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The Players (often inaccurately called The Players Club) is a private social club founded in New York City by the 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. The club is located in a mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, built in 1847. Booth bought the house in 1888, reserved an upper floor for his residence, and turned the rest into a clubhouse.
Members of Players Club and the National Arts Club as well as guests of the Gramercy Park Hotel, [47] which has 12 keys, [32] have access, as does Calvary Church and the Brotherhood Synagogue; hotel guests are escorted to the park and picked up later by hotel staff. [31]
The Samuel J. Tilden House is a historic townhouse pair at 14-15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan, New York City.Built in 1845, it was the home of Samuel J. Tilden (1814–1886), former governor of New York, a fierce opponent of the Tweed Ring and Tammany Hall, and the losing presidential candidate in the disputed 1876 election.
The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City.It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the New York Times, to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts".
Players' Theatre, a theatre in London; The Players (Detroit, Michigan), an American club for actors; The Players (New York City), or Players Club, an American private social club located in Gramercy Park, Manhattan; The Players Championship, a wealthy golf tournament since 1974, now near Jacksonville, FL
Edwin Booth founded the "Players" in 1888 [1] which held meetings at the "Players." The "Players" was an actors' club in Gramercy Park [1] in Manhattan in New York City. The second organisation, Actors' Society of America, was formed in 1895 and was led by Louis Aldrich. [2] Actors' Society of America was dissolved by vote of members in 1912. [1]
The Gramercy Theatre is a music venue in New York City. It is located in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan , on 127 East 23rd Street . Built in 1937 as the Gramercy Park Theatre, it is owned and operated by Live Nation as one of their two concert halls in New York City, the other being the nearby Irving Plaza .
The Players Theatre, located at 115 MacDougal Street between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, is one of the oldest commercial Off-Broadway theatres in operation in New York City. The Players Theatre contains a main stage with more than 200 seats and a 50-seat black box theatre, as well as four ...