Star Theatre (New York City, built 1901)
The Star Theatre, also known as The New Star Theatre,[1] was a Broadway theatre located at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 107th Street in New York City, New York, United States.[2] Built in 1901,[3] it was active as a Broadway playhouse through 1908.[4] It should not be confused with the earlier Star Theatre demolished in 1901.
History[edit]
The New York impresario and theatre agent William T. Keogh (died 1947),[5] previously connected with the Knickerbocker Theatre, was responsible for the building of the Star Theatre which began construction in August 1901.[6] The theatre was designed by the architects Thomas P. Neville and George A. Bagge of the New York firm Neville & Bagge. It was built by Delaney Brothers & Co.[6] The theatre opened with a performance of the Hanlon Brothers's Superba,[3] a production which ran at that theatre from its grand opening on December 30, 1901, through January 4, 1902.[7]
In 1909 the theatre began showing silent films on Sundays while continuing with live performance, usually melodramas, during the week.[8]
Notable productions[edit]
- The Gypsy Girl (1905, Hal Reid; starred Mary Pickford, then known as Gladys Smith, as Freckles)[9][10]
References[edit]
- ^ "Theatres and Places of Amusement". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1904. p. 10.
- ^ Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, ed. (1918). "New York; Theatres, Clubs, Hotels". The New International Encyclopædia. Vol. 17. Dodd, Mead & Co. p. 88.
- ^ a b "A New Theatre Opened". The Tammany Times. January 6, 1902. p. 7.
- ^ "Star Theatre". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ "WILLIAM T. KEOGH, THEATRE OPERATOR; Former Stage Producer Dead Manager of Popular-Price Circuit, Once Bank Head". The New York Times. October 28, 1947. p. 25.
- ^ a b "TO BUILD A NEW THEATRE". The New York Times. August 16, 1901. p. 7.
- ^ Mark Cosdon, Allegheny College (March 12, 2014). "A Chronological Outline of the Hanlon Brothers, 1833 – 1931" (PDF). Southern Illinois University Press. p. 67.
- ^ "FIRE SCARE IN STAR THEATRE.; Woman Groundlessly Cried Fire, and Audience Got Out -- No One Hurt". The New York Times. January 25, 1909. p. 1.
- ^ "The Gypsy Girl". New York Clipper. April 8, 1905.
- ^ Eileen Whitfield (2007). Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 38. ISBN 9780813120454.
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