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The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan, New York City. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row, originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain. Bruce Mailman bought the building in 1965. [1] On January 17, 1968, the ...
Nevertheless, it was the deadly infamous Astor Place riot, only a year and a half after opening on May 10, 1849 which caused the theatre to close permanently – provoked by competing performances of Macbeth by English actor William Charles Macready (1793–1873), at the Opera House (which was then operating under the name "Astor Place Theatre ...
The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House [1] in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than 120 people injured. [2] It was the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in Manhattan, which generally pitted immigrants and nativists against each other, or together ...
It’s hard to escape the name Astor when you are in New York: from Astor Place downtown to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and even the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, the family’s legacy is everywhere.
21 Astor Place (also known as "Clinton Hall" and "13 Astor Place") stands on the site which was once the Astor Opera House. After the Astor Place riot, the building was turned over to the New York Mercantile Library, which used it until 1890, when they tore it down and built the current 11-story building. The Library left in 1932, and the ...
Cooper Union New Academic Building 4. Cooper Square Hotel 5. Village Voice 6. Public Theater (Astor Library) 7. Colonnade Row / Astor Place Theatre (Blue Man Group) 8. Clinton Hall (site of the Astor Opera House) 9. KMart (Wanamaker Department Store Annex) (permanently closed as of 2021) 10. Hamilton Fish House