The Plymouth Theatre (1911–1957) of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Stuart Street in today's Boston Theater District. ^{[nb 1]} Architect Clarence Blackall designed the building for Liebler & Co. ^{[2] [3]} Performers included Henry Jewett, ^[4] Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, 8-year-old Sammy Davis, Jr., ^[5] and Bette Davis. ^[6] In October 1911, the touring Abbey Theatre presented Synge's Playboy of the Western World at the Plymouth; ^[7] in the audience were W. B. Yeats, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. ^{[8] [9]}

"The Shubert Organization of New York bought the Plymouth in 1927 and used it largely for tryouts of plays headed for New York or going on tour, and for some long run performances." ^[3] In 1957 the building became the Gary Theater. ^{[nb 2]}

Images

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  Plymouth Theatre, Boston, 1910s
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  Irish actors Sara Allgood and J. M. Kerrigan in Synge's Playboy of the Western World, 1911
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  Seating chart, 1912
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  Interior, c. 1915
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  Advertisement, 1919
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  Advertisement, 1920

Performances

1910s Synge's Playboy of the Western World Worral & Terry's The White Feather [11] Avery Hopwood's Sadie Love, with Marjorie Rambeau [12] Heart o' th' Heather, with George FacFarlane [13] John Galsworthy's Justice, with John Barrymore [13] Otto Hauerbach's The Silent Witness [14] G.B. Shaw's Getting Married, with William Faversham and Henrietta Crosman [15] The Man Who Came Back [16] Booth Tarkington's Seventeen, with Gregory Kelly [17] She Walked in Her Sleep [18] Breakfast in Bed, with Florence Moore [19]

1920s Alice Duer Miller's Charm School [20] The Humming Bird, with Maude Fulton [21] Charles Anthony's Pagans, with Irene Fenwick [21] The Purple Mask, with Leo Ditrichstein [22] Collison & Hopwood's Gertie's Garter, with Hazel Dawn [23] John Galsworthy's The Skin Game [24] Woman of Bronze, with Margaret Anglin [25] Dog Love, with William Hodge [26] Green Goddess, with George Arliss [26] Ladies' Night [27]

1930s-1950s This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2012) Lady Precious Stream [28]

• Mademoiselle-1932-w Grace George and Alice Brady

Reflected Glory - 1936 w Tallulah Bankhead Blow Ye Winds - 1936 w Henry Fonda with Doris Dalton The Masque of Kings - 1936 w Henry Hill, Dudley Digges and Margo Pauline Frederick Susan and God - 1939 w Gertrude Lawrence and Paul McGrath Boys and Girls Together - 1940 w Ed Wynn and The De Marcos. "Kiss and tell" - 1943 by F.Hugh Herbert with Violet Heming Walter Gilbert and Betty Anne Nyman

Notes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plymouth Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts).

• Library of Congress. Drawing of Plymouth Theatre, Eliot St. near Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts, 1922.
• Flickr. Photo of Gary Theater, 20th century
• Bostonian Society. Photo of the Gary Theater, 127-131 Stuart Street, c. 1958
• Boston Athenaeum. Theater History: Plymouth Theatre, 131 Stuart Street

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