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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.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:12, 18 January 2006: 434 × 379 (164 KB): Amcaja: New York City's Bowery Theatre, 1887. Taken from the Google Print version of ''City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790—1920'', by Timothy J. Gilfoyle.
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.
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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 Amphitheatre was a building in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. It was located at 37 and 39 Bowery, across the street from the Bowery Theatre . Under a number of different names and managers, the structure served as a circus , menagerie , theatre , a roller rink , and a branch of the Peniel Mission .
Gordon-Phillips and her sisters Rosie and Jeanie owned the Venice Theater on Park Row from the 1920s to the 1940s; [5] Gordon-Phillips was the manager. [6] After the theater closed each night, she visited homeless men on the streets, distributing money and toiletries and assisting them to find a place to sleep in homeless shelters.
New York Theatre may stand for: New York Theatre Workshop, off-Broadway theatre in the Bowery, Lower East Side of Manhattan; Bowery Theatre, Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City; Olympia Theatre (New York City), built by Oscar Hammerstein I; New Theatre Comique, former theater in New York City