Knickerbocker Theatre

Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, on Broadway, at the north-east corner of 38th Street. As Abbey's Theatre, named after its first manager, it opened in 1893 with Irving and Ellen Terry in Tennyson's Becket, and later saw the New York débuts of such overseas stars as Mounet-Sully, Réjane, and John Hare. In 1896 it was renamed the Knickerbocker, but continued its policy of housing famous visitors, among them Wilson Barrett in his own melodrama The Sign of the Cross and Beerbohm Tree in Gilbert Parker's The Seats of the Mighty. Among the American stars who appeared there were Maude Adams in Rostand's L'Aiglon in 1900 and Barrie's Quality Street in 1901, and Otis Skinner, who in 1911 scored an instantaneous success in Knoblock's Kismet. The last production at this famous theatre was Philip Dunning's Sweet Land of Liberty, which closed after eight performances. The theatre was demolished in 1930.

The Bowery Theatre was called the Knickerbocker for a short time in 1844.