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The New Century Theatre was a Broadway theater in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, at 205–207 West 58th Street and 926–932 Seventh Avenue. Opened on October 6, 1921, as Jolson's 59th Street Theatre, the theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp on the site of the Central Park Riding Academy. It was built for the Shubert brothers, who named the house after Al Jolson. In 1920, the Shuberts announced plans to convert the Central Park Riding Academy into a theater, hiring Krapp to renovate the old structure. The Shuberts went bankrupt in 1931 and sold off Jolson's 59th Street Theatre, in part because of the venue's remoteness from Times Square. The venue was then leased as a f…
Names this building has traded under. A production filed against one of them is filed against this record.
By decade2 productions across 2 decades
Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.
Longest runs hereby performances
| 1924 | Peg-O’-My-Dreams May 5, 1924 · J. Hartley Manners | 79 perf. |
| 1932 | A Midsummer Night's Dream November 17, 1932 · Percival Vivian | 27 perf. |
Everything that played here2 productions
| 1924 | Peg-O’-My-Dreams May 5, 1924 · Original | 79 perf. |
| 1932 | A Midsummer Night's Dream November 17, 1932 · Revival | 27 perf. |
In the literature8 passages
- Since 1985, the mission of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., has been to present classic theater in an accessible, skillful, imaginative, American style that honors the playwrights' language and intentions while viewing their plays through a twenty-first-century lens. Growing out of the Folger Library, the Shakespeare T…Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson
- I loved acting in local amateur productions when I was a kid. Then, when I was nine years old, the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT announced a summer production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , and they had auditions for children. For my audition, I did an abbreviated version of the Gettysburg Address that I’d learned for a report…Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper
- ROBERTA MAXWELL, DAVID BIRNEY in “ROMEO AND JULIET” (AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE THEATRE)A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum)
- ican Shakespeare Theatre in Connecticut presented “Lear,” “The Winter’s Tale,” andA Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum)
- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Opened Thursday, April 18, 1974.* The Brooklyn Academy of Music in association with Brooklyn College presents the Royal Shakespeare Theatre production of:Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis)
What this page does not know
- What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it: concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
- When 1 of these run ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed. Nobody wrote down the date.
- How many seats.
- Any photograph of the building.
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