THEATRES OF NEW YORK, LONDON AND TORONTO (ALPHABETICAL)

SITE UPDATED OCTOBER 23, 2002

Abbey’s New Park Theatre(NYC) – see Park Theatre

Abbey's Theater(NYC) - 1893 - 1500 seats - next door to Casino Theater at 1396 Broadway and 39th St. - Red Mill - 1896 it was renamed Knickerbocker - demolished 1930

ABC Cinema (LONDON) (Piccadilly) - being turned into cabaret venue - 400 seats (near Jermyn Street Theatre, which is also used for cabaret venues)

*Abington,(NYC) - 432 West 42nd Street – 4th Floor

*Abrons Art Center(NYC) - 466 Grand St. @ Pitt Street – see Henry Street Settlement

Academy (TORONTO) – 1286 Bloor St. West near Lansdowne (1934-1965) – between larger Lansdowns and Kenwood – still standing but with different uses

Academy of Music (TORONTO) - (1889-1895) Church and Adelaide Streets - changed to Princess

Academy of Music(NYC) - 14th Street between 3rd Avenue and Irving Place - (1279 seats)- predates Brooklyn Academy of Music - In Old Kentucky 1893 (160) - burned to the ground in 1866

Academy Theatre(NYC) - see Apollo

Ace (TORONTO) – see Photodrome

Ace (TORONTO) – 603 Danforth Ave – (1945-1954) 585 seats – now a Shoppers Drug Mart

Acme Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Acropolis (TORONTO) (1964-1975) 904 seats

Actors Collective(NYC) - Perfect Crime 1987 (still running at another theatre) – demolished

Actors' Colony Theatre (TORONTO) - under direction of John Holden - 1934 to 1941 - summer seasons held in Bala, Muskoka and from 1936 to 1940 winter sessions in Winnipeg's Dominion Theatre

Actors’ Institute(NYC)

Actors Outlet (NYC) – Olympus on My Mind 1986

*Actors Playhouse(NYC) - 100 7th Avenue S. - between Bleecker St. & 4th St - an off Broadway theatre for more than 40 years - Saturday's Children 1927 (310); Riverwind 1962; Pocket Watch 1966 (725); Fortune and Men's Eyes 1967 (382); Boy Meets Boy 1975; Crimes Against Nature 1978 (10 weeks); Marry Me a Little 1981; What's a Nice Country Like You...Doing in a State Like This 1985 (252); Howard Crabtree’s Whoop-Dee-Doo 1993; Making Porn (Rex Chandler) 1996 (395); Naked Boys Singing 1999 (2 years July 22/01)

Actors’ Studio Drama School(NYC)- Three Sisters 1964

Air Canada Centre (TORONTO) - 40 Bay Street (19,800 seats) - the new replacement for Maple Leaf Concerts

Ajax 10 (TORONTO) – 248 Kingston Road – 10 cinemas – 1997

Aladdin Theatre (TORONTO) - 1975

Albert Saloon, Hoxton (LONDON) - 1843-1851

*Albery Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - built 1903 as The New Theatre - (883 seats) - name changed in 1973 - Anne of Green Gables 1965; Cocktail Party; Oliver; Candide 1977; Pal Joey 1981; Children of a Lesser God; Torch Song Trilogy; Company (revival); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Albion (LONDON) (Whitechapel)

Albion 2 (TORONTO) – Kipling and Albion Road – 1964

*Aldwych Theatre (LONDON) -(Holborn/Covent Garden) Aldwych - 1905 - (1176 seats) – damaged during World War I – restored 1923 - Gay Gordons 1907; Royal Shakespeare Company used as home (1960-1982) – Streetcar Named Desire (Vivien Leigh) 1949; Under the Sycamore Tree (Alec Guiness)1952; The Homecoming; Pieces of Eight 1960 (300+); 1960 became home of Royal Shakespeare Company - Taming of the Shrew (Vanessa Redgrave) 1961; Homecoming 1965; London Assurance (Donald Sinden, Judi Dench) 1970 (transferred to New Theatre)(390); Travesties 1974; Zykovs (Paul Rogers,Mia Farrow) 1976; Privates on Parade 1977; Coriolanus 1979; Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1980); Swan Down Gloves 1981; Andy Capp 1982; Whistle Down the Wind 1998; Secret Garden

Alexandra Theatre (LONDON) – 3 theatres by this name; 1st Alexandra – hall in Highbury Barn 1861-1871; 2nd Alexandra – Park Street – Camden Town 1873 – 1879 became Park Theatre – burned down 1881 and never rebuilt; 3rd Alexandra in Stoke - Newington Road - built in 1897 – closed 1940 – demolished

Alhambra (TORONTO) – 568 Bloor St. West at Bathurst – 1000 seats (1925-1969) – now a Swiss Chalet restaurant

Alhambra Palace Music Hall (LONDON) - Leicester Square – famous music hall – opened 1854 as exhibition centre – seating 3500 – changed to Palace; Music Hall; Theatre – as Alhambra in 1860 – 1882 burnt down – rebuilt – 1936 theatre demolished and Odeon Cinema erected on the site - Carmen 1903; Psyche 1909; Bing Boys are Here 1916

Al Hirschfield Theatre - see Martin Beck

Alianak Theatre Productions (TORONTO), 556 Palmerston Ave

Alice Tully Hall(NYC) - see Philharmonic Hall

Algonquin Hotel(NYC) - see Oak Room

Al Khaima Dining Theatre (TORONTO) - 767 Dovercourt Road

All Cartoon Movie Theatre(NYC) - see Bijou Theatre

Allenby (TORONTO) – 1215 Danforth Ave, East of Greenwood (1936-1970) – art deco -775 seats – became Roxy and now operated as the Grand

Allen Theatre (TORONTO) - Danforth - changed to Century Theatre and then the Music Hall

Allen Theatre (TORONTO) at 19 Richmond Street East - changed to Tivoli - Christmas pantomimes; Peter Pan - demolished 1970s

All Nations (TORONTO) – see Playhouse

*Almeida (LONDON) - Almeida St., Islington (Angel Islington)

*Almeida at the Albery Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - Medea 1992

Almost Free Theatre (LONDON)

*Altered Stages(NYC) - 212 West 29th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues

*Alumnae Theatre (TORONTO) - 70 Berkeley Street - for 30 years this theatre, in a converted firehall built in 1900 - corner of Berkeley and Adelaide Streets - theatre group founded in 1919 by women graduates of University College, University of Toronto

Alumni Hall (TORONTO) - St. Michael's College

Alvin Theatre(NYC) – 250 West 52nd Street – (1344 seats) - opened 1927 with Funny Face (Fred and Adele Astaire) - see Neil Simon (renamed in 1983 in honour of the playwright)- Girl Crazy 1930; Music in the Air 1932; Anything Goes 1934; Red Hot and Blue 1936; Boys From Syracuse 1938; Very Warm For May 1939; Lady in the Dark 1941; Something For The Boys (Ethel Merman) 1943 (422); Billion Dollar Baby 1945; Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Shirley Booth) 1951 (267); Two’s Company 1952; House of Flowers 1954; No Time For Sergeants 1955 (796); Oh Captain (Tony Randall) 1958 (192); First Impressions 1959; Greenwillow (Anthony Perkins,Pert Kelton,Cecil Kellaway) 1960 (97); Wildcat 1960; Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1962; High Spirits 1964; Flora the Red Menace 1965; Yearling 1965; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Brian Murray,John Wood)1967 (421); It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s Superman 1966; Great White Hope 1968 (556); Company 1970 (690); Shenandoah 1975; Annie 1977; Merrily We Roll Along 1981; Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? 1982;

AMAS Repertory(NYC) – 4 Guys Named Jose; Beowulf 1977

* Ambassador(NYC) - 215 West 49th St. opened 1921(Shubert-seats 1125)- First of six theatres the Shuberts will build on 48th and 49th Streets - opening show was Rose Girl 1921; Blossom Time 1921 (576); -Great Gatsby 1926 (14 weeks); Racket 1927 (119); Night of January 16 1935 (232); Eugenia (Tallulah Bankhead) 1957 (12); You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running 1967 (755);Celebration 1969; Me and Bessie 1974 (453); Godspell (1976) appeared at 3 theatres after leaving off-Broadway (Ambassador, Broadhurst and Plymouth to log up 2,124 performances); Eubie (Gregory Hines,Maurice Hines) 1978 (439); Division Street (John Lithgow,Christine Lahti) 1980 (21); Lion in Winter, Miss Margarida's Way, Leader of the Pack 1985; Ain't Misbehavin - revival 1988 (176); Bring in da Noise, Bring in Da Funk 1996; Ride Down Mount Morgan 2000; Class Act 2001;

*Ambassadors Theatre (LONDON) - West Street near St. Martin’s Lane - 1913 - (190 seats) - Rope (Brian Aherne) 1929; Mask of Virtue (Vivien Leigh) 1935 (117); Mousetrap opened here in 1952 before moving to St. Martin's in 1974; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Shopping and F---ing 1996;

Ambrose Small Grand Opera House (TORONTO) – Adelaide Street West – converted to Regent

AMC Courteney Park (TORONTO) – 401 and Highway 10 – 16 cinemas

AMC Interchange 30 (TORONTO) – 30 Interchange Way, Vaughan – 1999 – 30 cinemas

AMC Kennedy Commons 20 (TORONTO) – 401 and Kennedy Rd – 1998 – 20 cinemas

AMC Metropolis 24 (TORONTO) – Dundas and Yonge – to open 2002/03

AMC Whitby 24 (TORONTO) – 401 and Thickson Road – 1999 – 24 cinemas

AMC Winston Churchill 24 (TORONTO) – QEW and Winston Churchill Blvd - 1998

American Academy of Dramatic Arts(NYC)

*American Airlines Theatre(NYC) - 229 West 42nd Street - built as Selwyn Theatre - 1918 - 1000 seats - See Roundabout Theatre - Royal Family 1927 (343), Information Please, Crowded Hour, Buddies - 1934 became a movie theatre - 25 million renovation and reopened as American Airlines Theatre (750 seats)- Man Who Came to Dinner (Nathan Lane) 2000;The Women (Cynthia Nixon,Jennifer Tilly,Rue McClanahan)2001;

American Comedy Institute(NYC)

American Globe Theatre(NYC)

* American Jewish Theatre(NYC) - see Maverick Theatre - 307 West 26th St.- Bertha The Sewing Machine Girl 1906 (9)

American Laboratory Theatre(NYC) – 1920s – training school and producing company

American Museum(NYC) – Broadway and Ann Street – 1841 – by 1849 became a theatre – enlarged 1850 – 1865 building burnt down

American Music Hall (NYC)- see American Theatre

American Negro Theatre(NYC) - founded in Harlem - 1940 by playwright Abram Hill and actors Frederick O'Neal and Austin Briggs-Hall - presented original scripts at 135th Street Branch of New York Public Library – company abandoned early 1950s

American Opera House(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

* American Place Theatre(NYC) - 111 West 46th St.(between 6th Ave & Broadway)- 300 seats - founded in 1964 - 2 smaller spaces of 299 and 74 seats - group founded in 1963 at St. Clement's Church and moved to present location in 1971 - Hogan's Goat 1965 (607); Karl Marx Play 1973; Cold Storage (Martin Balsam) 1977 (6 weeks); A…My Name Will Always Be Alice 1984; I'm Not Rappaport (Judd Hirsch,Cleavon Little) 1985 (181 - transferred to Booth Theatre); Night and Her Stars 1995; Runt 2001 (100 perf. Aug 19/01)

American Roof Garden(NYC) - above American Music Hall - earlier called American Theatre 1893

American Show Shop(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

American Theatre(NYC) – 1893 – 260 West 42nd Street and 8th Avenue – 1893 - with entrances on 41st, 42nd and 8th Avenues - 2100 seats - 1908 renamed American Music Hall, had American Roof Garden – became burlesque house 1929 - burned in 1930 and never reopened as a theatre – demolished 1932 - now a parking lot; 2nd American Music Hall opened 1934 in converted church at 139-41 East 55th Street

* American Theater of Actors(NYC) - 314 West 54th St - houses 3 theatres - Chernuchin, Beckman, Sargeant – see ATA – Urinetown 2001

Amusement Park(NYC) – Freedomland U.S.A. 1960

Anco Theatre(NYC) - see Lew M. Fields Theatre

Anne Wilder(NYC) see Playwrights Horizon

*Annex Theatre (TORONTO)

Ansbacher Theatre(NYC) – see Public Theatre – Hair 1967

Ansonia Baths(NYC) - (Continental Baths - became known as "The Tubs," west 70s - performances by Bette Midler

Anspacher Theatre(NYC) – see Public Theatre

ANT(NYC) - see American Negro Theatre

Anta(NYC) (American National Theatre and Academy) - 245 West 52nd St. – built by Theatre Guild 1925 – opened as Guild Theatre - changed in 1950 to Anta Playhouse and Anta Theatre in 1954 - in 1981 became the Virginia - theatre sold in 1981 - renovated 1995 - Second Man 1927 (178), Porgy 1927 (217), Marco Millions 1928 (92), Mourning Becomes Electra 1931 (157), Ah Wilderness 1933 (289), End of Summer 1936 (152), Biography 1932 (267);Seventh Heaven 1955; Great Sebastians (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) 1956; Say Darling 1958; J.B. 1958 (364);Middle of the Night (Edward G. Robinson,Gena Rowlands) 1956 (477),Thurber Carnival (Paul Ford,Peggy Cass,John McGiver,Alice Ghostley,Tom Ewell) 1960 (16 weeks and additional 12 weeks later); Man for All Seasons 1961 (637); Blues For Mr. Charlie (Rip Torn,Al Freeman Jr) 1964 (148); Owl and the Pussycat 1964 (421); Royal Hunt of the Sun 1965 (261); Maggie Flynn 1968; Different Times 1972; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - revival-(Elizabeth Ashley,Keir Dullea,Fred Gwynne,Kate Reid) 1974 (160);Bubbling Brown Sugar 1976 (766); Summer Brave (Alexis Smith)1975, Heartaches of a Pussycat 1980; Oh, Brother 1981;

A.N.T.A Washington Square Theatre(NYC) – opened 1964 with After the Fall (208); But For Whom Charlie (Ralph Meeker)(47); Man of La Mancha 1965 (2328)- moved to Martin Beck, then the Eden and Mark Hellinger, - torn down

Anthony Street Theatre(NYC) - 79-85 Worth Street – 1812 opened as Olympic Theatre – 1813 became present name – later became Commonwealth and the Pavillion – demolished 1821

Anthony’s Villa (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret – Blue Champagne 1976

Apollo (TORONTO) – 2901 Dundas Street West (1936-1954) – 551 seats - built as the Crystal and changed to Apollo in 1930s – now a hair salon

Apollo Hall(NYC) (Fifth Avenue Theatre) 1873 - several name changes and burned in 1891 and was rebuilt as vaudeville/film and burlesque theatre - torn down in 1938

Apollon(TORONTO) – 1969 0 700 seats

*Apollo Theatre(NYC) - 253 West 125th Street - built 1934 - 1,463 seats - was the home of great black talent, like Lena Horne, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bobby Short, Jewel Box Revue -closed from 1976 to 1978 - refurbished - Now, as the Apollo starts a $6 million renovation, the theater is planning to install a production with an open-ended run. The theater is to announce today that a new revue, "Harlem Song," is in the works, celebrating the history of Harlem since the 1920's through song, dance, dialogue, photographs and film. The theater is to start its renovation in June 2001, including redoing its marquee and facade. For the first time, Dance Theater of Harlem will perform its season at the Apollo.

Apollo Theatre(NYC) - 223 West 42nd Street - built 1920 (1194 seats) opened as The Bryant in 1910 for vaudeville and films - rebuilt as the Apollo – Manhattan Mary 1927 (264); Flying High 1930 (347), Jimmie, Poppy, George White's Scandals - closed 1933 to show movies, became a burlesque house from 1934 to 1937 but in 1938 returned to foreign films and in 1968 action films - 1978 renovated and entrance moved to 43rd Street - back to live theatre - On Golden Pond 1979, Bent (240), Fifth of July 1980 (511) - in 1983 returned to showing films - name changed to the Academy - featuring rock concerts - gutted in 1996 along with the Lyric to build Ford Centre for the Performing Arts engulfing the Apollo and Lyric theatres; 3 other theatres were Apollo for short time – Third Avenue Variety Theatre 1885; Playhouse on Chuter Street 1926 and a burlesque house on 125th Street

*Apollo Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus)29 Shaftesbury Avenue - 1901 (775 seats)- Girl From Kay's 1902; Treasure Hunt 1949 (11 months); Tiger at the Gates (Michael Redgrave) 1955; Boeing Boeing (3 years); Alpha Beta; Forty Years On 1968; Forget Me Not Lane 1971; Norman Conquests 1975 (700 performances)

*Apollo Victoria (LONDON) - (Victoria) 17 Wilton Road - 1930 - (1524 seats) - opened as the New Victoria Cinema (2500)- converted to a theatre - closed in the 1950s and reopened in 1980 - Starlight Express opened 1984 (17 years when it closes January 12/02)- 2nd longest running musical in West End history

Aquarium Theatre (LONDON) – see Imperial Theatre

Aquatic Theatre (LONDON) – see Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Arabesque Dance Company (TORONTO) 20 College Street, 2nd Floor

Arcade (TORONTO) – Yonge Street – (1961-1962)

Arcadian (TORONTO) – 10 Queen St. East, beside Town Tavern – 370 seats (1935-1950) – opened as the Variety – now a hair salon

*Arci's Place(NYC) - 450 Park Avenue South (between 30th and 31st Streets) - opened 1998 as an intimate cabaret venue – closing March 15/02 - to open a new space in theatre district July/August 2002 - Arci's Place opened its doors in 1998, and its first headliner was current Mamma Mia! star Karen Mason, who returned to the cabaret's intimate stage several times. Other performers who made Arci's their home included Donna McKechnie, Christine Ebersole, Sam Harris, Tom Wopat, Marilyn Sokol, Baby Jane Dexter, John Barrowman, Carol Woods, Margaret Whiting, Priscilla Lopez, Paige Price, Sally Mayes and several others. Acclaimed Gypsy standby Jana Robbins was currently in the midst of a month-long Sunday-night gig singing the songs of Cy Coleman, and Melba Moore, the Tony-winning Purlie star, was scheduled to play a two week engagement beginning March 20. Lonnie Ackerman was performing Tuesdays and McKechnie had two more shows of her My Musical Comedy Life planned

*ArcLight Theater(NYC) - 152 West 71st St (between 6th Ave & Broadway) - 99 seat theatre in basement of a church

Argyll Rooms (LONDON) – see Trocadero Palace of Varieties

*Arno Ristorante(NYC) - 141 West 38th Street (between Broadway and 7th Avenue) - Murdered By The Mob - in its 5th year

Artef Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre and Comedy Theatre

*Art Gallery of Ontario (TORONTO) - Dundas Street - used for an occasional play - The Chairs, Zoo Story

Art Party(NYC) - see Zipper Theatre - new company formed 2002 by Alan Cumming and associates

Arts and Letters Club (TORONTO) - housed in St. George's Hall which opened 1892, the club itself founded in 1908 as meeting place for writers/actors/musicians – 1910 opened in back of York County Courthouse on Adelaide St. East – 1920 moved to 14 Elm Street

Arts Laboratory (LONDON) – Drury Lane 1968 – closed 1969

Arts Theatre(NYC) - Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land 1976 (1667)

Arts Theatre (LONDON) – Listen to the Wind 1955; Waltz of the Toreadors 1956; Comedy of Errors 1956; Four to the Bar 1961; Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land 1976 - played after engagement at Almost Free Theatre 1976 (1,667); Slice of Saturday Night 1989; 2nd – Arts Theatre – see Cambridge; 3rd Arts Theatre – Great Newport Street – off St. Martin’s Lane – 1927 (347 seats)

*Artword Theatre (TORONTO) - 75 Portland - small studio space

Assembly Hall (TORONTO) - 3121 Lakeshore Road West

Assembly Theatre(NYC) – see Princess Theatre

A Space (TORONTO) - St. Nicholas Street - art, photographic and performance space in the 1960s and early 1970s

Aster (TORONTO) – Ossington and Dundas – see Pix (1928-1942)

Astley's Theatre (LONDON) - 1844-1865 known as Astley's Royal Amphitheatre of Arts; Astley's Royal Amphitheatre; Astley's; Europe's National Amphitheatre – South bank of Thames in Westminster Bridge Road – 1769 – originally open circus ring – 1784 covered amphitheatre built – fire 1794 and reopened 1795 as the Royal Grove – fire 1803 – rebuilt as Royal Amphitheatre – fire 1830 – 1841 burnt down – rebuilt – 1862 renamed Theatre Royal, Westminster – reconstructed 1872/3 seating 2407 as Sanger’s Grand National Amphitheatre – closed 1893 and demolished 1895

Astor Hotel(NYC) – Fly With Me 1920

Astor Theatre (TORONTO) – built as Embassy – 651 Yonge Street below Bloor – became the New Yorker

Astoria Theatre (LONDON) – Elvis 1977; Hired Man 1984

Astor Library (NYC) - Hair opened here in 1967 before transferring to Broadway in 1968, stopping off first at a discotheque on the Upper West Side

* Astor Place Opera House(NYC) - built for Italian Opera in 1847 – Macbeth 1849 - anti-English mobs set fire to the theatre 1849 – theatre repaired and reopened – closed 1850 - 1854 building was renamed Clinton Hall – a library and lecture room - demolished

*Astor Place Theatre(NYC) - 434 Layfayette St. (7th & 8th)- residential building converted to theatre in 1969 (298 seats) - Paid in Full 1908 (167), Man From Home 1908 (496), Seven Days 1909 (397), Why Marry 1917 (120), Seven Keys to Baldpate 1913 (320), Hit-The-Trail Holliday 1915 (336), East is West 1918 (680), Boss 1911 (88), Indian Wants the Bronx/It's Called the Sugar Plum (Marsha Mason) 1968 - converted to a theatre in 1969 (298) - Peace 1969 (192); Gertrude Stein’s First Reader 1969; Dirtiest Show in Town 1970 (509); Blue Man Group in recent years - Cockeyed Tiger, Family Business, Dirtiest Show in Town 1970(509), Dining Room 1982 (583), Foreigner 1984 (686), Tubes 1991 (over 900 performances)

Astor Theatre(NYC) - built 1906 - 1537 Broadway at 45th Street - 1925 became a film house for 50 years - closed in 1972 - with adjoining Victoria, Helen Hayes, Morosco and Bijou Theatres became a new hotel tower - plans were delayed due to the glut of office space - in 1982 the five theatres were demolished - Her Soldier Boy 1916 (198); East is West 1918 (680) - today houses Broadways newest theatre The Minskoff

*ATA(NYC) (American Theatre of Actors) - 314 West 54th Street – 3 theatres Chernuchin (140 seats); Sargent (65) and Beckmann (35)

*AT & T Centre for the Performing Arts (TORONTO) - see Pantages

Athenion (TORONTO) – (1964-1970) – 507 seats

* Atlantic(NYC) - 336 West 20th St. (182)- housed in old church - Atlantic Company moved here in 1991 - Hothouse 1999; Brave 1999

*Atlantis Theatre (TORONTO) - 955 Lakeshore West in Ontario Place (1-888-449-4463)- 450 seats

Auditorium (TORONTO) – see Pickford

Audrey Wood Theatre(NYC) 0 Kuni-Leml 1984; Love 1984

Avalon (TORONTO) – 2921 Danforth – 403 seats (1937-1955)

Avenue (TORONTO) – see Pickford

Avenue Theatre (TORONTO) - 331 Eglinton Avenue West, W of Avenue Road – (1937-1955) – 680 seats - originally a movie theatre – became home to annual review Spring Thaw – demolished 1957 to become parking lot

Avenue Theatre (LONDON) - 1882 - see Playhouse - in 1933 and closed in 1951 bombed during blitz – Poppy 1982; Les Miserables opened here 1985 - transferred to the Palace Theatre; Sondheim Tonight 1998

*Avery Fisher Hall(NYC) - see Philharmonic Hall (Lincoln Center)

Avon(NYC) - see Klaw Theatre – Strictly Dishonorable 1929 (557)

Avon Theatre (TORONTO) – 1092 Queen St. West & Dovercourt – opened as Kings Playhouse – 325 seats – owned by Nathan Cohen (1949-1955) – now a sign shop

