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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).
In 2000, the New York State Attorney General's Office launched an investigation into The Players' financial dealings with the Hampden-Booth Theater Library, which occupies about a third of the club's building, and the John Drew Fund, a charity which has its offices in the building. The allegations were that the club may have overcharged the ...
It's Only a Play is a play by Terrence McNally.The play originally opened off-off-Broadway in 1982. It was revived off-Broadway in 1986, and on Broadway in 2014. The plot concerns a party where a producer, playwright, director, actors and their friends eagerly wait for the opening night reviews of their Broadway play.
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
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John Drew (Cherokee) (1796–1865), Confederate army officer during the American Civil War; John Drew Sr. (1827–1862), Irish-American stage actor and theatre manager; John Drew Jr. (1853–1927), American stage actor; John Drew (trader), 19th century trader in the Mackinac area; John Drew (astronomer) (1809–1857), English astronomer