National Theatre (Manhattan) Explained

The National Theatre was a Yiddish theater at the southwest corner of Chrystie Street and Houston Street in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan, New York City, United States.[1] When first built it was leased to Boris Thomashefsky and Julius Adler. Its grand opening as the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre was on September 24, 1912.[2] [3]

The theater was one of the many designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, and seated 1,900 when it opened. It was built as one of a pair of theaters, with the Crown Theater, seating 963, in the rooftop theater.[4] Both theaters closed in 1941, re-opened in 1951 as a pair of cinemas (the National Theater and the Roosevelt Theater), and were demolished in 1959.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: See the Lower East Side: If Not Now, When? . Joshua David . Stein . Gridskipper . January 26, 2007 . March 27, 2011 . dead . https://archive.today/20130125010815/http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/59603/59603.php . January 25, 2013 . dmy-all .
  2. [Zalmen Zylbercweig|Zylbercweig, Zalmen]
  3. "Grand Opening of the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre, Houston St. and Second Avenue" [program] (1912). New York: Lipshitz Press. For performance on September 24, 1912. Digitized version retrieved via the New York Public Library, December 26, 2016.
  4. Web site: Thissen . Judith . Curtain Falls on the Sunshine… . Digital Yiddish Theatre Project . March 12, 2018 . April 18, 2023 . en . April 16, 2023.
  5. Web site: National Theatre & Roosevelt Theatre. Cinema Treasures. March 27, 2011.

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