Avon Theatre(NYC) – see Klaw Theatre

Avon-at-the-Hudson(NYC) - see Henry Miller's Theatre

Backstage(NYC) (Ted Hook's Backstage) - 318 West 45th Street - intimate cabaret/restaurant - Ethel Merman, Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Anne Miller, Liza Minnelli

Backstage 1 (151 seats) & 2 (126 seats) (TORONTO) – Bloor and Balmuto (1971-2000) – built in backstage area of Loew's Uptown

Ballroom(NYC) - Chelsea cabaret of 1970s - Eartha Kitt, Martha Raye, Yma Sumac, Margaret Whiting

* BAM(NYC) (Brooklyn Academy of Music) - (Harvey Theatre) - 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn; Howard Gilman Opera House - 30 Lafayette St - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1988 -Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; American Premiere of Hamlet 2001

Bandbox Theatre(NYC) – opened 1912 as Adolph Phillip Theatre – 1914 changed to present name– 205 East 57th Street – (299 seats)- closed 1917 and cinema was built on site

*Bank Street Theatre(NYC) - 155 Bank Street (between Washington & West St)

Banvard’s Museum(NYC) – see Daly’s Theatre

Barbarann Theatre Restaurant(NYC) - Starting Here Starting Now 1977 – Demolished

*Barbican Centre (LONDON) - (Barbican/Moorgate) Silk Street - built in 1982 to house the Royal Shakespeare Company – 1172 seats – houses the Hall, Theatre, and The Pit – area badly bombed during blitz – Poppy 1982; Les Miserables opened here 1985 – tansferred to the Palace Theatre; Sondheim Tonight 1998

Barbizon Plaza(NYC) – Shoestring ’57 1956

Bar Italia (TORONTO) - 584 College Street

Barnes Theatre (LONDON) – Church Road, Barnes – 2 tier hall built 1905 – opened as theatre 1925 – ended 1926

Barnum's American Museum(NYC) - Drunkard or the Fallen Saved 1850 (100)

Barnum’s New Museum(NYC) – opened in 1865

Baronet (TORONTO) – Bloor and Bathurst – 745 seats (1969-1972) – currently the Regent

*Baron's Court Theatre (LONDON) - 28A Comeragh Road, London (Baron's Court)

Barrymore Theatre(NYC) - see Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Basin Street Cabaret (TORONTO) - 1970s – former Queen Street cabaret – Indigo 1978; Let My People Come 1981, Shimmytime

Basin Street East(NYC) - Duke Ellington (1963-1964); Peggy Lee

*Bathurst Street Theatre (TORONTO) - 736 Bathurst Street at Bloor - a converted church built in 1888 as Methodist and changed to United Church in 1924 - 550 seats - mid 1960s became a legitimate theatre, also houses the Annex Theatre and is now home to the Randolph Academy of Performing Arts - Bent, Binge, Born of Medusa's Blood, Hosanna, I Wanna Die in Ruby Red Tap Shoes, Wozzeck, Eddy Izzard

Bay (TORONTO) – 43 Queen St. West, across from old City Hall (1919-1960) – opened as Colonial – is now Simpsons Tower

Bayridges (TORONTO) – Pickering (1964-1979) – indoor auditorium of Drive-in

Bayview Playhouse (TORONTO) – 605 Bayview Ave below Eglinton – art deco - East Side – (1936-1961) - originally a cinema – 674 seats - in 1960s and 1970s it became a legitimate theatre, but now is the site of Bruno's Fine Foods - Bistro Car on the CNR, Cloud 9, Musical Evening With Joshua Logan

Bayview Village 4 (TORONTO) – Bayview Village Shopping Centre – 1977

B.B. King Blues Club and Grill(NYC) - The owner of the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, and the blues musician B. B. King have opened B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, a 550-seat club that presents blues, rock and jazz music in the E Walk entertainment complex on the north side of 42nd Street, near Eighth Avenue

Beach (TORONTO) – 1971 Queen St. East – built as Allen – East of Woodbine – 1300 seats (1919-1970) – now a mall

Beach Cinemas 6 (TORONTO) - 1651 Queen Street East - 6 theatres – 1999

Beacon(NYC) - 2124 Broadway at 74th St. - built in 1929 by W.W. Ahlschlager (2,657 seats) - still used for performances – Young Man,Older Woman 1995

Beaver (TORONTO) – 2942 Dundas St. West near Pacific – 1162 seats – (1913-1961) – now retail stores

Bedford (TORONTO) – see Park

Bedford Music-Hall (LONDON) – Camden High Street – built on part of tea garden of Bedford Arms – 1861 – 1168 seats – 1949 closed – demolished 1969

Beekman Street Theatre(NYC) – see Chapel Street Theatre

Belasco Theatre(NYC) - see Theatre Republic –

*Belasco(NYC) - West 42nd Street – originally known as Republic Theatre; 2nd Theatre – opened as Stuyvesant Theatre 1907 – 111 West 44th St. (Shubert-1,018 seats)- renamed Belasco 1910 – 1935-1941 was headquarters of Group Theatre –1910 changed to the Belasco - later returned to Republic Theatre - Darling of the Gods 1902 (182), Music Master 1904 (627); Girl of the Golden West 1905 (224), Music Master 1904 (627), Polly With a Past 1917 (315), Return of Peter Grimm 1911 (231), Rose of the Rancho 1906 (327), Easiest Way 1909 (157), Secret 1913 (143); Boomerang 1915 (522), Kiki 1921 (600); Hit the Deck 1927 (352), Lulu Belle 1926 (461), Dead End 1935 (687), Awake and Sing 1935 (184), Gentle People 1939 (141), Golden Boy 1937 (250), Kiki (600), Mr. & Mrs. North 1941; Mrs. January and Mr X (Billie Burke,Barbara Bel Geddes) 1944; used for broadcasting 1949-1953 when it was once again a theatre -Solid Gold Cadillac 1953 (526), All The Way Home 1960 (334), Killing of Sister George Beryl Reed,Eileen Atkins) 1966 (205); Oh Calcutta (over 1300 performances total - 704 Off Broadway); Almost Perfect Person, American Buffalo 1977 (135); Rocky Horror Show (Tim Curry) 1980; James Joyce's The Dead (Christopher Walken,Blair Brown) 2000 (transferred from Playwrights' Horizon); If You Ever Leave Me...I'm Going With You (Joseph Bologna,Renee Taylor) 2001;

Belgrade Theatre (LONDON) – Coventry – 1958 – 900 seats – Belgrade Venue – stages experimental works

Belgravia Theatre (LONDON) – see Royal Court

Bellevue (TORONTO) – 360 College St at Brunswick – art deco – 800 seats (1937-1958) – changed to Electra and then Lux, a burlesque house – now retail stores

Belmont(NYC) - You and I 1923 (174), Hero 1921 (80), Miss Lulu Bett 1920 (201) – demolished

Belmont Theatre(NYC) - see Norworth Theatre – 125 West 48th St – originally Norworth built 1918 and name changed 3 months later to Belmont Theatre - Kempy 1922 – became cinema 1936 – demolished 1951

*Belmont Theatre/Toronto Truck Theatre (TORONTO) - 94 Belmont Street – Toronto Truck Theatre was forme in 1971 as touring company – moved in 1973 to Colonnade Theatre (200 seats), then to former church on Belmont – seating 170 – also purchased Bayview Playhouse (520 seats) the former art deco cinema in 1978 - Brecht on Brecht - now running The Mousetrap (over 8,000 performances in this tiny theatre)

Belsize (TORONTO) – 551 Mount Pleasant Rd, North of Davisville – 1927-1950) – 850 seats – became the Crest Theatre

Belt and Braces (LONDON) – fringe theatre

*Berkeley Street Theatre (TORONTO) - see also Canadian Stage, and St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Bert Wheeler Theatre(NYC) - 250 West 43rd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue - named after actor comedian/actor Bert Wheeler (1895-1968) - Autumn's Here 1966; Curley McDimple with Bernadette Peters 1967 (931), Christy 1975 – demolished

*Betty Oliphant Theatre (TORONTO) - 404 Jarvis Street - 297 seats

Beverly (TORONTO) – Yonge and St. Clair (1932-1942)

*Bickford Theatre Centre (TORONTO) - 777 Bloor Street West

Big Apple(NYC) - famous Harlem nightclub - 7th Avenue - Billie Holiday 1936 - now a pharmacy

Bijou (TORONTO) – Morningside Plaza, West Hill – 700 seats (1971-1978)

Bijou Opera House(NYC) – opened 1880 at Broadway between 30th and 31st St as the Brighton Theatre in 1878 - Sparks 1882; Adonis 1884 (603), Climbers 1901 (163), Gentleman From Mississippi 1908 (407)

Bijou Theatre(NYC) – 1239 Broadway – opened as the Brighton 1878 – also known as Wood’s Broadway Theatre and Broadway Opera House before Bijou in 1880 – 1883 demolished and a larger theatre built – demolished 1915; 2nd Bijou Theatre - 209 West 45th St - built 1917 - 603 seats - adjacent to Morosco Theatre – Adonis 1884 (603); Nancy Brown 1903; Mr. Wix of Wickham (Julian Eltinge) 1904; Skidding (448); Dover Road 1921; Springtime for Henry 1931 (199)- 1931 became a cinema the Toho, showing Japanese films - in 1935 was all-cartoon movie theatre - dark from 1936 to 1943 – reopened as theatre 1945 - movies from 1947 to 1953 and another 6 years of stage shows - Moon For the Misbegotten 1957 (68); 1959 Bijou closed while Astor Theatre was expanded and reopened in 1962 as the D.W. Griffith - a 300 seat cinema – 1962-1972 became Toho Cinema and back to the Bijou in 1965 until 1970 when Foreplay did a brief stint and Mummenshantz 1977 (1326), Moon For The Misbegotten 1957 (68); Potting Shed (Sybil Thorndyke) 1957; Play's The Thing (David Dukes) 1973 (11 weeks) - demolished 1982 for the Marriott Marquis Hotel along with the Morosco, Astor, Victoria and Helen Hayes; 3rd Bijou – 200 seats in off Broadway Playhouse Theatre at 359 West 48th St – opened 1970

Bijou Theatre (LONDON) – were 2 small theatres of this name – 1st Bijou in Haymarket – concert hall attached to Royal Opera House (later Her Majesty’s Theatre) – burned down with Opera House 1876; 2nd Bijou – a hall in Archer Street, Bayswater – renamed Bijou in 1886 – renamed Century in 1925 – became a warehouse

Billie Holiday Theatre(NYC)

Billy Munk(NYC) - Love Death Plays of William Inge - demolished

Billy Rose(NYC) - see Nederlander – 208 West 41st St – opened 1921 as National (1162 seats) – alterations 1941 and in 1959 bought by Billy Rose and given his name – chnaged to Trafalgar in 1979 - Family Affair 1962; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Uta Hagen,Arthur Hill,Melinda Dillon,George Grizzard) 1962 (664); Earl of Ruston 1971; Heathen 1972; Who’s Life is it Anyway – then theatre renamed Nederlander in 1980

Billy Rose's Music Hall(NYC) - 1697 Broadway at 53rd St - see Hammerstein's Theatre

Biltmore (TORONTO) – 1831 Weston Road, South of Lawrence – now a church

Biltmore (TORONTO) – New Toronto – 676 seats (1947-1964)

Biltmore (TORONTO) - cinema – 319 Yonge Street above Dundas – 929 seats - showed double and triple features - put to other uses over the years (1948-1977)

Biltmore (TORONTO) – Weston – 800 seats (1949-1964)

*Biltmore Theatre(NYC) - 261-5 West 47th St. (Nederlander) - opened 1925 with Easy Come Easy Go (transferred from George M. Cohan Theatre) - 948 seats - The Manhattan Theater Club, one of New York City's most prominent nonprofit theaters, has agreed to renovate and take over operation of the Biltmore Theater, a deteriorating Broadway landmark that has been dormant for more than a decade - Brother Rat 1936 (577), What a Life (Butterfly McQueen,Eddie Bracken) 1938 (538), My Sister Eileen (Shirley Booth) 1940 (864); Kiss and Tell 1943 (957); Heiress 1947 (410), from 1952-1962 used for broadcasting and then back to theatre - Man in the Moon 1963; Barefoot in the Park 1963 (1530),Hair 1968 (1742); Robber Bridegroom 1976, Appearing Nightly (Lily Tomlin)1977 (84), Cheaters, Knock Knock, Murder Among Friends, Staircase, Up in One, Butterflies Are Free, Deathtrap, Take Her She's Mine, Doonesbury 1983 - leased to CBS in 1951 for 10 years as Studio No 62 - then back to legitimate theatre - Dec. 1987 arsonists set fire on stage and in auditorium and vandals left theatre in unsafe condition - future is in doubt

The Biltmore 47 Associates' application to build a 62-story tower at 47 St. and Eighth Avenue will be reviewed by Manhattan Community Board 5?s Land Use Committee on May 6. The review of the application, which is part of the rehabilitation of the Biltmore Theatre, will take place at the Fashion Institute of Technology, located at 227 W. 27 St. (north side), Building A, 8th floor, Room A803.

Following a fire in 1987, the theatre was closed, and the building suffered damage from rain coming through holes in the ceiling and abuse from vandals. The Biltmore was home to such productions as Hair, Butterflies Are Free, Take Her, She's Mine, Barefoot in the Park and Deathtrap. It opened Dec. 7, 1925, with a play called Easy Come, Easy Go, a farce by Owen Davis that moved from the Cohan Theatre. The house was built by the Chanin brothers and designed by Herbert J. Krapp. The Federal Theatre Project presented works there in the 1930 and the theatre was later run by Warner Bros. as a home for theatre director George Abbott's productions. My Sister Eileen had a healthy run there, as did The Heiress. From 1952-61, the theatre was leased to CBS. there. The 35 million renovation will relight in the Fall of 2003

Birchcliff (TORONTO) – 1485 Kingston Road, East of Warden (a former streetcar barn) – (1949-1974) – now an ambulance station

Black Cat (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Blackfriar's Playhouse (LONDON) - opened 1576 - in 1609 became the headquarters for the King's Men - destroyed in 1655

Blackfriar's Theatre (LONDON) – 2 theatres built within boundaries of old monastery – 1st 1576 part of building became theatre – unused after 1584; in 1596 another theatre; theatres closed in 1642 – 2nd Blackfriars fell into disrepair after 1642 and demolished 1655 due to concern that masses could spread plague

Blanchard’s Amphitheatre(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

*Bleeker 45(NYC) - 45 Bleeker Street between Broadway & Lafayette St. - one of the newer off Broadway theatres in the area

Bloomsbury Theatre (LONDON)

Bloor (TORONTO) – Bloor St. West at Bathurst – now Lee’s Palace

Bloor Cinema (TORONTO) - 529 Bloor Street at Bathurst - a Toronto landmark - 850 seats - local repertory house

Bloordale (TORONTO) – Bloor St. West & Indian Road - art deco - see State

Bloor Palace (TORONTO) – see Paradise

* Blue Angel(NYC) - 152 East 55th Street - cabaret famous in the 1960s and 1970s - Barbra Streisand (1961-1963); Charles Pierce; Pearl Bailey; Bobby Short; Eartha Kitt; Yul Brynner; Carol Burnett; Dorothy Loudon; Mike Nichols and Elaine May; Mildred Bailey (1944 to 1947)

*Blue Angel Theatre(NYC) - 323 West 44th St (between 8th & 9th Aves) – Pageant 1991; Swingtime Canteen 1995;

Blue Angel (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Bluebell (TORONTO) – 309 Parliament Street, South of Queen St., beside Eclipse Theatre (1943-1954) – became the Gay in the mid 1940s – now townhouses

*Blue Heron Arts Centre(NYC) - 121 East 24th St. (between Park & Lexington)- new arts complex dedicated to theatre - two theatres, one 98 seats and one 45 seats

Blue Hill Troupe(NYC)

Bluma Appel Theatre (TORONTO) - see St. Lawrence Centre

*Bob Hope Theatre (LONDON) - Wythfield Road, Eltham

Bohemian Embassy (TORONTO) - 1960s meeting place for local poets - The Iceman Cometh – closed

Bollicine (TORONTO) - 127 Strachan - exotic cabaret on weekends (10:00 p.m. to 3 a.m.)

Bonita (TORONTO) – 1035 Gerrard St. East 542 seats – still in operation

Bon Soir(NYC) - 40 West 8th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues - intimate cabaret of 1960s and 1970s - Barbra Streisand (1960-1962)was the opening act for Phyllis Diller; Charles Pierce; Kaye Ballard

Bon Ton Theatre(NYC) – see Koster and Bial’s Music Hall

*Booth(NYC) - 222 West 45th St. (Shubert-781 seats) Opened in 1913 to honour of great actor Edwin Booth - Zip or Point Lynne Light 1874 (21);Experience 1914 (255), Seventh Heaven 1922 (704), Saturday's Children 1927 (310), Bird in Hand 1929 (500), Grand Street Follies (James Cagney) 1929 (93); Kind Lady (Grace George) 1935 (102); You Can't Take It With You 1936 (837), Time of Your Life 1939 (185); Claudia 1941 (722), Two Mrs. Carrolls 1943 (585), You Touched Me (Tennessee Williams, playwright, with Montgomery Clift,Edmund Gwenn) 1945 (109); Playboy of the Western World 1946 (10 weeks); Come Back Little Sheba 1950 (190); Magic and the Loss (Uta Hagen) 1954 (27); Visit to a Small Planet 1957 (388), Two For the Seesaw 1958 (750); Tenth Man 1959 (623), Spoon River Anthology; Butterflies Are Free 1969 (1128), Luv 1964 (901), Birthday Party (Henderson Forsythe,Ruth White) 1967 (4 months); New Faces of 1968, That Championship Season 1972 (700); Bad Habits 1974 (after run at Astor Theatre); For Coloured Girls.... (after run at Public Theatre) 1976 (742), Sunday in the Park With George (Mandy Patinkin,Bernadette Peters) 1984 (540),Shirley Valentine 1989; Old Neighborhood 1997 (197); Elephant Man Philip Anglim,Carole Shelley,Kevin Conway) 1979 (916), Sunday in the Park With George (Mandy Patinkin,Bernadette Peters) 1984; I'm Not Rappaport 1985 (890), All Over Town, Very Good Eddie; Tru 1989 (295); Once on This Island 1990 (469) - transferred from off-Broadway; Old Neighbourhood (Patti LuPone) 1997 (197); Evening with Jerry Herman (Lee Roy Reams) 1998; Via Dolorosa 1999; Dame Edna - The Royal Tour 1999 (260)

Booth’s Theater(NYC) - 1869 - 23rd and SW corner of 6th Avenue - razed few years later 1883 and large department store built

Boston Museum Theatre(NYC) - Silver Spoon 1852

* Bouwerie Lane(NYC) - 330 Bowery (Bond & 2nd Sts) a converted bank building - home to Jean Cocteau Repertory (140)- Dames at Sea (Bernadette Peters) 1968 (575); DeSade Illustrated 1969

Bower Theatre (LONDON) , Lambeth - opened 1837 - closed 1877

Bowery Amphitheatre(NYC) – 1821 - Zoological Institute at 37-9 Broadway was adapted as theatre in 1835 - (used for Minstrel shows from 1840s to 1880s) – in 1844 became Knickerbocker, by 1854 was the Stadt Theatre - Witchcraft or the Martyrs of Salem 1847 (5), Broker of Bogota 1834 – demolished

Bowery Theatres(NYC) – first Bowery Theatre opened 1826 – 46-8 Bowery – opened as New York Theatre, Bowery – 1828 theatre burnt down, the second in 1828 and burnt down 1836; the third 1837 and again destroyed by fire 1838 – reopened 1839 – burned down 1845 and rebuilt again and closed 1878 – reopening as the Thalia – destroyed by fire 1923 and again in 1929 – for a time was American Theatre, Bowery; 4th – the New Bowery opened 1859 – 1866 destroyed by fire and never rebuilt

Brandy's Piano Bar(NYC)

Bowery Volks Garden(NYC)

Bramalea 3 (TORONTO) – Dixie Road and Hwy 7 (1973-1988)

*Bridewell Theatre (LONDON) - (St. Bride's Church - off Fleet Street near Blackfriars Station) - former indoor Victorian swimming pool - produces small scale musicals as well as plays - i.e. works of Sondheim - Pacific Overtures; Saturday Night 1997; Moving On 2000 - Launched January 1944

Brighton Theatre(NYC) – see Bijou Opera House

Brighton (TORONTO) – 127 Roncesvalles Avenue – 418 seats – still in existence

Brittania Music Hall (LONDON) – see Rotunda

Brittania Theatre (LONDON) , High Street, Hoxton – originally Brittania Saloon – 1841 rebuilt in 1858 to seat 3923 - in 1923 became a cinema – demolished by bombs in 1940

Brixton Theatre and Opera House (LONDON) - opened 1851 - Canterbury Theatre of Varieties 1904-1912 and 1914-1922 - destroyed 1942

*Broadhurst(NYC) - 235 West 44th (Shubert-1,186 seats) Opened in 1917 for playwright George Broadhurst - Hold Everything 1928 (413), June Moon 1929 (273), Green Hat (Katharine Cornell) 1925; Beggar on Horseback 1924 (224), Broadway 1926 (603); Animal Kingdom (Leslie Howard) 1932 (183), Twentieth Century 1932 (152), Men in White 1933 (351), Petrified Forest (Leslie Howard,Humphrey Bogart) 1935 (197), Victoria Regina 1935 (517), Happy Birthday 1946 (564); Flahooley (Barbara Cook,Yma Sumac) 1951 (5 weeks); Seventeen (Kenneth Nelson) 1951 (23 weeks); Pal Joey 1952 (540), Anniversary Waltz 1954 (615), Auntie Mame 1956 (639), World of Suzie Wong 1958 (508), Fiorello 1959 (796), Sail Away 1961, Bravo Giovanni 1962; 110 In The Shade 1963; Kelly 1965; Half a Sixpence 1965 (512), Cabaret 1966 (original 1165), Little Murders (Barbara Cook,Elliot Gould,Ruth White) 1967 (7), More Stately Mansions 1967 (142); Fig Leaves Are Falling 1969; Play It Again Sam 1969 (453), Cry For Us All 1970; 70 Girls 70 1971; Godspell 1971 (2124 - moved from Cherry Lane), Sunshine Boys 1972 (538), Sunshine Boys 1972 (538), Godspell 1976 (527); Dancin' 1978 (1774), Tribute 1978 (212); Amadeus (Iam McKellen,Tim Curry 1980 (1181), Tap Dance Kid (Savion Glover) 1983 (669), Odd Couple (female version Rita Moreno,Sally Struthers) 1985 (295); Broadway Bound 1986 (756), Rumors 1988 (531), Texas Trilogy, Only Game in Town, Sherlock Holmes, Sly Fox, Death and the Maiden (Glenn Close,Richard Dreyfuss,Gene Hackman) 1992; Kiss of the Spider Woman (Chita Rivera,Brent Carver,Anthony Crivello) 1993 (906);Once Upon a Mattress (Heath Lamberts,Sarah Jessica Parker,Jane Krakowski 1996 (187); Judas Kiss (Liam Neeson) 1998 (102); I’m Telling You for the Last Time (Jerry Seinfeld) 1998; Fosse 1999; Dance of Death (Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren)2001

Broadview (TORONTO) – Broadway at Gerrard (1941-1945)

Broadway (TORONTO) – 75 Queen St. West, next to Casino Theatre – 486 seats - opened as the Globe and later became the Roxy (1941-1965)

Broadway Music Hall(NYC) – see Wallack’s Lyceum

Broadway Opera House(NYC) – see Bijou Theatre

Broadway Theatre(NYC) - Southwest corner of Broadway at 41st St – opened as Metropolitan Casino in 1880 and then Broadway - original theatre built 1847 - rebuilt 1888, seating 1,800 – Francesca da Rimini 1855 – 1913 became a cinema - demolished 1929 after trials of film and vaudeville

Broadway Theatre(NYC) – 326 Broadway – 1847 – 1855 theatre collapsed – rebuilt - Francesca da Rimini 1855 (8), Danites, or the Heart of the Sierras 1877 (30),El Capitan 1896 (112), Midnight Sons (Vernon Castle) 1909 (8 mos) – closed 1859; 2nd Broadway Theatre – 410 Broadway – originally the Euterpean Hall – renamed Broadway for brief period in 1837; 3rd – Broadway Theatre – Wallack’s Lyceum in last years was called the Broadway

