaret room opens on

Ordway’s Aeolians – mid 19th Century touring minstrel ensemble

Oriental Theatre – burlesque house operated by Minsky

*Orpheum Theatre (NYC) - 126 Second Ave. (7th & St. Mark's Place) was premiere Yiddish theatre in the early 1900s (347)- originally called the Players Theatre - later changed to Orpheum - Billy Barty; original productions of Oleanna (William H. Macy) 1992 (513); Little Mary Sunshine 1959 (1143); Half Past Wednesday 1962; Your Own Thing 1968 (933), Me Nobody Knows 1970; Little Shop of Horrors 1982 (2209); Psycho Beach Party 1987 (344); Oleanna 1992 (513); oldest site of continuous entertainment in Manhattan from the 1880s - in 1950s became off-Broadway theatre - currently Stomp in its 7th year (as of Feb. 28/01)

Orpheum Theatre Chain – chain of vaudeville theatres founded late 19th Century – between Chicago and West Coast - later merged with B.F. Keith’s chain and after demise of vaudeville, became part of RKO

Other Stage (NYC) – see Public Theatre

Outer Critics Circle – formed 1950

Over There Theatre League – group formed during WWI to entertain troups overseas

Oxford, Bronx - 1927 - 1,950 seats - Gutted; Grade school

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Pace University (NYC) - see Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

Paddock Club – above Earl Carrol Theater – Seventh Street & Broadway – 1930s

Pagoda Theatre – closed & demolished

Palace of Variety - 125 West 42nd Street - vaudeville featuring Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

*Palace Theatre (NYC) - 1564 Broadway @ 47th (Nederlander-1,683 seats - Built as vaudeville house in 1913 – opened with variety acts, one was Ed Wynn – became a cinema – then became the mecca for aspiring artists - Troubles of 1920 with George Jessel 1920; film house in 1930s/1940s - 1965 renovated and now a major home to Broadway musicals - featured Ethel Barrymore,Harry Belafonte, Fanny Brice, Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen (1926); Betty Hutton, Georgie Jessel, Danny Kaye, Lily Langtry(with Alfred Lunt); Jerry Lewis; Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli; Will Rogers, Diana Ross, Eva Tanguary, Sophie Tucker (1924); had Monday matinees - Oklahoma (original opened 3/43 to 5/48 - 2,212), renovated to the legendary theatre where Judy Garland made her comeback; Sweet Charity (Gwen Verdon) 1966 (608), Henry Sweet Henry 1967; George M (Joel Grey) 1968 (427); Applause (Lauren Bacall) 1970 (896); Beatlemania; Cyrano (musical-Christopher Plummer) 1973; Bette Midler 1974 (19 performances) Tony Award 1974; Clams on the Half Shell (Bette Midler) 1975 (10 weeks); Lorelei (Carol Channing) 1974; Treemonisha 1975; Goodtime Charley 1975, Grand Tour 1979; revival Oklahoma (Laurence Guittard,Christine Andreas) 1979; Woman of the Year (Lauren Bacall,Harry Guardino) 1981 (770), Cage aux Folles (6/83 to 11/87 - 1,761 performances), First Breeze of Summer; Will Rogers Follies 1991 (983), Beauty and the Beast (transferred to Lunt Fontanne Nov. 1999) 1994; *Aida; Minnelli on Minnelli 1999; Legally Blonde 2008;

Palais de Danse – Broadway & 50th – 1910s nightspot

Palais Royal – see Latin Quarter

Palladium Theatre (NYC) - see Gallo Opera House, Studio 54; 2nd - Palladium Theatre (NYC) - West 14th St.- across from former Academy of Music - National Lampoon Show (Gilda Radner,John Belushi,Bill Murray)1975 (23 weeks)

Palais Royal – 48th & Broadway - 1920s – Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey

Palestine Theatre – 1926 - 1,219 seats - now Daycare Center

Palmer’s Theatre (NYC) – see Wallack’s Theatre; 2nd - Palmer's Theatre (NYC) - Margaret Fleming 1891 (1) ; 3rd - Palmer’s Union Square Theatre – built as adjunct to Union Square Hotel – SE side of Broadway at 4th Ave – opened as variety theatre 1870 – became Keith & Albee – 1921 became Acme – demolished 1936

Palmo’s Opera House (NYC) – 1844 – see Burton’s Chamber Street Theatre – formerly Arcade Baths – Chambers St between Broadway and Centre St – 1844 – became Burton’s Chamber St. Theatre – demolished 1876 – became American News Co.

Palsson's Supper Club (NYC) - Forbidden Broadway 1982 (2,332; 534 2nd Edition; 576 - 3rd Edition)

*Pantheon (NYC) – 303 West 42nd St – 2nd Pantheon – black theatre, corner of Bleecker and Mercer St 1821-22

Paradise (NYC) - see Loew's Paradise

Paradise Ballroom – Broadway & 49th – 1930s nightclub

Paradise Theatre (NYC) - 64 East 4th St. (Bowery & 2nd)

Paradise Theatre Bronx - 1929 - atmospheric - now halved into Paradise One and Two - now restored to a single auditorium - renovated and opened as a performing arts center. Also declared New York City landmark c. 2004 both exterior and interior - (reference: cinematreasures.org - one forum message includes a link to the landmark preservation report)

Paraiso Theatre – closed & demolished

Paramount (NYC) - Manhattan - Casa Loma Orchestra, Buddy Roger's Orchestra – demolished; 2nd -

Paramount Theatre (NYC) - 1930s - Times Square at 43rd Street - 1 block S of Astor Hotel – 3,644 seats - stage was graced regularly by the likes of Benny Goodman 1936, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin – showed films in 1940s - theatre was closed in 1964 - WWF is rebuilding the marquee and arch that once framed Times Square's Paramount Theater - five-story gateway at Broadway and 43rd Street - Paramount Building, was constructed from 1926 to 1927 with an auditorium at its base - 3,664 seats; theater closed in 1964 and was replaced by office floors while the marquee and arch disappeared - rebuilding is to be done from photographs - word "Paramount" will be illuminated above the arch in the script of the movie studio - crown will be strong enough to serve as an outdoor stage – Christmas Carol 1994 – the original marquee still hangs from a Times Square building; 3rd - Paramount Theatre - 1501 Broadway – 1926-1963; 4th - Paramount (Loew's Coliseum)- 1926- Gutted; 1964

Parisian Room – Broadway & 50th – 1910s nightspot

Paris Theatre – open

Park & 86th Street Cinemas – closed

Park Avenue Armory (NYC) - Tamara 1987 (1036)

Park Avenue Theatre – closed & demolished

Park Central Hotel – Cab Calloway – famous nightclub

Park Lane Theatre (NYC) - see 63rd St. Music Hall/Daly’s 63rd St. Music Hall - 1927 - 2,012 seats - Razed, 1950s

Park-Miller Theatre (NYC) - see Henry Miller's Theatre

Park Plaza, Bronx - 2,061 seats - Retail

Park Theatre (NYC) – 21-5 Park Row – first important theatre in U.S. – known as “Old Drury of America," built 1798 as New Theatre to replace the John Street Theatre - 24th Street West of Broadway (Park Row) – (same name used by old Majestic) – opened with As You Like It 1798; School For Scandal - New York's only playhouse for 25 years - in 1841 "London Assurance" ran for 3 weeks - the earlies "long run" - burned down 1820 – 1841 Park was used as circus but burned again 1848 and not rebuilt - Female Patriotism or Death of Joan d'Arc 1798, Hunchback; Andre 1798 (3); Fashion or Life in New York 1845 (20), Gladiator 1831, Lion of the West 1831, Metamora or the Last of the Wampanoags 1829, Hamlet 1832; Mighty Dollar 1875 (104), Our Boarding House 1877 (104), People's Lawyer 1842 (1), Midsummer Night's Dream 1826, She Would Be Soldier or The Plains of Chippewa 1819, Spy, Tale of the Neutral Ground 1822, Widow's Son or Which is the Traitor 1825, Colonel Sellers 1874(119), Brutus or Fall of Tarquin 1819, Bianca Visconti or the Heart Overtasked 1837 – destroyed by fire in 1820 and reopened in 1821 as The New Park Theatre (2600 seats) ; destroyed by fire 1848; New Park Theatre opened in 1874 and in 1876 the name was changed to Abbey’s New Park Theatre – burned down in 1882 – demolished; 2nd Park Theatre – first professional playhouse built in Brooklyn 1863 – 1876 became burlesque – burnt down 1908 and not rebuilt; 3rd Park – from 1889 to 1894 Herald Square Theatre was known as Park; 4th – as was the Majestic Theatre for some years from 1911; 5th - Park Theatre - Brooklyn - opened 1863

Parkway, Bronx - 1927 - 1,700 seats - Razed

Park West Theatre – closed & demolished

Paul Mazur Theatre at Asphalt Green (NYC) – 555 East 90th Street

Paul Recital Hall - 65th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues

Pavilion Theatre (NYC) – see Anthony Street Theatre and Chatham Theatre; 2nd - Pavilion Theatre - Brooklyn Heights; 3rd - Pavilion Theatre - Brooklyn Heights; 4th - Pavilion Theatre - Park Slope

*Pearl Theater Company (NYC) - 80 St. Mark's Place (between 1st & 2nd Aves)- old atmospheric theatre

Pelham, Bronx - 1928 - 1,300 seats - Retail (Gutted?)

Pelican Studio Theatre (NYC) - 750 8th Ave (New Perspectives resident company) (60) 6th Floor - building is made up of two townhouses joined together - was a speakeasy in 1920s, a jazz club and a movie theatre - hand and footprints of such stars as Ruby Keeler, Myrna Loy and Gloria Swanson

Penta Hotel – 33rd Street – 1930s nightspot

People’s Theatre – closed & demolished

People’s Vaudeville Company - 127 W 23rd St (near 8th Avenue)

Peppermint Lounge – twist started here in 1960s - opened 1961

Performance Group – 1967 – Dionysus in 69 (1968); Makbeth (1969)

Performance Space 122 (NYC) - Surface Transit 2000

Perry Street Theatre (NYC)- 31 Perry Street (West of 7th Avenue) - opened 1982 and closed 1995 - originally opened in 1975 - 1987 it became home to New York Theatre Workshop until 1992 when they moved to their East 4th Street home. While there, they presented the New York premiere of Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest. In 1993 the Barrow Group presented its work there until the theatre closed its doors in 1995. The Perry Street Theatre housed such works as the OBIE Award winning The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me and Dylan Thomas: Return Journey - reopened January, 2005 after 9 years - critically acclaimed In the Continuum ran at the house until recently - closing permanently July 23/06 - building to be converted into residences

Persian Room – Plaza Hotel 1960s – Shirley Bassey (early 1960s)

Peter Jay Sharp Theater - 416 West 42nd Street - 4th floor of the PHHQ (Playwrights Horizon)

*Peter Norton Space (NYC) - 555 West 42nd Street - see Signature Theatre Company at Peter Norton Space; Peter Norton Symphony Space (NYC) - see Symphony Space

*Phil Bosakowski Theatre (NYC) - 354 West 45th St (between 8th & 9th Aves)- built 1902 and has housed porn filmmakers - street level is Primary Stages (99 seats) and other theatre 1 flight up (75 seats)

Pete’s Candy Store - rock club

Philharmonic Hall (NYC) - now Alice Tully Hall - West 65th St. (Lincoln Centre) - Leonard Bernstein conducting at opening - Consecration of the House - see Avery Fisher Hall - New York Philharmonic is the oldest major symphony orchestra in the U.S., founded in 1842

Phoenix Theatre (NYC) - 1953 - a former movie house on East 12th Street and 2nd Avenue, formerly Yiddish Art Theatre – 1100 seats – opened as Phoenix in 1953, with Madam, Will You Walk (Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn)1953 Coriolanus (Robert Ryan); The Seagull (Montgomery Clift) 1954; The Chairs and The Lesson; Irene Worth and Eva LeGalliene in Mary Stuart; Who'll Save the Plowboy?; June Havoc starred in The Beaux Stratagem; and Uta Hagen in A Month in the Country; Golden Apple (Kaye Ballard) 1954 (173-moved to Alvin for 125 perf.); Littlest Revue 1956; Good Woman of Setzuan (Uta Hagen) 1956; Once Upon a Mattress (Carol Burnett) 1959 – in 1961 became Casino East – became burlesque house 1965 – renamed Eden 1969 – Oh Calcutta – 1977 became Entermedia with 1143 seats - It left its Lower East Side home in 1961, moving to a 300-seat theatre on East 74th Street- to 2nd Phoenix, also known as Phoenix 74th Street Theatre, originally the East 74th Street Theatre - smaller 400 seat theatre at 74th Street - Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (Barbara Harris and Austin Pendleton) 1962 (454) debut at the new space – renamed Eastside Playhouse 1968 - A few years later, the troupe joined forces with Ellis Rabb's Association of Producing Artists

Photoplay Theatre – closed

Phyllis Anderson Theatre (NYC) – Bei Mir Bistu Schoen 1961

Piano Bars (NYC)

Piano Store (NYC) - 158 Ludlow St. (S. of Stanton St.)

Pierre – famous nightclub

Pike’s Opera House (NYC) – NW corner of 8th Ave & 23 St – 1868 – became Grand Opera House, then RKO movie house – demolished 1960

Pix Theatre

Plantation Club – atop Winter Garden – Broadway & 50th – 1920s; Plantation Club 2 – West 126th Street – 1920s; Plantation Club 3 – relocated to original Cotton Club spot – 142nd St – 1930s

Players – most distinguished of American theatrical clubs – incorporated 1888 – patterned after London’s Garrick Club – Gramercy Park

*Players (NYC) - 115 MacDougal Street (between West 3rd St. & Minetta Lane) (248)- Parade 1960; Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1964; Lovers 1975; Psycho Beach Party (Charles Busch) 1987 (344); Ruthless 1992; Zombies From the Beyond 1995; Rubbers and Yanks; Trainspotting 1998 (17)

Players Equal Suffrage League – formed 1913 – group disbanded after women were enfranchised

Players Theatre - built 1907, addition was added in 1909 - is being renovated for music and theatrical performances to start Fall 2006 - many uses over the years, including a horse stable and garage, and became a theatre in the late 1950s - 248-seat venue at 115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane - Recently closed Off-Broadway theatres include the Promenade, Sullivan Street, Circle in the Square Downtown, the Houseman, the Fairbanks, Variety Arts and Perry Street - see Orpheum - World of Lenny Bruce 1974 (17 weeks); tenant is Café Wha?, the famed basement music club that was a hangout for Allen Ginsburg, Abbie Hoffman and Bob Dylan in the 1960s. Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Kool and the Gang, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor are some of the performers who began their careers at Café Wha?

