*Plymouth
Theatre – 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 – 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

Poisson Rouge – night club and entertainment venue

Portfolio Studio – Philemon 1975

Powerhouse Theatre – see Vasser College

Pregones Theater Studio – 700 Grand Concourse (at 153rd Street)

Present Company – 445 West 45th Street

*Present Company
Theatorium – 198 Stanton St. – resident companies Fringe NYC; Fringe
Central; Present Co.; Magic Circle; Childrens’ Series; Monster Dog Series;
Public Works Project

President Theatre – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 358 West 44th St. (8th & 9th)- several smaller to medium
size theatres

*Producers Club II – 616 Ninth Avenue

Progressive Stage Society – 1905 – radical organization

*Promenade Theatre
- 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 – Prospect Park, Park Slope

Prospect, Bronx – 1,450 seats – Renovated; Closed; poss.

*Provincetown
Playhouse/Provincetown Players – 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
- 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
- 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 -
304 West 47th St. (8th & 9th) (194 seats) – see 47th Street Theatre – now at 141
West 94th Street

*Pulse Theatre
– 432 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)

Punch & Judy Theatre – 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 – see National, and Chatham Theatre

Purple Onion – intimate cabaret of 1970s

*Pyramid Club – 101 Avenue A (6th & 7th)

Q

Quad Cinema – 34 W 13th St – 1971 to present

Quaigh – Momma’s Little Angels – demolished

Queens Theatre in the Park
- 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
– see Jose Quintero Theatre

R

Radiant Center – see Craig Theatre

Radio and TV Studios - see TV and Radio Studios

*Radio City Music
Hall – 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 - see Gallo Opera House

Radio Playhouse No 1 – see Hammerstein’s Theatre

Radium Club – Harlem – 1930s hotspot which was open all night

Rainbow Room/Rainbow and Stars ( 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

Ranelagh Gardens - open air concerts

*Rattlestick
Theatre – 224 Waverly Place (just west of 7th Avenue)- Crumple Zone
2000

*Raw Space
- 529 West 42nd St. (10th & 11th)- several theatres and rehearsal spaces

*Raymond
J. Greenwald - 307 West 26th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves)

Rebel - rock club – W 30th St – 325 person capacity – formerly Downtime

Recital Theatre – see Daly’s 63rd St. Music Hall

Rector’s – 43/33th Street – Longacre Square, later became Times Square –
1880s

*Red Room Complex
– 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 – see Feinsteins

Regency – 1987 Broadway (67 & 68th) – closed

Regent’s Club – 317 East 53rd
Street – new cabaret venue – closing August 15/04

Regent Theatre
– 116th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd in Harlem – built 1912 – 1845
seats – now First Corinthian Baptist Church

Regina Opera Company

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 – 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 – see Princess Theatre

Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center – founded 1960 by Robert
Whitehead and Elia Kazan as co-directors – see Vivian Beaumont Theatre – see
Lincoln Center

Republic Theatre – 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 – 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
– 161 Hudson St., between Hubert and Laight Streets (120)

*Richard
Rodgers – 226 West 46th St. (Nederlander-1,382 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 – 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

Ritz – 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 Theater – 1911 -1,858 seats – closed & demolished 1976; 2nd Riverside Theater – located in historic Riverside Church

Riviera Theatre – 1918 – 3000 seats – closed and Razed, 1976

Rivoli Theatre – Times Square – 1917-1992 – 1620 Broadway – 2,092
seats – 1955 Todd A-O – demolished – now Caroline’s Comedy Club

RKO Alhambra Theatre – 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 - see American Theatre, Olympia Theatre,
Victoria Theatre, New Amsterdam Theatre, New Theatre and Weber & Fields’ Music
Hall

Room – 27 West 20th Street

Roosevelt Grill – Harlem nightspot 1930s

Roosevelt Hotel – Madison & 54th – 1930s – Guy Lombardo

Roosevelt Little Theatre – closed & demolished

Roosevelt Theatre – (Roosevelt Grill) 7th Avenue and 145th Street –
famous nightclub – now a Pioneer Supermarket

Rose Room – (see Algonquin Hotel)

*Rose’s
Turn – 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 -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 – 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
– 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

Ruben Blue Nightclub – 1940s – Julius Monk

Ruby Theatre – closed; demolished

*Rude Mechanicals – 2010 – one of first off broadway houses to form subscription series with 3 other theatre groups, Civilians, Talking Band, and Exchange

Russian Tea Room – West 57th Street – 1930s – a landmark for over 75
years – closed July 28, 2002

