Dates: 1907 – present
Formerly known as the Stuyvesant Theatre. Designed by architect George Keister, built by impresario David Belasco.
Elephants and Houdini
Research ongoing. A set of counterweights is still in place with pulleys nearby which were said to be used for a Houdini illusion featuring an elephant disappearing through a trapdoor and into the basement via a lift. It’s thought this illusion was abandoned before being performed. Further research shows that it’s unlikely the elephant illusion involved a trapdoor, and that it was performed at the Hippodrome (which already had elephants to hand).
[Reference 1: The HIstory Reader, Reference 2: Wild About Harry]
Selected Past Productions
Full listings on the Internet Broadway Database
- Network (Dec 06, 2018 – Jun 08, 2019) starring Bryan Cranston (UK National Theatre production)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Apr 22, 2014 – Sep 13, 2015)
- The Terms of My Surrender – Michael Moore on Broadway (Aug 10, 2017 – Oct 22, 2017) written by Michael Moore
- The Glass Menagerie (Mar 09, 2017 – May 21, 2017)
- Golden Boy (2012)
- Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009)
- Awake and Sing (2006)
- Awake and Sing (1935) by Clifford Odets
- Hit the Deck (1927)
- Lulu Belle (1926)
- The Girl of the Golden West () Belasco and his electrician Louis Hartman created a sunset lighting effect, involving manually moving gelatine in front of a spotlight.
- 1909 Belasco built a 2 story apartment on top of the theatre for him to live in.
- The Warrens of Virginia (1908)