*Broadway Theatre(NYC)- built as cinema at 1681 Broadway @ 53rd – 1924 - (Shubert-1,752 seats) - became legitimate house in 1930 – Green Pastures 1930; Earl Carroll's Vanities - Milton Berle 1932 (87);Little Johnny Jones 1943 (502), Carmen Jones 1943 (502); Beggars Holiday 1946; Mr. Wonderful Sammy Davis Jr.) 1956 (383); Shinbone Alley (Eartha Kitt,Eddie Bracken) 1957 (49); Body Beautiful 1958; Gypsy (Ethel Merman) 1959 (702), Kean (Alfred Drake) 1961 (92); Girl Who Came to Supper 1963; Tovarich (Vivian Leigh,Jean-Pierre Aumont) 1963 (264); Baker Street 1965; Time For Singing 1966; Happy Time 1968 (286), Purlie 1970, Dude 1972; house was gutted and renovated for Harold Prince's revival of Candide (1974) (740), Evita (Patti LuPone,Mandy Patinkin) 1979 (1,567), Guys and Dolls 1992 (revival 1144 - original 1200), *Miss Saigon (Jonathan Pryce,Lea Salonga,Hinton Battle) (4/91)(3332), Sarava, *Les Miserables 1987 (still running - 6000 performances Oct 3/01); 2nd Broadway – Daly’s Theatre at 1221 Broadway in 1877-8 was called the Broadway

Brock (TORONTO) – 1585 Dundas St. West – built as the Dundas – 612 seats (1933-1955) – was Toronto’s first burlesque house - now a restaurant

Brooklyn Academy of Music(NYC) - see BAM

*Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts(NYC) - Walt Whitman Theatre - campus of Brooklyn College - 2900 Campus Road & Hillel Place

Brooklyn Paramount(NYC) - Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue - 4,100 seats built by Rapp & Rapp - opened in 1928 - used for rock and roll concerts in the 1950s - has been converted to a gym in 1963

Brooklyn Theatre(NYC) – 1871 – burnt down 1876

*Brooks Atkinson(NYC) - 256 West 47th St. (Nederlander-seats 1086) - opened as Mansfield in 1926 - renamed in 1960 in honour of the N.Y. Times drama critic - Ladder 1926 (794), Green Pastures 1930 (640), Anna Lucasta 1944 (957), 1946 used for radio and tv until 1960 reopened as Brooks Atkinson - Come Blow Your Horn 1961 (677), Lenny (Cliff Gorman) 1972; River Niger (NEC) 1973 (280), Same Time Next Year 1975 (1453), Same Time Next Year 1975 (1453), Tribute (Jack Lemmon) 1978 (212); Talley's Folly 1980 (277), Noises Off 1983 (553), Edmund Kean (Ben Kingsley) 1983; Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Night Life, Wally's Cafι; Buried Child 1996; Play On (Andre DeShields)1997; Wait Until Dark (Quentin Tarantino,Marisa Tomei) 1998 (97); Fool Moon 1998; Iceman Cometh (Kevin Spacey) 1999 (91); Uncle Vanya (Derek Jacobi,Laura Linney) 1999

Brothers and Sisters(NYC) - West 46th Street - intimate club of the 1970s in the theatre district i.e. first saw the legendary Barbara Cook 1980s in her new cabaret career, after having seen her in numerous musicals on Broadway, and I will never forget the first time she started singing in the darkened room, after being Marian the Librarian, even I was not ready for her one woman shows, two hours of gooseflesh, Julie Wilson, Sylvia Syms, Marcia Lewis - torn down

Brougham’s Lyceum Theatre(NYC) – 1850 – Broadway and Broome Streets

Brunswick Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty

Bryant’s Opera House(NYC) – see Koster and Bial’s Music Hall

Bryant Theatre(NYC) - see Apollo Theatre

Buckley’s Olympic Theatre(NYC) – see Olympic Theatre

*Buddies in Bad Times (TORONTO) - 12 Alexander Street - gay theatre founded in 1979 by Skye Gilbert, Matt Walsh & Gerard Ciccoritti - originally Toronto Workshop Productions - Eyecons, My Own Private Oshawa, We're Funny That Way, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

Burnhamthorpe Auditorium (TORONTO) - 500 The East Mall, Burnhamthorpe

*Burton Auditorium (TORONTO) - see York University

Burton's Chambers Street Theatre(NYC) - Toodles 1848

Burton’s New Theatre(NYC) – Broadway opposite Bond Street – Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1858; Richard III (Barry Sullivan)

Burton’s Theatre(NYC) – 1848 – formerly Palmo’s Opera House built in 1844

Bushes(NYC) - intimate club on the west side of Central Park (in 70s) - Joe Masiell 1980s

Bush Theatre (LONDON) - considered off West End - in the Fringe and Firkin Pub, Shepherd's Bush Green (Shepherd's Bush) - founded 1972 above the Bush Pub - pub has changed hands but the theatre remains upstairs

Cabaret East (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Cabaret 1050(NYC)

Cabbagetown Theatre Company (TORONTO)

Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre(NYC) - see the 91 year old (2002) Winter Garden Theatre

*Cafι Carlyle(NYC) (Bemelmans Bar)(Carlysle Hotel)- Madison Avenue at 76th Street - Bobby Short debut in 1968, Barbara Cook

Cafe Cino(NYC) - New York's first "Off-Broadway" theatre in 1958

Cafι des Copains (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Cafι La Mama(NYC) – see La Mama Experimental Theatre Club

Cafe Pierre(NYC)

Cafe Society(NYC) - intimate cabaret - Billie Holliday

Cafι Soho (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Caffe Cino(NYC) – 31 Cornelia Street – 1958 – regarded as the beginning of off-off Broadway

Cahoots Theatre Project (TORONTO) - 174 Spandia Avenue, Suite 610

*Cambridge Theatre (LONDON) - (Covent Garden) Earlham Street - 1930 - (1287 seats) - art deco - Reluctant Debutante (Anna Massey,Celia Johnson,Wilfrid Hyde White) 1955 (752); Crooked Mile 1959 (164); Wrong Side of the Park (Margaret Leighton) 1960 (22 weeks); Billy Liar 1960; Signpost to Murder 1962 (419); Half a Sixpence 1963; Ann Veronica 1969; Behind the Fridge; Tom Brown's Schooldays (Roy Dotrice) 1972; Black Mikado 1975; Troubador 1978; Dear Anyone 1983; - restored in 1987 - Budgie 1988; Return to the Forbidden Planet 1989; Sherlock Holmes 1989 ;Chicago; Fame - the Musical; Beautiful Game 2000

Cameo (TORONTO) – 989 Pape Ave North of Danforth – 750 seats (1934-1957) – art deco – sold to Loblaws, and now Canada Trust

Cameron House (TORONTO) - 408 Queen St. West

Canada Square Cinema (TORONTO) - 2198 Yonge Street below Eglinton – (1985-2001) - recently reopened as cinema 2001

*Canada's Wonderland (TORONTO) - opened 1981 - see Paramount Canada's Wonderland

Canadia dell'Arte Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - 186 Munro

*Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (TORONTO) - created in 1936 (Church and Jarvis Streets) - now located in new building on Front Street which houses the Glenn Gould Studio - an important organization for the development of Canadian stage talent in the early days

*Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) (TORONTO) - started in 1879 as the Toronto Industrial Exhibition - Magnificent Spectacular Production 1896; Stars of the Hippodrome & Circus World 1917; Georgeous Cleopatra Spectacle & Grand Opera in $1,500,000 Coliseum (1923); CNE Chorus performed in Colisseum 1927 & 1932; Benny Goodman,Guy Lombardo,Glen Gray,Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey 1939; (As a teenager and before, I can remember my parents taking me to the Exhibition where the highlights were the spectacular Grandstand Shows. I have seen (from a great distance), the wonderful Midge Arthur's Canadettes, Bob Hope 1976; Danny Kaye, Marilyn Bell 1984; Victor Borge, Bob Hope, Womenfolk and Midge Arthur's 50 Canadettes 1955; Bob Hope, Scottish World Festival Tattoo, Charley Pride, Dolly Parton, Burton Cummings, Osmonds, Bill Cosby, Shaun Cassidy, Englebert 1994; Jimmy Durante; Olson and Johnson 1947; Ed Sullivan, Marilyn Bell, Lassie and the Four Lads 1965; Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Phil Silvers, Geoffrey Holder, Alan and Blanche Lund, Howard Cable and his orchestra, a helicopter landing on stage as well as various vehicles driving across the huge stage, laden with breathtaking sets and costumes - Scottish Tattoo - solo singers as well - Tina Turner, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers - demolished in 1999 - see Exhibition Stadium

*Canadian Opera Company (TORONTO) - acquired two neighbouring buildings on Front Street. One, the former Standard Woollen Mills (built 1882), was converted to administrative offices, a box office, library, archives and workshops for the company. The other, the former Consumers Gas Purifying House (built 1887-88), now houses the 450-seat Imperial Oil Opera Theatre and facilities for rehearsal, coaching, workshops and receptions - the company was founded in 1950 and has used various venues from Eaton Auditorium, Royal Alexandra, presently Hummingbird Centre and soon a new 2,000 seat theatre which it will share with the National Ballet of Canada

Canadian Players (TORONTO) - 1954-1966 – formed in Stratford, Ontario, with a nine month season in Toronto’s Central Library Theatre – became Theatre Toronto - used various theatres

*Canadian Stage Company (TORONTO) - 26 Berkeley Street - located in a turn of the Century factory and refinery - formed 1988 with the merger of Toronto Free Theatre and Centrestage - see St. Lawrence Centre - Angels in America

Candler Theatre(NYC) - 226 West 42nd St – see Sam H. Harris Theatre - 1914 - opened as a movie house but soon became legitimate house - (1,200 seats) - in 1916 name changed to Cohan and Harris and in 1921 changed to Sam. H. Harris Theatre - Hamlet - by 1933 became a movie house - as part of redevelopment Harris will be joined with the Empire and Liberty Theatres to form part of the AMC movie complex and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum – On Trial 1914 (365); Tailor Made Man 1917 (398), Welcome Stranger 1920 (309), Tavern 1920 (252)- 1933 turned to films for 55 years - theatre will be gutted and be part of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

Canon Theatre (TORONTO) - see the Pantages

Canterbury Music Hall (LONDON) – Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth – 1852 – originally called Canterbury Hall – 1500 seats – demolished by bombs 1942

Capital Fine Arts (TORONTO) – see Capital

Capital (TORONTO) – New Toronto – 1100 seats (1929-1975)

Capital Theatre (TORONTO) - 2492 Yonge Street at Castlefield (1924-1998) – 1079 seats - formerly a film theatre - now closed and used for a rental hall, was also known as Capital Fine Arts

Capitol(NYC) - Times Square - built in 1919 by Thomas W. Lamb (5,230 seats) - world's largest theatre when it opened - Aimee Semple McPherson – demolished

Capri (TORONTO) – see Madison, Bloor Cinema and Midtown

*Cap 21(NYC) - 15 West 28th St (between 5th & 6th Aves)

Carlton (TORONTO) – 509 Parliament Street, North of Carlton – 1000 seats – (1930-1954) - became CBC TV studio and currently dance studio

Carlton (TORONTO) - see Odeon Carlton

Carlton Cinemas 9 (TORONTO) – Carlton and Yonge Streets – 1981 – renovated 1988

Carlu (TORONTO) - working title - see Eaton Auditorium

* Carnegie Hall(NYC) - 154 West 57th St at 7th Avenue - Remodelled in 1986 - Lights On 1986 (benefit concert)

Carter Theatre(NYC) – Ka-boom! 1980

Caruso Cinema(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Casa Manana(NYC) - see Earl Carroll Theatre

Cascade Theatre (TORONTO) - 39 Strathmore Boulevard

Casino de Paris(NYC) - see New Theatre

Casino de Paris(NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

Casino Theatre(NYC) - 1882 – Southeast corner of Broadway and 39th Streets (1300 seats) - was first theatre to have shows on its roof –stood until 1930 when it and Knickerbocker gave way to expanding garment district - next door to Henry Abbey's Theatre (804seats) - - in 1882 the first roof garden opened atop the theatre - old Metropolitan Opera House later erected on Northwest corner)first legitimate theatre designed exclusively for the performance of musicals – Floradora 1900 (553); Runaways 1903 (21 weeks) - after fire in 1903 reopened in 1905 with 1,300 seats - Passing Show 1894,In Gay New York 1898 - see Earl Carroll Theatre - Belle of New York 1897 (56), Origin of the Cake Walk or Clorindy 1898, Floradora 1900 (553), I'll Say She Is (Marx Brothers) 1924; Vagabond King 1925 (511)- Desert Song 1926 (465), razed early 1930s; 2nd – Earl Carroll Theatre was renamed Casino from 1932-1934

Casino Theatre (TORONTO) - burlesque house at 87 Queen Street West of Bay – opened 1939 as The Vaudeville Theatre – 1121 seats - demolished in 1957 - to house Sheraton Centre - I spent many, many hours at the Casino seeing name entertainers like Johnny Rae, Patti Page, Gene Nelson, Frankie Laine,the exciting Sally Rand with her fans, a bevy of female strippers with some class in those days, not just bumps and grinds, the Crewcuts, the Four Lads, Billy Daniels and Rosemary Clooney. - turned into a legitimate house - The Civic Square Theatre for a short time - Rhinoceros

*Castillo Theatre(NYC) - 500 Greenwich St. - multicultural arts centre (72)

Castle Garden(NYC) - Between 1808 and 1811 a fort was constructed on the rocks off the tip of Manhattan Island. Originally named "The Southwest Battery," it was renamed Castle Clinton in 1817 in honor of DeWitt Clinton, Mayor of New York City. The army vacated the fort in 1821 and the structure was deeded to New York City in 1823. In the summer of 1824, a new restaurant and entertainment center opened at the site, now called Castle Garden. A roof was added in the 1840s and Castle Garden served as an opera house and theater until 1854. On August 3, 1855, Castle Garden, now leased to New York State, opened as an immigrant landing depot. During the next 34 years, over 8 million people entered the United States through Castle Garden, until it was closed on April 18, 1890. On April 19, 1890 a temporary center was set up in the old Barge Office near the Customhouse on the southeast foot of Manhattan and used until January 1, 1892 when Ellis Island opened. After immigration functions had been transferred to the Barge Office and Ellis Island, Castle Garden was altered once again and reopened as the New York City Aquarium on December 10, 1896. It was one of the city's most popular attractions until it closed in 1941. It was reopened later as Castle Clinton National Monument. Sept. 11,1850 - lst appearance of Jenny Lind - organized by P.T. Barnum

Catagonia Club(NYC) - Harlem nightspot - Bill Bojangles Robinson; Ethel Waters

CBC (TORONTO) - see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

CBS Radio Playhouse No 2 (NYC) - see Klaw Theatre

Cedarbrae (TORONTO) – Lawrence and Markham Road – 1969

Centennial 3 (TORONTO) – Brampton – (1981-2000)

Centerfold Theatre(NYC) - 263 West 86th St. (75)

Centerpoint (TORONTO) – Yonge and Steeles – renamed from Towne & Countrye in 1991 and closed in 1999

*Center Stage NY(NYC) - 48 West 21st, 4th floor (5th & 6th)- 74 seats - In Arabia We'd All Be Kings 1999 (Labyrinth Theatre Co); Jesus Hopped the A Train 2000

Center Theatre(NYC) - Stars on Ice 1942 (830), Hats Off to Ice 1944 (889)

Central (NYC) - 1918 - 1567 Broadway at 47th Street - across from the legendary Palace Theatre - 1,100 seats - Forever After (312)- leased to Universal in 1921 - in 1934 it was renamed the Columbia for burlesque but went back to old name quickly - in 1944 name was changed to the Gotham and remained movie theatre for 7 years - 1951 theatre was renovated and reopened as the Holiday but by 1957 it was back to striptease and then to movie house under names Odeon, the Forum, the Forum 47th Street, and Movieland - it was sold in 1989 and became a disco, Club USA and the lobby a Roxy Deli - the buildings now are vacant since 1997 with demolition likely

Central Library Theatre (TORONTO) - College Street - opened in 1961 (209 seats) - was closed as Library has moved to Yonge and Bloor Streets - 1977, now called the Robert Gill Theatre – was home to Canadian Players/University Alumnae - Beauty and the Beast 2098), Capful of Pennies, Departures, Ecstacy of Rita Joe, Eh, Firebugs, Fortune and Men's Eyes 1967 (15 weeks), Here Lies Sara Binks, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jacques and Jill, Just For Love, Small Craft Warnings

Central Park(NYC) – see Delacorte Theatre

Central Parkway 4 (TORONTO) – Hwy 10 and Burnhamthorpe, Mississauga (1980-2000) and reopened in 2001

Centre (TORONTO) – 772 Dundas St. West – opened as the Duchess – 500 seats (1935-1977) – now retail stores

* Centre for Indigenous Theatre (TORONTO) - founded in 1974

Centre Stage (TORONTO) – 1970 – resident producing company of St. Lawrence Centre until a 1988 merger with Toronto Free Theatre

Century(NYC) - 46th Street in Century Paramount Hotel - (299 seats) - Follow the Girls 1944 (882); High Button Shoes 1947 (727); American Dance Machine, Boccaccio; Exact Center of the Universe (Frances Sternhagen,Reed Birney) 1999 (142)

*Century Center(NYC) - 111 East 15th Street (Union Square) – opened March 1997 (299 seats)

Century Grove Theatre(NYC) – see Century Theatre

Century Roof(NYC) - see New Theatre

Century Theatre(NYC) – Central Park and 62nd Street – 1909 – opened as New Theatre – reopened as Century in 1911 – closed 1929 and demolished 1930 – on roof was small theatre, Cocoanut Grive/Century; 2nd Century – 932 7th Avenue between 58th & 59th – opened as Jolson Theatre in 1921 – from 1934-37 known as the Venice – renamed Century in 1944 - Inside USA 1948 – demolished 1961

Century Theatre (LONDON) – see Adelphi and Bijou

Century Theatre (TORONTO) – built as Allen Theatre – 147 Danforth Ave, East of Broadview (1919) – 1354 seats – currently the Music Hall

Chambers Street Theatre(NYC) – 39-41 Chambers St – opened 1844 as Palmo’s Opera House on site of Steppani’s Arcade Baths – 1848 became Burton’s Chamber Street Theatre – for season 1857 called the American Theatre – closed 1857

Chanfrau’s New National Theatre(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre(NYC) – see 46th Street Theatre

Chapel Street Theatre(NYC) – Chapel Street (later Beekman) (1761-1766)

Chapman’s Temple of the Muses(NYC) – a floating theatre opened in 1845

Charing Cross Theatre (LONDON) – King William Street – originally Polygraphic Hall – 1876 renamed Folly – 1895 demolished for extension of Charing Cross Hospital

Charles Hopkins Theatre(NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre

Chashama Theatre(NYC) - 135 West 42nd Street

Chateau (TORONTO) – 550 Queen St. West at Bathurst – 331 seats (1949-1955)

Chatham Garden Theatre(NYC) – 1824

Chatham Theatre(NYC) – referred to as the New Chatham Theatre – between Duane and Pearl Streets – originally opened as the Pavilion in 1823 – 1300 seats – 1829 renamed American Opera House – closed 1832 and became Presbyterian Chapel; 2nd Chatham Theatre – New Chatham – SE side of Chatham Street 1839 – 2200 seats – 1848 renamed New National Theatre, also known as National – damaged by fire 1860 but continued use as Union Theatre, the National Concert Hall, and again as the Chatham – finally became National Music Hall and demolished in 1862

*Chelsea Playhouse(NYC) - 125 West 22nd St. (6th & 7th)- Lark Theatre Company & Gilgamesh Theatre Co. (72)- Contractor (Reid Shelton) 1973 (72); Diamond Studs, Tuscaloosa's Calling Me, Vanities

Chelsea Theatre (LONDON) – see Royal Court

Chelsea Theatre Centre(NYC) – founded 1965 in Chelsea area but in 1968 moved to Brooklyn Academy of Music - Total Eclipse 1974 (4 weeks)

Chelsea Westside Theatre(NYC) - Vanities (1785)

* Cherry Lane Theatre(NYC) - 38 Commerce St. (Bedford & Hudson Street) (178) – early 19th century building converted to a theatre in 1924 – 1927 became New Playwright’s Theatre – reverted to Cherry Lane in 1928 - Living Theatre Company before opening their own theatre in 1951 - theatre has been renovated - Boyfriend 1958 (763); Smiling the Boy Fell Dead 1961; Duck Variations and Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Pinter Plays 1962 (578); In Circles 1968; Godspell 1971 - moved to Promenade and on to Broadway in 1976 (2124); Passion of Dracula 1977 (714); To Bury a Cousin 1980; True West (Gary Sinese,John Malkovich) 1982 (762); Nunsense 1985 (3672); Closer Than Ever 1989; Taffetas 1989; Sum of Us 1990 (355); Inside Out 1994; Beautiful Thing 1998

*Chez Suzette(NYC) - 675 B Ninth Avenue, NYC

Chicago City Limits Theatre(NYC) - 1105 First Avenue

Chickering Hall (NYC)- 5th Avenue and 18th St (1,247 seats) – demolished

China Cinema (TORONTO) – 785 seats (1974-1980)

Chiswick Empire Theatre (LONDON) – Chiswick – see Music Hall - demolished

Christian C. Yegan Theatre(NYC) - Springtime for Henry (Roundabout)(Tovah Feldshuh)1985;

Christie (TORONTO) – 665 St. Clair Ave West – 848 seats (1926-1963)

Church of the Holy Trinity (TORONTO) - rear of Eaton Centre - Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You

Church on Berkeley (TORONTO) - 315 Queen Street East - Sondheim Tribute, Jack and Jim's Wedding Party

Cinecity (TORONTO) - Yonge and Charles Street – 261 seats (1967-1975) - showed art and underground films - was located in old post office complex - currently Gold Gym upstairs and a MacDonalds on main floor

Cinema (TORONTO) – see Oriole

Cinema at Toronto Dominion Centre (TORONTO) – King and Bay Streets – 690 seats (1967-1983)

Cinema Dante(NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Cinema 49(NYC) - see 49th Street Theatre

Cinema Lumiere (TORONTO) – 290 College Street – 260 seats (1969-1978)

Cinema – The Theatre Beautiful (TORONTO) – 2061 Yonge St (1942-1946)

Cinema 2000 (TORONTO) – 329 Yonge Street at Dundas (1969-1983) – reopened as Cinema 2002 - porno palace

Cinema Verdi(NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Cinematek (TORONTO) – 2637 Yonge Street – 136 seats (1973-1974)

Cineplex Odeon (TORONTO) - Eaton Centre - Yonge and Dundas Streets - now closed

Cinesphere (TORONTO) – Ontario Place – built 1972 – world’s oldest IMAX theatre

Circle (TORONTO) – 2567 Yonge Street North – North of Sherwood Ave – 750 seats (1932-1956) – now strip plaza

* Circle in the Square(NYC) - 1633 Broadway @ 50th St. - (founded 1951 under direction of Jose Quintero in association with Theodore Mann - opened uptown in 1972) - celebrated 45th anniversary under threat of bankruptcy - Iceman Cometh 1956 revival (565), Uncle Vanya (Lillian Gish,George C.Scott,Nicol Williamson,Julie Christie,Cathleen Nesbitt,Barnard Hughes,Conrad Bain,Elizabeth Wilson) 1973; Loose Ends 1979 (284), Ah Wilderness, Balcony, Club, Coastal Disturbances; Glass Menagerie, Hot L Baltimore 1973 (1166), Lady From the Sea, Loose Ends, Night of the Iguana, Once in a Lifetime, Pal Joey; Death of a Salesman (George C.Scott,Teresa Wright,Harvey Keitel,James Farentino) 1975;Marriage of Figaro (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Christopher Reeve,Dana Ivey) 1986 (77); Caretaker 1986 (45); Oil City Symphony 1987; Getting Married 1991 (70); Hughie 1996 (56) with Al Pacino; Not About Nightingales (1999 the theatre reopened with this play after bankruptcy); Getting Married 1991 (70); Hughie (Al Pacino) 1996 (65); Tartuffe:Born Again (John Glover) 1996; Salome and Chinese Coffee (Al Pacino) 1999; Rocky Horror Show 2000