*Playhouse 91 (NYC) - 316 East 91st St. (between 1st & 2nd Aves)- 299 seats - home of Jewish Repertory Company, which produced such shows as Kuni-Leml, A Majority of One, The Fishkin Touch, Home of the Brave and Abie's Island Rose there. It lost its residency in 2000 – Yours, Anne 1985; Radical Radio 1995; Quartermaine's Terms; Syringa Tree - nearly two-year run 2000; Menopause - the Musical (1,500+ performances) - theatre closed May 2006 - being sold

Playhouse on Broadway - 1732

Playhouse on Van Dam (NYC) - see Soho Playhouse - Bought and Paid For 1911 (431)

Playhouse Theatre/William Brady's Playhouse (NYC) - 137 West 48th Street – 1911 - 900 seats – see Plymouth - opened with Sauce for the Goose with Grace George 1911; Bought and Paid For (first success) 1911 (431), A Gentleman of Leisure (Douglas Fairbanks) 1911; Over Night (transfer from Hackett); Major Barbara 1915; Man Who Came Back; Man Who Came to Dinner 1917 (400); Show Off 1924 (571; Street Scene 1929 (601); Three Men on a Horse (Shirley Booth,Sam Levene) 1935; Duke of Darkness 1944 (3 weeks); Glass Menagerie 1945 (561); - ABC Studios 1949 to 1952 - Travelling Lady (Kim Stanley) 1954 (30); Simply Heavenly 1957; Make a Million (Sam Levene) 1958 (308); Miracle Worker (Anne Bancroft,Patty Duke) 1959 (719); Never Too Late 1963 (1000); Impossible Years 1965 (670) – site used for Mel Brook’s film The Producers (non-musical one) - demolished 1969 and now is McGraw-Hill building; 2nd Playhouse Theatre – off Broadway at 359 West 48th Street – originally Presbyterian Church – opened 1970 with 499 seat Playhouse Theatre on upper floor and 200 seat Bijou Theatre on lower - Don’t Bother I Can’t Cope 1972; Bistro Car on the CNR 1978; Cleavage 1982

Playwright’s Company – producing company founded 1938 – dissolved 1960

*Playwrights Horizon (NYC) - (Anne Wilder) 416 West 42nd St.(between 9th & 10th Aves) (145 seats)- 2nd Floor - opened orginally at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts - now houses 2 theatres, offices and rehearsal space - opening January 2003 - started in 1971 at Clark Center for the Performing Arts - home to Playwright's Horizon and to have a new home in Sept. 2002 - existing theatre to be torn down in summer of 2001 - development of new theatre on same site - 198 seat mainstage and a 96/128 studio space, as well as rehearsal rooms and costume shop under one roof - In Trousers 1979; March of the Falsettos 1981; Sister Mary Ignatius 1981 (947), Isn't It Romantic (Betty Comden) 1982 (733), Three Postcards 1986; Perfect Party 1986 (70); Driving Miss Daisy 1987 (1195); Lucky Stiff 1988; Falsettoland (Faith Prince) 1990 - transferred to Lucille Lortel; Once on This Island 1990 - transferred to the Booth Theatre (469) ; Assassins (Victor Garber,Debra Monk) 1991; Later Life (Carole Shelley) 1993;Avenue X 1994; Violet 1997; Baby Anger 1997; Uneasy Chair 1998; Betty's Summer Vacation 1999; James Joyce's The Dead (Christopher Walken,Blair Brown) 1999 - transferred to Belasco 1999; Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin 2000; Other People 2000; I Am My Own Wife (Doug Wright)2003 - transferred to Lyceum Theatre 2003 (Pulitzer Prize 2004) - has completed a major renovation of 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette - downtown Manhattan home of the Playwrights Horizons Theater School and site of rehearsal studios used by many New York City theatre artists and troupes - now Lower Manhattan's largest rehearsal space complex - third floor was the site of the major renovation - now includes eight rehearsal studios and a 68-seat theatre, formerly the Linhart Theater, now renamed The Robert Moss Theater, for Playwrights' founder - reopened Jan. 15/09

Playwright's Theatre (NYC) – see Provincetown Playhouse

Plaza - Corono

Plaza Hotel - Nearly a century ago, famed architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh built The Plaza in the same basic style as his other Central Park masterpiece, The Dakota (1884). It was 18 storeys high, and conceived along the lines of a late Renaissance French chateau; When it opened on Oct. 1, 1907, it had solid mahogany doors, marble lobbies, and 1,650 chandeliers - see Persian Room, Plaza 9 Music Hall - hotel closed its door April 30/05 - new Plaza would open in stages in the next few months. A handful of condominium owners have already moved in. The Palm Court and the ballrooms are expected to open in December, and the hotel and new retail stores in early 2008

Plaza 9 Music Hall (Plaza Hotel) (NYC) - Free Fall, Julius Monk's reviews - Dime a Dozen (1962) (728)

Plaza Theatre – closed & demolished

*Plymouth Theatre (NYC) - 236 West 45th St. - being renamed Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre May 9, 2005 - (Shubert-1,079 seats) Built in 1917-18 – opened with A Successful Calamity (moved from Booth); The Naked Truth 1917; Man Who Came Back 1916 (457); Wild Duck (Nazimova) 1918; Redemption (renamed Living Corpse, with John Barrymore) 1919; The Jest (Lionel and John Barrymore) 1919; You Can't Take It With You (original 837); Night Lodging (Edward G. Robinson, Pauline Lord) 1919 (14); Show Off 1924 (571); Street Scene 1929 (601); Road to Rome 1927 (392); Holiday 1928 (230); Old Soak 1922 (325); What Price Glory 1924 (435); Burlesque 1927 (372); Counsellor-at-Law 1931 (397); Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1932 (472); Lone Valley 1933 (3)Three Men on a Horse 1935 (835); Accent on Youth 1934 (229); Skin of Our Teeth (Tallulah Bankhead,Frederic March,Florence Eldridge) 1942 (359); Lovers and Friends (Katharine Cornell,Raymond Massey) 1943 (21 weeks); Glass Menagerie (Laurette Taylor) 1945 (561); Petrified Forest; Magnificent Yankee;Lute Song (Mary Martin,Yul Brynner) 1946 (18 weeks); Happy Time 1950 (614); Dial M For Murder 1952 (552); Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Henry Fonda,Lloyd Nolan,John Hodiak)-directed by Charles Laughton) 1954; 3 For Tonight (Harry Belafonte,Marge and Gower Champion) 1955 (11 weeks); Trouble in Tahiti/27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Maureen Stapleton) 1956 (6 weeks); The Marriage-Go-Round (Claudette Colbert,Charles Boyer,Julie Newmar) 1958; Miracle Worker (Anne Bancroft,Patty Duke) 1959 (719); Odd Couple (Walter Matthau,Tony Randall) 1965 (964); Irma La Douce (Elizabeth Seal)1960 (524); Gideon 1961 (236); Plaza Suite (Maureeen Stapleton,George C. Scott) 1968 (1097); Never Too Late 1962 (1007); Slow Dance on the Killing Ground (George Rose) 1964; Impossible Years 1965 (670); Gingerbread Lady (Maureen Stapleton) 1970 (193); Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope 1972 (1065); Equus (Anthony Hopkins,Peter Firth,Frances Sternhagen,Marian Seldes) 1974 (1209); Otherwise Engaged 1977; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1981;Slab Boys (Sean Penn,Kevin Bacon,Val Kilmer) 1983; Real Thing (Jeremy Irons,Glenn Close,Christine Baranski,Kenneth Welch) 1984;Burn This (John Malkovich) 1987 (437); Heidi Chronicles 1989 (621); Everything in the Garden, Irma La Douce, Otherwise Engaged, Runaways, Dancing at Lughnasa 1991 (421); Passion (Marin Mazzie,Donna Murphy) 1994; Delicate Balance (revival Rosemary Harris,George Grizzard,Elaine Stritch,Elizabeth Wilson,Mary Beth Hurt) 1996 (186); Jekyll and Hyde (Linda Eder) 1997; Thou Shalt Not 2001; Taboo (Boy George) 2003 (100)

Pocket Theatre(NYC) - America Hurrah (Bill Macy) 1966 (634); How to Steal an Election 1968

Pod’s & Jerry’s – located by Small’s & Connie’s in Harlem 1920s

Portfolio Studio (NYC) – Philemon 1975

Powerhouse Theatre (NYC) - see Vasser College

Pregones Theater Studio (NYC) – 700 Grand Concourse (at 153rd Street)

Present Company (NYC) – 445 West 45th Street

*Present Company Theatorium (NYC) - 198 Stanton St. - resident companies Fringe NYC; Fringe Central; Present Co.; Magic Circle; Childrens' Series; Monster Dog Series; Public Works Project

President Theatre (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre – 247 W 48th St – opened 1926 as Edyth Totten Theatre – Secret Sands 1926; 1919 renamed President – became movie theatre several times as Hindenberg, Caruso early 1930s – 1933 became Midget – No Mother to Guide Her (midget actors) – became Artef but company disbanded 1937 – other groups leased theatre – Ben Bagley's Shoestring Revue (Chita Rivera,Beatrice Arthur,Arte Johnson)1955 - taken over by Piscato’s Dramatic Workshop – 1956 became part of Mama Leone’s restaurant – 1988 entire bldg demolished (theatre and eatery)

*Primary Stages/Phil Bosakowski Theatre (NYC) - see 45th Street Theatre - 354 West 45th St. (8th & 9th)- built in 1902 (99 seats)(see Phil Bosakowski Theatre also)- new building 59 East 59th Street - Stendhal Syndrome (Isabella Rossellini,Richard Thomas) Feb 2004

Primi Della Classe Ristorante - 228 West 72nd Street, NYC), cabaret site of Trudi Mann's Wednesday and Sunday shows will be closing its doors on April 16/04

Princess Theatre (NYC) - 104 West 39th St - 1913 - 299 seats -(Broadway and 6th Avenue) - 299 seats - built by the Shuberts – (same named used by off-Broadway 50th Street Theatre in 1980s – opened with bill of 5 plays by Princess Players – The Switchboard, Fear, Fancy Free, Any Night and A Tragedy of the Future 1913 (115); Maternite 1915; Nobody Home (Jerome Kern & Guy Bolton) 1915 (5 mos); Very Good Eddie 1915 (341), Go To It 1916; Oh Boy 1917 (463); Oh Lady! Lady! 1918 (219); Oh, My Dear 1919; in 1920 Provincetown Players appeared in Emperor Jones; Six Characters in Search of an Author 1921 (17 weeks); White Desert (George Abbott) 1922; The Virgin Man 1927 (closed as immoral); theatre was renamed for actress Lucille La Verne 1928 – Sun Up 1928 - but next year back to Princess and to Assembly 1929 - early thirties film house called REO Cinema - International Ladies Garment Workers Union acquired and changed to Labor Stage in 1937 - Pins and Needles 1937 (1108 between Labor Stage and large Windsor Theatre on 48th Street) - in 1937 became a film house - 1944 reopened as Cinema Dante and became Theatre Workshop - 1947 became home of Experimental Theatre Group– from 1947 under various names including Princess again -1948 name changed to Little Met and in 1952 to Cinema Verdi –– was cinema until demolished in 1955; 2nd Princess Theatre - Fearless Frank 1980 (12); Pump Boys and Dinettes 1982 (573) – see Latin Quarter

Proctor’s Fifth Avenue (NYC) – see New Fifth Avenue, Temple Theatre - vaudeville house on 28th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue; 2nd - Proctor's 58th Street Theatre (NYC) - approx 3000 seats - first theatre in New York City to be wired for RCA sound; 3rd - Proctor's 23rd Street (NYC) – 141 W 23rd St – had been church – converted 1883 into a theatre named Temple Theatre - Men and Women 1890 (204), Country Fair 1889 (105), Lillian Russell (1905) – reverted to church – torn down 1888 – site became Proctor's 23rd St. (Grand) 1888 - 1,551 seats - Razed; Proctor's 125th - 1890 - 1,568 seats - Burnt, 1987

*Producers Club Theatre (NYC) - 358 West 44th St. (8th & 9th)- several smaller to medium size theatres

*Producers Club II (NYC)- 616 Ninth Avenue

*Promenade Theatre (NYC) - 2162 Broadway (North of 76th St.) (402)- opened in 1964 changed to its current name in 1969 - large off Broadway house – houses the McGinn Cazale Theatre upstairs - Promenade 1969; Godspell (transferred from Cherry Lane, before opening on Broadway in 1976) 1971; Preppies 1983; Hey,Ma…Kaye Ballard 1984; Hurlyburly (William Hurt,Harvey Keitel,Christopher Walken,Jerry Stiller,Cynthia Nixon,Sigourney Weaver,Judith Ivey) 1984 (45 perf. and transferred to Ethel Barrymore); Curse of the Starving Class 1985 (267); Lie of the Mind 1985 (185); Birds of Paradise 1987; Cocktail Hour (Nancy Marchand,Bruce Davison) 1988 (350); Love Letters 1989; Catch Me If I Fall 1990; Curse of the Starving Class (267 perf);Old Wicked Songs 1996 (210); Phantom of the Opera 1997; Power Plays (Elaine May,Alan Arkin) 1998; Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight 1999; currently houses Tryst, will close following the final performance of that play on June 11/06 - will be converted for another use;

Prospect Gardens – became Hollywood Club – 1600 Broadway at 49th Street – 1890s hotspot

Prospect Park Picnic House (NYC) – Prospect Park, Park Slope

Prospect, Bronx - 1,450 seats - Renovated; Closed; poss.

*Provincetown Playhouse/Provincetown Players (NYC) – group of American actors founded in 1916 – Wharf Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island, a converted fishing shack – moved to Playwrights Theatre in Greenwich Village opened in 1916 in a town house at 139 MacDougal St., with Bound East for Cardiff 1916, and after 2 seasons moved 1918 to number 133 MacDougal St., formerly a stables and bottling plant - – between Washington Square South and West 3rd St - launched the career of Eugene O'Neill – Hand of the Potter 1921 (21) - ceased operations in 1921 – reopened 1924 - demise after 1929 stock market crash – demolished 1930 after brief life as the Irish Theatre - closed until 1936 and reopened as WPA Federal Theatre Project - in 1941 four buildings (133-139) were rebuilt as apartments, offices and a new Provincetown Playhouse - the theatre is once again dark - God of Vengeance (Sam Jaffe) 1922; in 1924 a production of O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings because of an interracial kiss led to bomb threats against the theatre - Provincetown Playhouse gave up affiliation in 1929) -- Zoo Story/Krapp's Last Tape (William Daniels,George Maharis) 1960 (582), Sun Up 1923 (356), Moon of the Caribbees 1918, Long Voyage Home 1917, Hairy Ape 1922 (120), In Abraham's Bosom 1926 (277), All God's Chillun Got Wings 1924 (43), Krapp's Last Tape/Zoo Story 1960 (582), O Say Can You See 1962; Golden Screw 1967; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom 1985 (2024); Unfinished Song 1991; Elaine Stritch: At Liberty 2001 - AMNY reports that New York University has announced plans to demolish the 170-seat theatre, which is not landmarked (Apr 2008) - Provincetown Playhouse will not be demolished but will be restored and will be an active theater

*P.S. 122 (NYC) - 150 First Avenue (9th & 10th) - 160 seats - two theatres housed in former public school - 25th year 2004

P.S. 166 - 132 West 89th Street (Manhattan School of Arts and Technology) - as of June 10/03 being renamed Richard Rodgers School of Arts and Technology

*Public Theatre/Joseph Papp (NYC) - 425 Lafayette Street (between Astor Place & 4th St)- (celebrating 50th Anniversary 2005) - the brilliant Joseph Papp leased old Astor Library building in 1967 and it now houses a total of 6 performance spaces including Martinson Hall (193) 1971; Newman (299) 1970; Anspacher (277) opened 1967; Shiva (99) 1968; LuEsther (199) and Joe's Pub (150) – opened with Hair 1967 (1836 with transfer to Broadway’s Biltmore for extended run), Cities in Belzique 1969; No Place to be Somebody 1969 (250), Sticks and Bones 1971 (366)(121 off Broadway and 366 on Broadway), Creditors and The Stronger (Geraldine Page/Rip Torn), Fen, Prayer for My Daughter, Rebel Women,That Championship Season 1972 (844), Chorus Line 1975 - transferred to Shubert for long run; For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…1976; I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road 1978 (1165); Runaways 1978; FOB 1980; Human Comedy 1983 (transferred to Broadway); Marriage of Bette and Boo (Joan Allen,Mercedes Ruehl,Olympia Dukakis) 1985; Aunt Dan and Lemon (Linda Hunt) 1985 (191); Hamlet (Kevin Kline) 1986; Twilight: Los Angeles,1992 (1994); Wings 1993; Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk 1995 - transferred to Ambassador in 1996; Pericles 1998; Love's Fire 1998; Everybody's Ruby 1999; Ride Down Mount Morgan 1999; In the Blood 1999 (32); Elaine Stritch: At Liberty 2001 (transferred to Broadway) - modifications, which will primarily focus on the lobby and entryway of the building, including a new mezzanine that will overlook the current lobby area and increase the capacity from 250 to 690 theatregoers - redesign will feature glass enclosures around the staircases leading into the lobby and new signs created to help patrons locate the Public's individual theatres more easily

