Al Hirschfeld Theater
The Al Hirschfeld Theater is a theater on Broadway in New York City .
history
The theater opened as the Martin Beck Theater on November 11, 1924. G. Albert Landsburgh was responsible for the planning and execution , who at the time was one of the best theater architects in the western United States. The name giver, founder and owner was the theater producer Martin Beck . He ran the theater until his death in 1940.
In the following 25 years the operation was continued by the Martin Beck Estate . In 1965, entrepreneur William McKnight bought the Beck Theater for $ 1.5 million. McKnight, who at that time already owned several theaters, founded the parent company Jujamcyn in the 1970s , under whose direction the Hirschfeld Theater is until today (2015).
On 21 June 2003, the Beck Theater was built in honor of the American cartoonist Al Hirschfeld in Al Hirschfeld Theater renamed and reopened on November 23 of 2003.
Web links
- Website of the theater
- The Al Hirschfeld Theater in the Internet Broadway Database
- At this Theater: Al Hirschfeld Theater - Broadway History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sam Zolotow: 3-M CHIEF BUYING THE MARTIN BECK; McKnight to Pay 1.5 Million for 41-Year-Old Theater. In: The New York Times . December 23, 1965; Retrieved September 5, 2013 (American English).