Circle in the Square-Downtown(NYC) – 5 Sheridan Square 1951 – 1954 building closed as fire hazard – 1960 building demolished and company moved to former New Stages Theatre at 159 Bleecker St @ Thompson St. - started as a movie theatre (299)- winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1976 – Iceman Cometh 1956 (565); Balcony 1960 (672); Trojan Women 1963 (600); Eh (Dustin Hoffman) 1966 (232); 1972 moved uptown to 1633 Broadway in basement of Uris Theatre (650 seats); Trojan Women (600), Club 1976 (674), Greater Tuna 1982 (501), Oil City Symphony 1987 (626)

Circle in the Square Theatre School(NYC)

* Circle Repertory Company(NYC) - 99 Seventh Ave. S. – formed in loft at Broadway and 83rd St 1969 by Marshall W. Mason – company moved in 1974 to former Sheridan Square Playhouse which became Circle Repertory Company Theatre – 100-150 seats - Gemini 1977 (1778 with move to Broadway), Fifth of July (William Hurt) 1978 (158) moved to Broadway (511), Angels Fall, 5th of July, Glorious Morning, Harvesting, Tale Told, Talley's Folly, Tribute to Lily Lamont, Ulysses in Traction, Fool For Love (Ed Harris) 1983 (1,000); Balm in Gilead (Gary Sinise) 1984; Prelude to a Kiss (Alec Baldwin,Mary-Louise Parker - transferred to Helen Hayes with Timothy Hutton 1990; - closed in 1996 after 28 years of great theatre featuring the plays of Albert Innaurato, Edward Moore and Lanford Wilson (one of the founders)

Circle Theatre(NYC) - 1901 - 1825 Broadway at 60th Street - 1906 remodelled by Thomas Lamb – Wine,Women and Song ran one and a half years - 1935 a bomb damaged parts of the theatre - sold at auction - interior demolished 1939 - torn down to make way for the Convention Centre in 1954

*City Center/City Center Stage 2(NYC) - 131 West 55th St. (between 6th and 7th Avenues) - built in 1923 as Masonic Temple (2935 seats) with its unique Moorish facade - was slated for demolition in 1943 but saved by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia - both New York City Opera and the New York City Ballet had their beginnings here until they moved to Lincoln Centre - home to dozens of musical revivals - in the early 1970s it was slated for demolition once again but was instead given landmark status – Festival 1979 - also now home to the Manhattan Theatre Club - former home to Ancient and Accepted Order of the Mystic Shrine, Carousel (revival) (Barbara Cook,Jo Sullivan) 1954; Brigadoon (revival) (Peter Palmer) 1962; Music Man (Dick Van Dyke) 1980 (21); Extra Man (Manhattan Theatre Club) (Adam Arkin) 1992; Wonderful Town 2000 revival (City Centre Encores) (2000), My Favorite Broadway (with Julie Andrews 2000)

City of London Theatre (LONDON) – Norton Folgate – 2500 seats - there in 1837 - Royal City of London 1843; New City of London Theatre 1859 – 1871 destroyed by fire

City Pantheon (LONDON) – see City Theatre

City Theatre (LONDON) – Grub Street (later Milton) – converted chapel 1829/30 – name changed to City Pantheon 1830 – last used 1836 – became warehouse

City Theatre(NYC) – 15 Warren St – 1822 – outbreak of yellow fever closed theatre 1823; 2nd City Theatre - upper part of City Saloon on Broadway between Fulton and Ann Streets – 1837 – closed same year; 3rd City Theatre – 116 East 14th Street – 1910 – converted to vaudeville house and then Yiddish Art Theatre 1928 – to cinema 1929 – demolished 1952

Civic Square Theatre (TORONTO) - see Casino Theatre

Civilized Theatre (TORONTO) - #1 - 189 Huron Street

Classical Stage Productions (TORONTO) (1972-3)

* Classic Stage Co(NYC) - 136 East 13th St. (between 3rd Ave & 4th Ave) (175)

Classic Theatre (TORONTO) - built 1914 - 1300 Gerrard St. East (just East of Greenwood) - built as vaudeville house – film theatre from 1930-1956 when it became a warehouse and discount store - 1997 restored as performance space and cafe

Civic Repertory Theater(NYC) - 105 West 14th St - opened 1926 - opened 1866 as Theatre Francaise - was old 14th Street Theater - built 1866 (1100 seats) - changed to Civic Repertory in 1926 - in 1932 became the Labor Theatre - Alison's House 1930 (41)- closed 1935 - demolished

Claire Shulman Playhouse(NYC) - see Queens Theatre in the Park

Clam House(NYC) - 133rd Street between Lennox and 7th Aves

Clark Center for the Performing Arts(NYC) - see Playwrights Horizon

Classical Theatre of Harlem (Harlem School of the Arts) (NYC) – 645 St. Nicholas Avenue

Classic Stage Theatre(NYC) - 136 East 13th Street

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center(NYC) - 107 Suffolk St.

Cleo's(NYC) - 656 9th Avenue, between 45th and 46th Street - Mabel Mercer

Cliftcrest Community Centre (TORONTO) - 1 McCowan

Clinton Hall(NYC) - see Astor Place Opera House

Clockworks Theatre(NYC) - 508 East 12th Street (Cosmic Bicycle Company) (25)

Clown Hall (TORONTO) - 68 Broadview, Suite 201A

*Club El Flamingo(NYC) - 547 West 21st Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)

Club USA(NYC) - see Central Theatre

Club Varadero (TORONTO) - 1305 Dundas Street West

CNE (TORONTO) - see Canadian National Exhibition

Coach House Theatre (TORONTO) - now closed - The Birthday Party, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunicks, Mister Mister, Viet Rock

Coburg Theatre (LONDON) – see Old Vic

Coburn Theatre(NYC) - see 63rd St. Music Hall/Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

Cockpit (LONDON) – Drury Lane – built for cockfights 1609 – converted to theatre 1616 – burnt down 1617 – rebuilt as Phoenix – closed 1642; 2nd – Gateforth Street – children’s theatre 1970 (120-240 seats)

Cockpit-in-Court (LONDON)– edge of St. James Park – converted to playhouse 1604 – reconstructed 1632 and 1660 but not used as theatre after 1664

Cocoanut Grove(NYC) – see Century Theatre

Coconut Grove(NYC) - see New Theatre

CODCO (TORONTO) – 1973 – company never had permanent space was was disbanded in 1979

Cohan and Harris(NYC) - see Candler Theatre, see Sam H. Harris Theatre - see Harris (Candler) Theatre - Royal Vagabond 1919 (208)

Cohan's Theatre(NYC) - see George M. Cohan Theatre - Broadway and 43rd Street – 1911

Cohan Theatre(NYC) - Potash and Perlmutter 1913 (441),

Colborne Street Theatre (TORONTO) - Front and Church Streets, West of Jarvis St. - 1820s - destroyed by fire in 1883

*Coliseum (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - see London Coliseum – originally a Music Hall 1904 (2358 seats) – closed 1906 – reopened 1908 – closed again 1960 and reopened 1961 as cinema – 1968 modernized and taken over by Sadler’s Wells Opera Company

Coliseum (TORONTO) - Mississauga – 309 Rathburn Road – Square 1 – 1997 – 13 screens

Coliseum (TORONTO) – Scarborough 12 – Scarborough Town Centre 1998 – 12 screens

*Collective Unconscious(NYC) - 145 Ludlow Street (between Rivington & Stanton Sts)- storefront theatre

College (TORONTO) – 350 seats (1979-1985)

College (TORONTO) – 960 College St at Dovercourt, built as Allen – 1500 seats (1921-1967) now retail stores

Collegiate Theatre (LONDON) - Dogg's Hamlet/Cahoot's Macbeth 1979

Collin’s Music Hall (LONDON) – Islington Green – originally room in Lansdowne Arms Public House – used since 1851 – 1863 replaced by new building (600 seats) – 1897 rebuilt and enlarged for repertory theatre – damaged by fire 1958 and demolished

Colonial Tavern (TORONTO) - Yonge Street (above Queen) - opened 1947 and closed 1987 - building demolished

Colonial Theatre(NYC) - 1887 Broadway at 62nd St - 1265 seats - near the Circle Theatre - opened 1905 as as legitimate theatre but quickly became a vaudeville house for 20 years - 1912 became Keith's Colonial - 1917 became New Colonial - 1925 became Hampden's Theatre - became movie house in 1931 and in 1956 NBC acquired as televison studio - in the mid 1960s sold to ABC, and finally in 1971 bought by Rebekah Harkness to house her ballet company - opened as the Harkness in 1974 - Sweet Bird of Youth; Harkness Ballet - demolished in 1977 and replaced by condominiums

Colonial Theatre (TORONTO) – see Bay

Colonial Theatre (TORONTO) on Queen Street opposite City Hall - demolished in 1957

Colonnade Theatre (TORONTO) - no longer used - Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Six Tales of Canterbury, Staircase, The Good Doctor

Colonnades Theatre Lab(NYC) - Moliere In Spite of Himself 1978 (100)

Colony (TORONTO) – 1801 Eglinton Ave West & Dufferin – 838 seats (1939-1958) – demolished and now office building

Colosseum (LONDON) – Albany Street – Regent’s Park – 1830s – occasionally used for plays – closed 1840

Colosseum Theatre(NYC) – 1874 – see Herald Square Theatre

Colossus and Imax (TORONTO) – Weston Road in Vaughan 1999 – 18 screens

Columbia Theatre(NYC) - see Central Theatre – opened 1910 – heyday of burlesque – Broadway’s first burlesque house – demolished

Columbia University Theatre(NYC) - Upstage and Down (Varsity Revue)1919 (first song by Rodgers and Hammerstein)"There's Always Room for One More"

Columbus Circle Theatre(NYC) - see Majestic Theatre

Comedy Theatre(NYC) - 108 West 41st Street - built 1909 (796 seats) - closed from 1931 to 1935 - Theatre used by Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman in 1937 and renamed the Mercury - Shoemaker's Holiday 1938 - group collapsed in 1938 - 1940 renamed the Artef - In The Zone 1917, Kitty Mackay 1914 (278)- stood empty until demolished in 1942

*Comedy Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) Panton Street off Haymarket – 1881 Peg O’ My Heart (Laurette Taylor) 1914 (710 perf) - (796 seats) - reconstructed 1911, 1933 and 1954 - One Summer's Day 1897; Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman 1906 (351); For Better For Worse 1952 (607); Dear Love; View From the Bridge; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1956 to 1959); Day in the Death of Joe Egg 1967; Colette 1980; Gambler 1986

Comedywood Downtown (TORONTO) - 194 Bloor St. West

Comedywood Uptown (TORONTO) - 800 Steeles St. West

Comet Theatre(NYC) -

Common Basis Theatre(NYC) - 750 Eighth Avenue (46th & 47th)

Commonwealth Theatre (NYC)– see Anthony Street Theatre

Community (TORONTO) – 1202 Woodbine Ave – art deco - 742 seats (1937-1955) – became a TV studio – now retail stores

Company of Lost Souls (TORONTO) - works in collaboration with Fishbowl Theatre

Comus Music Theatre (TORONTO) (1975-1986) - started by Michael Bawtree - dissolved

Concert Theatre(NYC) – see John Golden Theatre

*Connelly Theatre/Metro Playhouse(NYC) - 220 East 4th St. (between Avenue A and Avenue B) (orphanage in late 19th Century) Reopened February 1997 - houses Connelly and Metro Playhouse (52 seats)

Connie's Inn(NYC) - 2221 7th Avenue at 131st Street - Louis Armstrong - whites only policy

Context (NYC)- 28 Avenue A (74)

Continental (TORONTO) – 456 seats

Cooksville (TORONTO) – West Hill – also see Roxy (1956-1960)

*Copacabana(NYC) - 617 West 57th St (between 11th and 12th Avenues) - notorious nightclub - featured Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne (1948); Jimmy Durante (1951); Sophie Tucker, Lena Horne (1948); Nat King Cole (1958); Sammy Davis Jr (1959); Howard Keele, and the Copa Girls; Enrique Iglesias - closed 1960 and reopened

Coronet Theatre(NYC) – see Eugene O’Neill Theatre - Dream Girl 1945 (348), Angel in the Wings (Elaine Stritch) 1947 (over a year); All My Sons (Arthur Kennedy,Ed Begley,Karl Malden) 1947 (328), View From the Bridge (Van Heflin,Jack Warden,Eileen Heckart) 1955 (149), demolished

Coronet Theatre (TORONTO) - cinema - Yonge Street at Gerrard - played double features (1963-1980) 1327 seats - now a Jewellry Exchange

Cort Theatre (TORONTO) - see Adelaide Theatre

*Cort(NYC) - 138 West 48th St. (Shubert-1,084 seats) - Opened in 1912 with Peg O' My Heart (Laurette Taylor) (603), - (from 1969 to 1974 theatre was used for "The Merv Griffin Show") - Under Cover 1914 (349), Abraham Lincoln 1919 (193); Merton of the Movies 1922 (398), Blonde Sinner 1926; Behold the Bridegroom 1927 (88), Three-Cornered Moon (Ruth Gordon,Brian Donlevy) 1933 (10 weeks); Boy Meets Girl 1935 (669), Room Service 1937 (500), Male Animal 1940 (243), Shrike (Jose Ferrer) 1952 (161), Fifth Season 1953 (654), Rainmaker 1954 (128); Diary of Anne Frank (Susan Strasberg,Joseph Schildkraut) 1955 (717), Sunrise at Campobello 1958 (556), Purlie Victorious (Ossie Davis,Ruby Dee,Godfrey Cambridge,Alan Alda) 1961 (261); Zulu and the Zayda 1965; Magic Show (Doug Henning,Nathan Lane) (5/74 to 12/78 - 1,920 performances), Richard III (Al Pacino) 1979; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 1984 (275), Sarafina 1988 (597), Advise and Consent, Apparition Theatre of Prague, Home, Grapes of Wrath (Gary Sinese) 1990; Twilight: Los Angeles,1992; Sex and Longing Dana Ivey,Sigourney Weaver) 1996 (45);Freak (John Leguizamo) 1998 (145); Marlene 1999, Kat and the Kings 1999 (157); The Green Bird 2000

Cort's 58th Street(NYC) - see John Golden Theatre

Cort's 63rd Street(NYC) - see 63rd Street Music Hall

Cosmopolitan Theatre(NYC) - see Majestic Theatre - (1043 seats) – demolished

Cosmo Varieties(NYC) - see Majestic Theatre

Cotillion Room(NYC) - intimate cabaret

Cottesloe Theatre (LONDON) – see National Theatre

Cotton Club(NYC) - 142nd Street and Lennox - opened 1923 and operated for 17 years as top Harlem nightspot of notoriety - all white policy with black performers - the biggest names played here - Duke Ellington 1927; Cab Calloway; Lena Horne started here at 16 years of age

Cotton Club(NYC) - 48th Street - Duke Ellington; Bill Bojanges Robinson; Ethel Waters - see also Cotton Club in Harlem on 142nd St.

Court Theatre (LONDON) – see Royal Court

Courtyard Theatre(NYC) - see Grove Street Playhouse - Perfect Crime (now uptown over 3,000 performances)

Covent Garden (LONDON) – Theatre Royal- see Royal Opera House – Bow Street – theatre here since 1732 (1897 seats) – 1782 gutted and reconstructed and again 1792 – 1808 theatre burnt down – rebuilt (2800 seats) – theatre closed 1842 – reopened 1847 as Royal Italian Opera House (4000 seats) – burnt down 1856 – new theatre opened 1858 – 1970 seating increased to 2158

Craig Theatre(NYC) - 152 West 54th St - 1928 - 1400 seats - 1931 theatre closed and reopened in 1934 as the Adelphi and in 1940 was renamed the Radiant Center - 1944 Shuberts returned the theatre to Adelphi with Street Scene, Look Ma I'm Dancin' and On The Town - 1949 DuMont Television Network signed a lease and shot the Honeymooners there - renamed 54th Street Theatre in 1958 - Bye Bye Birdie; Brigadoon (revival); No Strings; What Makes Sammy Run; - in 1965 it became the George Abbott Theatre - Darling of the Day, Gantry - bought by New York Hilton and demolished for a tower addition

Creation 2 (TORONTO) – (1969-1977) - theatre company

*Creative Place Theatre(NYC) - 750 Eighth Avenue

Credit (TORONTO) – Port Credit – 395 seats (1974-1975)

Crescent (TORONTO) – 2265 Dundas St. West (West Toronto Junction) (1932-1945)

Crest Theatre (TORONTO) - Mount Pleasant Road – see also Belsize – originally a movie theatre built in 1927 – refurbished and established in 1953 by Donald and Murray Davis, and their sister Barbara Chilcott, further renovations in 1958 and 1963 - closed in 1966 basically due to refusal of Canada Council grant (822 seats) - Charley's Aunt, Double Image, Emmanuel XOC, Epitaph for George Dillon, Evelyn, Four Faces, The Glass Cage, Hay Fever, Krapp's Last Tape, The Matchmaker, The Mousetrap, Mr. Scrooge 1963, The Physicists, Poor Bitos, Private Ear and the Public Eye, The Rainmaker, Spring Thaw, That Hamilton Woman, Tiger and the Typist, Tiny Alice, Witness for the Prosecution. This and Tarragon are/were probably Toronto's most important theatres

Crest Theatre (TORONTO) - room in Performing Arts Lodge - 110 The Esplanade

Cricket Theatre(NYC) - Blood Knot (James Earl Jones) 1964

Criterion(NYC) – see Herald Square Theatre - Barbara Frietchie 1899 (83)

Criterion Center Stage Right (NYC) - 1530 Broadway - (526 seats) see Roundabout Theatre Company – Starmites 1989

Criterion Theatre(NYC) - A Grand Night For Singing 1993 (52)

Criterion Theatre(NYC) - 1514 Broadway (on East side between 44th and 45th) - see Olympia – built as part of Hammerstein’s Olympia complet to seat 2800 with roof garden – opened as Lyric Theatre 1895 – 1899 changed to Criterion - Scrap of Paper 1914 – became cinema – demolished 1935 together with old Olympia Music Hall – 2nd Herald Square Theatre, originally Colosseum, was named Criterion from 1882-1885

*Criterion Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Piccadilly Circus – originally adjunct to Spiers and Pond’s Criterion Restaurant - 1873 - (591 seats) - reconstructed 1883 as closed as unsafe and 1903 - built entirely underground- restored in 1992 - French Without Tears; converted to BBC studio in 1939 - reopened in 1992 refurbished - Absurd Person Singular; Butley 1971; Tomfoolery 1980; Run for Your Wife as of 1987 over 1,800 performances; Real Inspector Hound; Play's The Thing 1995 (49);

Criterion (TORONTO) – Queen Street West

Crossing Jamaica Avenue Organization(NYC)

Crowder’s Music Hall(NYC) – see Greenwich Theatre

Crown (TORONTO) – Finch and Weston Road – 410 seats (1979-1982)

Crown (TORONTO) – 591 Gerrard St. East – 724 seats (1930-1956)

Crows Theatre (TORONTO) - 69 Massey Street

Crucial Arts Organization(NYC)

Cruger’s Wharf Theatre(NYC) – opened 1758 below Water Street – see also Wharf Theatre – not used after 1759

CSI Centre for the Arts(NYC)

Cubicolo Theatre(NYC) – Five After Eight 1979

Culture Project(NYC)

CUM-BACK (TORONTO) – see Adelphi

Cumberland 4 Cinemas (TORONTO) - 159 Cumberland Street at Avenue Road - 1980

*Currican/Altered Stages(NYC) - 154 West 29th St.(between 6th and 7th Aves) (74)

*Curtain Call Players (TORONTO) - Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive (Don Mills and Sheppard Avenue East)

Curtain Club Theatre (TORONTO) - 400 Newkirk, Richmond Hill

Curtain Theatre (LONDON) - in existence in late 1500s – in Curtain Close - see the Globe – from 1603-1609 Queen Anne’s Men occupied it – not used after 1622

Da Da Kamara (TORONTO) - 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 363

Daly’s Fifth Avenue(NYC) – opened in 1869 and burned in 1873

Daly's 63rd Street Theatre(NYC)- see 63rd Street Music Hall – 22-6 West 63rd Street – built as the Davenport in 1909 – renamed Daly’s 1922 – also known as Coburn (1928); Recital (1932); Park Lane (1932) and Gilmore’s (1934) – leased as Experimental Theatre 1936 – demolished 1957 after years of not being used

Daly’s Theatre(NYC) – Broadway and 39th Streets – 1879 – remodeled from the Broadway Theatre

Daly's Theatre(NYC) – 1221 Broadway and 30th St. (l,051 seats) - opened 1879 as Banvard’s and later Wood’s Museum – modeled on the Broadway Theatre at Broadway and 39th Streets - 1867 changed to Daly’s 1868 – later became Broadway – reopened 1879 as Daly’s–7-208 or Casting the Boomerang 1883 (49), Railroad of Love 1887 (108), Needles and Pins 1880 (79), Lottery of Love 1888 (105), Bird of Paradise 1912 (112), Baby Mine 1910 (287) – became a cinema 1915 demolished 1920

Daly's Theatre (LONDON) - 1893-1937 – Cranbourn Street, on the site of Warner West End - Leicester Square – 600 seats – Maid of the Mountains (1352 perf) - Artist's Model 1895; Merry Widow 1907; Merveilleuses 1906; Sirocco 1927 (Ivor Novello) (28) – closed 1937 – now Warner Cinema

Dancemakers Studio (TORONTO) - 927 Dupont Street

Dance Theatre Workshop(NYC)

Danforth (TORONTO) – see Music Hall

Danforth (TORONTO) – 147 Danforth at Pape – had theatre organ - 1946 – see Century

Danforth Mennonite Church (TORONTO) - 2174 Danforth Avenue

*Danforth Music Hall (TORONTO) - see Music Hall

*Danny Grossman Dance Company (TORONTO) - 1975 - Parliament Street - season held at Harbourfront

*Danny's Skylight Room Cabaret(NYC) - 346-348 West 46th Street

Danse de Follies(NYC) - see New Amsterdam Theatre

Darrell Kent Cultural Centre (TORONTO) - 454 Parliament Street

*Daryl Roth Theatre/De La Guarda(NYC) - 20 Union Square E @ 15th Street - In the next few weeks, construction will begin on a 99-seat, black box second stage at the Daryl Roth Theatre - De La Guarda 1998

Dave and Busters (TORONTO) - 120 Interchange Way

Davenport Theatre (NYC)– see Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

Davis’s Royal Amphitheatre (LONDON) – see Astley’s Amphitheatre

Deering Theatre (TORONTO) - 1842 - Front Street (Berczy Park) - financial problems and converted into restaurant

*Delacorte Theatre(NYC) - Central Park - see New York Shakespeare Festival (1892 seats) 81st and Central Park - built as temporary structure and opened in June, 1962 – Merchant of Venice (George C. Scott) 1962; All's Well That End's Well & Richard III (Christopher Walken,Barbara Barrie) 1966; Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971; Henry V (Paul Rudd,Meryl Streep,Michael Moriarty,Philip Bosco) 1976; Mystery of Edwin Drood 1985; 4.35 million renovation and opened with Taming of the Shrew 1999; Tartuffe 1999; Julius Caesar (David McCallum) 2000; Seagull (Meryl Streep,Kevin Kline,Christopher Walken,John Goodman)2001

Dell Tavern (TORONTO) - demolished - cabaret type entertainment - Hollywood Blues, Noel Coward Revue

Deptford Players(NYC)

Dewey Theatre(NYC) – 14th Street – Wine,Women and Song

Diamond Horseshoe (Billy Rose's) (NYC)- situated under the Paramount Hotel on 46th Street - currently under construction

Dicapo Opera(NYC)

Dimson Theatre(NYC) - 108 East 15th Street (between Union Square E. & Irving Place)

Dixie 5 (TORONTO) – Dundas at Dixie – 383 seats (1972-1984)

*Dixon Place(NYC) - 309 East 26th Street – relocated - was at 258 Bowery

DK Productions (TORONTO) - 30 Gloucester Street, Suite 309

*DNA Theatre (TORONTO) - 133 Bathurst Street

Docks (TORONTO) – see The Docks

Dockstader's Minstrel Hall(NYC) - 1886 - Broadway near 29th St.