P.T. Barnum’s Museum – see Barnum's American Museum – corner Ann St & Broadway – joining Park Theatre, City Hall Park, City Hall and Astor House – originally Scudder’s Museum – 3,000 seats – 1865 burned down – became New York Herald’s offices

*Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre (NYC) - 304 West 47th St. (8th & 9th) (194 seats) - see 47th Street Theatre – now at 141 West 94th Street

*Pulse Theatre (NYC) - 432 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)

Punch & Judy Theatre (NYC) - 153 West 49th Street - 1914 – see Charles Hopkins - opened with The Marriage of Colombine 1914; Treasure Island 1915; Rollo’s Wild Oats 1920 (7 months); Makropulos Secret 1926 (294); Where’s Your Wife; Merchants of Venus; Devil in the Cheese (Bela Lugosi) 1926 - in 1926 became the Charles Hopkins Theatre – Devil in the Cheese (Bela Lugosi) 1926 - The Ivory Door (Frederic March,Henry Hull) (10 mos); Mrs. Moonlights 1930 (321) - and in 1934 changed to Westminster Cinema - 1935 became the World Theatre - 1982 became the Embassy 49th Theatre - demolished in 1987

Purdy's (New) National (NYC) - see National, and Chatham Theatre

Purple Onion (NYC) - intimate cabaret of 1970s

*Pyramid Club (NYC) - 101 Avenue A (6th & 7th)

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Quad Cinema - 34 W 13th St – 1971 to present

Quaigh (NYC) - Momma's Little Angels - demolished

Queens Theatre in the Park (NYC) - Flushing Meadows, Corona Park near Shea Stadium (Queens, NY) - renamed Main Stage Theatre and in 2002 will become the Claire Shulman Playhouse (464 seats) - originally designed for NY World's Fair in 1964 and then served as the mainstage for Playwrights Horizon in the late 1970s - plays,musicals,dance - to undergo renovation starting in 2003 – Prince and the Pauper 1997

*Quintero Theatre (NYC) - see Jose Quintero Theatre

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Radiant Center (NYC)- see Craig Theatre

Radio and TV Studios - see TV and Radio Studios

*Radio City Music Hall (NYC) - largest indoor theatre in the world at 1260 6th Avenue @ 50th Street - atmospheric type - built in 1931 to 1939 with Rockefeller Center, as the International Music Hall but changed before it opened in 1932 - by Donald Desky (6,200 seats)- opening production was not success – closed and reopened a month later as combined film and variety theatre - companion house RKO Roxy cinema - renovation in 1999 to restore to original Deco splendour - originally showed lst run film along with stage show featuring the Rockettes – Liberace 1986; Peter Allen; Riverdance - 1996; 1997; 1998; 2000-01

Radio Playhouse No 4 (NYC)- see Gallo Opera House

Radio Playhouse No 1 (NYC) - see Hammerstein's Theatre

Radium Club – Harlem – 1930s hotspot which was open all night

Rainbow Room/Rainbow and Stars (NYC) ( Rainbow and Stars opened 1989)- now closed (Rainbow Room - opened 1934) - atop Rockefeller Centre at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (between 49th and 50th Sts) - Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Anthony Newley, Karen Mason, Vivian Reed, Joe Williams, Ann Hampton Callaway, Amanda McBroom; Leading Men Don’t Dance 1997 - recession has reached the ritzy Rainbow Room, the fabled special-occasion spot that looks out over Rockefeller Center - owners plan to close the Italian-themed Rainbow Grill restaurant temporarily, while keeping the establishment's bar, banquet space and dinner-dancing going - has symbolized glamour since it opened in 1934, in the thick of the Great Depression. The Room is home many a theatre related gala, and several events have already been scheduled for the early months of 2009

Rainbow Theatre – closed

Ramrod Theatre – closed & demolished

Random Arts (NYC)

Ranelagh Gardens - open air concerts

*Rattlestick Theatre (NYC) - 224 Waverly Place (just west of 7th Avenue)- Crumple Zone 2000

*Raw Space (NYC) - 529 West 42nd St. (10th & 11th)- several theatres and rehearsal spaces

*Raymond J. Greenwald (NYC) - 307 West 26th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves)

Rebel - rock club – W 30th St – 325 person capacity – formerly Downtime

Recital Theatre (NYC) - see Daly’s 63rd St. Music Hall

Rector’s – 43/33th Street - Longacre Square, later became Times Square – 1880s

*Red Room Complex (NYC) - see Kraine, St. Marks and Horse Trade Theatres; New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama E.T.C. and a number of other theatre spaces including the Kraine Theatre and Red Room complex will soon see their Off-Off Broadway block become the East Fourth Street Cultural District; Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) plan to give six buildings to the arts organizations which currently reside in them. (East Fourth Street is nestled within the Cooper Square area - which lays between Bowery and First Avenue, bordered by 14th Street to the north and Delancey to the south.)

Reese & Weber – Broadway area hotspot 1920s

Regency Hotel (NYC) - see Feinsteins

Regency Theatre (NYC) - 1987 Broadway (67 & 68th)

Regent's Club - 317 East 53rd Street - new cabaret venue - closing August 15/04

Regent Theatre (NYC) - 116th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd in Harlem - built 1912 - 1845 seats - now First Corinthian Baptist Church

Regina Opera Company (NYC)

Rehearsal Club – founded 1913 to provide inexpensive lodgings for young actresses – closed 1980

Reisenweber’s- became O’Meara Gardens – 981 8th Avenue at Columbus Circle (57/58th Sts) 1908-1924

Rendezvous – St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem – 1930s nightclub

Renaissance Theatre – closed

Reno Sweeney's (NYC) - 126 West 13th Street - small intimate club in Village on West 13th Street (1972 to 1977) - famous Paradise Room featured the likes of Barbara Cook, Ellen Greene, Julie Budd, Peter Allen, Manhattan Transfer, Marcia Lewis, Maxene Andrews, Judy Kaye, Sybill Shepherd, Nell Carter - closed 1977

REO Cinema (NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center (NYC) - founded 1960 by Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan as co-directors - see Vivian Beaumont Theatre - see Lincoln Center

Republic Theatre (NYC) - opened as a burlesque house on 207 West 42nd Street - see also New Victory - West of 7th Avenue, adjoining the Victoria Theatre (1899) - see also Victory Theatre, Belasco Theatre and also Theatre Republic - built 1900 - changed to Belasco 1902 but reverted to Republic in 1910 as Belasco’s 2nd theatre, Stuyvesant was renamed Belasco - Woman 1911 (247), Good Little Devil (Mary Pickford,Lillian Gish) 1913 (131); Common Clay 1915 (316); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath 1917 (232); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath 1917 (232); Peter Ibbetson (John Barrymore,Lionel Barrymore,Constance Collier,Laura Hope Crews) 1917; Lawful Larceny 1922; Porgy 1927; Hit the Deck 1927 (352); in 1932 became home to Minsky's Burlesque shows - 1942 converted to movie theatre, the Victory - fell into decline - reopened in 1995 as New Victory

Revelation Theater - will inaugurate its new Off-Broadway theatre at the new 334 West 39th Street space - new theatre space features a classroom and rehearsal space and Revelation's home offices - will stage its first production at Theatre Four - own space in old garage at 334 W 39th Street (154 seats) - a few blocks from Times Square - 154 seats and a wide playing area similar to Signature Theatre Company's digs on W. 42nd Street - Temporary Help 2002

Rialto – name taken from famous district in Venice to denote New York’s theatre district in 1870s when principal theatres were located between Union Square and Madison Square

Rialto Theatre (NYC) – see Hammerstein’s Victoria - 1916-1935 – 42nd St & 7th Avenue – 2,300 seats - Razed demolished 1935 – new Rialto opened 1935 - Musical Chairs 1980; Blues in the Night (Leslie Uggams) 1982 – demolished 1999 for office bldg

*Riant Theatre (NYC) - 161 Hudson St., between Hubert and Laight Streets (120)

*Richard Rodgers (NYC) - 226 West 46th St. (Nederlander-1,368 seats) - Built as the 46th Street Theatre in 1924 – 1990 renamed the Richard Rodgers - Follow Thru 1929 (403), Good News 1927 (557), Farmer Takes a Wife 1934; Hellzapoppin 1938 (1404), DuBarry Was a Lady 1939 (408), Panama Hattie (Ethel Merman) 1940 (501), Dark of the Moon 1945 (318), Finian's Rainbow 1947 (725), Guys and Dolls 1950 (1200),Damn Yankees 1955 (1019), New Girl in Town 1957 (431), I Do I Do 1966 (560), Killing of Sister George 1966 (205); How To Succeed in Business 1961 (1417), 1776 (Howard DaSilva,William Daniels,Ken Howard,Betty Buckley) 1969 (1217), No No Nanette 1971 revival (861), Raisin 1973 (847), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1978 (1639), Chicago 1975 (898), Do You Turn Somersaults, Ritz 1975 (400), 1776 (original 1217), Working 1978; Nine(Raul Julia) 1982 (732), Fences (James Earl Jones) 1987 (526), Oh Kay (revival) 1990 (77); Lost in Yonkers (Mercedes Ruehl,Irene Worth,Kevin Spacey) 1991 (780), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Matthew Broderick) 1995; Chicago (Bebe Neuwirth,Ann Reinking,Joel Grey) 1996 – moved to Shubert; Steel Pier (Karen Ziemba,Gregory Harrison,Debra Monk) 1997 (76); Seussical - 2000 (198); Movin' Out 2002; Side Show (Alice Ripley,Emily Skinner) 1997 (91); Footloose 1998; Seussical 2000 (198); 45 Seconds From Broadway (Marian Seldes) 2001 (73); In the Heights 2008;

Richard Rodgers School of Art and Technology - 132 West 89th Street - renamed from P.S. 166 as of June 10/03

Richmond Hill Theatre (NYC) – SE corner of Varick and Charlton Street – converted from a mansion (Mortier House)1822 – opened as a summer resort – Road to Ruin 1831 – became Italian Opera House 1832 - later known as Tivoli Gardens and back to original name – demolished 1849

Rickett’s Circus - SW corner of Broadway and Exchange Alley; 2nd - Rickett’s Amphitheatre - Broadway & Exchange Alley – moved to Greenwich St 1797 – later renamed Greenwich St. Summer Theatre; 3rd - Rickett’s New Amphitheatre - 82-84 Greenwich St, back to Washington St.

Ridgewood Theatre - Thomas Lamb gem - one of oldest continuing operating theatres in U.S. - closed March 2008 after 92 years

Rio Bamba – 151 East 57th St. – 1940s nightspot

Rio Café – Harlem nightspot 1940s

Ritz (NYC) - 225 West 48th Street – Mary Stuart 1921; Robert E. Lee 1923 – success came in 1924 with Outward Bound and Old English; Power 1937; 1939 taken over for radio and tv - Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood 1986 (13) - reconditioned 1972 - Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare 1984; Doubles (John Cullum,Ron Leibman,Austin Pendleton,Tony Roberts) 1985 (277); Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood 1986 (13); Penn and Teller 1987; Late Night Comic 1987 - See Walter Kerr Theatre

Riverside Theatre – 1911 -1,858 seats - closed & demolished 1976

Riviera Theatre - 1918 – 3000 seats – closed and Razed, 1976

Rivoli Theatre (NYC) - Times Square – 1917-1992 – 1620 Broadway – 2,092 seats – 1955 Todd A-O – demolished – now Caroline’s Comedy Club

RKO Alhambra Theatre (NYC) - 7th Avenue (Powell Blvd) and 126th Street - 1905 - 1435 seats - now home of Department of Motor Vehicles; 2nd - RKO Castle Hill, Bronx - 1927 - 1,454 seats - Church;3rd - RKO Center Theatre (NYC) - see RKO Roxy Theatre; 4th - RKO Chester, Bronx - 1927 - 2,473 seats - Auto Shop, Part Gutted; 5th - RKO 81st Street Theatre – closed & demolished; 6th - RKO 59TH St. - 1922 - 1,551 seats - Razed, 1979 - 7th - RKO 86th Street Theatre – 3160 seats - closed & demolished 1965; 8th - RKO 58th St. 1926 - 3,163 seats -Atmospheric - Razed, 1968; 9th - RKO Fordham, Bronx - 1921 - 2,446 seats - Razed, 1987;10th - RKO Franklin, Bronx - 1921 - 2,951 seats - Razed, 1980;11th - RKO Hamilton Theatre – closed; 12th - RKO Jefferson Theatre – closed & demolished; 13th - RKO Keith's Theatre - Flushing, Queens - Atmospheric style - opened 1928 with vaudeville – closed - gutted 1987 to be demolished for condos; 14th - RKO Proctor's 58th Street - Atmospheric style - closed & demolished; 15th - RKO Proctor’s 125th Street – closed & demolished; 16th - RKO Roxy Theatre (NYC) - 6th Avenue & 49th Street – 1932-1956 - 6200 seats – opened with stage show and film “The Animal Kingdom”; 1933 name changed to RKO Center Theatre and showed movies until 1934 when RKO was dropped as it opened with The Great Waltz for nine months and then back to films - then White Horse Inn 1936 (nearly 7 mos); Virginia 1937 (60); The American Way 1939 (9 mos); Swingin’ the Dream (13); - in 1940 it started ice shows “It Happens on Ice,” featuring Sonja Henie - then space leased to NBC for television studio and in 1954 building was demolished for a 19 storey skyscraper; 17th - RKO 23rd Street Theatre – closed & demolished

Roane’s Place – 141st Street, Harlem 1930s nightspot

Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Theatre – see Walter Kerr Theatre

Robert Todd’s Tavern - itinerant entertainers

Rockwood Music Hall - rock club

Roof Garden Theatres (NYC) - see American Theatre, Olympia Theatre, Victoria Theatre, New Amsterdam Theatre, New Theatre and Weber & Fields' Music Hall

Room (NYC) – 27 West 20th Street

Roosevelt Grill – Harlem nightspot 1930s

Roosevelt Hotel – Madison & 54th – 1930s - Guy Lombardo

Roosevelt Little Theatre – closed & demolished

Roosevelt Theatre (NYC) – (Roosevelt Grill) 7th Avenue and 145th Street – famous nightclub - now a Pioneer Supermarket

Rose Room - (see Algonquin Hotel)

*Rose's Turn (NYC) - 55 Grove Street - intimate cabaret

Rose Theatre – see Frederick P. Rose Theatre - 5th Floor - Rose Building - West 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue

Rose Theatre – closed

Rosemary Theatre – closed

*Roundabout (NYC)--Stage Right- 1530 Broadway @ 45th St.- over 30 years (Criterion Center Stage Right)- 1974 -in a converted cinema - largest list of regular subscribers in New York - Come Back Little Sheba (Philip Bosco,Shirley Knight) 1984; Privates on Parade (Jim Dale,Donna Murphy) 1989 (64); Stand Up Tragedy 1990 (13); Price of Fame (Charles Grodin) 1990; Light Up the Sky 1990; Anna Christie (Natasha Richardson,Rip Torn,Liam Neeson,Anne Meara) 1993; Grand Night for Singing 1993; Company - revival 1995(68); 1776 (Tom Aldredge,Pat Hingle) 1997 (333); View From the Bridge 1997 (239); Impossible Marriage 1998 (Laura Pels); Side Man 1998 (transferred to John Golden with Christian Slater) 1998; Lion in Winter (Stockard Channing,Laurence Fishburne) 1999; Skull in Connemara 2001

