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The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall produces more than 100 programs each year, including plays, concerts, dance performances, film screenings, simulcasts, and literary readings. It was posthumously named for the matinee idol John Drew Jr. , a member of the Barrymore family who summered in East Hampton from the late 19th century to the early ...
In 2000, the New York State Attorney General's Office launched an investigation into The Players' financial dealings with the Hampden-Booth Theater Library, which occupies about a third of the club's building, and the John Drew Fund, a charity which has its offices in the building. The allegations were that the club may have overcharged the ...
His first role as a boy was "Plumper" in Cool as a Cucumber at the family's Arch Street Theater. [2] Drew as Petruchio. Drew had a long association with Charles Frohman and leading lady Maude Adams. In these years under Frohman, John Drew's stardom was established. [3] His first play with Frohman was The Masked Ball, a comedy adapted from a ...
In 1860, the stockholders of the Arch suggested that Louisa Lane Drew (1820-1897), (and wife of her third husband, actor John Drew Sr (1827-1862), should assume the Arch Street management, and in 1861 the theatre was opened under the name "Mrs. John Drew's Arch Street Theatre", at the beginning of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is on 243 West 47th Street, on the north sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, near Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The square land lot covers 10,050 sq ft (934 m 2 ), with a frontage of 100 ft (30 m) on 47th Street and a depth of 100 feet.
The Barrymore Film Center is a publicly owned, non-profit film history museum and archive, with a 260-seat cinema and repertory theater, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The BFC is dedicated to the role of the town as the birthplace of American cinema. It is named for the Barrymore family, members of whom lived in and worked in the borough.
Barrymore drew a caricature of himself and Ethel in A Slice of Life, 1912 Mary Young, John Barrymore and Frank Campeau in Believe Me, Xantippe, 1913 Barrymore (right) with his brother Lionel in The Jest, 1919 Barrymore as Richard III, 1920 Violet Kemble-Cooper and Barrymore in Clair de Lune, 1921 Barrymore as Hamlet, 1922
John Drew Barrymore (born John Blyth Barrymore Jr.; June 4, 1932 – November 29, 2004) was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including actor John Blyth Barrymore and actress Drew Barrymore.