The Herald Square Theatre was a Broadway theatre in Manhattan , New York City, built in 1883 and closed in 1914. The site is now a highrise designed by H. Craig Severance .
4-747: The Park Theatre opened in 1883 (also known as the New Park Theatre ) on the partly demolished site of the Great New York Aquarium (1876–1881), which is unrelated to the later New York Aquarium . Actor Charles E. Evans, retiring from the stage with cash in hand from the long-running success of A Parlor Match , refurbished the prior Harrigan's Park Theatre as the Herald Square Theatre in 1894. It stood at 1331 Broadway, designed by architects Rose & Stone, with about 1150 seats and with its interior furnished by
8-513: A Grand Old Flag " in 1906, and it was also where William Randolph Hearst first saw and met his wife Millicent Willson during her appearance as a "bicycle girl" in 1897. 40°45′4″N 73°59′17.5″W / 40.75111°N 73.988194°W / 40.75111; -73.988194 Park Theatre (Manhattan) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
12-642: The Broadway theater district migrated north of 40th Street. The theatre offered a variety of entertainment, from plays, like Shaw 's Arms and the Man (1894), to Edwardian musical comedies , like The Girl from Kay's (1903–1904) and The Girl Behind the Counter (1907–1908), to operetta, like Reginald De Koven and Harry B. Smith 's Rob Roy . It saw the first performance of the George M. Cohan song " You're
16-493: The interior of the nearby Booth's Theatre , which was being demolished. Lee Shubert took over the lease of the theatre in 1900, making it the first Broadway theatre owned by The Shubert Organization . Partially destroyed by fire and rebuilt, in 1911 it became "the first New York theatre to be converted into a silent movie house", but it was demolished only three years later, as the Garment District expanded, and
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