Grand Theater (New York)
The Grand Theater , named after its location at 255 Grand Street in New York City, was the first theater building ever dedicated to the Yiddish theater , according to Lulla Adler Rosenfeld . It was founded in 1903 by Joseph Latiner and others. The architect of the four-story building was Victor Hugo Koehler. The first artistic director of the theater business was Jacob P. Adler .
The theater building, like the other early theaters in Manhattan, was located south of what is now Broadway . It offered staging of plays by Yiddish authors such as Jacob Gordin and Scholem Alejchem , but also by Shakespeare , Ibsen , Tolstoy , Gutzkow and others. There were also frequent entertainment programs such as vaudevilles , variety shows and others.
In 1909 the building was leased to the Bedford Theatrical Company and later partially used as a cinema. In 1930 it was demolished.
literature
- New York [City] , in: Jewish Encyclopedia , 1901-1906, Volume 9, p. 282 online
- Rosenfeld, Lulla Adler, The Yiddish theater and Jacob P. Adler , 1988, pp. 292-346 online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lulla Rosenfeld Adler, Jacob P. Adler: The Yiddish Theater and Jacob P. Rosenfeld, Shapolsky, New York 1988, p 299