Booth Theatre is a Broadway theater at 222 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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22 Facts About Booth Theatre
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Booth Theatre's facade is made of brick and terracotta, with sgraffito decorations designed in stucco.
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Booth Theatre is on 224 West 45th Street, on the north sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Seventh Avenue, near Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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The Booth Theatre building takes up 90 feet of the Shubert Alley frontage.
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Booth Theatre is part of the largest concentration of Broadway theaters on a single block.
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Shubert and Booth Theatre theaters were developed as a pair and are the oldest theaters on the block.
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Booth Theatre was designed by Henry Beaumont Herts and constructed in 1913 for the Shubert brothers.
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The Shubert and Booth Theatre theaters are within separate buildings and differ in their interior designs and functions, although they have adjacent stage areas near the center of the block.
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The Booth Theatre's facade is made of white brick, laid in English-cross bondwork, as well as terracotta.
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The Booth Theatre became the second New York City venue to bear Booth's name, after Booth's Theatre at 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, completed in 1869 for Booth himself.
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The next month, the new-building application for the New Booth Theatre was withdrawn, and two new-building applications for Shubert's and Ames's theaters were filed.
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The first successful production at the Booth Theatre was Experience with William Elliott, which opened in late 1914 and continued for 255 performances.
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Booth Theatre hosted numerous moderately successful plays by notable playwrights in the late 1910s.
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In 1920, the Booth Theatre 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 Theatre hosted Dancing Mothers with Helen Hayes, Mary Young, and Henry Stephenson.
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The Booth Theatre 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 Theatre'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 Theatre 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 Theatre 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 Theatre hosted Emily Mann's production of Having Our Say, which ran for 308 performances.
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The Booth Theatre 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 Theatre 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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