Round Table - (see Algonquin Hotel)

Roxy Theatresee photo (NYC) - 135 West 50th Street at 7th Avenue - built 1927-1961 (6,214 seats) - atmospheric type - was world's largest and most elaborate movie palace ever built - Cinemascope 1953 - demolished 1960 - replaced in 1964 by a bland office tower

*Royale (NYC) - being renamed Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre 2005 - 242 West 45th (Shubert-1,078 seats) – opened 1927 with a musical comedy Piggy – changed to John Golden in 1934 and went back to Royale in 1940 - Diamond Lil (Mae West) 1928 (22 weeks); Both Your Houses 1933 Pulitzer Prize (120), - 1934 renamed John Golden – 1936-40 used for broadcasting – returned to old name in 1940 - Strange Fruit (Eugenia Rawls,Murray Hamilton,Ralph Meeker) 1945; Importance of Being Earnest (John Gielgud) 1947 (10 weeks); Affairs of State 1950 (610), New Faces 1952 (Eartha Kitt,Ronny Graham,Alice Ghostley,Carol Lawrence) (365); The Immoralist 1954 (James Dean, Louis Jordan,Geraldine Page for 3 months);Matchmaker 1955 (486), Tunnel of Love 1957 (417); La Plume de Ma Tante 1958 (835), Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer,Brian Bedford,Agnes Moorehead,Lee Richardson) 1962 (175); Subject Was Roses (Martin Sheen,Jack Albertson) 1964 (832); Hughie (Jason Robards Jr) 1964 (51); Cactus Flower (Lauren Bacall,Barry Nelson) 1965 (1234), Man in the Glass Booth 1968; Moonchildren 1972 (16), Grease (2/72 to 4/80 - 3,388 performances), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1982 (747), Human Comedy (Matthew Broderick,Rex Smith) 1984, Man in the Glass Booth, Roza; Song and Dance (Bernadette Peters) 1985 (474); Speed the Plow (Madonna,Joe Mantegna,Ron Silver) 1988 (278); Lend Me a Tenor (Victor Garber,Philip Bosco,Tovah Feldshuh); Conversations With My Father (Judd Hirsch) 1992; Skylight 1996 (116); Triumph of Love 1997; Art (Victor Garber,Alan Alda,Alfred Molina) 1998 (600); Copenhagen 2000

Royal Roost – Harlem nightspot 1940s

Royal Theatre – closed & demolished

Ruby Theatre – closed & demolished

*Rude Mechanicals (NYC)

Russian Tea Room (NYC) – West 57th Street – 1930s - a landmark for over 75 years – closed July 28, 2002

Rutger Theatre – closed & demolished

Ryan's Stage (NYC) - 128 Chambers Street

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St. Bart’s Playhouse (NYC) – 109 East 50th Street

*St. Clements Theatre (St. Clements Episcopal Church) (NYC) - 423 West 46th St. (9 & 10th) (151 seats), Hogan's Goat 1965 (607); Sexual Perversity in Chicago 1975; Juan Darien-a Carnival Mass 1988; Joy Luck Club 1999 (transferred to Theatre Four (80)

St. George's Theatre - glorious Staten Island vaudeville house - 1928 - reopened 2007 after restoration for shows and concerts

*St. James Theatre (NYC) - 246 West 44th St. (Jujamcyn- purchased from Shuberts in 1957 - renovated in 1958 - 1,623 seats) Opened as Erlanger in 1927 – Merry Malones 1927 - renamed St. James in 1932 – Walk a Little Faster (Beatrice Lillie) 1932 (15 weeks); Twelfth Night (Helen Hayes,Maurice Evans)1940 (129); Native Son 1941 (114), Oklahoma/Away We Go-original title (Alfred Drake,Celeste Holm) 1943 (2248), Where's Charley (Ray Bolger) 1948 (792), Don't Listen,Ladies (Constance Cummings,Denholm Elliott); King and I (Gertrude Lawrence,Doretta Morrow,Yul Brynner) 1951 (1246), Pajama Game 1954 (1063), L'il Abner (Tina Louise,Stubby Kaye,Peter Palmer,Edie Adams) 1956 (693), Flower Drum Song 1958 (600), refurbished 1958 - Becket (Laurence Olivier,Anthony Quinn) 1960 (193); Do Re Mi 1960; Subways Are For Sleeping 1961; Mr. President (Anita Gillette,Robert Ryan,Nanette Fabray) 1962 (265), Luther 1963; Hello Dolly (Carol Channing) 1964 (2844), Hello Dolly (Pearl Bailey,Cab Calloway) 1967; Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971 (627), My Fair Lady (revival)(Ian Richardson,Christine Andreas) 1976 (377)- (original opened 3/56 to 9/62 -2,717 performances), On the 20th Century (Kevin Kline,Madeleine Kahn,Imogene Coca) 1978 (453), Carmelina 1979; Barnum (Jim Dale) 1980(854), Pilobolus; My One and Only (Tommy Tune,Twiggy) 1983 (767), Jerry’s Girls 1985; Gypsy (Tyne Daly) 1989-90 (582)(production returned to the Marquis Theatre), Secret Garden 1991 (706), Secret Garden (Rebecca Luker) 1991 (706); The Who's Tommy 1993; A Funny Thing Happened….(Nathan Lane) 1996 (715); High Society (John McMartin) 1998 (144); Civil War 1999 (61); Filumena, Musical Jubilee, Music Is, Producers (Nathan Lane,Matthew Broderick,Gary Beach) 2001; Gypsy (Patti LuPone revival) 2008; 2nd St. James – New Fifth Avenue known for time as St. James during early 1870s

*St. John's Church (NYC) - 81 Christopher St.

*St. Luke's Church (NYC) - 308 West 46th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves)- Late Night Catechism 1996

*St. Mark's Church in the Bowery (NYC) - 131 East 10th St @ 2nd Avenue – Blacks

St. Mark’s Cinema – closed

*St. Mark's Playhouse (NYC) - Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (Moses Gunn) 1968 (NEC); Home (Negro Ensemble Company) 1979 (82); Blacks 1961 (1408); Cowboy and The Rock Garden 1964; Happy Ending/Day of Absence 1965 (504); Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (Negro Ensemble Company) 1968;

St. Moritz – 50 Central Park South – 1930s had a nightclub

St. Peter's Church (NYC)- 619 Lexington Avenue & 54th Street - see Theatre at St. Peter's Church - home of York Theatre Company (Living Room); St. Peter's Church (Theatre) (NYC) - 619 Lexington Ave @ 54th - York Theatre Company resident company - No Way to Treat a Lady 1996; St. Peter’s Lutheran Church (NYC) – 54th and Lexington Avenue – see St. Peter’s Church Theatre

St. Regis Roof (NYC) – (Maisonette) - hotel opened in 1904 at 2 East 55th St. - Mabel Mercer 1930s – famous nightclub

*Salon (NYC) - 49 Bleecker Street - an historic cast iron building (formerly a lumber yard) - home of The Culture Project

Salon (NYC) – 432 East 91st Street

Sam H. Harris Theatre (NYC) - see Candler and Harris (Candler) Theatre - 226 West 42nd Street – opened as cinema 1914 but as Candler Theatre was sometimes used for plays – 1916 renamed Cohan and Harris Theatre and present name in 1921 – Hamlet (John Barrymore) 1922 (101 performances) - Six-Cylinder Love 1921 (430); Nervous Wreck 1923 (279), Icebound 1923 (170), Last Mile 1930 (285) – became cinema again in 1932 – demolished

Sammy’s Nightclub – 267 Bowery

Sam. S. Shubert (NYC) – see Shubert Theatre

Sam's (formerly Charlies) (NYC) - 263 West 45th Street - restaurant and cabaret - popular with theatre professionals, closed for good on April 20, becoming the latest theatre district watering hole to be driven under by the soaring New York real estate market - Sam's is the fourth low-slung, old-time theatre mecca to shutter in the West 40s in the past year. JR's, on the south side of W. 46th Street near Eighth Avenue, ceased operations in July 2005. Its neighbor across the street, McHale's, ended a 50-year run in the same location in January of this year. And Barrymore's, Sam's next-door neighbor, served its last drink soon after

* Samuel Beckett Theatre (NYC) - 410 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)- may be demolished in 2000 to make room for modern complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre - (Biltmore Theatre renamed as of Sept 4/08) - 261-5 West 47th St. (Nederlander) - see Biltmore Theatre

Sanctuary Theatre (NYC) – Jericho-Jim Crow 1964

Sandi Shurin Theatre - 311 West 43rd Street - new home of Broken Watch Theatre Company

*Sanford Meisner Theatre (NYC) - 164 11th Ave (22nd & 23rd) Vortex Theatre Co. - 74 seats - new works by gay and lesbian writers (74); Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God 1997 (216);

San Francisco Minstrels/Music Hall (NYC) - Broadway & 29th St. (493 seats) – had been billiard room of Gilsey Bldg – opened 1875 with minstrel troupe – later known as Shubert Princess Theatre, for a time called Jonah Theatre – Brook, or Jolly Day at the Picnic 1879 – 1890s was Hermann’s Gaiety Theatre - 1907 converted into shops - demolished

Sans Souci Theatre (NYC) - see Niblo's Garden

Sarah Lawrence College Theatre (NYC)

Saratoga Club – Harlem – 1920s nightspot

Sardi's (NYC)

Savoy – “the Little” – West 35th Street – 1910s nightspot

Savoy – Plaza Café Lounge - 34th Street and Broadway – 1930s – famous nightclub

Savoy (NYC)- see Krause's Music Hall, Schley Music Hall - Servant in the House 1908 (80), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 1904 (150), Man of the Hour 1906 (479), Girl With Green Eyes 1902 (108), Faith Healer 1910 (13), Chorus Lady 1906 (315); 2nd - Savoy Theatre (NYC) - see Hudson Theatre

Savoy Ballroom (NYC) - popular Harlem nightspot – interracial drag costume balls

Schley Music Hall – 112 West 34th Street – see Savoy – 1900 – demolished 1952

Schoenfeld Theatre – see Plymouth Theatre

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYC) – Langston Hughes, American Negro Theatre – 515 Malcolm X Boulevard

Schuyler Theatre – closed

Second Avenue Theatre(NYC) – Golden Land 1985 (277)

Second Stage Theatre (NYC) - 307 West 43rd Street (@ 8th Avenue)- opened April 1999 - located in an old bank building - box office is placed in the old vault - Film Society (Nathan Lane) 1988 (31); Chesapeake 1999; Jar the Floor 1999; Saturday Night (Stephen Sondheim) 2000; Jitney 2000 - transferred to Union Square Theatre

Selwyn Theatre (NYC) - see American Airlines Theatre – 229 West 42nd St – 1918 – opened with Information, Please (Jane Cowl) 1918 (46); The Crowded Hours; Buddies 1919; Tickle Me 1920; The Circle 1921 (Mrs. Leslie Carter); Partners Again (Potash and Perlmutter) 1922; first success Mr. Battling Butler 1923; Helen of Troy, New York 1923 (6 mos); Charlot Revue (Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence,Jack Buchanan) 1925; Royal Family 1927 (196); This Year of Grace (Bea Lillie,Noel Coward) 1928; Wake Up and Dream (Cole Porter) 1929; Three’s a Crowd; became cinema early 1930s – Respectful Prostitute 1950; Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath; -Hairy Ape (Willem Dafoe) 1997 - Roundabout Theatre Co. has completed its historic restoration of the Selwyn Theater on 42nd Street. Second Stage Theater, the neighborhood’s newest theater recently opened at Eighth Avenue and 43rd Street

*78th St. Theatre Lab (NYC) - see Stand Upstairs Theatre - Man in the Flying Lawnchair 2000

79th Street Theatre - closed

72nd Street East Theatre - closed & demolished

77th Street Theatre - closed

Sex Fantasy Theatre - 8th Avenue @ 42nd St

Shakespeare and Company (NYC)

Shakespeare Hotel - corner of Nassau & Fulton Sts – favourite rendezvous for theatrical profession

Shakespeare Theatre(NYC) - see Jolson's 59th St. Theatre

Sheridan Square Playhouse (NYC) – see Circle Repertory - Leave It To Jane 1959 (928), View From the Bridge (Robert Duvall,Jon Voight) 1965(780); Love and Let Love 1968; Man With the Flower in His Mouth/License/Jar (Danny DeVito) 1969; Present Tense (Come Next Tuesday/Twas Brillig/So Please Be Kind)(Biff Maguire) 1972 (8)

Sherry’s – 300 Park Avenue @ 49th Street – 1900s nightspot

Show Boats – floating playhouses brough theatre to towns along the great rivers of the U.S. – 1815 group of actors went from Pittsburgh to Kentucky on the Allegheny – plays presented on board boats as early as 1817 – Floating Theatre (1831-Pittsburgh to New Orleans) – late 1830s and early 1840s ventures were tried on Erie Canal – 1845 New Yorkers and Brooklynites could enjoy the Great North River Opera House at foot of Spring Street – 2000 seats – Floating Circus Palace (1851); Will S. Hays (1869); French’s New Sensation (1878); Water Queen (1885-used in 1936 film Show Boat)

Show Shop Theatre (NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Shubert Alley – famous theatrical thoroughfare between 44th and 45th Streets

*Shubert/Sam S. Shubert Theatre (NYC) - 225 West 44th St. (1,521 seats) named for Sam S. Shubert who was killed in a train crash – opened 1913 with Hamlet; A Thousand Years Ago 1914 - Maytime 1917 (492), Copperhead 1918 (120), Vogues of 1924 (Fred Allen)(3 mos); Night in Venice (choreographed by Busby Berkeley) 1929 (22 weeks); Dodsworth (Walter Huston,Fay Bainter) 1934 (131); Idiot's Delight (Alred Lunt,Lynn Fontanne) 1936 (299), Babes in Arms 1937 (289); I Married an Angel (Dennis King,Vivienne Segal,Audrey Christie,Walter Slezak) 1938(42 weeks); Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn,Van Heflin,Shirley Booth,Joseph Cotten) 1939 (417), Hang On To Your Hat with Al Jolson 1940; Higher and Higher 1940; Louisiana Purchase 1940; By Jupiter 1942; Othello (Paul Robeson,Uta Hagen) 1943 (295); Bloomer Girl 1944 (654), Anne of the Thousand Days (Joyce Redman,Rex Harrison) 1948 (288), I Know,My Love (Alfred Lunt,Lynn Fontanne) 1949; Paint Your Wagon 1951; Can Can 1953 (892), Pipe Dream (Helen Trauble) 1955 (246); Bells Are Ringing (Judy Holliday,Sidney Chaplin) 1956 (924), Whoop Up 1958; Take Me Along (Jackie Gleason) 1959; Majority of One (Gertrude Berg) 1959 (556); Gay Life (Barbara Cook, Walter Chiari) 1961; Stop the World I Want to Get Off (Anthony Newley) 1962 (555); I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Barbra Streisand,Elliot Gould) 1962, Here’s Love 1963; Bajour (Chita Rivera) 1964; Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd 1965; Apple Tree (Barbara Harris,Alan Alda,Allan Arkin)1966; Promises Promises 1968 (1281), Golden Rainbow (Eydie Gorme,Steve Lawrence) 1968 (385); Crazy for You (822+ ); Evening With Richard Nixon (George S. Irving) 1972 (2 weeks); Little Night Music 1973 (601), Sondheim: A Musical Tribute 1973; Over Here 1974; A Chorus Line 1975 (10/75 to 4/90 - 6,137 performances) ran for 11 years, Evening of Music and Song, Tony Awards; Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story 1990 (225); Crazy For You 1992; Big 1996 (192);Gypsy (Bernadette Peters)2003 (347);Chicago 1996; Spamalot 2005;

