The New Century Theatre was a Broadway theater in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, at 205–207 West 58th Street and 926–932 Seventh Avenue. Opened on October 6, 1921, as Jolson's 59th Street Theatre, the theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp on the site of the Central Park Riding Academy. It was built for the Shubert brothers, who named the house after Al Jolson. In 1920, the Shuberts announced plans to convert the Central Park Riding Academy into a theater, hiring Krapp to renovate the old structure. The Shuberts went bankrupt in 1931 and sold off Jolson's 59th Street Theatre, in part because of the venue's remoteness from Times Square. The venue was then leased as a f…
Shakespeare Theatre
Names this building has traded under. A production filed against one
of them is filed against this record.
By decade2 productions across 2 decades
1920s1
1930s1
Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a
partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap
in the record.
Since 1985, the mission of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., has been to present classic theater in an accessible, skillful, imaginative, American style that honors the playwrights' language and intentions while viewing their plays through a twenty-first-century lens. Growing out of the Folger Library, the Shakespeare T…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
I loved acting in local amateur productions when I was a kid. Then, when I was nine years old, the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT announced a summer production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , and they had auditions for children. For my audition, I did an abbreviated version of the Gettysburg Address that I’d learned for a report…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
ROBERTA MAXWELL, DAVID BIRNEY in “ROMEO AND JULIET” (AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE THEATRE)theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
ican Shakespeare Theatre in Connecticut presented “Lear,” “The Winter’s Tale,” andtheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Opened Thursday, April 18, 1974.* The Brooklyn Academy of Music in association with Brooklyn College presents the Royal Shakespeare Theatre production of:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
What this page does not know
What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here
outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed
production.
When 1 of these run
ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that
they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.
How many seats.
Any photograph of the building. 83 of 135 venues have one.