Irving Place Theater

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The Irving Place Theater as Conrieds Deutsches Theater

The Irving Place Theater was located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Irving Place and East 15th Street in the neighborhood of Union Square in Manhattan , New York City . Built in 1888, it was initially a German-language theater, from 1918 a Yiddish theater, and in the 1920s and 1930s a burlesque theater, a trade union assembly building and a cinema. It was canceled in 1984.

history

The original building on the property was Irving Hall, opened in 1860 as a location for balls, concerts, and lectures. A faction of the New York Democratic Party also used the building.

In 1888 the building was rebuilt and reopened as Amberg's Deutsches Theater . The manager was the German-speaking emigrant Gustav Amberg , who five years later passed this position on to Heinrich Conried , who renamed it the Irving Place Theater in 1893 , but also as Conried's Deutsches Theater until 1903 . For this he engaged many German and Austrian actors, such as Adolf von Sonnenthal , Friedrich Mitterwurzer , Felix Schweighofer and Lina Loos . After 1903 the management changed several times, so from 1907 to 1913 Moritz Baumfeld, the brother of Ella Briggs , was director of the Irving Place Theater , which, however, was never able to build on the successes of Heinrich Conried's time as director.

In 1918 the Yiddish Art Theater was founded here under the direction of Maurice Schwartz . In the 1920s, burlesques (a genre of US American entertainment theater) were performed alongside Yiddish plays, with the composer and arranger Harry Lubin (1906–1977) also temporarily working here as musical director in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1939, Clemente Giglio converted the theater into a cinema to show Italian films. In 1940 it was temporarily taken over by an independent (and boycotted by the trade unions) theater group; due to insufficient income, it remained an experiment.

In 1962 the cinema was closed and the rooms used as a warehouse, in 1984 it was demolished.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinema Treasures - Irving Place Theater , accessed March 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Union Square Loses Its Old Residences : Article of June 18, 1916 in The New York Times (PDF, English). Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  3. ^ A b Ward & Trent, et al .: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York, GP Putnam's Sons, 1907-21; New York, Bartleby.com, 2000 (www.bartleby.com/cambridge/), Volume 8, p. 23. Text , accessed on March 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ The Yiddish Art Theater on the Internet Broadway Database ibdb.com . Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  5. ^ German Drama to Move; Irving Place Theater Will Be Yiddish Playhouse After May 1 : February 14, 1918 article in The New York Times (PDF). Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ Harry Lubin on apmmusic.com , accessed March 5, 2018.
  7. ↑ Show That Defies Unions Takes In $ 74 in a Week , New York Times article, February 25, 1940, retrieved March 5, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Irving Place Theater  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files