Dodger Stages(NYC) - opening 2003 - at Worldwide Plaza - formerly Cineplex Odeon - 50th Street and 8th Avenue - 5 performance spaces and one rehearsal space - two 499 seat theatres, 2 400 seat theatres and one with 299 seats - see Worldwide Plaza

Doo Gooder Productions(NYC)

*Dominion (LONDON) - (Tottenham Court Road) Tottenham Court Road - 1929 - designed for both theatre and film house - 1958 Todd-AO equipment installed - saved from demolition as part of office development in 1990 and restored instead - art deco exterior and interior – Time 1986; Bernadette 1990; Grand Hotel; Grease (3 years); Beauty and the Beast; Notre Dame de Paris

Dominion (TORONTO) – 424 seats (1974-1975) – showed Indian films

Dominion Drama Festival (TORONTO) (1932-1978)- adjudicated festival held in various regions for high school and college productions – 1970 renamed Theatre Canada, but discontinued in 1978

Donlands (TORONTO) – 397 Donlands Ave – 838 seats (1949-1969) – still there but not in operation

*Donmar Warehouse (LONDON) - (Covent Garden) Earlham Street - originally a brewery - became film studio in 1920 and converted to theatre in 1960 – Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood 1985; Noel and Gertie 1986; Load of Old Sequins 1987; renovated in 1992 – Fix 1997; Cabaret; Blue Room 1998

Don Mills (TORONTO) – Don Mills Centre – 857 seats (1963-1988)

Don't Tell Mama(NYC) - 343 West 46th St-intimate bar/cabaret – Hard Time to Be Single 1990; Honky-Tonk Highway 1994; That Time of the Year 1996

Doric (TORONTO) – 1094 Bloor St. West and Gladstone – 527 seats (1919-1955)

Dorset Garden Theatre (LONDON) – also known as Duke’s, or Duke of York’s, fronted Thames to South of Salisbury Count – 1671 – theatre deserted 1682 – 1689 renamed Queen’s Theatre – demolished 1709

*Douglas Fairbanks(NYC) - 432 West 42nd St. (between 9th & 10th Sts)(286 seats)- one of the nicest theatres on Theatre Row - Geniuses; When Pigs Fly 1996 (334); If It Was Easy 2000; Forbidden Broadway 2001; Mr. President 2001

Dovercourt Church in the Great Hall (TORONTO) – Dovercourt

Downstairs at the Upstairs(NYC) - see Upstairs at the Downstairs - Joan Rivers, Julius Monk Revues

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre(NYC)

Downtown Theatre(NYC) - Prodigal 1960 (several months)

Downtown (TORONTO) – 285 Yonge Street – 1059 seats (1948-1972)

Dresden Theatre(NYC) - see New Amsterdam

*Drury Lane, Theatre Royal (LONDON) - (Covent Garden)- London’s most famouse theatre – now the 4th on this site – 1st Opened in 1663 as Theatre Royal, Brydges Street (2188 seats)- 1666 theatre closed re plague and Great Fire – damaged by fire in 1672 - new theatre designed by Sir Christopher Wren opened in 1674 – 2nd Theatre Royal in Drury Lane (2000 seats) – 1674 – closed 1676 and again 1709 – major alterations 1775 – 1780 damaged during Gordon Riots – 3rd - 1791 theatre rebuilt (3611 seats) – opened 1794 – burnt down 1809 – 4th – 2283 seats – opened 1812 – 1921-2 interior reconstructed - School for Scandal; Catherine Street - torn down in 1791 and rebuilt with seating for 3,500 - replaced by present structure in 1812 - making it the oldest theatre in England that is still in use - Cavalcade 1931; Glamorous Night 1935; Careless Rapture 1936; Dancing Years 1939; Pacific 1860 1946; Oklahoma 1947 (1,548); Carousel 1950 (566); South Pacific 1951 (802); King and I 1953 (926); My Fair Lady (over 2000 performances) 1958; Four Musketeers 1967; Mame (Ginger Rogers) 1969; Great Waltz 1970 (2 years); Gone With the Wind 1972; Billy 1974; A Chorus Line 1976 (over 2 ½ years); Evening with Alan Jay Lerner 1987; Miss Saigon 1989; Witches of Eastwick 2000; Forty Second Street 1984; Chorus Line; Miss Saigon (broke My Fair Lady's record);

*Duchess Theatre (LONDON) - (Covent Garden) Catherine Street, off Aldwych - 1929 (476 seats) - Night Must Fall 1935; Corn is Green 1938; The Deep Blue Sea 1952; Caretaker 1960; Isabel’s a Jezebel 1970; Collaborators, Dirtiest Show in Town; Oh Calcutta 1974 to 1980; No Sex Please We're British

Duchess Theatre (TORONTO) – Dundas Street West – see Centre

* Duffy(NYC) - 1553 Broadway @ 46th St. - a former strip club called Paris Burlesque which was shut down in 1991 for harboring prostitution - 165 seats - Perfect Crime has been playing since 1987 (has outgrown 4 theatres including Theatre Four and 47th Street Theatre) - 5900 performances as of July 25, 2001

*Duke of York's Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - 1892 (588 seats) - built as Trafalgar Square Theatre 900 seats - changed its name in 1895 to Duke of York’s - Madame Butterfly/Miss Hobbs 1900; Peter Pan 1904; Enchanted Cottage 1922 (64); Shadow and Substance 1943; Moby Dick; House by the Lake 1956 (928); The Killing of Sister George 1965; Seagull 1975; Duet For One 1981; The Man Most Likely To; The Changing Room; Stones in His Pocket

*Duke on 42nd Street(NYC) - 229 West 42nd Street (between 7th & 8th Sts)- part of the redevelopment of 42nd Street - 199 seats - theatre housed in a 10 story building - on 2nd floor - Jewish Repertory Theatre resident company - Spitfire Grill 2001

Duke's Theatre (LONDON) – see Holborn Theatre

*DuMaurier Theatre Centre (TORONTO) - 231 Queens Quay West - see Harbourfront Centre

*DuMaurier World Stage Festival (TORONTO) - founded 1986 - held at Harbourfront and other theatres

Dundas (TORONTO) – see Brock

Duo Theatre(NYC) – Born to Rumba 1991; Chez Garbo 1996

*Duplex Cabaret(NYC) - 61 Christopher Street (at 7th Avenue) - New York's oldest continuing cabaret - Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Dawn Hampton – Bed, Boys and Beyond 2000

Dust Hole (LONDON) – see Scala Theatre

DVXT Theatre (TORONTO) - uses various theatres i.e. Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times, DuMaurier World Stage

D.W. Griffith Theatre(NYC) - see Bijou Theatre

Eagle Theatre(NYC) – see Standard Theatre

Earl Carroll Theatre(NYC) - 753 Seventh Avenue (SE corner of 7th and 50th)- built in 1922 with 1026 seats - Earl Carroll's Sketchbook (400); Jimmy Durante - theatre demolished in 1930 and reopened as a new Earl Carroll Theatre - Manhattan's largest playhouse opened in 1931 - Ziegfeld took over theatre in 1932 and renamed it the Casino Theatre - Showboat revival; Desire Under the Elms - became film house after Ziegfeld's death and a cabaret called the French Casino - 1936 Billy Rose took the reins and it became Casa Manana - 1939 the theatre closed and reopened as Woolworths but in 1990 the businesses were evicted and the remains of the theatre were demolished; 2nd theatre – opened on same site 1931 – 3000 seats – closed and reopened 1932 as Casino – 1934 became French Casino and in 1938 became Casa Manana

Earl Grey Players (TORONTO) – formed 1946

East London Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty

Eastminster United Church (TORONTO) - 310 Danforth Avenue

East 74th Street Theatre/Eastside Playhouse(NYC) – see also Phoenix - Crystal Heart 1960; Last Sweet Days of Isaac 1970; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel – demolished

East Side Players (TORONTO) - Pottery Road

Eastwood (TORONTO) – 1430 Gerrard St. East, West of Coxwell – Beaux Art design – 850 seats – (1927-1966) – now retail store

Eaton Auditorium (TORONTO) - Eaton's 7th Floor Art Moderne Auditorium and Round Room with domed ceiling, two bars and space for up to 300 persons) designed by Jacques Carlu (Yonge and College Streets) - Art Deco style 1400 seat Art Deco concert hall and restaurant, 1928-31 recital hall in the old Eatons College Street store - Yonge and College Streets - top floor - closed in 1977 when the store closed - Portia White (Nov. 7, 1941); National Ballet of Canada started season here 1951; then transferred to the Royal Alexandra Theatre (they are now in their 50th year); Billie Holiday; Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens; Joyce Grenfell; Elsa Lanchester; Glenn Gould made his stage debut here in 1945 and did all his recordings here from 1970 to 1981 - even after it closed in 1977 - site is being restored and will reopen with 2 new bars at the rear of the theatre, a new VIP room, vintage phone booths - hopefully reopening in the Fall of 2002 under the working name of the "Carlu" (named after the architect)

Eaton Centre Cineplex (TORONTO) – Dundas St. West of Yonge St – 18 cinemas (1979-2001)

Eclipse (TORONTO) – 387 Parliament St, South of Dundas – 561 seats (1947-1951) – now Regent Park

Eden (TORONTO) – see Madison, Bloor Cinema and Midtown – 947 seats (1973-1979)

Eden Palace of Varieties (LONDON) – see Kingsway

Eden Theatre(NYC) – see Phoenix - Oh Calcutta 1969 (1314)(revived 1969 with record of one of longest running musicals (5,969 performances), Grease 1972 (3388 with move to Broadway),

* Edison(NYC) - (Vegas Room ) 240 West 47th St. - Oh Calcutta 1971 (5959); Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope (Micki Grant) 1972 (1,065); Hard Job Being Good 1972

Ed Sullivan Theatre(NYC) - see Hammerstein's Theatre

*Educational Alliance(NYC) - Mazer Theatre - 197 East Broadway

Edyth Totten Theatre(NYC) - 247 West 48th Street - 1926 - 299 seats - renamed the President - changed names many times - showed German films 1932 as the Hindenburg - 1933 became the Caruso Cinema showing Italian films - then Midget Theatre for plays - back to the President in 1934, then the Artef, Acme Theatre for films in 1937, American Show Shop in 1937 for stage performances and then Show Shop in 1938 for films - then became 48th Street Theatre when that theatre was renamed the Windsor but gave it up in 1943 when 48th Street theatre went back to original name, it became the President once again - then Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop before being purchased by Mamma Leone's and extending their restaurant - the entire structure was demolished in 1988

Effingham Theatre (LONDON), Stepney (changed to East London Theatre)-built in 1834 and closed in 1897

Eglinton Theatre (TORONTO) - 402 Eglinton Avenue West at Avenue Road West - built 1936 Art Deco, with 1,080 seats - A vintage, single screen theatre, the Eglinton is possibly the finest movie house left in Toronto, with THX sound, and a recently renovated, classic decor make this Famous Players theatre a perennial favorite of discerning movie goers, and a frequent location for festivals and special screenings. Located west of the upscale "Yonge and Eglinton" neighborhood, the theatre is a short walk from countless shops, pubs and restaurants - still running but slated to be closed April 1, 2002 due to nonincorporation of handicapped facilities to the theatre

Eglinton Town Square (TORONTO) – Warden and Eglinton – (2000) – 16 screens

8th Street Playhouse(NYC)- 52 West 8th Street - was home of the 8th Street Players - The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1981 - now a video shop - see the Village Barn

Eighty-Eights(NYC) - intimate cabaret – Pictures in the Hall 1990; Cast of Thousands 1995 - closed May 1999

81st Street Theatre(NYC) - The Kitchen (Rip Torn,Sylvia Miles) 1966 (136)

86th Street Theatre(NYC) - 86th Street - Ethel Merman in vaudeville show 1930

Elane (TORONTO) – Eglinton and Danforth Ave – 711 seats (1963-1985) – in 1998 reopened as a Tamil cinema

Electra (TORONTO) – College and Spadina – see Bellevue (1968-1969)

Elektra (TORONTO) – 698 seats – (1964-1970) – showed Greek films

Elephant & Castle Theatre (LONDON), Southwark - opened 1872 – Newington Butts - closed 1928 - 1932 became a cinema

El Flamingo(NYC) - 547 West 21st Street - Donkey Show 1999 (still running Aug 18/02 - 3 years)

*Elgin Theatre (TORONTO) - built as Loew's Vaudeville, Yonge Street in 1913-14 - 189 Yonge St. - designed by Thomas Lamb, at a cost of $500,000 (1600 seats) part of the vaudeville circuit - from 1913 to 1928 vaudeville acts and silent films - Webber and Fields, Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle and Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy - fire 1928 - 30,000.00 damage – showed movies from 1930 - the Elgin later became a cinema renamed Yonge in 1978 and ran until 1982 - in 1985 the both theatres were renovated - opened with Cats (1985 to 1987); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1992); Napoleon 1994 - cost 40 million dollars, in 1989 - the last remaining operating double decker theatre complex in the world - Winter Garden is 7 stories above the Elgin (see also Winter Garden); The Full Monty 2001 (run cut short re reviews)

Elgin Mills (TORONTO) – Richmond Hill – 10 cinemas – 1995

Ellen Stewart Theatre(NYC) – House of Leather 1970; Colette 1970

El Mocambo (TORONTO) - 464 Spadina Avenue (at College) - October 2001 ends the gritty and bristling character of the El Mocambo - which perhaps embodied the spirit of rock 'n' roll. The music of the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed (late 1970s), Elvis Costello (1978); Steve Ray Vaughan (1983); Alex Chilton (1995); Galactic Cowboys (1999); Pepper (2001); Donnas - still echos through this legendary club - although the second floor was not used as often recently, it still showcased a few fine performers, while the downstairs stage operated seven days a week ; reopening New Year's Eve 2001 at 549 College Street West

Elmore's Hall (TORONTO) - 188 1/2 Lowther Avenue - converted chapel of Walmer Road Baptist Church

Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre(NYC) - 236 West 42nd St - opened 1912 as the Empire Theatre (900 seats) - premiere production was Within the Law 1912 (541); First Night 1912 (541), Yellow Ticket (John Barrymore) 1914 (183); Fair and Warmer 1915 (377); Business Before Pleasure 1917 (357); Up in Mabel's Room 1919 (229), Fall Guy 1925 (177); Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath 1920 (375); Her Cardboard Lover (Jeanne Eagels) 1927 (13 weeks); - became burlesque house 1930 - Barretts of Wimpole Street 1931 (372); Old Maid 1935 (305); Life With Father 1939 (3224); closed 1942 and in 1943 became cinema - Member of the Wedding (Julie Harris,Ethel Waters,Brandon DeWilde) 1950 (501); I Am a Camera 1951 (262); Long Days 1951 (3); Time of the Cuckoo 1952 (263); Song of Songs, Girl in the Limousine - 1931 became a burlesque house - in 1942 mayor shut down theatre for moral reasons and became movie theatre - renamed "Laff Movie Theatre" - dedicated to filmed comedy - 1954 became the Empire - closed mid 1980s - exterior and will be restored as theatre was moved 200 feet to east to create entrance to AMC movie center complex

Eltinge Theatre(NYC) - Girl I Left Behind Me 1893 (208), Masquerade 1894; Bohemia 1895; Peter Pan (Maude Adams) 1905; Within the Law 1914 (541);

Elysee(NYC) - see John Golden Theatre

Embassy (TORONTO) – 651 Yonge Street – 1934 see New Yorker

Embassy Five(NYC) - see Gaiety Theatre

Embassy 49th Theatre(NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre

Embassy Theatre (LONDON) – Hampstead – 1928 – dmaged by bombing Second World War – closed 1957 and taken over by Central School of Speech and Drama

Emerging Artists Theatre Company(NYC)

Empire (LONDON) – Wood Green – Leicester Square – famous music hall – originally theatre 1884-1886 housed burlesque – on site of Saville House, home of George II when Prince of Wales – 1887 became Empire Theatre of Varieties – 1927 closed – demolished and replaced by cinema – closed and gutted 1961 – interior reconstructed as cinema and dance hall; 2nd – Empire – Islington – see Grand Theatre

Empire (LONDON) - now site of Empire Cinema - stands on site of Saville House - burned down 1865; the Alcazar opened 1883 Empire dates from the 1890s

Empire Theatre(NYC) - 1430 Broadway and 40th St - built 1893 - 1099 seats – across from Metropolitan Opera House - one block up from Casino - My Wife (Billy Burke) 1897 (129); Legend of Leonora (Maude Adams) 1914; Declassee 1919 (257); Czarina 1922 (136); Senorita Raquel Meller 1926 (1 month); Hamlet (John Gielgud,Lillian Gish,Judith Anderson) 1936 (132); Life With Father 1939 (6 years); Member of the Wedding 1950 (501) - for many years it was the oldest and most prestigious playhouse in New York - Time of the Cuckoo (Shirley Booth) 1952 (263) - demolished 1953

Empire Theatre(NYC) - see Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre - Forest City Ratner has constructed a new entertainment and retail complex on the south side of 42nd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Anchor tenants for the 335,000 square foot development include Madame Tussaud’s 60,000 sq. ft. wax museum and a 26-screen American MultiCinemas (AMC) movie theater. Other tenants include include HMV Records, Just For Feet, Crazy Shirts, and Applebee’s. The new entertainment and retail complex has also restored the historic facades of the Liberty and Empire Theaters

Empire Theatre (TORONTO) – 408 Queen Street East – 668 seats (1926-1955)

Empire Theatre (TORONTO) - 1912-1923 (or perhaps built in 1899?)replaced Temperance Hall at Temperance Street North of Adelaide off Yonge Street - housed the New Empire Players (1932-1933)(see Temperance Hall) formerly Star Burlesque - torn down

*English National Ballet (LONDON)

*Ensemble Studio Theatre/Medicine Show(NYC) - 549 West 52nd St. (10th & 11th)two theatres - a second floor theatre of 99 seats, and 6th floor theatre of 60 seats

Entermedia(NYC) - Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1978 (1576); Taking My Turn 1983

*Equity Library Theatre(NYC) - founded 1943 by Sam Jaffe - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1977 – Follies; Two 1978

*Equity Showcase Theatre (TORONTO) - Performing Space, 651 Dufferin Street - Camino Real, Knuckle, Vieux Carre, Pippin, Sunday in the Park With George (2000)

Erindale Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - 3359 Mississauga - University of Toronto at Mississauga

Erin Mills Town Centre 5 (TORONTO) – Mississauga (1984-2001) – 5 screens

Erlanger’s Theatre(NYC) – 1927 – 44th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue – opened with Merry Malones (Cohans) – later changed to the St. James

Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Esquire (TORONTO) – 2290 Bloor St West at Durie – opened as Lyndhurst – now a Shoppers Drug Mart

Esquire (TORONTO) – 408 Queen St. East – 512 seats (1937-1955)

Estelle R. Newman Theatre(NYC) – see Public Theatre

*Etcetera Theatre Club (LONDON) - Oxford Arms Pub - 265 Camden High Street (Camden Town) - 5 or 6 rows of seats

*Ethel Barrymore Theatre(NYC) - 243 West 47th St. (Shubert-1,096 seats) Built in 1928 in honour of Ms. Barrymore - Gay Divorce 1932 (248), Whistling in the Dark (Claire Trevor) 1932; Women 1936 (657); Bury the Dead 1936 (3 months); Women 1937 (657); Knickerbocker Holiday 1938; Key Largo 1939 (105), No Time For Comedy (Katharine Cornell,Laurence Olivier) 1939 (185), Pal Joey (Gene Kelly,Van Johnson) 1940 (374), Best Foot Forward 1941; Tomorrow the World 1943 (500), Streetcar Named Desire 1947 (855); Fourposter 1951 (632), Tea and Sympathy 1953 (712), Desperate Hours (Paul Newman,Karl Malden 1955 (212); New Faces of 1956; Look Homeward Angel 1957 (564), Small War on Murray Hill 1957 (12); Raisin in the Sun (Claudia McNeil,Ruby Dee,Louis Gossett,Diana Sands) 1959 (530), Wait Until Dark 1966 (373), Black Comedy (Michael Crawford,Lynn Redgrave) 1967 (337); Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death 1971; Inner City 1971; Don’t Play Us Cheap 1972; Travesties 1975 (155); Robber Bridgegroom 1975 (145) transferred from Harkness Theatre; I Love My Wife 1977 (872), American Buffalo - 1977 (135); Romantic Comedy 1979 (396), Hurly Burly 1984 (343) after an off-Broadway run; Is There Life After High School? 1982; Baby 1983; Hurlyburly (Harvey Keitel,William Hurt,Ron Silver,Jerry Stiller,Cynthia Nixon,Sigourney Weaver,Judith Ivey) 1984 (343); Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Angela Bassett) 1988; Streetcar Named Desire (Alec Baldwin,Amy Madigan,Jessica Lange) 1992; Sisters Rosenweig (Jane Alexander,Robert Klein,Madeline Kahn) 1993 (85); The Life 1997 (466); Amy's View (Judi Dench) 1999 (115), Lunch Hour, Poor Murderer; Real Thing 2000; Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000)

*Eugene O'Neill(NYC) - 230 West 49th St. (Jujamcyn-1,108 seats) - Built in 1925 as the Forrest, and renamed in 1959 for the only U.S. playwright to receive the Nobel prize for Literature – closed 1945 – reopened as Coronet Theatre - Let It Ride 1961; Show Girl 1961; She Loves Me 1963; Last of the Red Hot Lovers 1969 (706), Prisoner of Second Avenue 1971 (780), Yentl (Tovah Feldshuh 1975 (224); California Suite (Tammy Grimes,George Grizzard,Jack Weston,Barbara Barrie) 1976 (445); Big River (John Goodman,Rene Auberjonois) 1985 (1005), M. Butterfly 1988 (777), Canterbury Tales, I Ought To Be In Pictures (Dinah Manoff,Joyce Van Patten,Ron Leibman) 1980 (324), Big River 1985; M. Butterfly (John Lithgow,B.D.Wong) 1988 (777); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Kathleen Turner,Charles Durning) 1990 (149); Five Guys Named Moe 1992; Grease (revival - Rose O'Donnell) 1994; Death of a Salesman (Brian Dennehy) 1999; The Full Monty (2000)

Euston Music Hall (LONDON) – see Regent Theatre

Euterpean Hall(NYC) – see Broadway Theatre

Eve (TORONTO) – see Capri – 717 seats (1972-1986)

Evergreen(NYC) - see Theatre Four - Boys in the Band, Geese, House of Flowers – demolished

Everyman Theatre (LONDON) – Hampstead – 19201926 – 1947 converted to cinema

Eve’s Paradise (TORONTO) – Bloor and Bathurst (1986-1990) – porno house

Exhibition Stadium (TORONTO) - demolished 1999 - formerly home of Canadian National Exhibition spectacular grandstand shows - produced annually during the Exhibition - mid August to Labour Day, with featured performers i.e. Jimmy Durante, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Midge Arthur's Canadettes,Howard Cable and his orchestra, Alan and Blanche Lund, Ed Sullivan, Marilyn Bell, Olson and Johnson, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye

*Expanded Arts(NYC) - 85 Ludlow Street (between Delancey & Rivington St. (25)- storefront theatre

Experimental Theatre(NYC) – West 63rd, East of Broadway - see 63rd St. Music Hall/Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

*Factory Lab Theatre (TORONTO) (formerly Factory Theatre Lab)and Studio - 125 Bathurst Street & Adelaide theatre - founded in 1970 by Ken Gass in former candle factory at 374 Dupont Street (100 seats) - now Factory Theatre - bought its theatre in March 1999 – Creeps 1970; Brussels Sprouts 1971; Strawberry Fields 1972;Winter Offensive – moved to Adelaide Court Theatre until 1982 and in 1984 moved to its present location, with 230 seats - now in its 29th season

Fairlawn (TORONTO) – 3320 Yonge St. at Fairlawn – 1200 seats – twinned in 1960s (1946-1985) – now a bank

Fairview (TORONTO) – Don Mills Road and Sheppard – 6 screens (1969-2001)

*Fairview Library Theatre (TORONTO) - 35 Fairview Mall - 26th year

Family (TORONTO) – 2173 Queen St. East at Lee – 1914 – renamed the Lake – now a Royal Bank

*Famous People Players (TORONTO) - 110 Sudbury Street - now in their 28th season - dinner theatre - founded 1974

Far East (TORONTO) – Dundas Street West – 647 seats (1989-1999)

*Feast of Fools Theatre (TORONTO) - see Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor Street West

Federal Music Theatre(NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

Federal Theatre(NYC) – Macbeth; R.U.R.; Battle Hymn 1936

Feinstein's(NYC) - (Regency Hotel) - 540 Park Avenue @ 61st Street- Michael Feinstein, Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook

Festival (TORONTO) (1964-1965

Festival (TORONTO) – 651 Yonge Street - 516 seats (1978-1982) see New Yorker

*Fez Theater(NYC) - 380 Lafayette St @ Great Jones St.

