Booth Theater's facade is made of brick and terracotta, with sgraffito decorations designed in stucco.
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17 Facts About Booth Theater
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The Booth Theater Theatre building takes up 90 feet of the Shubert Alley frontage.
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Booth Theater Theatre was designed by Henry Beaumont Herts and constructed in 1913 for the Shubert brothers.
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The Booth Theater's facade is made of white brick, laid in English-cross bondwork, as well as terracotta.
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The words "The Booth Theater Theatre" are placed above the arches in metal letters.
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Booth Theater contains both a ticket lobby and a rectangular inner lobby.
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The first successful production at the Booth Theater was Experience with William Elliott, which opened in late 1914 and continued for 255 performances.
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Booth Theater hosted numerous moderately successful plays by notable playwrights in the late 1910s.
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In 1920, the Booth Theater hosted the melodrama The Purple Mask with Leo Ditrichstein; the play Not So Long Ago with Eva Le Gallienne, Sidney Blackmer, and Thomas Mitchell; and a dramatization of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper with Ruth Findlay and William Faversham.
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In 1924, the Booth Theater hosted Dancing Mothers with Helen Hayes, Mary Young, and Henry Stephenson.
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The Booth Theater finally had another hit in early 1927 with the Maxwell Anderson comedy Saturday's Children with Beulah Bondi, Ruth Gordon, and Roger Pryor, which had 310 performances.
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The Booth Theater's next success was a ten-month run of Jerome Chodorov's Anniversary Waltz with Macdonald Carey and Kitty Carlisle, which had relocated from the Broadhurst, starting in late 1954.
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Subsequently, in 1974, the Booth Theater hosted a transfer of Terrence McNally's off-Broadway play Bad Habits, as well as the Schisgal play All Over Town.
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The Booth Theater ended the decade with a transfer of Bernard Pomerance's off-Broadway play The Elephant Man, which opened in 1979 and stayed for 916 performances.
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The next year, the Booth Theater hosted Emily Mann's production of Having Our Say, which ran for 308 performances.
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The Booth Theater next hosted two solo shows: Love Thy Neighbor by Jackie Mason in 1996, as well as Defending the Caveman by Rob Becker .
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Booth Theater hosted Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus during early 2019, followed later the same year by a limited run of Freestyle Love Supreme.
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