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Cort Theatre
Cort Theatre, New York, on West 48th Street, between the Avenue of the Americas and 7th Avenue. This opened in 1912 with Laurette Taylor in the immensely successful comedy Peg o' My Heart by her husband John Hartley Manners. In 1916 there was a revival of Hazelton and Benrimo's The Yellow Jacket, and in 1919 came Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln. In 1930 there was a notable revival of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and in 1933 The Green Bay Tree by Mordaunt Shairp with Laurence Olivier, in an elegant setting by Robert Edmond Jones, had a good run. Also successful were the fine war play A Bell for Adano (1944), based on a novel by John Hersey; Anouilh's Antigone (1946), with Katharine Cornell; The Diary of Anne Frank (1955) adapted by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; and Dore Schary's play about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sunrise at Campobello (1958). In 1969 the theatre was leased for television productions but it reopened as a legitimate theatre in 1972, its productions including August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984).
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Cort Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Cort Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-CortTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Cort Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-CortTheatre.html |
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Cort Theatre
Cort Theatre (New York). One of Broadway's smaller and most engaging theatres, the Cort on West 48th Street was designed by Edward B. Corey to hold a thousand spectators comfortably in an auditorium in the style of Louis XVI. It was built by impresario John Cort and opened in 1912 with a resounding hit: Peg o' My Heart starring Laurette Taylor. Although it served as a television studio between 1969 and 1972, the playhouse has had a long history presenting nonmusical plays in an intimate setting.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Cort Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Cort Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-CortTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Cort Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-CortTheatre.html |
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