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Plymouth Theatre
Plymouth Theatre, New York, on West 45th Street. This 1,063-seat theatre opened in 1917, and a year later saw the first production in New York in English of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, starring Nazimova, who was also seen in his Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House. Later in the year John Barrymore appeared in a dramatization of Tolstoy's Redemption, renamed The Living Corpse, and in 1919 he was with his brother Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's The Jest. Among later successes were What Price Glory? (1924) by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings, which had a long run, Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law (1931), Robert Sherwood's adaptation of Deval's Tovarich (1936), and Sherwood's own Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938). Other notable productions were the musical Lute Song (1946), co-adapted by Sidney Howard from a Chinese play, Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (1952), from Man and Superman, Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates (1955), and Wesker's Chips with Everything (1963). Alec Guinness played Dylan Thomas in Sidney Michaels's Dylan (1964), and Neil Simon's The Star-Spangled Girl (1966) and Plaza Suite (1969) were staged, while the 1970s brought Peter Shaffer's Equus (1974) and Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged (1977). In 1981 the Plymouth housed the RSC's production of Piaf by Pam Gems and its marathon adaptation of Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby. Other British works were Hare's Plenty (1983) and Stoppard's The Real Thing (1984), while in 1987 Peter O'Toole starred in Shaw's Pygmalion.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Plymouth Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Plymouth Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-PlymouthTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Plymouth Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-PlymouthTheatre.html |
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Plymouth Theatre
Plymouth Theatre (New York). The Shuberts built the 1,000‐seat playhouse on West 45th Street in 1917 and leased it to producer Arthur Hopkins, who used it to present such daring works as What Price Glory? (1924) and Machinal (1927). But these kinds of experiments made little money during the Depression, and the theatre reverted back to the Shuberts, who still own it today. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp in a rather subdued but elegant style, the Plymouth is an excellent house for nonmusical plays, and it has seen many outstanding productions over the decades, including Holiday (1928), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), The Odd Couple (1965), and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1981).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Plymouth Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Plymouth Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-PlymouthTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Plymouth Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-PlymouthTheatre.html |
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