Английская Википедия:Charles Playhouse

Материал из Онлайн справочника
Перейти к навигацииПерейти к поиску

Шаблон:Infobox venue The Charles Playhouse is a theater at 74 Warrenton Street Boston in the Boston Theater District. The venue comprises an approximately 500-seat mainstage, which hosts the long-running Blue Man Group, and a 200-seat second stage that hosted Shear Madness until March 2020.[1][2][3]

History

In 1957, the Charles Playhouse opened at 54 Charles Street. In 1958, the company moved to the current Warrenton Street location.[4] The Warrenton Street building was originally built in 1839, as the Fifth Universalist Church from a design by architect Asher Benjamin.[5][6] In 1864, it became the second home of Congregation Ohabei Shalom, the first synagogue in Boston.[7] It was later transformed into a speakeasy called The Lido Venice, which became the Southland ballroom and cafe- featuring prominent jazz artists such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford, and many others during the Jazz Age.[8][9]

In 1958, the Charles Playhouse staged a revival of O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. The founding artistic director, Michael Murray,[10] led the company until 1968. The founder and managing director was Frank Sugrue.[11][12] The acting company included many stars-to-be such as Al Pacino, Olympia Dukakis, Jill Clayburgh, Jane Alexander, Ned Beatty, and John Cazale.[7] The company produced Boston premieres of plays by Brecht, Beckett, Osborne, and Ionesco, as well as classics by Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen, Pirandello, and others.

The Charles Playhouse was regarded as one of the pioneering regional theaters in America. In his book, Regional Theatre: the Revolutionary Stage, Joseph Wesley Zeigler identifies it as one of six theatres which were the foundations of the Regional Theatre Movement.[13]

In 1995, Sugre sold the Charles Playhouse to Jon B. Platt, who operated the Colonial Theatre.[14] In 1998, Platt sold his Boston theatres to SFX Entertainment (now Live Nation).[15] In 2008, Live Nation sold most of its theatrical division, including the Charles Playhouse, to Key Brand Entertainment (now the John Gore Organization).[16]

See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:Commons category

Шаблон:Boston theatres Шаблон:National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts

Партнерские ресурсы
Криптовалюты
Магазины
Хостинг
Разное

  1. ↑ ShearMadness.com. Whodunit Housed in Historic Buildings Шаблон:Webarchive. Retrieved 2012-03-06
  2. ↑ Blue Man Group website. Retrieved 2012-03-06
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Citation
  5. ↑ Mary van Meter. "A New Asher Benjamin Church in Boston." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Oct., 1979), pp. 262- 266
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  7. ↑ 7,0 7,1 Blowen, Michael. "Curtain to rise on a new Charles." Boston Globe, 22 Sep 1995: 58.
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Cite bookШаблон:Dead link
  10. ↑ McLaughlin, Jeff. "Charles Playhouse celebrates 30th anniversary." Boston Globe, 23 Sep 1988: 63
  11. ↑ McLaughlin, Jeff. "Playhouse renovated." Boston Globe, 17 May 1985: 51.
  12. ↑ Jeanne Muller Ryan, 71
  13. ↑ Zeigler, Joseph Wesley, Regional Theatre: the Revolutionary Stage, New York: Da Capo Press, 1977, pp. 24-61, Note: founding theatres cited by Zeigler are Alley Theatre, Houston (1947), Mummers Theatre, Oklahoma City (1949), Arena Stage, Washington DC (1950), Actor's Workshop, San Francisco (1952), Milwaukee Repertory Company (1954), Front Theatre, Memphis (1954), and Charles Playhouse (1957)
  14. ↑ https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/20523084.html?dids=20523084:20523084&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+13%2C+1995&author=Iris+Fanger&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=THEATER+Colonial+operator+buys+Charles+Playhouse Шаблон:Dead link
  15. ↑ Bound for Boston: SFX subsidiary gains legit house American Artists
  16. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
Источник — http://wikihandbk.com/ruwiki/index.php?title=Английская_Википедия:Charles_Playhouse&oldid=13872626