Rutger Theatre – closed; demolished

Ryan’s Stage – 128 Chambers Street

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St. Anns Warehouse – 38 Water Street (between Main and Dock St for 11 years), to relocate to Civil War era tobacco warehouse on Brooklyn waterfront – this fell through – now moving to 29 Jay Street for Fall 2012 season – Brief Encounter (transfer to Broadway); Black Watch 2011;

St. Bart’s Playhouse – 109 East 50th Street

*St. Clements
Theatre (St. Clements Episcopal Church) – 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 – 246 West 44th St. (Jujamcyn- purchased from Shuberts
in 1957 – renovated in 1958 – 1,739 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; American Idiot 2010; 2nd St. James – New Fifth Avenue known for
time as St. James during early 1870s

*St.
John’s Church – 81 Christopher St.

*St. Luke’s Church
– 308 West 46th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves)- Late Night Catechism 1996

*St.
Mark’s Church in the Bowery – 131 East 10th St @ 2nd Avenue – Blacks

St. Mark’s Cinema – closed

*St. Mark’s
Playhouse – 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 – 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 – (Maisonette) – hotel opened in 1904 at 2 East 55th
St. – Mabel Mercer 1930s – famous nightclub

*Salon – 49 Bleecker Street – an historic cast iron building
(formerly a lumber yard) – home of The Culture Project

Salon – 432 East 91st Street

Sam H. Harris Theatre – 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 – see Shubert Theatre

Sam’s (formerly Charlies) – 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 – 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 650 seats) – see also Biltmore Theatre – Good People 2011;

Sanctuary Theatre – Jericho-Jim Crow 1964

Sandi Shurin Theatre – 311 West 43rd Street – new home of Broken Watch
Theatre Company

*Sanford Meisner
Theatre – 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 – 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 – see Niblo’s Garden

Sarah Lawrence
College Theatre

Saratoga Club – Harlem – 1920s nightspot

Sardi’s

Sargent Theatre – see American Theatre of Actors

Savoy – “the Little” – West 35th Street – 1910s nightspot

Savoy – Plaza Café Lounge – 34th Street and Broadway – 1930s – famous
nightclub

Savoy - 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 – 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 – Langston Hughes,
American Negro Theatre – 515 Malcolm X Boulevard

Schuyler Theatre – closed

Second Avenue Theatre – Golden Land 1985 (277)

Second Stage
Theatre – 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 – currently use the 296 seat theatre and additional 108 seat McGinn/Cazale – 2012 to purchase 597 Helen Hayes Theatre and begin producing there in 2013

Selwyn Theatre – 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 – 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

Shakespeare Hotel – corner of Nassau and Fulton Sts – favourite rendezvous
for theatrical profession

Shakespeare Theatre – see Jolson’s 59th St. Theatre

Sheridan Square Playhouse – 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 – see Edyth Totten Theatre

Shubert Alley – famous theatrical thoroughfare between 44th and 45th
Streets

*Shubert/Sam
S. Shubert Theatre – 225 West 44th St. (1,449 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; Memphis 2010;

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 also Signature Theatre – The center, is opening on Jan 31/12 with a production of Athol Fugard’s “Blood Knot,” includes three theaters,
an expansive cafe and bookstore space, with sofas, open to the public (and free WiFi), and a gleaming glass marquee that
newly lights a stretch of West 42nd Street near 10th Avenue. (Signature’s former home, a single theater located a block
farther west, away from Times Square, is seeking new tenants.)

Signature Theatre Company/Peter
Norton Space – 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 – 1871 Broadway

63rd Street Music Hall – 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

>a href=”http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/sleep-no-more”>Sleep No More – 530 W 27th St – mixes experimental theatre with classic Shakespeare – 100,000 square foot space – whole theatrical evening – space was once Twilo

Small’s Paradise -
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

Socialist’s Press Club

Sofia’s Downstairs Theatre

*Soho Playhouse
– 15 Vandam Street (198 seats) (between 6th and Varick) – Killer Joe
(Scott Glenn,Amanda Plummer) 1998 – newly renovated and refurbished theatre
reopens Oct/04

*Theatre Row Theatre
– 424 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)-

Theatre-Studio – 750 Eighth Avenue, 2nd Floor

*Theatre Ten Ten
– 1010 Park Avenue (84th & 85th)- in the basement of a church

*Theatre
3/Melting Pot – 311 West 43rd St (between 8th & 9th Aves)- 96 seats

*Theatre 22
– 54 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th)- 40 seats

