Ed Sullivan Theater
The Ed Sullivan Theater is a theater in Manhattan , New York City .
The theater is located on 1697–1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th. It offers space for 1,200 visitors. The building was designed by the architect Herbert J. Krapp and erected between 1925 and 1927 by Arthur Hammerstein . Initially the theater was named Hammerstein Theater in memory of Oscar Hammerstein , Arthur Hammerstein's father. In 1931 Arthur Hammerstein went bankrupt and sold the theater. The US television broadcaster Columbia Broadcasting System has owned it since 1936 .
From 1948 to June 1971, the theater served as the television studio for the program The Ed Sullivan Show , in which the Beatles , who were hired by Ed Sullivan in 1963 after landing by plane in Sweden, first appeared in the United States. Likewise were The Merv Griffin Show and other game shows broadcast from here. The show Late Show with David Letterman was recorded here from 1993 to May 2015 . After a renovation, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been broadcast from there since 2015 .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Brian Roylance, Nicky Page, Derek Taylor : The Beatles Anthology. (Chronicle Books, San Francisco 2000). German translation: Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 116.
Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 49.6 " N , 73 ° 58 ′ 58.3" W.