Signature Centre - 480 W 42nd Street near 10th Ave - not-for-profit company committed to one playwright per season will move into the base of a 58-story (still-under-construction) high rise on 42nd Street, aiming for a 2011 residency - hotel and residential building will house the company, which will operate three theatres in what will be called The Signature Center (including a 199-seat flexible space, a 199-seat fixed space and a 299-seat fixed space). A café, bookstore, lobby, office and rehearsal space are all part of the plan - see Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre Company/Peter Norton Space (NYC) - 555 West 42nd St.(between 10th & 11th Aves) - (160 seats) - see Peter Norton Space - home of Signature Theatre Company - lease to expire

Silver Slipper – 1920s nightspot

Silver Star Playhouse – closed

68th Street Playhouse - closed

62nd & Broadway Theatre (NYC) - 1871 Broadway

63rd Street Music Hall (NYC) - 22 West 63rd Street - 1909 - 1024 seats - built for presentation of biblical movies and lectures - 1919 began showing movies for children - not successful - renamed Cort's 63rd Street, but changed back very shortly – Mixed Marriage 1921; Shuffle Along (Eubie Blake, Josephine Baker)1921 (504); Dolly Jordan; Liza (21 weeks); Keep Shuffling (Fats Waller) 1928; Yellow Jacket 1928; name changed 10 times in 30 years - became many different names during the 1930s alone - - Lady Windemere’s Fan 1932; Chalk Dust 1936; On the Rocks (George Bernard Shaw); Ghost for Sale 1941- then became Daly's 63rd Street - then became the Coburn - Recital, Park Lane, Gilmore's 63rd Street, the Experimental - by 1938 the theatre was once again Daly's 63rd Street - 1957 the theatre was demolished

Skirball Center - 850 seats - opened Oct 2003

Small's Paradise (NYC) - 135th Street and 7th Avenue - popular Harlem nightspot with beautiful showgirls and dancing waiters –1920s

Snapple Theater Center - 1627 Broadway at 50th Street - Perfect Crime 2005 - Snapple Theater Center will officially open as the refreshing home for two Off-Broadway shows: Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in New York City history with 7,764 performances to date, now playing in the 4th floor theater, and The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, beginning previews Friday, July 28/06. Together, the two theaters provide seating for up to 398 people

Snookie’s – 1950s nightspot

Society of American Dramatists and Composers – founded 1890

Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers – founded 1959

*Soho Playhouse (NYC) - 15 Vandam Street (198 seats) (between 6th & Varick) - Killer Joe (Scott Glenn,Amanda Plummer) 1998 - newly renovated and refurbished theatre reopens Oct/04

*Soho Repertory Company/Walkerspace (NYC) - 46 Walker St. (Between Church St. & Broadway)- one of N.Y. oldest non-profit theatres (100)

*Solo Arts Group (NYC) - 36 West 17th St., 5th Floor

Song of Singapore Theatre (NYC) – Song of Singapore 1991

Southpaw - rock club

South Street Theatre (NYC) – One Man Band 1985; People Who Could Fly 1989 (41)

Southwark Theatre (NYC) - Much Ado About Nothing 1789

Sparrow’s Chinese Pagoda - mid 1800s – Five Points (Park,Worth & Orange (Baxter later) Streets – nightclub, opium den, and theater – Chinese opera, acrobats (depicted in film Gangs of New York)

Spindeltop Cabaret - Frances Faye

Spirit of the Times - theatrical newspaper founded 1831

Spivy's Roof (NYC) - intimate cabaret - Paul Lynde (1951)

Splash Bar - (NYC)- 50 West 17th St - between 5th & 6th - dance club - Music Theatre Mondays program

Spotlight Club – 52nd Street – 1940s nightclub

Square East Theatre (NYC) – Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter Revisited 1965

Stadium Theatre – closed & demolished

Stadt Theatre (NYC) – see Bowery Theatre

Stage Door Canteen (NYC)- Broadway and 44th – 1940s – cabaret and dining room designed in WWII to entertain soldiers – originally basement of 44th Street Theatre - see Weber & Fields Music Hall

Stage I and II @ City Centre(NYC) - 131 West 55th St.

Stage 73 (NYC) - Best Foot Forward (Liza Minelli) 1963 (224); Tom Paine – demolished

Stage Women’s War Relief – founded during WWI – disbanded at end of war

Stair and Havlin – large chain of theatres extending from East Coast to Kansas City

Stanhope Park Hyatt - 995 Fifth Avenue - opened a new cabaret room late 2002

*Stand Upstairs Theatre (NYC)- 236 West 78th St. (78th St. Theatre Lab)

Standard Theatre (NYC) – West side of Broadway between 32nd & 33rd at Harold Square (1,126 seats) – opened as the Eagle in 1875 – renamed Standard 1879 – H.M.S. Pinafore (175 nights) - 1883 destroyed by fire – rebuilt 1884 and in 1896 renamed the Manhattan - Robin Hood 1891 (40) - demolished 1909 to make way for Gimbel’s Department Store

Stanley Theatre – closed & demolished

*Stardust (NYC) - 1650 Broadway @ 51st - located in basement of Ellen’s Stardust Diner, next door to the Winter Garden - has housed Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act 1998

Star Theatre (NYC) – NE corner of Broadway & 13th St (1,448 seats) – opened 1861 as Wallack’s – became the Star in 1882 - Shenandoah 1889 (250) demolished 1901

Starr Theatre - see Lincoln Centre, Alice Tully Hall

State Theatre (NYC) - Times Square – 1921-1987 – 1540 Broadway – demolished for office bldg & Virgin megastore – Loew’s State Theatre 4 in basement

Steinway Hall (NYC) - 14th Street on Union Square (1,256 seats) - demolished

Stella Adler Theatre (NYC) - 419 Lafayette St. (4th & Astor Place)

Steve McGraw's Supper Club (NYC) - renamed Triad Theatre - Forever Plaid 1990(over 1700 performances)

Stock Companies – organized groups of players who performed single play for limited run before proceeding to next work – 1840s – began to fade in 1890s

Stoddard Theatre – closed & demolished

Stonewall Bistro - 113 Seventh Avenue South – cabaret

Stoppani’s Arcade Baths - see Palmos’s Opera House

Storefront Blitz Theatre - 506 West 42nd St - Omlettes and Champagne 1981

*Stork Club (NYC) - 3 East 53rd Street - speakeasy with entertainment - literary and theatre crowd – 1930s

Storm Theatre (NYC)

Strand Music Hall – later became The Gaiety Theatre – 1860s; 2nd - Strand Theatre (NYC) – 47th & B’Way -Times Square - designed by Thomas Lamb 1914-1986 - 2,756 seats - O'Connor Sisters- demolished

*Studio (NYC) - 145 West 46th St. (6th & 7th) (American Globe; Next Stage; Turnip -all resident companies)

Studio B - rock club - Greenpoint

Studio Cinemas – closed & demolished

Studio Dante - 257 West 29th St - a converted storefront store of an old four-story brick building on fringe of Midtown's Fur District - 65-seat theater of surprising jewelbox-style luxury - Baptism by Fire 2004 opening production

*Studio 54 (NYC) - see New Yorker Theatre; *Studio 54/Upstairs at Studio 54 (NYC) - 254 West 54th St. – opened as Gallo Opera House 1927 with San Carlo Opera – La Boheme 1927 – theatre renamed New Yorker, then Casino de Paree by Billy Rose, then Federal Music Hall, although theatre continued to be known as the New Yorker – Swing Mikado – 1942 became studio – 1976 became Studio 54 – bought by Roundabout 1998, known as Kit Kat Club for run of Cabaret (revival opened at Kit Kat Klub (Henry Miller) moved here –closed Jan/04 - 2,378)- former discotheque of the 1970s - will become Roundabout's third house in Manhattan's theatre district, holding a long-term lease on the American Airlines Theatre - the Broadway house at 227 West 42nd Street formerly known as the Selwyn and currently renovating the space at 111 West 46th Street - known as the American Place Theatre - Assassins 2004 Tony Award Best Revival 2004

Studio No. 52 (NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

Studio L (NYC) - see Raw Space

Studio No. 62 (NYC) - see Biltmore Theatre

Studio Theatre - see also Where Eagles Dare Theatre - 347 West 36th Street - both theatres hold 40-50

Stuyvesant Theatre (NYC) - built 1906 and opened with Grand Army Man (David Belasco) and in 1910 renamed the Belasco Theatre

Sugar Cane Club – famous speakeasy at 2212 135th Street – 1920s

Sugar Ray’s – Harlem nightclub of the 1950s

Sullivan-Considine Circuit – vaudeville chain founded 1902

Sullivan, Harris and Woods – founded 1899 as producers of cheap, touring melodramas

Sullivan Street Lounge (NYC) - 189 Sullivan St. (Bleecker & Houston)

*Sullivan Street Playhouse (NYC) - 181 Sullivan St. (between Houston & Bleeker Sts)(153) 39 of its 40 year history has been running The Fantasticks (opened May 3, 1960 - closed January 2002)- to become 5 storey condo 2006

Summer Stock – first half of 19th Century – summer playhouses began to attract playgoers – ie. Chatham Garden had popular theatre in 1820s; Niblo’s Garden 1830s

Summer Theatre (NYC) - Greenwich Street

Sunset Theatre (NYC) - 125th Street - between Morningside and Manhattan Avenues - now L Gree Baptist Church

Sun Sing Theatre – closed & demolished

Sunshine Cinema – open

Supper Club (NYC) - 240 West 47th Street - inviting nightclub venue earlier known as the Edison Theatre - see also King Kong Room

Surf Reality (NYC) - 172 Allen St.,2nd Floor (used for comedy showcases for HBO) (50)

Surfside Theatre - Rockaway Beach, Queens

Susan Bloch Theatre (NYC) – Ten Percent Revue 1988

Susan Stein Shivz Theatre (NYC) - see Vasser College

Sutton Theatre – closed & demolished

Swan's Paradise (NYC) - Harlem – demolished

Swing Club – 35 West 52nd Street – 1930s nightclub

*Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse (NYC) - 695 Park Avenue (Hunter College)

*Symphony Space (NYC) - 2537 Broadway at 95th Street - built 1915 as 95th Street Market - Symphony Space for 22 years, also houses New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players - (800 seats) - plans to incorporate the Thalia Theatre (175 seats) and will reopen as the Peter Norton Symphony Space

Synchronicity Theatre Group (NYC) - 55 Mercer St. (between Broome & Grand Streets) - 7 resident theatre companies

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Tab Shows – name given to travelling shows, often cut-down versions of Broadway shows

TADA! Theater (NYC) – 120 West 28th Street

Taft Hotel – famous nightclub

Tammany Hall – 231 Broadway – mid 1800s – Five Points (Park,Worth & Orange (Baxter later) Streets - sometimes used for theatricals (depicted in film Gangs of New York); Tony Pastor moved his theatre operations here before opening on 14th Street (see Tony Pastor’s New Fourteenth Street Theatre

Tams-Witmark – leading source for rental of musicals – founded 1920s

Tank Theatre - Theatre Row - as of 2005 Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, Tank and John Houseman Theatre are being vacated in preparation for demolition

Tattersall’s Stables - razed 1850 – see Fellows Opera House

Tavaru - 192 Third Avenue (between 17th and 18th Streets) - new bar venue - becoming theatre venue as well

Ted Hook's Backstage (NYC) - see Backstage

Television Studio No 50 (NYC)- see Hammerstein's Theatre

Temple Theatre - see Proctor’s 23rd St Theatre – 7th Ave & W 23rd St

Tenement Theatre (NYC) - 97 Orchard St. 1870s was a saloon - opened in 1998

Tent Shows – early 19th Centrury offering mistrel shows, vaudeville, drama, comedy and musicals – as many as 400 tent companies touring by 1920

Ten-Twent’-Thirt’ – name given to popular priced theatres and touring companies in late 19th and early 20th Century

Terrace Theatre – closed & demolished

Texas Pavillion (NYC) – World’s Fair New York 1964 – To Broadway With Love 1964

Thalia Spanish Theatre (NYC)

Thalia Spanish Theatre (NYC) – 41-17 Greenpoint Avenue, Sunnyside

Thalia Theatre (NYC) – 1877 – see Bowery Theatre – see Symphony Space - Mlle Francoise Hotin was featured – see Bowery Theatre

Theatre - Beekman (Chapel) St – 1761 – damaged beyond repair; 2nd - Theatre - Cruger’s Wharf – 1758; 3rd - Theatre - John Street – 1767 – American Company of Comedians - abandoned 1799 – renamed Theatre Royal; 4th - Theatre - Nassau Street – Company of Comedians 1750; 5th - Theatre - Pearl Street and Maiden Lane – in Van Dam building – demolished and new theatre built 1753 – sole 1758 to Calvinist congregation – razed 1765 – another church erected on site; 6th - Theatre - 242 Water Street, between Beekman St & Peck Slip

Theatre at Noon (NYC) – What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? 1972

*Theatre at St. Clements (NYC) - see St. Clements Church

*Theatre at St. Peter's Church (NYC) - Citicorp Center (Lexington Ave & 54th St.)- 147 seats – Show Goes On 1997; Jello is Always Red 1998

Theatre at West Park Church (Frog and Peach Theatre Co) (NYC)- 165 West 86th St. (Amsterdam)

Theatre Buildings - Greek theatres were open air cut out of hillsides, usually facing the sea (5th Century B.C.); Roman theatres were built on the flat and amphitheatres were built for chariot races and gladiator combats, but the destruction of the Roman Empire saw collapse of organized theatre – it was reborn in liturgical dramas given in churches, and later open air either in front of churches, or the marketplace on raised platforms; Renaissance brought great change to theatre design, now indoors on temporary stages of halls or palaces through the 16th Century. Proscenium arch innovation 16th Century Italy and opera and ballet evolved horseshoe shaped auditoriums (Teatro Olympico at Vincenza 1585; Sabionetta 1589; Teatro Farnese at Parma 1619); Early French theatres were long and narrow (1540s); unroofed playhouses of Elizabethan England i.e. Theatre, Fortune, Rose and The Globe; Italian architects dominated building all over the continent during 17th Century; In London after the Restoration, theatres were modelled on European pattern like Dorset Garden (1671); Drury Lane (1674); Lincoln’s Inn Fields (1714); Covent Garden (1732)); Grand staircases, foyers and porticos began with opera houses of Germany and later Italy, to be taken up by legitimate theatres only in 19th Century; a boom in theatre building worldwide after 1800; Germany led world in theatre design up until World War I, but the boom in cinema architecture led to theatres like the Duchess (London 1929); Cambridge (1930); and Saville (1931); In United States Pasadena Playhouse (1925); Ziegfeld (New York 1927); and Radio City Music Hall (1932) – later experimental-like theatres-in-the-round and flexible staging e.g. Circle in the Square (New York 1960 and 1972); Arena Stage (Washington 1961); more dominant theme was the thrust stage like Stratford Festival (Ontario 1953, rebuilt 1957); Guthrie Theatre (1963) – 1970s developed the small workshop theatre i.e. National Theatre (London 1976)

Theatre Comique (NYC) - 514 Broadway (1,164 seats) – see Wood’s Minstrel Hall, Henry Wood’s Minstrel Hall - Mulligan Guard's Ball 1879 (138), Cordelia's Aspirations 1883 (176) – demolished; 2nd Theatre Comique – 728 Broadway – was Unitarian Church of the Messiahp – took over as theatre 1881 – bldg burned down 1884 – not rebuilt