Theatre Union – formed 1932 to mount plays of social significance –
disbanded 1937

Theatre Unique – 1908 – sideshows

Therapy – gay bar in Hell’s Kitchen – cabaret some evenings

Thirteenth Street Repertory Company – see also Thirteenth Street
Theatre

Thirteenth Street Theater – 50 West 13th Street – bottom floor of a
townhouse

*13th Street
Repertory Company - 50 West 13th St. (between 5th and 6th) – been
performing Israel Horovitz’s “Line” for 25 years

34th Sreet East Theatre – closed

39th Street Theatre – 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

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 and 8th) – 350 seats – new live music venue

Times Square Paramount – built in 1926 by Rapp & Rapp (3,664 seats )-
demolished

Times Square Theatre – 217 W. 42nd St. built 1920 (1057 seats)- between 7th & 8th – (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; Battling Butler 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 – 1980s Kung Fu films – closed early 1990s – the last of the dormant legit theatres to be renovated to house a starry, “immersive” film experience that celebrates the history of Broadway musicals – 100-foot façade of the Times Square, next door to the 42nd Street entrance of Foxwoods Theater, boasts a handsome colonnade, which is often obscured by billboard-style advertising – renovated for new multimedia show — Broadway Sensation — A 4D Musical Spectacular- theatre stopped offering plays and musicals by the 1930s. Movies and retail were part of its life over the following decades; the stage was torn out years ago to accommodate retail stores. The auditorium’s last regular audiences appeared in the mid-1990s, when slasher movies were shown 10 AM-midnight – full and classic restoration to return the theatre to its historic glory – theatre to open in late Spring or early summer of 2013 – film experience will feature “the greatest songs from the greatest Broadway musicals, penned by the most famous songwriters, including Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin as well as many others” and “will be performed by Broadway and Hollywood stars.” It’s billed as “a spectacular immersive experience.”
website cinematreasures.org has a collection of photos of the Times Square Theater

Times Square Theatre and Entertainment Center – 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

Tivoli Gardens Theatre – see Richmond Hill Theatre

TKTS – ONE HALF PRICE THEATRE TICKETS
- – 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 – 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 – small cabaret – Mabel Mercer

Toots Shor’s – 27-39 West 52nd Street – originally on West 51st Street

Top of the Gate – 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

TOSOS

Tower (Carver), Bronx – 1914 -1,693 seats -Church

*Town Hall – opened 1921 (2011 is their 90th Anniversary) – 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 – 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 and demolished;
4th – Trans-Lux Southstreet Seaport Cinema – closed; 5th – Trans-Lux Theatre -
58th and Madison – 1931 – 161 and 210 seat auditoriums; 6th – Trans-Lux 49th
Street Theatre – closed; demolished; 7th – Trans-Lux 60th Street – closed;
demolished

*Triad Theatre
– 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 – 199 Chambers Street (between
Greenwich and West Streets)

*Tribeca
Playhouse – 111 Reade St (just East of W. Broadway)

Tribune Theatre – closed

*Trilogy
- 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 – Steambath 1970 (127); House of Blue
Leaves 1971 (337), Women Behind Bars – demolished

Tripler Hall – 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 – One Foot Out of the Door 1993

Trocadero Gloxinia Ballet Co – 1972 – Greenwich Village lofts and small
theatres

Truck and Warehouse Theatre – Steambath (Anthony Perkins,Hector
Elizondo) 1970 (127); Billy Noname 1970; Faggot 1973

*T. Schreiber Studio – 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 – 120 West 28th St. (home to MCC Theatre
Company)

*29th Street Rep
– 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 – see Latin Quarter – Dogg’s Hamlet/Cahoot’s
Macbeth 1979 (direct from London’s Collegiate Theatre)

Twilo – 530 West 27th St – former New York Club – now Sleep No More

Two Boots Pioneer Theatre – open

Two Guitars – Russian nightspot – 244 E 14th Street – late 1940s

U

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 – 15 West 28th Street

Underwood Theatre – not for profit theatre company – using various venues

Union Hall – rock club – Park Slope

*Union Square
Theatre – 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 – see Chatham Theatre

United Artsists East – open

United Artists 64th and 2nd – open

United Booking Office – founded turn of century

United Palace Theatre – 4140 Broadway, between 175th and 176th St – opened 1930 as Loew’s 175th Street Theatre – 3400 seats

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 – What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a
State Like This 1973 (543)

