Yiddish theater poster for "Saints and Sinners" at Jennie Goldstein's National Theatre (1935)
The National Theater was a
Yiddish theater at the southwest corner of
Chrystie Street and
Houston Street in the
Yiddish Theater District in
Manhattan , New York City, United States.
[1] When first built it was leased to
Boris Thomashefsky and
Julius Adler .
[2] Its grand opening as the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre was on September 24, 1912.
[3]
[4]
The theater was one of the many designed by architect
Thomas W. Lamb , and seated 1,900 when it opened. It was built as one of a pair of theaters, with the Crown Theater , seating 963, in the rooftop theater.
[5] Both theaters closed in 1941, re-opened in 1951 as a pair of cinemas (the National Theater and the Roosevelt Theater ), and were demolished in 1959.
[2]
References
^ Stein, Joshua David (26 January 2007).
"See the Lower East Side: If Not Now, When?" . Gridskipper . Archived from
the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2011 .
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"National Theatre & Roosevelt Theatre" . Cinema Treasures . Retrieved March 27, 2011 .
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Zylbercweig, Zalmen (1934). "
Tomashefsky, Boris " (in Yiddish) . Leksikon fun yidishn teater [Lexicon of the Yiddish theatre]. Vol. 2. Warsaw: Farlag Elisheva. Columns 804-840; here: col. 822.
^ "
Grand Opening of the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre, Houston St. and Second Avenue " [program] (1912). New York: Lipshitz Press. For performance on September 24, 1912. Digitized version retrieved via the
New York Public Library , 2016-12-26.
^ Thissen, Judith (April 16, 2023).
"Curtain Falls on the Sunshine…" . Digital Yiddish Theatre Project . March 12, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2023 .
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