Theatre Communications Group – founded 1961 to serve needs of regional theatre movement

Theatre De Lys (NYC) – 121 Christopher Street – formerly a cinema – opened 1952 – later changed to Lucille Lortel - Threepenny Opera 1954 (2611), Brecht on Brecht (Lotte Lenya,Viveca Linfors, Dane Clark,Anne Jackson) 1962 (424); Now is the Time for All Good Men 1967; Deer Park (Rip Torn,Marsha Mason) 1967 (128); Whispers on the Wind 1970; Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill 1972; Life in the Theatre (Ellis Rabb) 1977 (288); Buried Child 1978 (152), Cloud 9 1981 (971); Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me 1992 (175)

Theatre Development Fund – founded 1967 – see TKTS

Theatre East (NYC) – Forbidden Broadway 1990; Forbidden Broadway 1991½ 1991

Theatre 80 St. Marks (NYC) - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown 1967 (1597)

Theatre for a New Audience - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Feb. 3/05 unveiled architects Frank Gehry and Hugh Hardy's collaborative design for Theatre for a New Audience's new home in the emerging BAM Cultural District in Downtown Brooklyn - will be the first theatre to be constructed in the new district - 299-seat flexible theatre, a 50-seat rehearsal/performance space, a café, offices, and a roof garden

*Theatre for the New City (NYC) - 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th – 2 theatres (240 seats & 60 seats)

Theatre Four - 424 West 55th Street - Negro Ensemble Co - Zooman and the Sign 1981

Theatre Francais - known as French Theatre – N side of 14th St between 6th & 7th Aves – 1866 – later Haverly’s Minstrels – known as 14th Street Theatre – dark from 1911-26 – 1926 became Civic Repertory Theatre (Eva Le Gallienne) – demolished 1938

Theatre Hall of Fame - see Uris/George Gershwin Theatre

*Theatre 4(WPP) (NYC) - Two Can Play (Negro Ensemble Co) 1985; - Boys From Syracuse 1963 (500)- see also Actor's Playhouse - 424 West 55th St. (between 9th & 10th Aves) (254 seats) - Soldier's Play (NEC) 1981 (468), Boys in the Band 1968 (1000), Picnic on the Battlefield, Boys From Syracuse (500), All Night Strut 1979; Housewives’ Cantata 1980; Rhinoceros (revival) 1996; Perfect Crime - transferred to Duffy Theatre - demolished

Theatre Francaise (NYC) - 105 West 14th St - see Civic Repertory Theatre and 14th Street Theatre

Theatre Guild (NYC) – see Harrigan’s Theatre, Virginia Theatre - founded 1919 – used various venues i.e. Garrick before opening its own theatre, Guild Theatre in 1925 – but still used other theatres - Lucky One (Dennis King) 1922; Merchant of Glory 1925 (42); Game of Love and Death (Claude Rains,Otto Krueger,Henry Fonda) 1929 (6 weeks); Biography (Ina Claire,Laurence Olivier) 1932 (283);

Theatre in Mount Vernon Gardens

Theatre in Nassau Street

Theatre Library Association – founded 1937

Theatre Marquee (NYC) - La Ronde – She Shall Have Music 1959 – demolished

Theatre Masque (NYC) - 252 West 45th St – 1927 – changed to John Golden Theatre – Puppets of Passion

Theatre on 3 (NYC) – 10 West 18th Street

Theater Off Park (NYC) - Most Men Are 1995

Theatre of Young America (NYC)- see Majestic Theatre

Theatre of the Riverside Church (NYC) – 120th Street & Riverside Drive

Theatre on Cruger’s Wharf

Theatre on the Park

Theatre Parisien (NYC) - see Norworth Theatre

Theatre Republic (NYC) - 1900 - also Hammerstein's Theatre Republic - 207 West 42nd Street - (973 seats) – opened with Sag Harbor (Lionel Barrymore) 1900; In the Palace of the King 1900 (6 mos); see Republic - renamed Belasco in 1902 - Leah Kleschna 1904 (131); Warrens of Virginia (Cecil B. DeMille and Mary Pickford) 1907; 1910 back to Theatre Republic - A Good Little Devil (Mary Pickford) 1913; Common Clay (Jane Cowl) 1915 (316); Lilac Time; Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath; Sign on the Door; Abie's Irish Rose transferred here from Fulton Theatre in 1922 (2,327 performances); My Girl Friday; Billy Minsky took over as burlesque house 1931 to 1942 - Gentle People (Sam Jaffe,Franchot Tone) 1939 - changed to Victory Theatre and showed films - Kiss Them For Me (Judy Holliday,Richard Widmark,Paul Ford) 1945 (111); closed for restoration in early 1990s costing 11.4 million-reopened as New Victory in 1995

Theatre Row – group of small theatres on South side of 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues – established in mid-1970s - 410-412 West 42nd Street - 5 theatres under one roof - Lion (88 seats); Kirk (99 seats); Beckett (99 seats); Clurman (99 seats) and the Acorn (199 seats)- featuring groups like New Group, Labyrinth Theatre Company, and MCC Theatre which lost home on West 28th Street

*Theatre Row Theatre (NYC) - 424 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)-

Theatre-Studio (NYC) – 750 Eighth Avenue, 2nd Floor

*Theatre Ten Ten (NYC) - 1010 Park Avenue (84th & 85th)- in the basement of a church

*Theatre 3/Melting Pot (NYC) - 311 West 43rd St (between 8th & 9th Aves)- 96 seats

*Theatre 22 (NYC) - 54 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th)- 40 seats

Theatre Union – formed 1932 to mount plays of social significance – disbanded 1937

Theatre Unique (NYC) - 1908 – sideshows

Thirteenth Street Repertory Company (NYC) - see also Thirteenth Street Theatre

Thirteenth Street Theater (NYC)- 50 West 13th Street - bottom floor of a townhouse

*13th Street Repertory Company (NYC) - 50 West 13th St. (between 5th & 6th) - been performing Israel Horovitz's "Line" for 25 years

34th Sreet East Theatre - closed

39th Street Theatre (NYC) – 119 West 39th St – 1910 –Nazimova opened in Little Eyolf (6 weeks) - named Nazimova’s 39th Street - see Nazimova Theatre – Little Eyolf 1910 - became 39th Street in 1911 - Unchastened Woman 1915 (193), Is Zat So 1925 (618), Caught – Welded (Doris Keane,Jacob Ben-Ami) 1924 (3 weeks); Is Zat So 1925 (618) - demolished 1925

37 Arts Theatre - 450 West 37th Street - 399 seats - inaugural production 2004 - Immigrant

Three Deuces – 77 West 52nd St – 1930s nightclub

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts (NYC)

Times Square - Turns 100 Years Old April, 2004 - one hundred years ago, on April 8, 1904, New York City bid adieu to Longacre Square, which had no particular reputation, and said hello to Times Square, which soon developed quite a reputation indeed - The Times also, in 1904, inaugurated the tradition of an open-air welcoming of New Year's Eve - - the area eventually became best known for, of course, was theatre. The stage got a jump on the New York Times, as far laying a claim to the neighborhood's booming future. The Casino, the very first theatre in what would become the city's latest and most lasting theatre district, opened in 1882. It was followed by the Broadway, Empire, American, Abbey's, Olympia, Victoria, Republic, Circle, Majestic, Lyric, Lyceum, Hudson, and New Amsterdam-all of which opened before the name Times Square was coined - Republic, Lyceum, Hudson and New Amsterdam still stand. (Parts of the Lyric were incorporated into the Ford Center for the Performing Arts.) The Republic reborn as the New Victory, and New Amsterdam was reclaimed by Disney. Hudson hasn't been used as legitimate stage since 1968. Among Broadway theatres who knew both Longacre and Times Squares, only the Lyceum has seen constant use as a theatre - nostalgically named Longacre Theatre was built in 1913

Times Square Brewery - 210 West 42nd Street (between 7th & 8th) - 350 seats - new live music venue

Times Square Paramount (NYC)- built in 1926 by Rapp & Rapp (3,664 seats )- demolished

Times Square Theatre (NYC) - 219 W. 42nd St. built 1920 (1057 seats)- (500 seats) – opened with The Mirage 1920 (6 mos); Fata Morgana 1920 (6 months); Demi-Virgin (8mos); original productions Andre Charlot's Revue of 1921 (Jack Buchanan,Gertrude Lawrence,Beatrice Lillie) 1924; Dear Sir (Jerome Kern) 1924; Enemy 1925 (203); Mirage 1920; Demi-Virgin, Private Lives (256), Fool 1922 (360), Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924 (Gertrude Lawrence,Beatrice Lillie); Front Page 1928 (276), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1926 (199), Front Page 1928 (281); Strike Up The Band (Gershwin) 1930 (191), Private Lives (Noel Coward,Gertrude Lawrence,Laurence Olivier) 1931 (256); Forsaking All Others (Tallulah Bankhead) 1933 (13 weeks) - reopened 1934 as a movie house - 1940 a retail store was constructed on the stage area - was also entrance to Apollo Theatre - will be inhabited by Ecko Unlimited - theatre's 25-foot-high proscenium arch will be preserved, as will the domed ceiling and the ornamental plasterwork

Times Square Theatre and Entertainment Center (NYC) - new center for Off and Off-Off Broadway productions will open its doors on New Year's Day, 2002, after previews running throughout December - new complex will house rehearsal halls, screening rooms, an art gallery, gift shop, bar, restaurant as well as a late night club cabaret for events and private parties - located on 8th Ave. between 42nd and 43rd Streets – closed 1997

Times Theatre – closed & demolished

Tisch School of the Arts (NYC)

Tivoli Gardens Theatre (NYC) – see Richmond Hill Theatre

TKTS - ONE HALF PRICE THEATRE TICKETS (NYC) - - opened June 25, 1973 - celebrating 31 years June 25, 2004 - With construction of its new home about to begin, the TKTS discount ticket booth will move out of Duffy Square April 30/06 and into the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel — one block south — May 1/06 - grand reopening of new TKTS on Duffy Square as of Oct 16/08

Toho Cinema (NYC) - see Bijou Theatre

Tondeklayo’s Melody Room – 52nd Street – 1930s nightclub

Tony Awards – (Antoinette Perry Awards) – established by American Theatre Wing in 1947

Tony Pastor’s Music Hall – Union Square 1889-1890; 2nd - Tony Pastor's Opera House (NYC) – see Buckley’s Hall - 1865 – 585 Broadway and Prince Street - opened larger theatre in 1875 and in 1881 opened theatre on 14th Street - Parlor Match 1884 (16) – 2nd Tony Pastor’s New Fourteenth Street Theatre – moved his operation from Bowery to a theatre in Tammany Hall, near Union Square (see Tony Pastor’s Music Hall) – former Bryant’s Minstrel House in Tammany Society Bldg - 143 E 14th Street – 1881 presented first vaudeville programme – turned to burlesque as Olympic Theatre – closed 1928 - now site of the Con Edison building

Tony's (NYC) - small cabaret - Mabel Mercer

Toots Shor’s – 27-39 West 52nd Street – originally on West 51st Street

Top of the Gate (NYC) – Charles Pierce 1954; Tuscaloosa’s Calling Me…But I’m Not Going 1975; Nightclub Cantata 1977 (145); Rap Master Ronnie 1984; Beehive 1986 - see Village Gate

Touring Companies - after demise in Britain of local stock and repertory companies, touring groups appeared because of cheap rail travel, but today companies throughout the world travel mainly by road, but these companies are becoming rarer because of escalating costs

Tower (Carver), Bronx – 1914 -1,693 seats -Church

*Town Hall (NYC) - 123 West 43rd St. between 6th & 7th - now a National historic site in the heart of the theatre district - serving the community since 1921 – Canadian Portia White debut 1944; Young Tom Edison 1997

Town Theatre – closed & demolished

Toybox Theatre

Trafalgar (NYC) - see Nederlander, and Billy Rose - Who's Life Is It Anyway

Trafalgar Hotel – Gramercy Park – 1890s nightspot

Trans-Lux 85th Street Theatre – closed & demolished; 2nd - Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theatre – closed; 3rd - Trans-Lux Modern Theatre – closed & demolished; 4th - Trans-Lux Southstreet Seaport Cinema – closed; 5th - Trans-Lux Theatre - 58th & Madison - 1931 - 161 and 210 seat auditoriums; 6th - Trans-Lux 49th Street Theatre – closed & demolished; 7th - Trans-Lux 60th Street – closed & demolished

*Triad Theatre (NYC) - 158 West 72nd St. (Broadway & Columbus Circle)- 130 seats on 2nd floor of upper West Side Club -cabaret style space - see Steve McGraw's Supper Club – Big City Rhythm 1995; Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back 1996; Secrets Every Smart Traveller Should Know 1997; American Rhapsody 2001

Tribeca Performing Arts Center (NYC) – 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich & West Streets)

*Tribeca Playhouse (NYC) - 111 Reade St (just East of W. Broadway)

Tribune Theatre – closed

*Trilogy (NYC) - 341 West 44th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves) (2 blackbox theatres on 2nd floor of office building (38 seats/70 seats) - resident companies include Feed the Herd - (formed 1997); Freestyle Repertory Theatre; Neo Pack; Odyssey Theatre Ensemble; Tupu Kweli; Mouth Productions ) - 70 seats and 30 seats)- closing May 15/04 due to dispute with landlord

Triplet Hall - see Winter Garden – Broadway above Bleecker

Truck and Warehouse Theatre (NYC) - Steambath 1970 (127); House of Blue Leaves 1971 (337), Women Behind Bars – demolished

Tripler Hall (NYC) – see Winter Garden Theatre and New York Theatre – built for Jenny Lind’s debut 1850 but was not completed in time – known as Metropolitan Theatre – burned down 1854 – rebuilt – leased to Laura Keene’s Varieties; then Burton’s New Theatre, then became Winter Garden 1864 – all 3 Booth brothers in Julius Caesar – burned to ground 1867 – became Grand Central (now Broadway Central0 Hotel – West side of Broadway opposite Bond St

Trocadero Cabaret Theatre (NYC) – One Foot Out of the Door 1993

Trocadero Gloxinia Ballet Co – 1972 – Greenwich Village lofts and small theatres

Truck and Warehouse Theatre (NYC) – Steambath (Anthony Perkins,Hector Elizondo) 1970 (127); Billy Noname 1970; Faggot 1973

*T. Schreiber Studio (NYC) - 151 West 26th St. (7th)

Tudor Theatre – closed & demolished

Tuxedo, Bronx – 1927 -1,726 seats - Post office

TV and Radio Studios - many theatres were used for a time as radio and TV studios – Ambassador, Avon, Belasco, Bijou, Center, Century, Colonial, Concert, Cort, Ed Sullivan, George Abbott, Helen Hayes, Hudson, International, Longacre, Majestic, Maxine Elliott’s, Royale, Studio 54, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Walter Kerr, Ziegfeld

28th Street Theatre (NYC) - 120 West 28th St. (home to MCC Theatre Company)

*29th Street Rep (NYC) - 212 West 29th Street, between 7th & 8th - Off-Off Broadway company where "brutal theatre lives," has lost its Manhattan theatre space, August 2008

22 Steps Theatre (NYC) – see Latin Quarter - Dogg's Hamlet/Cahoot's Macbeth 1979 (direct from London's Collegiate Theatre)

Two Boots Pioneer Theatre – open

Two Guitars – Russian nightspot – 244 E 14th Street – late 1940s

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Ubangi Club – became Birdland – 1678 Broadway – 1930s nightspot; 2nd - Ubangi Club – 133rd Street – gay club with chorus of female impersonators – Gladys Bentley

