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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 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).
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 ...
The Public Theater has produced over 120 plays and musicals at the Delacorte Theater in New York City's Central Park since the theater's opening in 1962. Currently the series is produced under the brand Free Shakespeare in the Park, and all productions are staged at the Delacorte.
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 ...
John Drew as Petruchio in Augustin Daly's production at Daly's Theatre, New York (1888). Shakespeare's The Shrew was not performed again until 1844, the last of his plays restored to the repertory, 211 years after the last definite performance. [8] That year, Benjamin Webster directed a production designed by J.R. Planché at the Haymarket Theatre.
Ground was broken for Lester Wallack's new theater on the northeast corner of 30th Street and Broadway [57] May 21, 1881, [58] and on December 4, The New York Times reported: The building, which is erected on ground leased for 21 years, with the privilege of two renewals of 21 years each, has frontage of 105 feet on Broadway and 122 feet on ...
Mrs. John Drew (a.k.a. Louisa Lane Drew, 1820-1897), in role as Mrs. Malaprop in an all-star Broadway theatre revival of The Rivals in New York City, (1895). Louisa Lane was born in London, England, (of the United Kingdom), the daughter of Eliza Trentner (1796–1887), a singer and actress, and Thomas Frederick Lane (1796–1825), an actor and theatre manager.