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The Bowery Theatre was a playhouse on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.Although it was founded by rich families to compete with the upscale Park Theatre, the Bowery saw its most successful period under the populist, pro-American management of Thomas Hamblin in the 1830s and 1840s.
John Montague Trimble (1815–1867), known professionally as John M. Trimble, was an American builder and theater architect responsible for many prominent theaters in New York, such as Palmo's Opera House, as well as theaters in Buffalo, Richmond, Charleston, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Albany. Bowery Theatre in July 1867. H. P. Phelps writes:
Crowds along the "Bowery at night," c. 1895 painting by William Louis Sonntag, Jr. Miner's Bowery Theatre was a vaudeville or variety show theater opened in the Bowery of New York by Senator Henry Clay Miner in 1878.
The Minskoff Theatre, Booth Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, and John Golden Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District There are 41 active Broadway theaters listed by The Broadway League in New York City, as well as eight existing structures that previously hosted Broadway theatre. [a] Beginning with the first large long-term theater in the city ...
The Windsor Theatre, originally the German Winter Garden, was a theatre in Manhattan located at 43-47 Bowery, New York, New York, United States during 1855–1910. [1] It was on the stretch between Bayard and Canal Streets, across the street from the Thalia Theatre. [2] In 1855 it was constructed as the German Winter Garden (aka Volks Garden).
The message was clear: The Bowery was the theatre of Native American drama. Hamblin was careful to cultivate good favour with his patrons outside of the theatre, as well. He regularly provided space to the fire department for their annual ball, for example. On another occasion, he loaned the Bowery's in-house orchestra to a local militia group ...
Chanfrau as Mose, 1848. In 1848, Baker had a benefit at Mitchell's Olympic and asked Chanfrau to do his part from A Glance at New York in the afterpiece.Brown relates that "Mitchell used to tell how he went on the stage that night just before the curtain was rung up, and seeing Chanfrau at the back, dressed for his part, was on the point of ordering him off, supposing he was one of the 'Centre ...
Paramount Theatre (Manhattan) Park Theatre (Manhattan) Peoples Improv Theater; Playhouse Theatre (New York City) Princess Theatre (New York, 29th Street) Princess Theatre (New York City, 1913–1955) Proctor's Theatre (Chelsea, Manhattan)