Ubu Repertory Theater (NYC) – 15 West 28th Street

Underwood Theatre - not for profit theatre company - using various venues

Union Hall - rock club – Park Slope

*Union Square Theatre (NYC) - 100 East 17th St.(between Union Square & Irving Place) (499) – opened 1871 with Belles of the Kitchen - was once Tammany Hall – opened as variety hall – burnt down 1888 – rebuilt under various names – became burlesque house, then cinema – was one of the largest off-Broadway houses – demolished 1936 – rebuilt and was home of the Roundabout Theatre Company for 7 years – Eating Raoul 1992; Vita and Virginia (Eileen Atkins,Vanessa Redgrave) 1994 (29); London Suite (Carole Shelly,Kate Burton,Paxton Whitehead) 1995; Visiting Mr. Green (Eli Wallach-replaced by Hal Linden) 1998; Wit 1998 transferred from MCC Theatre (545); Laramie Project 2000 (126); Jitney 2000 - transferred here from Second Stage; Bat Boy 2001 (278)- play closed after effects of 9/11

Union Theatre (NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

United Artsists East – open

United Artists 64th & 2nd – open

United Booking Office – founded turn of century

United Scenic Artists of America – organized 1885 – New York local founded 1912 – in 1918 became affiliated with Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America (now Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades)

Upright Citizens Brigade - see Harmony Theatre

Upstairs at Jimmy's (NYC) - What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This 1973 (543)

Upstairs at Red - 356 West 44th Street - new cabaret space

*Upstairs at Rose's Turn (NYC) - see Rose's Turn

Upstairs at Studio 54 - see Studio 54

Upstairs at the Downstairs/Downstairs at the Upstairs (NYC) - intimate uptown club of 1950s and 1960s with revues by Julius Monk – Take Five 1957; Demi-Dozen 1958 (728); Pieces of Eight 1959; Dressed to the Nines 1960; One Over the Eight 1961; even Come Eleven 1961; Ben Bagley 1962; Just For Openers 1965; Below the Belt 1966; Mixed Doubles 1966; Bette Midler 1967; Freefall; (728)

Uptown Theatre – closed & demolished

*Urban Stages (NYC) - 259 West 30th Street – housed in a storefront – between 7th & 8th

Urban’s Ziegfeld (NYC)- 1927

Uris Theatre (NYC) - see Capitol Theatre - 51st Street – 1900 seats – Circle in the Square housed in basement – opened 1972 with Via Galactica (7) - see George Gershwin Theatre – Seesaw 1973; Gigi (Agnes Moorehead,Alfred Drake,Daniel Massey) 1973; King and I 1977 (696); Porgy and Bess 1979; Sweeney Todd (Angela Lansbury,Len Cariou) 1979 (558); Pirates of Penzance 1981 (772);

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Valencia Theatre (NYC) - opened in 1929 at Jamaica Avenue and Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens - used as a church - was a Loews theatre designed by John Eberson, 3500 seats

Valentine, Bronx – 1920 - 1,224 seats -Retail

Van Dam Theatre (NYC) – Sing Muse! 1961

Vanderbilt – Park Avenue and 34th Street – 1930s nightclub

Vanderbilt Theatre (NYC) - 148 West 48th Street - 1918 - 780 seats – opened with Oh, Look 1918; Irene 1919 (670), Anna Christie (Pauline Lord) 1921 (177); Girl Friend (Rodgers & Hart) 1926 (301); Peggy-Ann 1926 (333); Connecticut Yankee 1927 (418); Plutocrat 1930 (101); Mulatto 1935 (373); New Faces of 1936 (Van Johnson) - From 1939 NBC did network broadcasts as did ABC and it returned to stage shows in 1952 – Ruth Draper 1954 - demolished in 1954 and became a parking garage

*Variety Arts (NYC) - 110 - 3rd Avenue below 14th St. (498) - built 1911 as a nickelodeon - refurbished and renovated in 1991 as legitimate theatre - 498 seats – Return to the Forbidden Planet 1991; Annie Warbucks 1993; Zombie Prom 1996; Always...Patsy Cline 1997; Savion Glover/Downtown 1998; Dinner With Friends celebrated 1 year (Nov. 19, 2000); Adult Entertainment (Elaine May)(Danny Aiello,Jeannie Berlin) 2002 - possibly the oldest existing theatre in Manhattan - closing October 2004 - space is being sold and will no longer be a theatre - to be demolished 2005

Variety Theatre (NYC) (Variety Photoplays) - built 1900

Vasser College (NYC) - Powerhouse Theatre, Mainstage and Susan Stein Shivz Theatre - Mr. Goldwyn (Alan King) 2001;

Vaudeville Managers Protective Association – founded 1900

Vauxhall Garden Theatre (NYC)– opened 1806 on Fourth Avenue and Astor Place – replacing original which was on Greenwich Street – new Saloon Theatre opened 1838; 2nd Vauxhall - 1846 - Vauxhall Garden Theatre Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre - 161 West 22nd St. (7th Avenue) – demolished 1855

Venice Theatre (NYC) - see Jolson's 59th St. Theatre and Century Theatre

Versailles Club (NYC) – 151 East 50th St – 1930s nightclub

Victoria Theatre (NYC) - see Gaiety Theatre; 2nd - Victoria (NYC) - built 1899 - 1200 seats - 42nd Street and 7th Avenue – 1,060 seats - see Gaiety – built on site of Gilley Moore’s Market Stables (Longacre Square) – opening show A Reign of Error (Rogers brothers) 1899; Miss Print (Marie Dressler); Sweet Music; Office Boy; Lew Dockstader’s Minstrel Show - Paradise Roof Garden - became Hammersteins – 1904 turned to vaudeville – W.C.Fields, the Keatons, Charlie Chaplin, Houdini, Bert Williams, Four Cohans, Seven Little Foys, Evelyn Nesbitt in her red velvet swing and Flossie Crane - demolished 1935; 3rd Victoria Theatre (near Apollo in Harlem) - 1917 burlesque theatre - 2,400 seats - in danger of demolition, or hopefully revival - no shows in 10 years - housed last NY performance of Josephine Baker, fights of Cassius Clay

Victoria Five Theatre (NYC) - 310 West 125th St. (8th Avenue)

Victory (NYC) - see New Victory - 207 West 42nd St - see Republic - see Belasco - built 1899 (500 seats) originally 1,100 seats - located west of Hammerstein'as Victoria – built as legitimate house but showed films most of its life - Sag Harbor, Abie's irish Rose – became New Victory Theatre 1995

Vieux-Colombier Theatre (NYC) – see Garrick Theatre

Village Arena Theatre (NYC) – Touch 1970

Village Barn (NYC)- 8th Street - in basement of newly built 8th Street Playhouse, an innovative movie theatre for the time, circa 1927 (information on Village Gate/Top of the Gate and Village Barn supplied by Scott C. Parker NYC - the space where the Village Barn was is now the Electric Lady Recording Studios. Founded by Jimi Hendrix - movie theater upstairs is now a video store

Village East Cinemas – open

Village Gate/Top of the Gate (NYC) – see also Top of the Gate and Village Theatre - 158 Bleeker and Thompson Streets - Nina Simone 1961; Bob Dylan 1963; Byrds 1966; MacBird (Stacy Keach,Rue McClanahan) 1967 (386); Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Elly Stone) 1968 (1847), National Lampoon's Lemmings (Chevy Chase,John Belushi)+ 1973; Let My People Come 1974 (1327)(moved after 2 years at Village Gate to Morosco Theatre); Tuscaloosa's Calling Me But I'm Not Going 1975 (Top); Lovesong 1976; Tony Williams 1976; Scrambled Feet 1979 (831), One Mo' Time 1979 (1372); Lies and Legends: Musical Stories of Harry Chapin 1985; Mayor 1985; Beehive 1986 (600); Rap Master Ronnie 1984; Lies and Legends: Musical Stories of Harry Chapin 1985; Mayor 1985; Beehive 1986 (600); Mama's Boys, 2 by 5; Prom Queens Unchained 1991; Nell Carter - now a drug store

Village Gate (NYC) - a new endeavour opened a few doors from the original and being used as a night club

Village Light Opera Group (NYC)

Village Theatre - 158 Bleecker Street - originally The Village Gate - now completely remodelled - Love,Janis 2002 (713)

Village Vanguard (NYC) - 178 8th Avenue South, Greenwich Village - jazz cabaret - Judy Holliday, Eartha Kitt, Lenny Bruce, Nina Simone, Woody Guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, Harry Belafonte, Betty Comden and Adolph Green – 1940s

*Vineyard Theater/Dimson (NYC) - 108 East 15th St.@ Union Square East(120)- housed in a modern apartment/office tower – Clues to a Life 1982; Goblin Market 1985; Hannah….39 1990; Bed and Sofa 1996; How I Learned to Drive (Mary-Louise Parker,David Morse) - transferred to Century - Pulitizer Prize 1997; Dying Gaul 1998; Avenue Q 2003 - transferred to Broadway

Vinnies (NYC) - 147 Waverly Place

*Virginia (NYC) - being renamed August Wilson Theatre as of oct 17/05 - (see also Guild, ANTA, August Wilson) - 245 West 52nd St. (Jujamcyn-1,264 seats) - Home of the Theatre Guild - built in 1925 as the Guild Theatre – Caesar and Cleopatra 1925; 1943 became radio studios - then was extensively renovated in 1950 and became the Anta – Tower Beyond Tragedy 1950 - in 1981 became The Virginia after daughter of the founder - On Your Toes 1983 (505), Carrie (Betty Buckley) 1988; City of Angels (James Naughton) 1989 (878), Jelly's Last Jam (Gregory Hines,Savion Glover) 1992(569), Smokey Joe’s Café 1995; A Man For All Seasons, Wild Party (Mandy Patinkin,Toni Collette,Eartha Kitt) 2000, Best Man (Charles Durning,Spalding Gray,Chris Noth,Elizabeth Ashley,Christine Ebersole) 2000 (121); King Hedley II (Brian Stokes Mitchell,Leslie Uggams) 2001; Little Shop of Horrors (Hunter Foster,Kerry Butler,Rob Bartlett) 2003

Vitagraph Theatre (NYC) - see Olympia

*Vital (Theatre on Three) (NYC) – 432 West 42nd Street – 3rdfloor (39 seats)- new home at the McGinn Cazale Theatre above Promenade as of November 2004

*Vivian Beaumont Theatre (NYC) - 150 West 65th St. @ Broadway (see Lincoln Centre) (1,080 seats) - built 1965 in Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts – opened with Danton’s Death 1965 - houses two theatres, the Vivian Beaumont and the Mitzi E. Newhouse (299 seats)-originally called the Forum (opened 1966) until 1973 - in 1996 both theatres underwent 8 million dollar renovation - several dark seasons - reopened in 1986 - Boom Boom Room (Madeleine Kahn,Charles Durning,Robert Loggia) 1973 (37); Black Picture Show 1975 (41); Steamers 1976, Threepenny Opera (Raul Julia) 1976 (307), Cherry Orchard 1977,Floating Light Bulb 1981); Anything Goes (Patti LuPone) 1987 (804), Six Degrees of Separation (Stockard Channing) 1990 (485), Au Pair Man, My Favorite Year 1992; Carousel (Audra McDonald) 1994; Parade (Brent Carver) 1998 (85); Marie Christine (Audra McDonald) 1999 (44); Contact (Karen Ziemba) 2000 transferred from Newhouse; Matters of the Heart 2000 (Patti LuPone);QED (Alan Alda) 2001; Light in the Piazza - 2005;

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Wakefield, Bronx – 1927 – 1330 seats - church

Waldorf Astoria (NYC) – (Starlight Roof, Empire Room) - 301 Park Avenue - built 1929 - Guy Lombardo New Year's Eves – famous nightclub

Waldorf Theatre (NYC) - 116 West 50th St at 6th Ave - 1926 - 1048 seats – opened with Sure Thing 1926 (37); Take the Air (204), revival of That's Gratitude 1932 (204); Whistling in the Dark (122) – 1933 became a movie house - 1941 became retail space and was demolished in the late 1960s for Rockefeller Center's Exxon Building

Walker Street Theatre (NYC) - 46 Walker St. (Church & Broadway)

Walker Theatre - 6401 18th Avenue, Brooklyn - 1927 - 2276 seats - closed - now retail stores

Wallack’s Lyceum Theatre (NYC) - see Star Theatre - 485 Broadway & Broome - opened as Brougham's Lyceum 1850 and opened 1852 with present name - 1861 became Broadway Music Hall, then Olympic and later Broadway Theatre - demolished 1869; 2nd - Wallack's Theatre (NYC) – Broadway and 30th Street - SW corner – 1882 – (name also used by Lew M. Fields Theatre (1924-1940) – School for Scandal 1882 - became Palmer 1888 – reverted to Wallack’s 1896 – Sapho 1900 (29 - reopened for 55 more performances) - closed 1915 – see also Lyceum Broadway - demolished; 2nd Wallack’s Theatre - was at 254 West 42nd Street – 1924 – originally opened as Lew Fields - Crisis 1902; It Happened in Nordland 1904 – 1906 became Hackett – 1911 Harris and Frazee respectively – became cinema 1931 – 1997 demolished ; 3rd Wallack’s Theatre – Star Theatre was known as Wallack’s from 1861 to 1882 – demolished 1901; 4th Wallack’s Theatre - Broadway & 13th Sts (922 seats) – built on Astor family property - Poor of New York 1857 (42); New Wallack’s Theatre opened in 1861 - Rosedale or Rifle Ball 1863 (125), Shaughraun 1874 (143); name changed to Star Theatre in 1881; New Park Theatre opened in 1882 - Fortune Teller 1898 (40), Fritz, Disraeli (George Arliss) 1911 (280); Our Cousin German 1928 (63), Squaw Man 1905 (222), Sultan of Sulu 1902 (192), Time The Place and the Girl 1907 (32), County Chairman 1903 (222), Alias Jimmy Valentine 1910 (155) – see also Palmer’s Theatre, Germania, Star - demolished

*Walter Kerr (NYC) - 219 West 48th St. (Jujamcyn-945 seats) Opened in 1921 as the Ritz – Drinkwater’s Mary Stuart 1921; 1920s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Ina Claire); Madame Pierre; Love with Love (Lynn Fontanne); Outward Bound (Alfred Lunt, Leslie Howard); Old English (George Arliss); A Kiss in a Taxi (Claudette Colbert); Young Blood (Helen Hayes); A Weak Woman (Frank Morgan,Estelle Winwood); Excess Baggage (Miriam Hopkins); Courage; Broken Dishes (Donald Meek,Bette Davis) 1929; In the 1930s Ruth Draper; Double Door; The Wind and the Rain (Mildred Natwick); Petticoat Fever; Correspondent Unknown; As You Like It; Time and the Conways (Jessica Tandy,Dame Sybil Thorndike); Outward Bound 1939; leased to CBS as studio – ret’d to legit with New Faces of 1943 (Alice Pearce); Tobacco Road (moved from Forrest); reconditioned in 1972 and for a time was Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Theatre – vacant 1965-69 – then became porno theatre – renovated 1971 - Soon (Richard Gere); Dance of Death (Rip Torn,Viveca Linfors); Children Children (Gwen Verdon) 1972; restored and renamed in 1990 for the renowned drama critic Walter Kerr - Piano Lesson 1990 (320); Angels in America: Millennium Aproaches (Ron Leibman) 1993; Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika 1993 (216); Patti LuPone on Broadway 1995 (46); Love,Valor,Compassion 1995; Forever Tango 1997; Beauty Queen of Leenane 1998 (374); Weir 1999 (276); Moon for the Misbegotten(Cherry Jones,Gabriel Byrne,Ray Dotrice)2000; Waiting in the Wings; Seven Guitars; Flying Karamazov Brothers; Dancing in the End Zone; Penn and Teller; I Hate Hamlet; Two Trains Running; Present Laughter; Proof (Mary Louise Parker) 2000 (917); Take Me Out (Denis O’Hare) 2003 (356); Grey Gardens (after Playwrights Horizon) 2006; A Catered Affair 2008;

