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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. - 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

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

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)

* 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

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 - 1,463 seats - 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; 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, Brooklyn; Howard Gilman Opera House - 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

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

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) - 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;

– 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;

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;

*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

* 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

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)

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)

D

Dale, Bronx - 193? - 530 seats - Bingo hall

Daly (Vogue), Bronx - 1928 - 1,460 seats - Liquor Store

Daly’s Fifth Avenue (NYC) – opened in 1869 and burned in 1873

Daly's 63rd Street Theatre (NYC)- see 63rd Street Music Hall – 22-6 West 63rd Street – built as the Davenport in 1909 – renamed Daly’s 1922 – Love For Love 1925 - famous for Mae West’s “Sex” - also known as Coburn (1928); Recital (1932); Park Lane (1932) and Gilmore’s (1934) – leased as Experimental Theatre 1936 – demolished 1957 after years of not being used

Daly’s Theatre (NYC) – Broadway and 39th Streets – 1879 – remodeled from the Broadway Theatre; 2nd - Daly's Theatre (NYC) – 1221 Broadway and 30th St. (l,051 seats) – opened 1867 - reopened 1879 as Banvard’s and later Wood’s Museum – modeled on the Broadway Theatre at Broadway and 39th Streets - 1867 changed to Daly’s 1868 – later became Broadway – reopened 1879 as Daly’s–7-208 or Casting the Boomerang 1883 (49), Railroad of Love 1887 (108), Taming of the Shrew 1887; Needles and Pins 1880 (79), Lottery of Love 1888 (105), Bird of Paradise 1912 (112), Baby Mine 1910 (287) – became a cinema 1915 demolished 1920

Dance New Amsterdam - formerly known as Dance Space, plans to inaugurate its $5 million home at 280 Broadway in January

Dance Space - see Dance New Amsterdam

Dance Theatre of Harlem - founded 1969 - ballet school closed 2004 for lack of funds - After troubled times resulted in the shuttering of its school in October and the layoff of its 44 dancers, Dance Theatre of Harlem reopened its 35-year-old school on Dec. 4/04

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

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)

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