5th Avenue Theatre (Apollo Hall) (NYC)- Madison Square Theatre built on this site when Fifth Avenue destroyed by fire in 1873 - 5th Avenue & 26th St (1,254 seats) - built in 1862 at 24th Street and 5th Avenue - destroyed by fire in 1873 - Shore Acres 1893 (244), Saratoga or Pistols for Seven 1870 (101), Pique 1875 (237), In Mizzoura 1893 (64), Divorce 1871 (200), Big Bonanza 1875 (137) - demolished

Fifth Avenue Theatre(NYC) – see Daly’s Fifth Avenue - Fifth Avenue and 28th Street West, near Broadway - one of 4 theatres with the same name – built as Fifth Avenue Opera House (1254 seats) specializing in Negro Minstrel shows – 1867 – 1869 became Daly’s Fifth Avenue Theatre – 1873 burnt down and not rebuilt; site was later used for Fifth Avenue Hall, which became Madison Square Theatre; 2nd Fifth Avenue Theatre (1254 seats) – opened at 1185 Broadway and 28th Street – 1873 - not located on 5th Avenue but took name from prior venue which was destroyed by fire in 1891 - rebuilt in 1900 - slipped into decline and showed movies and vaudeville -had many name changes and was demolished 1908; 3rd - the New Fifth Avenue Theatre opened in 1892 on West 28th Street on the site of its namesake which had burned in 1891

Fifty-Eighth Street Theatre(NYC) – see John Golden Theatre

58th Street Theatre(NYC) – see John Golden Theatre

51st Street Theatre(NYC) - see Hollywood Theatre, see Mark Hellinger Theatre

54th Street Theatre(NYC) - see Craig Theatre, George Abbott Theatre - 302 West 45th St. - (see Martin Beck) - Caligula 1960 (38); Kwamina 1961; 13 Daughters 1961; No Strings 1962 (580), What Makes Sammy Run 1964 (540), Bye Bye Birdie 1960 (607), Kiss Me Kate 2000 (revival)

Filmarte(NYC)- see John Golden Theatre

*Finborough Theatre (LONDON) - located above a pub at 118 Finborough Road, London (Earl's Court) - has been a fringe venue for about 20 years - since 1994 the resident company is Steam Industry

Finch 3 (TORONTO) – Finch and Dufferin (1976-1999)

Fine Arts(NYC) - see John Golden Theatre

Fine Arts (TORONTO) – 622 seats – (1977-1984)

Finsbury Park Empire Theatre (LONDON) – demolished

*Firebird Cafe(NYC) - 363 West 46th Street - intimate cabaret space that is part of Firebird Restaurant - West 46th Street will discontinue regular cabaret – closed Feb 3/02

Firehall Theatre (TORONTO) - Lombard Street - was home to Second City for 24 years - no longer in use - Lemon Sky, Old Times, Sea Horse, Shelter, Unexpected Guest - to be rennovated as Gilda's Club

First Markham Place (TORONTO) – Hwy 7 between Woodbine and Warden – 10 screens - 1998

Fishbowl Theatre (TORONTO) - uses other theatres i.e. Alumnae Theatre, Toronto Fringe Festival, and collaborates with Company of Lost Souls

Fitzroy Theatre (LONDON) – see Scala Theatre

Flamboyan Theater(NYC) - 107 Suffolk Street (at Delancey)

*Flatiron Playhouse(NYC) - 119 West 23rd St (between 6th & 7th Aves)- 60 seats in 3rd floor of office building - Flatiron Playhouse, located on 23rd Street one block from the historic Flatiron Building, is for sale. Owner Peter M. Benassi is moving to Los Angeles and seeks to sell his New York property - space was home to the Italian American Theatre Company and known as the Duality Playhouse. A well-received revival of Bent just closed in the space. Other recent hits include The Shadowbox, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and an all-male Medea.

**Flea Theatre(NYC) - 41 White St. (Church & Broadway)- home of Bat Theatre Company

Foco Novo (LONDON) – fringe theatre

Folies Bergere Theatre(NYC) - 210 West 46th St - 1911 - opened as a dinner theatre - closed after a few short months - reopened as The Fulton in 1911 - Hell/Temptation/Gaby 1911 (92); Misleading Lady 1913 (183), Twin Beds (411), Abie's Irish Rose - transferred to the Republic; Jazz Singer (303), Arsenic and Old Lace (1,444) and eventually changed to Helen Hayes Theatre in 1955 - Mary Mary (1572), Royal Family - 1982 demolished after the Astor, Victoria, Bijou, and Morosco had been razed

Folies-Dramatiques (LONDON) - see Kingsway Theatre

Follies Theatre(NYC)

Folly Theatre (LONDON) – see Charing Cross Theatre

Fools Company Space(NYC) (96)

*Ford Center for the Performing Arts(NYC) - 213 West 42nd St. (Livent-1,839 seats) - Lyric Theatre torn down but faηade is still intact, but the Apollo Theatre was completely demolished - a cost of 30 million dollars. The Ford Centre in Chicago helped restore the former Oriental Theatre - opened in 1998 (previews 1997) with Ragtime (Marin Mazzie,Brian Stokes Mitchell,Audra McDonald,Judy Kaye) (861), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat 2000, Forty Second Street 2001

Fordham University Theatre(NYC)

Forrest Theatre(NYC) – 1924 renamed Coronet in 1945 and in 1959 became the Eugene O'Neill – opened with Mayflowers

Fortune(NYC) - War Games; Murder in the Vicarage 1976 (1,776) – demolished

Fortune - Golden Lane, Cripplegate (LONDON) – 1600 – to house Admiral’s Men (1000 seats – 1621 burnt down – reopened 1602 – 1649 interior dismantled – demolished 1661 due to concern of masses spreading plague; 2nd – *Fortune Theatre (LONDON) - (Covent Garden) Russell Street - 1924 (440); 2001 - purchased by Ambassador Theatre Group (Duke of York's, Picadilly, Phoenix, New Ambassador's and Comedy as well)- The Promise (Judi Dench,Ian McShane,Ian McKellen) 1967 (289) ;On Approval 1927; At the Drop of a Hat 1957 (over 700 perf.); Beyond the Fringe (Dudley Moore,Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett) 1961 (1184); Fortune 1967 (nearly 300 perf); Suddenly at Home 1971; Murder in the Vicarage 1976 - transferred from Savoy; Suddenly at Home; The Woman in Black (5000 performances as of July 31/01)

48th Street Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre - Pick Up Girl 1944 (6 mos)

48th Street Theatre(NYC) - 157 West 48th Street - 1912 - 969 seats - Thirteenth Chair 1916 (328), Torch Bearers 1922 (135); Bit of Love 1925 (4)- Martha Graham made her concert debut here in 1926 - Expressing Willie 1924 (293), The Squall (444), - 1937 to 1943 changed to lst run movie house called the Windsor but back to legitimate - Sweet Nell of Old Drury (Alfred Lunt,Lynn Fontanne,Laurette Taylor,Howard Lindsay) 1928 Cradle Will Rock (108) - 1943 returned to 48th Street Theatre - Harvey 1944 (1775), Traitor 1949 (67); Stalag 17 (472), Tea and Sympathy - 1955 water tank gave way through roof and theatre was eventually demolished and is now a parking garage

45 Bleeker Theatre(NYC) - 45 Bleeker Street

44th Street Theatre(NYC) - see Weber and Fields Music Hall – 216 West 44th St – 1912 opened as New Weber and Fields Music Hall (1463 seats) – on the roof was the Nora Baynes Theatre – basement housed the Little Club – famous during prohibition - Night in Spain 1927; Johnny Johnson 1936; Rosalinda 1942 (521) – demolished 1945

49th Street Theatre(NYC) - 235 West 49th Street - 1921 - 750 seats - Chauve-Souris 1922 (520); Redhead (Gwen Verdon) 1959 (452)- 1938 theatre closed and reopened as Cinema 49 but by 1940 theatre was demolished

42nd Street Theatre(NYC) - 432 West 42nd St.

47th Street Theatre(NYC) -(home to Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre) - 304 West 47th St. (8th & 9th) (196 seats) Wild Blue; Perfect Crime - transferred To Duffy Theatre

47th Street Theatre(NYC) – Jelly Roll 1995; Last Session 1997

46th Street Theatre(NYC) - see Richard Rodgers – 226 West 46th Street – 1338 seats – opened as Chanin’s Forty-Sixth Street Theatre 1925 and got present name in 1932 - Good News 1927 (551); DuBarry Was a Lady 1939; Panama Hattie 1940 (501); Finian’s Rainbow 1947 (725); Arms and the Girl 1950; Guys and Dolls 1950; Damn Yankees 1955; New Girl in Town 1957; Redhead 1959; Christine 1960; Tenderloin 1960; Donnybrook 1961; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1961; Do I Hear a Waltz 1965; I Do I Do 1966 (560); Pousse Cafι 1966; 1776 - 1969; Raisin 1973; Chicago (Gwen Verdon,Chita Rivera,Jerry Orbach) 1975; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Henderson Forsythe) 1978; Working 1978; Nine 1982 (732); Fences 1987 (526);

*Ford Centre for the Performing Arts (TORONTO) (now Toronto Centre for the Arts) - 5040 Yonge Street, North York - was the home of Livent Productions (founded in 1989) - (Main Hall 1780 seats - Recital Hall 1030 seats), in Vancouver the new Ford Centre for the Performing Arts (1,849 seats) plus the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts in New York (1,839 seats) - *Ragtime (530), Sunset Boulevard (977)- changed to North York Performing Arts Centre after bankruptcy

Forum 47th Street(NYC) - see Central Theatre

Forum Theatre(NYC) - see Central Theatre

Forum Theatre(NYC) – see Vivian Beaumont Theatre

Forum Theatre (TORONTO) – 678 Mt. Pleasant Road (1948-1949)

Forum Theatre (TORONTO) - see Molson Amphitheatre at Ontario Place

Fort Rouille (TORONTO) - on the grounds of the CNE - 1720 first European theatrical performance in region

401/Morningside (TORONTO) – 745 Milner Avenue, Scarborough – 1997 – 11 cinemas

410/7 Centre (TORONTO) – 150 West Drive (1990-2001)

Four Seasons Centre for the Arts (TORONTO) - see Opera House - new theatre being built to house the Canadian Opera Company and National Ballet of Canada - three storey glass building with 2000 seats - projected opening 2005 (only such facility dedicated to opera in Canada)

*14th Street Theatre(NYC) - (see Civic Repertory Theater) – 105-9 West 14th Street - built 1866 as Theatre Francais (1100 seats) – changed to Lyceum 1873 – and from 1886-1926 as Fourteenth Street - Old Homestead 1887 (160), Blue Jeans 1890 (176); Running For Office (Cohan family) 1903 (6 weeks) – demolished 1938

*14th Street Y(NYC) - 344 East 14th St (between 2nd Ave & 3rd Ave)- home to Hypothetical Theatre Company

4th Street Theatre(NYC) - 83 East 4th St

Fox Cinema (TORONTO) - 2236 Queen St. East – 500 seats 1913 – opened as the Theatre Without a Name – also named Pastime, and Prince Edward before becoming the Fox – now a repertory cinema

Fox Weston (TORONTO) – see Weston

Franklin Theatre(NYC) – 175 Chatham St – 550 seats – 1835 – closed 1854

Franks Hotel (TORONTO) - Front Street at Jarvis - 1820 - first theatrical performance in York of local actors - took place in Ballroom on 2nd floor, and in 1825 the earliest known opera performance "The Mountaineers" (1925)- now Dominion store

Frazee Theatre(NYC) - see Lew M. Fields Theatre and Wallack’s Theatre - Gold 1921 (6); Dulcy 1921 (246)

Freddy's(NYC) - intimate cabaret - Marcia Lewis

Frederick's (Late Wilson's) Royal Palace of Varieties (LONDON) - opened 1850 and closed by fire in 1877

Freehold Theatre(NYC) – see La Mama

French Casino(NYC) - see Earl Carroll Theatre

Fringe Festival(NYC) – see New York International Fringe Festival

*Fringe of Toronto Festival (TORONTO)

Frog and Nightgown Theatre (TORONTO) - 93 Raglan Avenue

Frohman's Empire Theatre(NYC) - see Empire Theatre

Frolic Theatre(NYC) - see New Amsterdam

Fulham Theatre (LONDON) – see Grand Theatre

Fulton Street Theatre(NYC) - Yellow Jacket 1912 (80), Twin Beds 1914 (411), Abie's Irish Rose 1922 (2,327); Jazz Singer (George Jessel) 1925 Seven Year Itch 1952 (1141), Jazz Singer 1925 (303), Deep Are the Roots 1945 (477), Command Decision 1947 (409), Arsenic and Old Lace 1941 (1444), Another Part of the Forest 1946 (182); Seven Year Itch 1952 (1141),

Fulton Theatre(NYC) – 1911 built as the Folies Bergere Theatres, and in 1955 became the Helen Hayes Theatre

Gaiety Theatre(NYC) - built 1908 - 1547 Broadway at 46th Street - 1000 seats – burlesque house - Fortune Hunter 1909 (345), Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 1910 (424), Stop Thief 1912 (149); Daddy Long Legs 1914 (264); Turn to the Right 1916 (435), Lightnin 1918 (1291) - 1926 became a movie house until 1931 when it became a burlesque house - Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee – Phil Silvers 1934; ,1943 turned to vaudeville and became Victoria and showed films - few blocks up from George M. Cohan Theatre - 1982 became the Embassy Five - demolished in 1982

Gaiety Theatre (LONDON) - on site of Citibank House between Catherine St. & Wellington St – East end of Strand – opened as Strand Musick Hall 1864 – closed 1866 – new building erected 1126 seats as Gaiety in 1868 – burlesque – closed 1903; 2nd Gaiety – nearby with 1267 seats – 1903 – closed 1939 – demolished 1957 - Circus Girl 1896; Orchid 1904; Our Miss Gibbs 1909; Theodore & Co 1916; 3rd - GaietyGarrick Theatre - (Charing Cross) Charing Cross Road - there in 1889 - (656 seats) - built by W.S. Gilbert - river runs under the foundations - Fairy's Dilemma 1904; Lady With a Lamp (Edith Evans) 1929 (22 weeks); Living for Pleasure 1958; Cindy-Ella or I Gotta Shoe 1962; Sing a Rude Song; Death Trap 1978-1981; No Sex Please We're British; An Inspector Calls 1995; 4th Gaiety Theatre – 70 Leman St., Whitechapel – 1831 – burnt down 1846 – rebuilt and reopened 1854 – building fell into disuse after 1881;

Galli Theatre (TORONTO) - 96 Spadina Avenue, Ste. 202

Gallo Opera House(NYC) - 254 West 54th St - 1927 - 1200 seats - 1929 renamed the New Yorker - 1933 became the Casino de Paris - closed in 1935 and reopened as the Palladium in 1936 - 1937 it became the Federal Music Theatre and in 1939 became the New Yorker again - in 1942 CBS acquired the New Yorker and became Radio Playhouse No 4 and then Studio No 52 - it was sold and reopened as the infamous Studio 54 - the marquee still reads Studio 54 and entertains rock concerts

Garden (TORONTO) – 290 College St, West of Spadina – 526 seats (1937-1965) – now a computer outlet

Garden Centre Theatre (TORONTO) – see Prudhomme

Garden Theatre(NYC) – opened 1890 – 61 Madison Avenue(1200 seats on the ground floor of Madison Square Garden and for 35 years housed major productions) - Sarah Bernhardt (Camille/Tosca/Cyrano) 1900; Hamlet (E.H. Sothern) 1900; College Widow 1904 (278) – 1919 became Jewish (later Yiddish) Art Theatre – demolished 1925

Garret Theatre (TORONTO) (1967-1970) - small intimate theatre - 35 seats - no longer in use - Incident in Rosedale, Stranger Unto My Brethren - used by playwright John Herbert (Fortune and Men's Eyes) to present his works

Garrick Theatre(NYC) – 65-9 West 35th Street built in 1890 as Harrigan’s Theatre – premiered with Arms and the Man - – renamed Garrick in 1895 – home of the Theatre Guild - Sherlock Holmes 1899 (256), Secret Service 1896 (176), Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines 1901 (168), Scarecrow 1911 (23), Her Own Way 1903 (107); from 1917-1919 was Vieux Colombier – in 1919 reverted to Garrick - John Ferguson 1919 (177); in 1919 it became the Jewish Art Theatre - Enter Madame 1920 (350), He Who Gets Slapped 1922; The Failures (Jacob Ben-Ami) 1923 (40); Adding Machine 1923 (72), They Knew What They Wanted 1924 (192); Garrick Gaieties (Sterling Holloway) 1925 (lyric and composer debut of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart) – demolished 1932

Gate Theatre (NYC)- 2nd Avenue - Heloise (Alan Arkin) 1958; O Marry Me 1961; Cindy 1964

Gate Theatre (LONDON) - considered off West End - above Prince Albert Pub - 11 Pembroke Road, Notting Hill Gate (Notting Hill Gate) - started 1979 - flexible seating; 2nd Gate Theatre – experimental theatre club in Florat Street, Covent Garden – 96 seats – 1925 – moved to Villiers Street, off Strand; 3rd Gate opened 1927 – 1941 extensively damaged by bombing and never reopened

Gateway 6 (TORONTO) – Gateway Blvd in Brampton – 6 plex (1988-2001)

Gatsby's (TORONTO) - 504 Church Street at Alexander - cabaret performances with dinner, restaurant closed but reopening in 2002

Gatti’s (LONDON) – 1856 – restaurant demolished for Charing Cross Station – reopened in Westminster Bridge Road 1865 – licenced music hall – also formed Gatti’s-Under-the-Arches (original nicknamed Gatti’s-Over-the-Water) – rebuilt 1893 (1183 seats) as Gatti’s Palace of Varieties – closed 1924 – demolished 1950; Gatti’s-Under-the-Arches was renamed Hungerford Music Hall 1883 and later Charing Cross Music Hall – closed 1903 and in 1910 became cinema – 1927-41 part of site was Gate Theatre and 1946 another part became Players’ Theatre

Gay (TORONTO) – 309 Parliament and Dundas Streets – 512 seats (1954-1964) – see Blue Bell

Gayety Theatre (TORONTO) - (1909-1927) – a burlesque house

Gem (TORONTO) – (1955-1957)

*Gene Frankel Theatre(NYC) - 24 Bond St.

Genesius Guild Theatre(NYC)

George Abbott Theatre(NYC) – 152 West 54th Street – 1401 seats – opened 1928 as the Craig Theatre – changed to Adelphi in 1934 – 1958 became Fifty-Fourth Street Theatre and 1966 the George Abbott - Darling of the Day 1968 – demolished 1970

George Brown Theatre (TORONTO) - 530 King St. East

*George Ignatieff Theatre (TORONTO) – see also Central Library Theatre - 15 Devonshire Place (180 seats)

George M. Cohan's Theatre(NYC) - 1911 - 1482 Broadway at 43rd St. - 1100 seats - It Pays to Advertise 1914; Potash and Perlmutter (441) - 1932 turned to films but struggled with proximity of Roxy, Rialto, Paramount, State, Rivoli, Strand and others - 1938 demolished for retail stores

Germania Theatre(NYC) – Broadway & 13th Street – Mascot 1882

Gerrard (TORONTO) – 1908 Gerrard St. East at Woodbine – 768 seats (1927-1953)

Gershwin Hotel(NYC) – Why We Don’t Bomb the Amish 2000

*Gershwin Theatre(NYC) - 222 West 51st St. (Nederlander-1,933 seats) Built as the Uris - Broadway's largest theatre - renamed in honour of George and Ira Gershwin - Via Galactica 1972 (7); King and I 1977 (revival 807), Sweeney Todd (Len Cariou,Angela Lansbury) 1979 (557), Pirates of Penzance 1981 (772), Showboat (Elaine Stritch,Rebecca Luker) 1994(revival 951), Tony Awards, Singin' in the Rain 1985 (367); Starlight Express (Andrea McArdle) 1987 (761); Candide (Jim Dale) 1997 (103); Men Are From Mars; Candide (revival Jim Dale,Andrea Martin) 1997 (103); Women Are From Venus 1997

Gibbons’ Tennis Court (LONDON) – see Vere Street Theatre

*Gielgud Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Shaftesbury Avenue - 1906 - (888 seats)as the Hicks - renamed The Globe in 1909 - Our Betters (over 500 perf); Fallen Angels; The Lady's Not for Burning 1949; Man for All Seasons; Private Ear, the Public Eye 1962 (549); Play It Again Sam (Dudley Moore) 1969; renamed Gielgud in 1994 to celebrate Sir. John's 90th birthday; Lettuce and Lovage; The Graduate

Gilmore's 63rd Street (NYC)- see 63rd St. Music Hall, Daly’s 63rd St. Theatre

Gladstone Hotel (TORONTO) - 1214 Queen St. West

Glendale (TORONTO) – Avenue Road, above Lawrence (1947-1975) – 995 seats and Cinerama screen i.e. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Battle of the Bulge – now a car dealership

Glen Morris Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - 4 Glen Morris (90 seats)- (just East of Spadina Avenue) - built 1916 and once a Russian Greek Orthodox Church - has been home of the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama since 1968

* Glines(NYC) - gay theatre house - Gulp

Global Village (TORONTO) (1969-1975) - St. Nicholas Street - theatre ran by Robert and Elizabeth Swerdlow - Facad 1969 Toronto's first full-length drag queen variety show(transferred to run at Royal Alexandra Theatre), Eyes, Fables, Hey Justine, Jubalay, Justine 1970 (ran off Broadway as Love Me,Love My Children for 7 months, Nuts and Bolts and Rusty Things, Outcry, Peter and the Wolf, Rats, Spring Thaw, The Truth Behind the Dykes, Tubstrip

Globe (TORONTO) -Queen Street, West of Yonge - 1880s to 1930s - Burns and Allen; Tommy Burns and his Big Bathing Girl Revue (from Showcard) - see Broadway - replaced with Four Seasons Hotel complex when new City Hall built in 1957

Globe (LONDON) – 1st - Shakespeare's Globe - built originally as the Theatre in Shoreditch, 1576, by James Burbage - Shakespeare's company moved across the road to the Curtain Theatre in 1597 - later moved and rebuilt the wooden "O" in 1599 near the Rose Theatre, not more than 200 yards from where the Globe stands today; Moved: To Bankside, 1599, by Cuthbert Burbage, and named the new Globe Theatre opened with Julius Caesar (1,500 seats and standing) Destroyed: By fire, 1612, during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII, thanks to the thatched roof – reopened 1614 until 1642 Demolished: By the Puritans in 1644 – 2nd – 1800seat Newcastle Street near Opera Comique – 1868 – demolished 1902; Re-construction: Work begins on the building in 1992, completed in 1997 - Costs: Old - £700 to build, New - £10 million is still needed to complete the next three phases of the project - Capacity: Old - approx 3000, New - 1600 Other famous Globes: 2nd Globe Theatre, Strand, built in 1868 by Sefton Parry, and closed due to fire risk in 1902. The 3rd Globe, Shaftesbury Avenue, opened 1906 (as the Seymour Hicks Theatre), re-named the Globe in 1909 and became the Gielgud in 1994; - reopened with new theatre in Southwark in 1996 - Fallen Angels (Tallulah Bankhead,Edna Best)1925 (158); Ring Round the Moon 1950 (682); After the Ball 1954; Private Ear/Public Eye (Maggie Smith) 1962 (549); Notes on a Love Affair; Match Girls 1966; Chez Nous (Albert Finney,Denholm Elliot,Geraldine McEwan) 1974;Rear Column (Jeremy Irons,Simon Ward) 1978 (44); Songbook 1979; Mitford Girls 1981; 4th Globe (Shakespeare’s Globe) *Shakespeare’s Globe - (London Bridge/Mansion House) New Globe Walk,Bankside - 900 seats