Walter Reed Theatre(NYC) - West 65th Street, plaza level, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues

Ward, Bronx - 1,831 seats - Retail; Vacant

Warner Hollywood (NYC) - 51st Street and Broadway - 1,600 seats opened as a cinema in 1930 but became the Mark Hellinger Theatre (see); 2nd - Warner’s Beacon - see Beacon; 3rd - Warner’s Beacon - see Beacon

Washington Hall - see Charley White’s Opera House – Broadway below Houston St

Washington Square Church (NYC) - Tony and Tina's Wedding 1988 (over 2000 performances)

Washington Square Players (NYC) – 1914 – used various venues – 1916 moved to Comedy Theatre – disbanded 1918

Washington Square Theatre (NYC) – 40 West 4th Street – 1964 – After the Fall 1964; Incident at Vichy (Hal Holbrook,David Wayne) 1964; Man of La Mancha 1965 – demolished 1968

Washington Theatre – closed

*Waterloo Bridge Theatre (NYC) - 203 West 38th St. (7th)

Waverley Theatre (NYC) - 720 Broadway (opposite New York Hotel); 2nd - Waverley Theatre - 7th Avenue & above Bank St - Rocky Horror Show most weekends in its hayday - now closed - reopening June 2005

Way Off Broadway Theatre School (NYC)- 95 Christopher Street

Weber and Fields Music Hall (NYC) - 29th Street - opened 1895 – next to Daly’s Theatre – main entrance diverted to Broadway when Weber & Fields leased – Weber & Fields’ Broadway Music Hall – later became Weber’s Theatre – closed 1904 - 1912 showed motion pictures – razed 1917 & office bldg erected; 2nd - Weber and Fields' Music Hall (NYC) - 216 West 44th St – 1902 – formerly the Imperial Theatre - 1463 seats – opened 1912 with double bill of Roly-Poly and Without the Law with Weber and Fields 1912 – Geisha 1913 when name changed to 44th Street Theatre when comedy team broke up – Katrinka 1915 (7 mos); Big Boy (Al Jolson); Song of the Flame; A Night in Spain; Five O’Clock Girl; Animal Crackers 1928 (Marx brothers) (6 mos); Johnny Johnson 1936 (68), Four Saints in Three Acts 1934; Rosalinda 1942 (521); My Golden Girl; Our Nell (Gershwin); Certin; The Wonder Bar (Al Jolson); - roof theatre Lew Fields' 44th Street Roof Garden - the house changed names 9 times in 24 years i.e. Nora Bayes Theatre - basement housed a café known as the Little Club, and later became the legendary Stage Door Canteen - Lillian Russell, Fay Templeton, David Warfield, DeWolf Hopper, Weber & Fields - see also Nora Bayes Theatre, 44th Street Theatre - - house changed names 9 times in 24 years - theatre was razed in 1945 and the Times building constructed on site; Weber’s Theatre – see Weber and Fields Music Hall - closed & demolished

Webster Hall - rock club East Village – 1,400 capacity

Weill Recital Hall (NYC) – Widow’s Waltz 1992

Westbank-Laurie Beechman (NYC)

*Westbeth Theatre Centre (NYC) - 151 Bank Street – 2 theatres – Song Floating 1994

West End Theatre – closed

Westminster Cinema (NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre, Charles Hopkins Theatre

Westminster Theatre – see Punch and Judy’s

* Westside Arts (NYC) - 234 West 44th St - (upstairs 299 seats; downstairs 250 seats)- built 1889 as German Baptist church - became a theatre in 1970s - renovated in 1991 with two theatres - Ashayna Maidel (501), Extremeties, Mystery of Irma Vep, Sea Horse, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Pump Boys and Dinettes 1981, I Can’t Keep Running in Place 1981; Pump Boys and Dinettes 1981; Charlotte Sweet 1982; Tallulah 1983, Penn and Teller 1985 (666), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune 1987 (533); A Shayna Maidel 1987 (501); And the World Goes Round 1991; Vagina Monologues 1999

*Westside Theatre (NYC) - 407 West 43rd St (between 9th & 10th Aves)- Sea Horse (Conchata Ferrell) 1974 (4 months); Piano Bar 1978; And The World Goes Round 1991; Balancing Act 1992; Spic-O Rama (John Leguizamo)1992 (80); Cryptogram (Ed Begley) 1995; I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change 1996 (12 years as of Aug 1/08);

Weylin – 40 East 54th @Madison – 1930s nightclub

Wharf Theatre (NYC) – see Cruger’s Wharf Theatre

Where Eagles Dare Theatre - 347 West 36th St - both theatres hold 40-50

William Brady's Playhouse (NYC) - see Playhouse Theatre

William Street Theatre (NYC) – 1790

Willis (Casino), Bronx – 1923 - 2,166 seats – Retail

Windsor, Bronx – 1920 -1,600 seats - Nightclub

Windsor Theatre (NYC)- see 48th Street Theatre - Maud of Arran; Cradle Will Rock 1938 (108) – demolished

*Wings Theatre Company (NYC) - 154 Christopher Street (74)(between Greenwich & Washington St)- in basement of an arts center

Winter Garden (NYC) – see Triplet Hall - opened 1859 located in the remodeled Triplet Hall – Julius Caesar (Booth Brothers) 1864; Hamlet (Edwin Booth) 1864 (100); Octoroon 1859 (48) – burned down; 2nd Winter Garden - Winter Garden Theatre (NYC) - 1634 Broadway @ 51st St. (Shubert-1,482 seats) - a former cattle barn, opened on March 20, 1911, with La Belle Paree, starring Al Jolson - Jolson would star in many Winter Garden shows - (1600 seats)East side of Broadway - East Lynne 1863 (20) - – 1911 became a cinema for year, then theatre home to many "Passing Shows" annually from 1912 to 1924;Queen of the Movies (Valli Valli) 1914 (13 weeks); Robinson Crusoe Jr (Al Jolson)1916 (139); Kissing Time 1919 (430); Artists and Models 1925; Tell Me More 1925; Great Temptations (Jack Benny,Billy Van) 1926 (6 months); cinema again in mid 20s to 1933 - Ziegfeld Follies of 1934; At Home Abroad 1935; Ziegfeld Follies of 1936; You Never Know 1938; Sons o' Fun 1941 (742), Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 (Milton Berle) (553), Mexican Hayride 1944; showed films in 1940s - Mike Todd's Peep Show 1950; I Make a Wish 1951; Top Banana (Phil Silvers) 1951; Wonderful Town 1953 (559), Peter Pan (Mary Martin) 1954 (149); Shangri-La 1956; West Side Story (Larry Kert,Carol Lawrence) 1957 (732), Juno 1959; Saratoga 1959; Unsinkable Molly Brown (Tammy Grimes) 1960 (532), All American (Ray Bolger,Anita Gillette) 1962 (86); Sophie 1963; Funny Girl (Barbra Streisand)1964 (1348), Mame (Angela Lansbury) 1966 (1508), Jimmy 1969; Purlie; Peter Pan; Follies (Alexis Smith,Gene Nelson,Dorothy Collins,John McMartin,Yvonne DeCarlo) 1971 (522), Gypsy - revival-Angela Lansbury 1974 (120); Pacific Overtures 1976 (193); Fiddler on the Roof (revival Zero Mostel) 1976; Beatlemania 1977 (920), Forty Second Street 1980; Cats (Betty Buckley,Hector Jaime Mercado,Ken Page) (opened 10/82 - 7485) , 42nd Street (8/80 to 1/89 - 3,485 performances); renovated 2001 - Mamma Mia 2001 - 2002 became Cadillac Winter Garden; 3rd – Metropolitan Theatre in 1858 renamed Winter Garden until burnt down in 1867; 4th - Winter Garden- see Tripler Hall - Battery Park City on the Hudson River - home to Arts and Events program and free programmes - Mary Cleere Haran, Liz Callaway 2003

Winthrop Ames Theatre (NYC) – 45th Street between Broadway and 8th - see Little Theatre – changed to Winthrop Ames in 1964

WNET - Lincoln Center and WNET.org jointly announced the new street-level, glass-walled production facility and television studio that will open at the corner of Broadway - new production facility on the Lincoln Center campus in the spring of 2009 at 66th Street in the newly expanded building housing Alice Tully Hall and The Juilliard School

Women’s Project Theatre and Productions (NYC) - 424 West 55th Street

Wonderland Theatre

Wood’s Minstrel Hall – 514 Broadway – see Wood’s Theatre Hall, Theatre Comique – Broadway below Spring St; 2nd - Wood’s Theatre/Hall (NYC) – 514 Broadway – between Spring and Broome Streets – 1865 - see Daly’s Theatre, Theatre Comique - 1869 renovated for 30,000 and opened with Ixion, ex-king of Thessaly or The Man at the Wheel – minstrel, burlesque – 1884 demolished by fire

Wood's Museum (NYC) - Davy Crockett, or Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead 1873 (12), Across the Continent 1871 (42)

Workshop Theater’s Jewel Box - 312 W. 36th St, 4th Floor

Works Production

World’s Fair Fountain Lake Amphitheatre - built 1939

World’s Fair Music Hall - built 1939 - 2500 seats

World Financial Center Winter Garden - 220 Vesey St

World Theatre (NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre

World Trade Center - see also Ground Zero - The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) announced Oct. 12/04 the selection of eminent architect Frank Gehry and Partners as architect for the performing arts complex on the World Trade Center site - The firms will immediately begin the schematic design process with the cultural institutions and the LMDC on the two buildings that will include dance, theatre, museum, and fine arts facilities. The resident performing arts group in the facility, as previously announced, will be The Joyce Theater (devoted to dance) and the Off-Broadway Signature Theatre Company - the downtown homes for the troupes will be called the Joyce Theater International Dance Center and the Signature Theatre Center

Worldwide Plaza Theatres (NYC) (see also Dodger Stages) - 50th and 51st Street between 8th and 9th Avenues - scheduled for 2003 - plans to create five Off-Broadway theatres in the underground space that once held the Worldwide Plaza cinemas - former Loews Cineplex Odeon Theater space is located underground at Worldwide Plaza, an office-retail complex with a popular outdoor promenade. Dodger is planning two 499-seat theatres, two 400 seat theatres and a fifth with 299-seats. - Dodger Stage Holding has announced details of its theater complex at 340 W. 50th St. - the space at Worldwide Plaza will be shaped into five Off Broadway venues to be completed by fall 2004.

*Worth Street Theatre (NYC) - 33 Worth St. (West Broadway)- Small Craft Warnings 1999

WOW Café (NYC) - 59 E. 4th St. (Women's One World Café) - only women's alternative theatre

WPA Federal Theatre (NYC) – see Federal Theatre

*WPA Theater (NYC) - 519 West 23rd St. (128); Steel Magnolias 1987 - opened and transferred to Lucille Lortel for 817 performances; Weird Romance 1992; New York Rock 1994; Songs for a New World 1995

WPP (NYC) - see Theatre 4

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Xenon (NYC) - see Henry Miller's Theatre

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Yacht Club – 150 West 52nd Street – 1920s nightclub

Yeah Man – 138th Street & 7th Avenue – 1920s nightclub

Ye Olde Tripple Inn - 263 West 54th Street (NYC) has been reinstated - this was one of NY's longest running showcases and remains one of the only variety formats, singers/comics - venue has served as training space for Rita Rudder, Angel Salarzar, Nathan lane, Freddy Prinze, Jeff McBride, Vanessa Vickers and many others

Yiddish Art Players (NYC) - see Jolson's 59th St. Theatre

Yiddish Art Theatre (NYC) - founded 1918 at Irving Place Theatre – moved to new theatre built for it on 2nd Avenue – survived until 1950see Phoenix Theatre; 2nd - Yiddish Arts Theatre - see George Abbott Theatre

Yiddish Theatre - thrived in New York City from the 1880s until shortly after World War II mostly on Second Avenue from Houston Street to 14th Street, a strip which once featured dozens of theatres, the powerful Hebrew Actors Union, the Cafe Royal, a mecca of Yiddish theatre royalty

York Playhouse (NYC) - Garden District 1958; American Dream 1961 (370); Young Abe Lincoln 1961; Colette Collage 1983

Yorke (Park), Bronx – 1923 - 1,260 seats -Retail

*York Theatre (NYC) (Theatre at St. Peter’s)(York Theatre Company) – 619 Lexington Ave (147 seats) – Garden District 1958; Jello is Always Red 1998; Taking a Chance on Love 2000; Roadside (Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt) 2001 - performance space in St. Peter's Church, Lexington at 54th Street (Living Room)

Yumins – Broadway and 52nd Street – 1930s nightclub

YWCA of Brooklyn (NYC) – 30 Third Avenue (at Atlantic Avenue)

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Zanzibar Café – 49th & Broadway – 1940s – Cab Calloway, Berry Brothers

Zenon - late 1970s dance club – competitor to Studio 54

Ziegfeld Theatre (NYC) - Northwest corner of 6th Avenue and 54th Steet - 1927 – opened with Rio Rita 1927 (494); Show Boat (Helen Morgan,Charles Winninger) 1927 (575); Smiles; Bittersweet 1929; Show Girl; Ziegfeld Follies (final instalment - Helen Morgan) 1931 (164); Hot Cha; – 1932 became a cinema after Ziegfeld's death until bought by Billy Rose and reopened – restored and reopened in 1944 – Seven Lively Arts; Red Mill 1945 (531), Brigadoon 1947 (581), Magdalena 1948; Rape of Lucretia (Kitty Carlisle,Giorgio Tozzi) 1949; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1949 (740); Brigadoon; Kismet 1953 (583), Porgy and Bess - revival 1952 – Foxy; 1955 to 1963 leased to NBC for 7 years - Perry Como Show – returned to theatre in 1963- Foxy (Bert Lahr) 1964; Anya 1965 - demolished in 1966 and now houses the Burlington building and behind it Loew's built a new theatre, aptly named 2nd - The Ziegfeld, just west of the original site 1969 to present – 141 W 54th St

*Zipper Theatre (NYC) - 336 West 37th Street - formerly Belt Theatre - 240 seats - closed Jan 2009 both theatre and tavernTony winner Alan Cumming has joined forces with Nick Philippou and Audrey Rosenberg to form a new theatre company, The Art Party - Jean Genet's Elle;Margaret Cho's The Sensuous Woman; Here Lies Jenny, starring Bebe Neuwirth; Elle, starring Alan Cumming; Lypsinka in The Passion of the Crawford; BETTY in BETTY Rules; Addicted, and Henry Rollins' Caught in the Zipper. Comedians who have appeared on The Zipper stage include Sarah Silverman in Jesus is Magic, Joy Behar, Rosie O'Donnell, Barry Humphries, Judy Gold, Lewis Black, Mario Cantone and Murray Hill. Past music acts include Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program, Nellie McKay, Martha Plimpton and Lucy Wainwright Roche, Our Lady J, Justin Bond, The Last Town Chorus, Jay Brannan, Antony and the Johnsons, Scott Matthew, Marshall Crenshaw, Old Spring Pike, GrooveLily, Ute Lemper, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Sherie Rene Scott, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Euan Morton and Michael Cerveris, as well as the Scissor Sisters, who filmed their controversial Filthy/Gorgeous music video at The Zipper (directed by John Cameron Mitchell)

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