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The
New Century Theatre was a legitimate
Broadway theatre located at 932 Seventh Avenue at West 58th Street in midtown
Manhattan.
The house, which seated 1700, was designed by
architect Herbert J. Krapp for the
Shuberts, who originally named it Jolson's 59th Street Theatre after
Al Jolson, who opened the venue with a
Sigmund Romberg musical called
Bombo on
October 6,
1921. Two years later, it hosted the
American premiere of
Stanislavski's
Moscow Art Theatre.
The theatre underwent several name changes over the next several years. As the Central Park Theatre, it was operated as a movie house. It then became the Shakespeare Theatre, the
Molly Picon Theatre, the Venice, and twice reverted to its original name honoring Jolson before finally being refurbished and reopened as the New Century on
April 8,
1944.
Its place in theatrical history was established in 1937 when
Orson Welles and his acting troupe marched their production of
The Cradle Will Rock into the theatre and performed it from seats in the audience in defiance of
Actors Equity.
The theatre was shuttered in 1954 and demolished in 1962.
Notable productions
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