National Theatre (Manhattan)

The National Theatre 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.
^ ^a ^b "National Theatre & Roosevelt Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
^ 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, December 26, 2016.
^ 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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[grids-1] 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.

[treasures-2] "National Theatre & Roosevelt Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved March 27, 2011.

[Zylbercweig804-3] 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.

[4] "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, December 26, 2016.

[uwm.edu/yiddish/sunshine-5] 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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