Upstairs at O’Neals – crowded cabaret space on top of that 43rd Street eatery – O’Neals’ Cabaret (1982) – 308 perf

*Upstairs at Rose’s
Turn - see Rose’s Turn

Upstairs at Studio 54 – see Studio 54

Upstairs at the Downstairs/Downstairs at the Upstairs – intimate
uptown club of 1950s and 1960s with revues by Julius Monk – Weigh-In (Way Out) (1970); Freefall; (728 perf)(1969);Bette Midler (1967);Mixed Doubles (1966)(320 perf); Below the
Belt (1966);Just For Openers (1965)(375 perf);The Game is Up (1964);…And in This Corner (1964); Graham Crackers (1963); Ben Bagley (1962);No Shoestrings (1962);Seven Come Eleven (1961);One Over the Eight
(1961);Seven Comes Eleven (1961); Dressed to the Nines (1960);4 Below Strikes Back (1959); Pieces of Eight (1959); Demi-Dozen (1958)(728 perf);Take 5 (1957); Son of 4 Below (1956); 4 Below (1956);

Uptown Theatre – closed; demolished

*Urban Stages
- 259 West 30th Street – housed in a storefront – between 7th and 8th

Urban’s Ziegfeld – 1927

Uris Theatre – 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);

V

Valencia Theatre – 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 – Sing Muse! 1961

Vanderbilt – Park Avenue and 34th Street – 1930s nightclub

Vanderbilt Theatre – 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
– 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 (Variety Photoplays) – built 1900

Vasser College – Powerhouse Theatre, Mainstage and Susan Stein Shivz
Theatre – Mr. Goldwyn (Alan King) 2001;

Vaudeville Managers Protective Association – founded 1900

Vauxhall Garden Theatre – 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 – see Jolson’s 59th St. Theatre and Century Theatre – Africana 1934; Cradle Will Rock 1937;

Versailles Club – 151 East 50th St – 1930s nightclub

Victoria Theatre – 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 – 125th Street (near Apollo in Harlem) – 1917 burlesque theatre designed by Thomas W. Lamb – 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 – has been home to vaudeville shows, Off Broadway productions and Hollywood movies. But its terra cotta facade has been mostly dark since 1989 when, after failing as a five-screen multiplex, it shut its doors – two towers to rise above the theater: a 140-unit rental building and a separate 175-room hotel. The base will consist of the historic building – will become the new home of Classical Theater of Harlem, Jazzmobile, the Harlem Arts Alliance and the Apollo Theater Foundation – 199-seat theater and a 99-seat theater in which seats can be removed to create a multitude of configurations – four-story theater building will house scenery shop, costume shop, administrative offices, dressing rooms and a gallery

Victoria Five Theatre – 310 West 125th St. (8th Avenue)

Victory – 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 – see Garrick Theatre

Village Arena Theatre – Touch 1970

Village Barn - 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 – 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 – a new endeavour opened a few doors from the original
and being used as a night club

Village Light Opera Group

Village South Theatre – Vandam Street (Greenwich Village) – opened 1962 with Coach With the Six Insides 1962 (114 perf) – was an Off-Broadway theatre in New York City that was active during the 1960s – 1963 Edward Albee used profits from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to establish the Playwrights’ Unit at this theatre; an organization which provided a platform for untested new playwrights to premiere their works – theatre closed in 1970, with its last production being Who’s Happy Now?

Village Theatre – 158 Bleecker Street – originally The Village Gate – now
completely remodelled – Love,Janis 2002 (713)

Village Vanguard – 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 – 108 East 15th St. at 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 – 147 Waverly Place

*Virginia
– 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 – see Olympia

*Vital (Theatre on
Three) – 432 West 42nd Street – 3rdfloor (39 seats)- new home at the
McGinn Cazale Theatre above Promenade as of November 2004

*Vivian Beaumont
Theatre – 150 West 65th St. at 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; South Pacific 2009; War Horse 2011;

W

Wakefield, Bronx – 1927 – 1330 seats – church

Waldorf Astoria – (Starlight Roof, Empire Room) – 301 Park Avenue -
built 1929 – Guy Lombardo New Year’s Eves – famous nightclub

Waldorf Theatre – 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 – 46 Walker St. (Church & Broadway)

Walker Theatre – 6401 18th Avenue, Brooklyn – 1927 – 2276 seats – closed -
now retail stores

Wallack’s Lyceum Theatre – 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
- 219 West 48th St. (Jujamcyn-956 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; House of Blue Leaves (revival) 2011;

