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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).
This is a list of theatre companies with membership of the Theatre Communications Group ... The John Drew Theater, East Hampton, New York; The Jungle Theater, ...
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 Sr. (1827-1862), [born Jonathan Henry Drewland] in Dublin, Ireland, an Irish American 19th century prominent actor / theatre manager of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, third husband of Louisa Lane Drew (Mrs. John Drew) (1820-1897), ancestor / member of famous Barrymore-Drew acting family of several generations in 18th to 21st centuries
In 2004, Saddler directed a staged reading of Only a Kingdom at The John Drew Theater of Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY. Among the well-known performers in the cast were Kaitlin Hopkins, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, Marni Nixon and Jo Ann Worley. He died at the age of 96 on November 1, 2014.
John Adolph Emil Eberson (January 2, 1875 – March 5, 1954) [1] was an Austrian-American architect best known for the development and promotion of movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre style. He designed over 500 theatres in his lifetime, earning the nickname "Opera House John".
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.