Wallack's Theatre
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1898–1898 on this page1 productions
Three New York City playhouses named Wallack's Theatre played an important part in the history of American theater as the successive homes of the stock company managed by actors James W. Wallack and his son, Lester Wallack. During its 35-year lifetime, from 1852 to 1887, that company developed and held a reputation as the best theater company in the country. Each theater operated under other names and managers after (and in one case before) the Wallack company's tenure. All three are demolished. == 485 Broadway == James W. Wallack and Lester Wallack, father and son, were 19th century actors and theater managers; that is, entrepreneurs whose business was a theatrical stock company, a troupe o…
Wallack’s Theatre
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- producer and director and married Katharine Cornell. There was a season of repertory at Wallack’s Theatre withtheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
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