Walter Reed Theatre
- West 65th Street, plaza level, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues

Ward, Bronx – 1,831 seats – Retail; Vacant

Warner Hollywood – 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 – Tony and Tina’s Wedding 1988 (over 2000
performances)

Washington Square Players – 1914 – used various venues – 1916 moved
to Comedy Theatre – disbanded 1918

Washington Square Theatre – 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 – 203 West 38th St. (7th)

Waverley Theatre – 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 – 95 Christopher Street

Weber and Fields Music Hall – 29th Street – opened 1895 – next to
Daly’s Theatre – main entrance diverted to Broadway when Weber and Fields leased –
Weber and 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 – Widow’s Waltz 1992

Westbank-Laurie
Beechman

*Westbeth
Theatre Centre – 151 Bank Street – 2 theatres – Song Floating 1994

West End Theatre – closed

Westminster Cinema – see Punch & Judy Theatre, Charles Hopkins
Theatre

Westminster Theatre – see Punch and Judy’s

* Westside Arts – 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; Love, Loss and What I Wore 2010;

*Westside Theatre
– 407 West 43rd St (between 9th and 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 – see Cruger’s Wharf Theatre

Where Eagles Dare Theatre – 347
West 36th St – both theatres hold 40-50

William Brady’s Playhouse – see Playhouse Theatre

William Street Theatre – 1790

Willis (Casino), Bronx – 1923 – 2,166 seats – Retail

Windsor, Bronx – 1920 -1,600 seats – Nightclub

Windsor Theatre - see 48th Street Theatre – Maud of Arran; Cradle
Will Rock 1938 (108) – demolished

*Wings Theatre
Company - 154 Christopher Street (74)(between Greenwich and Washington
St)- in basement of an arts center

Winter Garden – see Triplet Hall – opposite Bond Street – 624 Broadway – opened 1859 located in the
remodeled Triplet Hall – Julius Caesar (Junius Brutus Booth and John Wilkes Booth) 1864; Hamlet (Edwin
Booth) 1864 (140 perf); Octoroon 1859 (48) – burned down 1867; 2nd Winter Garden – 1514-16 Broadway – opened 1895 as Olympia – renamed several times – demolished
1935; 3rd Winter Garden –

Winter Garden Theatre – 1634 Broadway @ 51st St. (Shubert-1,526 seats)
- a former cattle barn (Second American Horse Exchange 1896, converted building into theatre which
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; 4th – Metropolitan Theatre in 1858 renamed
Winter Garden until burnt down in 1867; 5th -
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 Theatre – 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 – downtown homes for the troupes will
be called the Joyce Theater International Dance Center and the Signature Theatre
Center – Center’s current design, created by collaborators including Gehry Partners, includes a 1,000-seat theater and a secondary performance space, as well as rehearsal rooms, admin space, a plaza and a cafe

Worldwide Plaza Theatres (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

Worrell Sisters’ New York Theatre – 1865- demolished 1884 – see also New York Theatre – Department store owner A. T. Stewart fashioned a theatre from the Unitarian Chuch of the Messiah, for his protege, Lucy Rushton, and named it for her later that year. After she departed, it underwent many name and management changes. In 1881, Harrigan & Hart moved their Theatre Comique to this location, extensively refurbishing the interior. Sadly, it burned down three years later, in 1884.

*Worth Street
Theatre – 33 Worth St. (West Broadway)- Small Craft Warnings 1999

WOW Café – 59 E. 4th St. (Women’s One World Café) – only women’s
alternative theatre

WPA Federal Theatre – see Federal Theatre

*WPA
Theater – 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 – see Theatre 4

X

Xenon – see Henry Miller’s Theatre

Y

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 – see Jolson’s 59th St. Theatre

Yiddish Art Theatre – 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 – Garden District 1958; American Dream 1961 (370);
Young Abe Lincoln 1961; Colette Collage 1983

Yorke (Park), Bronx – 1923 – 1,260 seats -Retail

*York Theatre (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 – 30 Third Avenue (at Atlantic Avenue)

Z

Zanzibar Café – 49th & Broadway – 1940s – Cab Calloway, Berry Brothers

Zenon – late 1970s dance club – competitor to Studio 54

Ziegfeld Theatre – 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 – 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)

Please help me with this listing as I live in Toronto, Canada and do not have access to places like the New York Public Library or The Lincoln Centre Library for the Performing Arts to help me along.

If you see errors, additions, duplications or anything pertinent to this listing, please drop me a line:

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