Globe(NYC) – see Lunt Fontanne and New York Theatre - opened with Old Town (Peggy Wood) 1910; Rose Maid 1912; Chin Chin 1914 (295), No No Nanette 1925; Cat and the Fiddle 1931 (395), – converted to a film house in 1932 – 1958 remodelled and reopened as the Lunt-Fontanne

**Gloria Maddox Theatre(NYC) - 151 West 26th St (between 6th & 7th Aves)- houses T. Schreiber Studios

Golden(NYC) - see John Golden Theatre and Royal Theatre – Irish and How They Got That Way 1997

Golden Classics (TORONTO) – 706 seats (1994-1995) – Chinese films

Golden Dragon (TORONTO) – 498 seats (1984-1985) – Chinese films

Golden Harvest (TORONTO) - see Standard

Golden Horseshoe Players (TORONTO) - 3809, 44 Charles Street West

Golden Mile (TORONTO) – Eglinton and Pharmacy – 2 cinemas (1954-1986)

Golden Princess (TORONTO) – 1985 – renamed Royal in 1995 – 736 seats – Chinese films

Goodman’s Fields Theatre (LONDON) – Ayliffe Street, Whitechapel – 1727 in converted shop – closed 1751 to become warehouse – burnt down 1802; 2nd opened 1732 – closed but reopened 1740 – closed 1742

Good Shepherd Faith Church(NYC) - Lincoln Centre - Trial of the Catonsville Nine 1971 (130) - moved to Lyceum for additional 29 performances; School For Scandal (Kevin Kline,Patti LuPone) 1972

Gotham Theatre(NYC) - see Central Theatre

Grace Theatre (LONDON) - Latchmere Pub, 503 Batterse Park Road, London (Clapham Junction) - seats about 80

Graffiti's (TORONTO) - 170 Baldwin Street

Gramercy Arts(NYC) - 138 East 27th St. (150) Oldest Off-Broadway theatre in America – Ernest in Love 1960

**Gramercy Theater(NYC) - 127 East 23rd St. (Union Square)(between Park Ave & Lexington) (499) - newest Off-Broadway theatre opened June 1998 - originally built in 1937 as a movie house - houses Roundabout Theatre Company - Hotel Suite 2000

Granada (TORONTO) – 415 Danforth Avenue at Logan – 500 seats – opened as the Model (1935-1960) – now restaurant

Grand (TORONTO) – see Allenby (1909-1925)

Grand (TORONTO) – Danforth – opened and closed in 1999 – see Roxy

Grand at Orion Gate (TORONTO) – 410 and Steeles – 1999 – 10 screens

Grande at the Sheppard Centre (TORONTO) – 1998 – 10 screens

Grand Finale(NYC) - (250 seats) cabaret of the 1970s which featured Chita Rivera, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Marcia Lewis

Grand Opera House (NYC)– NW corner of 8th Avenue & 23rd St. (1,890 seats) – 1868 opened as Pike’s Opera House – 1875 theatre closed - 1869 name changed to Grand - Heroines of Shenandoash 1889 – 1938 became cinema and demolished 1961

Grand Opera House (TORONTO) -(1874-1927) South side of Adelaide, just West of Yonge – 2,196 seats - lavish interior - destroyed by fire in 1879, new one reopened in 1880, with 1300 seats - redesigned by Thomas Lamb in 1916 and reopened as the Regent - Abie's Irish Rose 1916; Maurice Barrymore, Sarah Bernhaardt 1881, Giuseppe Del Puente, Antonio Galassi - School For Scandal - torn down in 1927 after being empty several years, and many fires - only hint is the laneway running off Adelaide Street which bears its name *

Grand Prospect Hall(NYC) - built 1892 in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn as a "temple of music and amusement" - featured an opera house, ballroom, roof garden and speakeasy - home to Crescent Motion Picture Company in 1908 - featured here were the likes of Enrico Caruso, Sophie Tucker, Lena Horne, Mae West, Sonja Henie, Bob Hope, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire - used in the motion pictures Cotton Club and Prizzi's Honor

Grand Theatre (LONDON) – Islington High Street – opened 1870 as Philharmonic Music-Hall – destroyed by fire 1883 – reopened as Grand Theatre – burnt down 1887 and again in 1900 – 1908 became Islington Empire and in 1932 became cinema; 2nd in Putney Bridge Approach – opened 1897 as Fulham Grand – renamed Fulham Theatre 1906 – 1933 as Shilling Theatre – demolished 1958

Grant (TORONTO) – 522 Oakwood Avenue at Vaughan Road – 672 seats (1929-1956) – renovated and reopened as the New Grant

Granville Theatre (LONDON) – Waltham Green – demolished

Great Hall (TORONTO) - 1087 Queen St. West – see also The Great Hall

Great Queen Street Theatre (LONDON) – see Kingsway Theatre

Grecian Theatre (LONDON) – Shepherdess Walk – 1830 – situated in pleasure grounds of Eagle Saloon – reconstructed 1858 (3400 seats) – 1872 restored – sold to Salvation Army 1881

**Greenwich House Theatre(NYC) - 27 Barrow Street (@ 7th Avenue South)- 99 seats - Author's Voice/Imaging Brad 1999; Les Mizrahi 2000

Greenwich Mews Theatre(NYC) - Adaptation/Next 1969 (707)

**Greenwich Street Theatre(NYC) - 547 Greenwich St. (between Charlton & Vandam) - Villar-Hauser Theatre Co., Common Ground & Chain Lightning are resident companies - 74 seats

Greenwich Theatre (LONDON) – 1709; 2nd Greenwich – 75 London Road – 1864 (721 seats) – converted to cinema 1910 – demolished 1937; 3rd - on Stockwell Street – was a concert hall attached to Rose and Crown Public House which opened 1855 – rebuilt 1871 and became Crowder’s Music-Hall; 1911 Greenwich Hippodrome – closed 1924 – later became cinema – then warehouse – revamped to 426 seats and reopened 1969

Greenwich Village Theatre(NYC) - built 1917 – see Provincetown Players - White Cargo 1923 (686); Fountain (Walter Huston) 1925 (28); Great God Brown 1926 (271), moved to Garrick Theatre March 1, 1926, Desire Under the Elms 1924 (208),

Greenwood (TORONTO) – see Guild

Ground Floor Theatre(NYC) - opens Sept 30/02 - 312 West 11th Street - around corner from White Horse Tavern - home to Fat Chance Productions

Group Theatre(NYC) - (1931-1941) -Elia Kazan with the theatre in 1935

**Grove Street Playhouse(NYC) - 39 Grove St.@ 7th Avenue (formerly Courtyard Theatre) (Hudson & Bedford-1 block S. of Christopher West of 7th Ave (77)- located in a block of brownstones

Grove (TORONTO) – (1944-1945)

Grove Theatre(NYC) – opened 1804 on Bedlow Street now Madison Street E of Catherine – lasted only a couple of seasons and closed 1805

Grover (TORONTO) – 2714 Danforth Avenue –794 seats (1927-1956) – now a nightclub

Guild (TORONTO) – 1275 Gerrard St. East at Greenwood – opened as the Greenwood – 435 seats – (1940-1951) – now retail store

Guild Inn Gardens (TORONTO) - 201 Guildwood Parkway

Guild Theatre(NYC) - 52nd Street West of Broadway- built 1925 – opened with Caesar and Cleopatra (Helen Hayes) - was radio playhouse from 1943 to 1950 and then purchased by American National Theatre and Academy (A.N.T.A.) and returned to live theatre as the A.N.T.A.; Silver Cord 1926; Juarez and Maximillian 1926; Garrick Gaities; Major Barbara 1928; Marco Millions 1928; Mourning Becomes Electra 1931; Too True To Be Good 1932; Biography 1932 - changed to ANTA in 1950; renamed Virginia in 1981

Hackett Theatre(NYC)- - see Lew M. Fields Theatre - Witching Hour 1907 (212), Salvation Nell 1908 (71),

*Hackney Empire (LONDON) - 291 Mare Street - opened December 1901 (2,158 seats)

Half Moon (LONDON) – Tower Hamlets – fringe theatre

Hamlet of Bank Street (NYC)- - 155 Bank Street (Westbeth Artists Complex) (70) Pandemonium Stage Co-resident company

Hammersmith Palace Theatre (LONDON) – Hammersmith - demolished

Hammerstein's Ballroom/Manhattan Center (NYC) - 311 West 34th Street

Hammerstein's Lyric Theatre (NYC) - built 1895 - between 44th and 45th Streets - demolished 1935

Hammerstein's Music Hall(NYC)- - see Olympia

Hammerstein’s Olympia(NYC)- – see Olympia – 1895 – 4 theatres in the same building – Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets (2800 seats) – plus Concert Hall, Lyric Theatre and Roof Garden

Hammerstein's Theatre(NYC)- - 1697 Broadway at 53rd Street - 1927 - 1265 seats - 1931 renamed the Manhattan; then Billy Rose's Music Hall and then the Manhattan Music Hall, then just the Manhattan - 1936 CBS took a long lease as Radio Playhouse No 1, then Television Studio No 50 - home to Ed Sullivan and in 1967 renamed the Ed Sullivan Theatre - now housing the Late Show with David Letterman

Hammerstein's Victoria(NYC)- - east of Victory Theatre - opened 1895 at Broadway and 44th St - see Victoria Theatre - had a roof garden joined to Republic Theatre - opened 1899 - Chris and the Wonderful Lamp 1900; Sweet Adeline 1929 (234) - was the top vaudeville house in the country - closed 1915 - demolished 1935

Hammerstein's Theatre Republic(NYC)- - see Theatre Republic

Hampden's Theatre(NYC)- - see Colonial Theatre

*Hampstead Theatre (LONDON) - considered off West End - Hampstead Parish Church - Church Row, London - founded in 1976 – Days of Hope 1991

Hampstead Theatre Club (LONDON) – opened 1959 at Moreland Hall – 1962 moved to Swiss Cottage – 1970 moved again (157 seats) - His Monkey Wife 1971

Hampton Court Palace Theatre (LONDON) – Great Hall used for theatricals from 1572 onwards – stage survived until 1798, but last performance was 1731

*Hanover Grand Theatre (LONDON) - 6 Hanover Street (Oxford Circus)

Harborfront (TORONTO) – 198 seats - 1984

*Harbourfront Centre (TORONTO) - York Quay Centre - houses the du Maurier World Stage Festival (TORONTO) - 235 Queen's Quay West - founded in 1986 - 231 Queens Quay West - du Maurier Theatre Centre (400 seats); Premiere Dance Theatre - (400 seats) - 207 Queen's Quay West

Harbourfront Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - 235 Queen's Quay - see Harbourfront Centre

Harkness Theatre(NYC)- - see Colonial Theatre - rebuilt to house the Harkness Ballet (1964-1974) under the direction of Rebecca West Harkness (1915-1982) - Robber Bridegroom (Kevin Kline,Patti LuPone) 1975 (15) - tranferred to Ethel Barrymore (145); Sweet Bird of Youth; final show there – So Long 174th Street 1976 - demolished 1977

Harlem Opera House(NYC)- - 125th Street

Harlem School of the Arts(NYC)- – see Classical Theatre of Harlem

Harold Clurman Theatre(NYC)- - 412 West 42nd Street - may be demolished in 2000 to make room for modern complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact - Samuel Beckett one act plays Ohio Impromptu,Catastrophe and What Wer (Donald Davis) 1983 (350)

Harold Square Theatre(NYC)- - Arms and the Man 1894

Harrigan’s Park Theatre(NYC)- – see Herold Square Theatre, Harrigan’s Theatre andGarrick Theatre

Harris (Candler) Theatre(NYC)- - see Candler Theatre, see Lew M. Fields Theatre, see Sam H. Harris Theatre, and Wallack’s Theatre

*Hart House Theatre (TORONTO) - (University of Toronto) - 7 Hart House Circle – (500 seats) - began in 1913 and finished in 1919 (actors passed through includes Donald Sutherland, Charmion King, William Hutt, Kate Reid and Donald Harron) - America Hurrah,Arsenic and Old Lace (1444), Caste, Changeling, Children of Darkness, Dark of the Moon, Devils, Emperor, Emperor Jones, Endgame, Fan, 15 Miles of Broken Glass, Ghosts, John Gabriel Borkman, Mame, Man's a Man, Maquettes, Mourning Becomes Electra, Next Time I'll Sing To You, Promise, Saved, Sweet Bird of Youth, Tango, Temps des Lilas, Touch of the Poet, La Turista, Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd - talk currently (April, 2000) of tearing the theatre down, due to its estimated 180,000.00 a year maintenance costs. This, despite its reputation as a Canadian Theatre Shrine.

Haverly's 14th Street Theatre(NYC)- - 14th St. West of 6th Avenue (1,283 seats) - Widow Bedott 1880 (56), White Slave 1882 (40), Peck's Bad Boy 1884 (40), Galley Slave 1879 (101) demolished

*Haymarket, Theatre Royal (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Haymarket – 1720 a little theatre built on site of old King’s Head Tavern – first performance 1720 – stood empty until 1747 – present theatre opened 1821 a little south of old building (894 seats) - Hamlet (John Barrymore) 1925 (67); Waters of the Moon (Edith Evans,Sybil Thorndike,Wendy Hiller) 1951 (835); Voyage Round My Father 1971; Crown Matrimonial 1972; Case in Question 1975 (254); Odd Couple; Streetcar Named Desire; 2nd Haymarket Theatre – Leicester – 1973 – 710 seats

Heckscher Theatre(NYC)- – Mama,I Want to Sing 1983; Mama I Want to Sing Part II 1990

Heights Players(NYC)

*Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse (TORONTO) - 79A St. George St. (seats 115)

Helen Hayes(NYC)- - 240 West 44th St. - (499 seats) - Built in 1912 as the Little Theatre, as smallest of the older Broadway houses, and when Helen Hayes Theatre was knocked down in 1982 the Little Theatre was renamed - - Let Us Be Gay 1929 (363), First Year 1920 (725), One Sunday Afternoon 1933 (322), Gemini (6/77 to 9/81 - 1,819 performances), Long Day's Journey into Night 1956 (390); Touch of the Poet (Eric Portman,Kim Stanley,Helen Hayes) (1958) (284); Me Nobody Knows 1970 (587); Charlie and Algernon 1980 (17); Runner Stumbles, Torch Song Trilogy 1982 (1222), Romance Romance 1988; Defending the Caveman 1995 (399); Last Night of Ballyhoo (Paul Rudd) 1997 (557); Band in Berlin 1999; Epic Proportions 1999; Dirty Blonde (Claudia Shear) (2000); By Jeeves 2001 (10 weeks)

*Helen Hayes(NYC) - 1911 – 210 West 46th Street – originally a theatre/restaurant - see Folies Bergere – opened as the Fulton, 1160 seats, and later on Helen Hayes in 1955 - Damaged Goods(1 performance, but ran 66 a month later) 1913; Jazz Singer 1925; Arsenic and Old Lace 1941; Searching Wind (Cornelia Otis Skinner,Montgomery Clift) 1944 (10 mos); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Frederic March,Florence Eldridge,Jason Robards Jr,Bradford Dillman) 1956 (390), Touch of the Poet 1958 (284), Crown Matrimonial, Crucifer of Blood, Duel of Angels, Mary Mary 1961 (1572); Me Nobody Knows 1970 (587)moved from Off Broadway, To Live Another Summer,To Pass Another Winter 1971; Perfectly Frank, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1968, Rodgers and Hart, Royal Family - demolished in 1982 along with the Astor, Gaiety, and Morosco, to make way for Marriott Marquis Hotel

Henry Abbey's Theatre(NYC)- - see Abbey's Theatre - Broadway and 38th Street (1893-demolished in 1930 - renamed "Knickerbocker Theatre" in 1896 - Dearest Enemy 1925 (286)

*Henry Miller's Theatre(NYC)- - 124 West 43rd Street - 1918 - 950 seats - (see Kit Kat Klub) - Famous Mrs. Fair 1919 (343), La,La,Lucille 1919 (104); Journey’s End 1929; Personal Appearance 1934 (501), Our Town 1938 (336),National Anthem (Laurette Taylor)(114); Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1931 (206), Days Without End 1934 (57); Personal Appearance 1934 (501); Tortilla Flat 1938 (5); Harriet (377), Janie 1942 (642), Dear Ruth 1944 (683), Story of Mary Surratt (Dorothy Gish)1947 (11); Cocktail Party (Alec Guiness,Irene Worth) 1950 (409); Moon is Blue 1951 (924), Trip to Bountiful 1953 (39); Oh Men Oh Women 1953 (48 weeks); Witness for the Prosecution 1954 (645), Look After Lulu (Tammy Grimes)1959 (5 weeks); Nervous Set 1959; World of Carl Sandburg (Bette Davis) 1960, Enter Laughing (Alan Arkin) 1963 (419); Diamond Orchid 1965 (5); Affair, 1969 became a cinema - Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys premiered there - for a time known as the Park-Miller and Avon-at-the-Hudson, a pornographic film house for 5 years - in 1978 reopened as Xenon, a discotheque - the space still survives as a nightclub/discotheque - Cabaret (revival) (Alan Cumming,Natasha Richardson,Mary Louise Wilson) 1998 (still running May 2002); Urinetown 2001

*Henry Street Settlement(NYC)- - see Abrons Arts Center - Louis Abrons Arts Center - 466 Grand St.- houses Harry DeJur Playhouse, Experimental Theatre, Recital Hall (100)

*Hen and Chickens Theatre (LONDON) - 109 St. Paul's Road, Highbury, London (Highbury/Islington) - reoped in 1998 - 7 or 8 rows of seats

*Her Majesty's Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Haymarket - 1705 (1219 seats) - as the Queen's Theatre – became opera house – 1714 name changed to King’s - destoyed by fire 1789 - King's Theatre 1791 – 1837 renamed Her Majesty’s; burnt down 1867 – reopened as Her Majesty's 1868 – rebuilt again and reopened 1877 – closed 1891 and was demolished – 2nd Her Majesty’s Theatre -1283 seats opened in 1897 – Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts started here – theatre built as rival to Drury Lane - name alternates between His Majesty and Her Majesty - Mystery of Edwin Drood 1908; Pygmalion (Mrs. Patrick Campbell,Herbert Beerbohm Tree) 118; Chu Chin Chow 1916 (over 2000 perf); Beau Geste (Laurence Olivier) 1929; Bitter Sweet; Brigadoon 1947; Paint Your Wagon 1953; West Side Story 1958 (1040); Bye Bye Birdie (Chita Rivera,Peter Marshall) 1961 (268); Fiddler on the Roof 1967 (over 2000 perf); Amadeus 1981; Bye Bye Birdie 1961 (268); Right Honourable Gentleman (Anthony Quayle) 1964 (17 month run); Good Companions 1971; Pericles (Derek Jacobi) 1974; By Jeeves 1975; Thomas and the King 1975; Bar Mitzvah Boy 1978; Travelling Music Show 1978; Phantom has been resident since 1986

Herold Square Theatre(NYC)- – NW corner of Broadway and 35th Street - remodeled the Colosseum Theatre which was built in 1874 – also known as the Criterion 1882, Harrigan’s Park 1885 and in 1889 the Park Theatre – rebuilt as Herald Square in 1894 - - Arms and the Man 1894; Parlor March 1896 - Heart of Maryland 1895 (229), Naughty Anthony (Blanche Bates) 1900; Arizona 1900 (140); Road to Yesterday 1906 (216), Widower's Houses 1907 – converted to vaudeville - damaged by fire in 1908 – demolished 1915

*HERE Arts Center(NYC)- - 145 6th Avenue (south of Spring St. and Dominick)- large building houses two theatres and performance club - mainstage 99 seats/smaller downstairs seats 74

*Herongate Barn Theatre (TORONTO) - Whitevale, Ontario

Hick’s Theatre (LONDON) – see Globe Theatre

*Hideaway Cabaret and Supper Club(NYC)- - John Barrymore Room - intimate cabaret and dining establishment - closed suddenly as of March,2002 - 32 West 37th Street - what was "The John Barrymore Room" is being renamed "The Julie Wilson Room."

High Five(NYC)-

High Park Amphitheatre (TORONTO) - Shrew - High Park July 11 to August 20

High Spirits Room(NYC)- - 369 West 46th Street - open less than a year, at St. Famous Bakery closed August 2001 - discontinuing both the retail bakery and the cabaret room. The building has been sold.

Hindenburg Theatre(NYC)- - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Hillcrest (TORONTO) – 285 Christie Street – 428 seats (1943-1952)

Hillcrest (TORONTO) – 9350 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill – 5 screens (1980-1998)

Hippodrome (TORONTO) – City Hall Square – (1924-1925) - 3,665 seats - Bay Street - site of new City Hall - see Sheas

Hippodrome(NYC)- - wood and canvas roofed stadiums at Broadway, 5th Avenue and 23rd Streets - variety of circus acts - torn down in 1856 for 5th Avenue Hotel

Hippodrome (LONDON) - 1900 - Cranbourn Street & Charing Cross Road - now the Hippodrome Nightclub - originally a circus and contained a huge water tank for naval, high dives, snow storms etc - became a music hall in 1909 - from 1949-1951 French-type music hall, and in 1958 became Talk of The Town with featured entertainers – closed 1982 - Round in Fifty 1922 (47); It's a Leap Year 1924 (471); Bet Your Life 1952

Hippodrome Theatre(NYC)- - 6th Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets - opened in 1905 - (5200 seats plus 800 standing room - entire block between 43rd and 44th Streets)- ran for 17 years - legendary theatre which housed spectacles like Society Circus 1905 (596), Better Times (400), in 1923 became a vaudeville theatre B.F. Keith’s Hippodrome, a cinema – closed 1932 and reopened 1933 as New York Hippodrome - 1925 RKO bought the property and sold in 1929 - vacant for 5 years - largest theatre of its day - stage 100 feet deep and over 200 feet long - closed in 1936 and demolished in 1939 after production of Billy Rose's Jumbo Jimmy Durante) 1935 (233 performances)

Hirschfield Theatre (NYC) - see Martin Beck

His Majesty's (LONDON) - see Her Majesty's – Chu Chin Chow 1916; Bitter Sweet 1929; Converation Piece 1934

Holborn Empire Theatre (LONDON) – High Holborn – opened Weston’s Music-Hall 1857 – renamed Royal Music Hall 1868 – rebuilt 1887 as Royal Holborn – closed 1905 – reopened 1906 as Holborn Empire – 1941 damaged in war – demolished 1960; 2nd – Holborn Theatre – 42 High Holborn – 1866 – reopened 1875 as the Mirror – 1876 became Duke’s – destroyed by fire 1880

Holiday Theatre(NYC)- - see Central Theatre

Holloway Empire Theatre (LONDON), Islington - opened in 1899 - used as a cinema by 1924

Hollywood Cinema (TORONTO) (North and South) – 1519 Yonge Street above St. Clair Avenue – duplexed (1930-2000) - now closed

Hollywood Theatre(NYC)- - see Mark Hellinger

*Homegrown Theatre(NYC)- - 2628 Broadway @ 99th St.

Honestman Productions (TORONTO) - 205 Vaughan Road, Suite 35 – South

Hope Theatre (LONDON) – Bankside – brick and wood similar to Swan Theatre – 1614 – burnt down 1613 – 1617 became Bear Garden – demolished 1682 or after;1614 - remains of the Hope theatre, which stood near the Globe and the Rose in the seventeenth century, have also been discovered and are being examined. The South Bank area was a flourishing one for playhouses at the time of Shakespeare as the land was outside the City of London and the jurisdiction of its relatively Puritan authorities

Horseshoe Tavern (TORONTO) – Spadina Avenue – sometimes used for cabaret – Hank Williams: the Show He Never Gave 1977

*Horse Trade Theatres(NYC)- - see Kraine, Red Room and St. Mark’s

Hotel Carlysle(NYC)- - see Cafe Carlysle

Hotel Riverview Ballroom(NYC)- - 113 Jane St.

House of Candles(NYC)- - 99 Stanton St.

