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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.
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 Bowery Theatre was a 19th-century playhouse at 46 Bowery. It was founded in the 1820s by rich families to compete with the upscale Park Theatre. By the 1850s, the theatre came to cater to immigrant groups such as the Irish, Germans, and Chinese. It burned down four times in 17 years, and a fire in 1929 destroyed it for good.
Chèo is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam. It is usually performed outdoors by semi-amateur touring groups, stereotypically in a village square or the courtyard of a public building, although it is today increasingly also performed indoors and by professional performers.
Costumes as warlords for Tuồng (Hát Bội) in Huế in 1874 Theatre actors from Nam Dinh in 20th century Vietnam.. Hát tuồng (Vietnamese pronunciation: [háːt tûəŋ], Chữ Nôm: 咭從) or hát bội (Vietnamese pronunciation: [háːk ɓôjˀ], Chữ Nôm: 咭佩) [1] is a form of Vietnamese theatre.
Chèo (Vietnamese: [t͡ɕɛw˨˩], Chữ Nôm: 嘲) is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam. It is usually performed outdoors by semi-amateur touring groups, stereo-typically in a village square or the courtyard of a public building, although ...
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.
From 1974 to 2006, it was the home of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre. [3] Among the many plays and musicals that were produced at the theatre, the first was The Immoralist (1963) with Frank Langella , Dames at Sea (1968), Night and Day (2000) by Tom Stoppard , Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (2003), and the Cocteau's final production, Jean ...