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Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, on West 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Seating 1,088, it opened as the Mansfield Theatre in 1926, soon receiving a visit from the Moscow Habimah Players in Ansky's The Dybbuk. Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures (1930) had an unexpected success, but after Ruth Gordon's nostalgic Years Ago (1946) the theatre was used for radio and television shows. It reopened in 1960 under its present name, given in honour of the critic Brooks Atkinson. Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn (1961) had a long run, and interesting later productions were Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy and Tennessee Williams's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (both 1964); Peter Nichols's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1968) with Albert Finney; Ronald Millar's Abelard and Heloise (1971) with Keith Michell and Diana Rigg; and Bernard Slade's Same Time, Next Year (1975), which ran for three years. Notable plays of the 1980s were Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly (1980) and Michael Frayn's Noises Off (1983) and Benefactors (1985).
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Brooks Atkinson Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Brooks Atkinson Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-BrooksAtkinsonTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Brooks Atkinson Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-BrooksAtkinsonTheatre.html |
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Brooks Atkinson Theatre (New York). Opening in 1926 as the Mansfield Theatre, the wide and practical theatre was built by the enterprising Chanin Brothers on West 47th Street and named after the celebrated actor Richard Mansfield. Herbert J Krapp designed the 1,000‐seat playhouse, which was ideal for nonmusicals. The Mansfield managed to survive the Great Depression years but closed in 1944 and reopened as a television studio in 1950. A decade later it returned to offering legit fare and was renamed after the recently retired journalist Brooks Atkinson, the first time on record a theatre was named after a critic. Today the playhouse is owned by the Nederlanders and is steadily booked.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Brooks Atkinson Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Brooks Atkinson Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-BrooksAtkinsonTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Brooks Atkinson Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-BrooksAtkinsonTheatre.html |
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