House of Hambourg (TORONTO) - Toronto jazz club -extinct - The Connection

Howard Gilman Opera House(NYC)- - see BAM

Hoyt’s Theatre(NYC)- – see Madison Square Theatre

Hudson (TORONTO) – 675 Mt. Pleasant Rd (1928-1948)

*Hudson Guild Theater(NYC)- - 441 West 26th St (between 9th & 10th Aves)- 105 seats in a community centre - On Golden Pond 1978; Madwoman of Central Park West 1979; No Way to Treat a Lady 1987

Hudson Theatre(NYC)- - 141 West 44th Street West of 6th Avenue - 1903 - entrance on 44th and 45th Streets - 1100 seats – opened with Cousin Kate (Ethel Barrymore); Clarence (Alfred Lunt,Helen Hayes) 1919 (300); Friendly Enemies 1918 (440), Show Shop 1914 (156); Song and Dance Man 1923; Wall Street (Sam Levine) 1927; Whispering Friends 1928 (14 weeks); 1934 to 1937 used for broadcasting - Hasty Heart (Richard Basehart) 1945 (207); State of the Union 1945 (765); Detective Story 1949 (581), in 1934 CBS bought theatre and converted to radio studio - 1937 returned to live theatre - Arsenic and Old Lace moved here from Fulton Theatre - State of the Union 1945 (765)- sold to NBC in 1950 and housed the Tonight Show - 1959 the theatre was restored - Toys in the Attic 1960 (556), Strange Interlude 1963 - theatre dark for 2 years - 1965 This Was Burlesque - 1967 theatre became a porn house until 1975 when it became a double feature theatre - closed and reopened as The Savoy in 1980 - became part of a large hotel and is used as auditorium and conference centre

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival(NYC)-

Hull Truck (LONDON) – fringe theatre

Humber (TORONTO) – 2442 Bloor St. West and Jane Streets – 1946 - 2 cinemas – still operating at Cineplex multi-screen

Humber Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - Kipling, South of Lakeshore Blvd.

*Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts (TORONTO) - 1 Front Street East - opened in 1960 as the O'Keefe Centre (3,150 seats) home to Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada (50th Anniversary Year) - Hummingbird Communications gave 5 million to Centre's capital upgrade project. Name changed to Hummingbird Nov. 30, 1996 - Theatre has become a white elephant, talk of renovation and building a condo at the west side of the theatre (2000)

Hungerford Music-Hall(NYC)- – see Gatti’s

Hurrah(NYC)- - Neon Woman – demolished

Hyland Theatre (TORONTO) – 1501 Yonge Street above St. Clair (1948-2001) - see Odeon Hyland

*Ibis Supper Club(NYC)- - 321 West 44th St (between 8th & 9th Sts)

Ideal (TORONTO) – 210 Main St. at Gerrard – 480 seats (1941-1952)

Ilford Hippodrome (LONDON) – demolished

Imperial (TORONTO) – 263 Yonge Street at Dundas – see Pantages

Imperial Music Hall(NYC)- - Broadway and 29th St.

Imperial Six (TORONTO) – see Pantages

Imperial Theatre(NYC)- – renamed Weber and Fields Music Hall in 1902

*Imperial Theatre(NYC)- - 249 West 45th St. (Shubert-1,421 seats) Opened in 1923 - Rose Marie 1924 (557); ; Oh Kay 1926 (256), New Moon 1928 (509), Let Em Eat Cake 1933; On Your Toes (Ray Bolger) 1936 (315), revival 1983, Leave It To Me 1938 (307); Too Many Girls 1939; Let's Face It (Danny Kaye) 1941 (547), One Touch of Venus 1943 (567); Song of Norway 1944 (860), Annie Get Your Gun (Ethel Merman) 1946 (1147), Miss Liberty 1949; Call Me Madam (Ethel Merman) 1950 (644), Peter Pan (Mary Martin) 1950; Wish You Were Here 1952 (598), Silk Stockings 1955 (478); Most Happy Fella 1956 (676), Jamaica 1957 (558), Destry Rides Again (Andy Griffith,Delores Gray) 1959 (472); Gypsy 1959 (702), Carnival 1961 (719), Oliver 1963 (774), Fiddler on the Roof 1964 9/64 to 7/72 - 3,242 performances), Zorba 1968; Minnie’s Boys 1970; Two By Two 1970; Pippin 1972 (1944), Lost in the Stars (Brock Peters) 1972 (5 weeks); Chapter Two 1977 (857); They're Playing Our Song 1979 (1082), Dreamgirls 1981 (1522), Mystery of Edwin Drood 1985 (608), Chess 1988 (68); Jerome Robbins' Broadway (Jason Alexander) 1989 (634), Les Miserables (opened Mar 12/87 - 5,000th performance and still running

Imperial Theatre (LONDON) – Tothill Street – originally Aquarium Theatre, part of exhibition palace, Royal Aquarium Winter Garden – theatre opened 1876 – 1879 changed to Imperial – 1906 theatre demantled and taken to Canning Town – re-erected as Imperial Palace – later became cinema and destroyed by fire 1931

IMUA(NYC)-

Independent Theatre Club (LONDON) – see Kingsway Theatre

Indian Theatre (TORONTO) – 1430 Gerrald near Coxwell – 1998 – films in Tamil

Inns (LONDON) – used as theatres – Bell (Gracechurch) – in use until after 1583; Bel Savage (Ludgate Hill) – used until at least 1588; Boar’s Head (Whitechapel) – used until after 1616; Bull (Bishopsgate) – 1576-1594; Crosskeys – (Gracechurch) – 1579-1596; Red Bull (Upper Street) – 1605; Red Lion (Stepney) – 1567; Saracen’s Head (Islington) – 1583

* Intar(NYC)- - 420 West 42nd St(between 9th & 10th Aves) - may be demolished in 2000 to make room for modern complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact

International Cinema (TORONTO) – built as Oriole – 605 seats - an art cinema on 2061 Yonge Street above Davisville and below Eglinton Avenue (1946-1987)

International Theatre(NYC)- - see Majestic Theatre – Sing Out Sweet Land 1944

*Inverse Theater(NYC)- - New York Press considers this the city's best downtown theatre company for 2001 - produces the verse plays of Kirk Wood Bromley

*Irish Arts Center(NYC)- - 553 West 51st St (between 10th & 11th Aves)- 99 seats

**Irish Repertory Theatre(NYC)- - 132 West 22nd St.(between 6th & 7th Aves)- small building in mixed residential/office block

Irving Place Theatre(NYC)- - 118-120 E. 15th St - built 1888 - block off Union Square - early 1930s Gypsy Rose Lee made her name here - became a warehouse and was torn down in 1985

*Isabel Bader Theatre (TORONTO)

Island (TORONTO) – Centre Island – 705 seats (1949-1955)

Islington Empire (LONDON) – see Grand Theatre

Italian Opera House(NYC)- – opened 1833 – see National Theatre

Jack Lawrence(NYC)- - 359 West 48th St. - Golden Age

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning(NYC)- - 161-04 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, Queens

Jane Mallett Theatre (TORONTO) - see St. Lawrence Centre

*Jane Street Theater(NYC)- - 113 Jane Street @ Westside Highway - 257 seats - located in Hotel Riverview at the Hudson River which housed the survivors of the Titanic in 1912 - Hedwig and the Angry Inch 1998 (857); Tick,tick….BOOM 2001

Jan Hus Playhouse(NYC)- – King of the Whole Damn World 1962; Athenian Touch 1964; Man With a Load of Mischief 1966; Salvation 1969

Jan Street Theatre(NYC)- - Lifegame 2000

Japan Society(NYC)-

Jazz Clubs(NYC)-

Jazz Gallery(NYC)- - Picnic on the Battlefield, Sandbox - demolished

Jean Cocteau Repertory(NYC)-

Jefferson Theatre(NYC)- - West 14th Street near 3rd Avenue – razed

Jermyn Street Theatre (LONDON) - specializes in cabaret and revue

J.E.T. Theatre(NYC)- - 134 West 26th St.

Jewel Box Theatre(NYC)- - 323 West 44th Street

Jewish Art Theatre(NYC)- – see Garden Theatre

Jiri Schubert’s (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret on Pears Avenue

Joe's Pub(NYC)- - 425 Lafayette Street (between E. 4th Street and Astor Place)- (off Public Theatre)- cabaret named for Joseph Papp, founder of the Public Theater (of which it is a part), features "the most wide-ranging array of musical theatrical talent. They are fearless in what they present." Past performers range from "out" comic and singer Lea DeLaria to octogenarian composer David Raksin

John Barrymore Room(NYC)- - see Hideaway Cabaret

John Golden Theatre(NYC)- - 202 West 58th St - 1926 -825 seats - Strange Interlude (18 months)- in 1935 became Cort's 58th Street and in 1936 showed art films as Filmarte, and then Fine Arts and Fifty-Eight Street Theatre and then the Concert in 1942 when stage returned and in 1943 became the Rock Church - then ABC radio for 2 years - then films as the Elysee and back to ABC for the Dick Cavett show before being demolished in 1985;

*2ndJohn Golden(NYC)- - 252 West 45th Street (Shubert-805 seats) named after theatrical producer - 1927 - built as Theatre Masque - 252 West 45th St - Silver Cord 1926 (112); Strange Interlude 1928 (426); As Husbands Go 1931 (148), Tobacco Road 1933 (3182) - in 1933 became John Golden - Angel Street 1941 (1295), Comedy in Music 1953 (Victor Borge) (849), operated as a film house from 1940s to early 1950s - Waiting for Godot (E.G.Marshall,Bert Lahr) 1956 (59); Mask and Gown 1957; Party With Betty Comden and Adolph Green 1958; Beyond the Fringe 1962 (667), Wrong Way Light Bulb (Barnard Hughes,Claudia McNeil) 1969 (7) ; Shelter 1973; Words and Music 1974; Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land 1977 (5 months)- home to Pulitzer Prize winners Gin Game (Jessica Tandy,Hume Cronyn) 1977 (517); Tintypes 1980; Day in Hollywood/Night in Ukraine 1980 (588), Crimes of the Heart 1981 (535), Night Mother (Kathy Bates) 1983 (388); Glengarry Glen Ross 1984 (378), Gingham Dog, It Had to Be You; Eastern Standard (transferred from Manhattan Theatre Club) 1989; Master Class (Zoe Caldwell,Audra McDonald) 1995 (601);Much Ado About Everything (Jackie Mason) 1999 (182)

* John Houseman(NYC)- - 450 West 42nd St.(between 9th & 10th) (287 seats)- houses the Houseman, Studio and Studio Too - Driving Miss Daisy (Dana Ivey,Morgan Freeman); Broadway Jukebox 1990; Ethel Merman’s Broadway 1992; Over the River and Through the Woods 1998; Four Guys Named Jose (moved to Blue Angel) 2000

*John Jay College Theatre(NYC)- - 899 10th Avenue (between 58th & 59th Sts)(611 seats)- part of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York - renovated and comfortable

John Montgomery Theatre(NYC)- - 134 West 26th St.

John Street Theatre (Theatre Royal or Royal Theatre) (NYC)- - lst permanent playhouse in New York opened in 1767 – 15-21 John Street - became Royal Theatre during the war and later New York Theatre – was the leading theatre for 30 years - demolished after erection of Park Theatre 1797 - Father or American Shandyism 1789, As You Like It 1786, Contrast 1787; Tammany or Indian Chief 1794, Contrast 1787 – last used 1798, and later sold

Joint Stock (LONDON) – fringe theatre

Jolson's 59th Street Theatre(NYC)- - 932 Seventh Avenue - 1921 - Student Prince 1924 (608) - theatre on 58th Street with entrance on 7th Avenue - 1700 seats - 1931 turned to films - in 1932 renamed the Shakespeare for 249 performances of his classics - then the Venice then Yiddish Art Players and back to Jolsons by 1943 when the theatre switched to foreign films - 1944 became the New Century - Kiss Me Kate (1070) - closed 1953 and NBC leased in 1954 and theatre was demolished in 1962 and is now an apartment building

Jolson Theatre(NYC)- – see Century Theatre and New Century – Student Prince 1924 (608)

Jones Beach Marine Theatre(NYC)- – Arabian Nights 1954

Jordell Theatre (LONDON) – see Kingsway

Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - see York University

*Jose Quintero Theatre(NYC)- - 534 West 42nd Street(between 10th & 11th Aves) - (93 seats)Kaufman Theatre was rechristened the Jose Quintero on May 2nd, 2000

Joy (TORONTO) – 1130 Queen St. East near Jones – 380 seats, built as the Rex (1943-1953) – now a restaurant

*Joyce(NYC)- - 175 8th Avenue - major theatre for dance companies - Season's Greetings 1985

*Judith Anderson Theatre(NYC)- - 422 West 42nd St – Take It Easy 1996; Valentino-the Musical 1998; Boy's Life 1998; Summer in Gossensass 1999; - may be demolished in 2000 to make room for modern complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact

Judith Shakespeare Company(NYC)-

Judson Hall Theatre(NYC)- – Prince and the Pauper 1962

*Judy's Chelsea Cabaret(NYC)- - 169 8th Avenue

Julian Eltinge(NYC)- - see Eltinge

Julie Wilson Room(NYC)- see Hideaway Cabaret

Julliard School(NYC)-

Jupiter Theatre (TORONTO) – 1951 – group of CBC radio actors i.e. Lorne Greene – used the Museum Theatre of the Royal Ontario Museum, as well as the Ryerson, and Royal Alexander theatres – company disbanded

Kaneff Centre (TORONTO) - see University of Toronto at Mississauga - 3359 Mississauga Road

Kaufman(NYC)- 534 West 42nd St - see Martin Kaufman and Jose Quintero Theatre

Keating's Coffee House (TORONTO) - Church and Front Streets - site of York's 3rd theatre - 1833 - no gallery - seats arranged on ground floor for 200 to 300 people - comedy team Mr. & Mrs. Thorne

Keith's Colonial(NYC)- see Colonial Theatre

Kensington (TORONTO) – 565 College St at Bathurst – 524 seats – see King (1972-1975)

Kensington Karnival (TORONTO) - 96 Spadina Ave., Suite 705

Kensington Youth Theatre (TORONTO) - 466 Bathurst Street

Kent Theatre (TORONTO) - located on 1488A Yonge Street, just above St. Clair – 500 seats (1942-1963) – demolished

Kentucky Club(NYC)- nightclub on West 49th Street between 7th and Broadway - Duke Ellington

Kenwood (TORONTO) – 962 Bloor St West near Dovercourt – 599 seats (1930-1957) – now Emin Centre

Kew Beach United Church Auditorium (TORONTO) - 140 Wineva

KGB Theatre(NYC)- 85 East 4th St.

King (TORONTO) – 565 College St and Manning – renamed from King 2 – (1934-1951) - became the Studio - closed 1970

King Lung (TORONTO) – 496 seats (1984-1985) - Chinese films

King’s Concert Rooms (LONDON) – see Scala Theatre

King's Head Theatre Club (LONDON) - considered off West End - 115 Upper Street, Islington (Angel) - its heritage goes back to mid 1500s and the time of Shakespeare - first dinner theatre in the U.K. - current incarnation goes back to mid 1970s - elements like seating, curtains and lighting are from such prestigious theatres as Royal Haymarket, Lyric Shaftesbury and Scala Theatre - King's Head is London's first pub theatre and has blazed a trail for subsequent fringe theatres for some 30 years, under the direction of Dan Crawford – Nashville New York 1979; Secret Garden 1987; Saint She Ain’t 1999

King’s Playhouse (TORONTO) – 1082 Queen St. West – see Avon (1941-1942)

Kings Theatre(NYC)- - Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn - talk of restoration - now shuttered

King’s Theatre (LONDON) – Hammersmith Road – 1902 – 1700 seats – closed 1955 and sold to BBC – demolished 1963; 2nd King’s – Haymarket – see Her Majesty’s Theatre

Kingsway Theatre (LONDON) – Great Queen Street, Holborn – 1882 opened as Novelty Theatre – renamed Folies-Dramatiques 1883-1888 became Jodrell – 1889 back to Kingsway – then New Queen’s Theatre 1890 and Eden Palace of Varieties 1894 – 1900 became Great Queen Street Theatre – 1908 was Kingsway again – 1932 became home of Independent Theatre Club – 1940 building damaged by bombing – demolished 1956

Kingsway Theatre (TORONTO) - 3030 Bloor Street West, west of Royal York Road – 1936 – 660 seats - repertory cinema

Kingswood (TORONTO) – 922 Kingston Road (1929-1938)

*Kingswood Music Theatre (TORONTO) - see Paramount Canada's Wonderland (16,000 seats)

Kitchener (TORONTO) – see Paradise

* Kit Kat Klub(NYC)- - (also known as Club Expo) - the original Henry Miller's Theatre

Klaw Theatre(NYC)- – 251-7 West 45th Street - opened 1921 with Nice People 1921 (247) - 806 seats - renamed the Avon in 1929 - Hell Bent for Heaven 1924 (122), 1925-1926 Theatre Guild - Lilies of the Field (169), Meet the Wife (232)- renamed in 1929 to the Avon - Strictly Dishonorable 1929(557); Gypsy 1929 - 1934 theatre leased to CBS and renamed CBS Radio Playhouse No. 2 - 1954 theatre was demolished and is now a parking garage

Knickerbocker Theatre(NYC)- - see Henry Abbey's Theatre and Miners’ Bowery Theatre – 1396 Broadway at 38th Street – opened as Abbey’s Theatre in 1893 – 1896 became the Knickerbocker - Mam'selle Napoleon 1903 (43); Red Mill 1906 (274), Mlle. Modiste 1905 (202), Yankee Prince (featuring 4 Cohans) 1908 (28); Kismet 1911 (184), Crinoline Girl (Julian Eltinge) 1914 (11 weeks); Dearest Enemy (Rodgers and Hart) 1925 (286), Christian 1898 (160)- demolished 1930; 2nd Knickerbocker – Bowery Theatre called Knickerbocker for a short time in 1844

Knights of the Masonic Temple (TORONTO) - see Russell's Hotel

Knitting Factory(NYC)- - Alterknit Theatre - 74 Leonard St.

Koster and Bial's Music Hall(NYC)- – West 23rd and Avenue of Americas – originally Bryant’s Opera House – reoped 1879 – closed 1893 when Koster and Bial moved to their New Music Hall on 34th Street, which had opened in 1892 by Oscar Hammerstein as the Manhattan Opera House – theatre closed 1901 - - for brief time New York's most prestigious vaudeville house - demolished in 1901 for Macy's Department Store; Their former music hall reopened as Bon Ton and was demolished 1924

*Kraine Theatre(NYC) - 85 East 4th St.(between Bowery & 2nd Aves) (74-99) (Steppin' Out Productions residence since 1996)- founded 1998 and houses Kraine/Red Room and St. Marks (40 seats)

Krause's Music Hall(NYC) - 34th Street - renamed to Savoy

Krishna (TORONTO) – 423 seats (1979-1980)

Kum-C (TORONTO) – 1288 Queen St. W., West of Dufferin – 596 seats (1933-1964) – now martial arts studio

Labor Stage(NTC) (NYC) - see Princess Theatre - Pins and Needles 1937 (1108)

Labyrinth Lounge (TORONTO)

*La Cage (TORONTO) - 279 Yonge Street - second floor-now closed

LaFayette Amphitheatre(NYC) – see LaFayette Theatre

LaFayette Theatre(NYC) – opened 1825 as the LaFayette Amphitheatre – changed to Theatre in 1827

LaFayette Theater(NYC) - 7th Avenue and 132nd St - most pretigious of Harlem's theaters – Androcles and the Lion (A Negro Production) 1937

Laff Movie Theatre(NYC) - see Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre

Lake (TORONTO) – see Family – 2173 Queen St. East – 531 seats (1948-1953)

Lakeshore (TORONTO) – 1474 Queen St. West – renamed from Odeon – (1965-1980)

*LaMaMa ETC/La Mama Experimental Theatre Club(NYC) - opened 1961 as Cafι La Mama - founded by Ellen Stewart - 74A East 4th St. (between 2nd & 3rd Aves) - 4 performance spaces (74) (99)and a Club – Carmilla 1972

*Lambs(NYC) - 130 West 44th Street (349 seats)(between Broadway & 6th Ave) - one of the largest off-B'Way theatres - Cotton Patch Gospel 1981; Gifts of the Magi 1990; John and Jen 1995

La Martinque(NYC) - famous New York nightclub - Danny Thomas

*Landor Theatre (LONDON) - Landor Road (Clapham North)

Landsdowne (TORONTO) – 683 Lansdowne Ave at Bloor St – 994 seats - built as Park and in 1937 became the Lansdowne – home of Ken Soble Amateur Hour – (1936-1958)now retail stores

La Plaza (TORONTO) – 735 Queen St. East, E. of Broadview – 787 seats (1931-1958) – now the Opera House

La Salle (TORONTO) – 526 Dundas St. West – 681 seats (1947-1955)

La Reta (TORONTO) – Pape and Downsview (1937-1938)

Lark Theatre(NYC)

Latin Quarter(NYC) - infamous New York nightclub - Frank Sinatra; Milton Berle; Sophie Tucker

Laura Keene’s Theatre(NYC) – 1856 (1800 seats)

Laura Keene’s Varieties(NYC) – see Olympic Theatre

Laura Pels(NYC) - 1514 Broadway at 45th (390 seats)- see Roundabout - Grace and Glorie (Estelle Parsons,Lucie Arnaz) 1996 (134); Mineola Twins (Swoosie Kurtz) 1999

*Laurie Beechman Theatre(NYC) - 407 West 42nd Street (9th Avenue)

*Leah Posluns Theatre (TORONTO) (founded 1977- )part of a huge Jewish Centre on North Bathurst Street - Minnie's Boys

Lee Strasburg Theatre Institute(NYC)

Leicester Square (LONDON) - 1930 - Odeon Leicester Square now stands on the site - bombed during blitz - 1931 presented variety shows and films, before becoming just a cinema

Leigha Lee Browne Theatre (TORONTO) - 1265 Military Trail

Lester B. Pearson Theatre (TORONTO) - 150 Central Park, Brampton

LeTHAL (TORONTO) (Le Theatre de L'Homme Actors Laboratorium - 9 Inkerman Street, Unit 3

Lew Fields 44th Street(NYC) - rooftop theatre - see Weber & Fields Music Hall

Lewisham Hippodrome (LONDON) – Catford - demolished

Lew M. Fields Theatre(NYC) - 254 West 42nd St - 1904 - 770 seats - renamed Hackett Theatre in 1906 - in 1911 became the Harris - in 1920 became the Frazee - reopened as Wallack's in 1924 - Sapho 1900 (29 perf. - reopened and played 55 more); Disraeli 1911 (280); Lie 1914 (172); 1930 became a film house - 1940 renamed the Anco and remodelled - 1988 interior gutted and converted into retail space

Liberty Theatre(NYC) - 234 West 42nd St. - built 1904 - 1054 seats - entrances on 41st and 42nd Streets - Little Johnny Jones 1904, Education of Mr. Pipp 1905 (10 weeks); Elevating a Husband 1912 (120); Purple Road (Valli Valli) 1913; To The Ladies 1922 (128), Gershwin's Lady Be Good 1924 (330), Tip Toes 1925 (194), Blackbirds of 1928 (518), Little Nellie Kelly, Have a Heart, Night Boat, George White's Scandals - by 1932 it turned to vaudeville and movies for 50 years - current plans call for Liberty to be gutted and become part of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum - Forest City Ratner has constructed a new entertainment and retail complex on the south side of 42nd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Anchor tenants for the 335,000 square foot development include Madame Tussaud’s 60,000 sq. ft. wax museum and a 26-screen American MultiCinemas (AMC) movie theater. Other tenants include include HMV Records, Just For Feet, Crazy Shirts, and Applebee’s - new entertainment and retail complex has also restored the historic facades of the Liberty and Empire Theaters

Lido (TORONTO) – 698 seats - 1974

*Limelight Dinner Theatre (TORONTO) - 2026 Yonge Street - opened in 1979 in a church on Yonge Street and still running today in a different location - Mame (1508)

Linbury Studio (LONDON) - see Royal Opera House

*Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts(NYC) - opened 1964 - housing New York State Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, Alice Tully Hall, Vivian Beaumont Theatre (140 seats), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre (299 seats)- Kismet (Alfred Drake) 1965; Chippy 1994; Contact 1999

Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre (LONDON) – Portugal Street – originally Lisle’s Tennis Court built in 1656 – 1660 enlarged for theatre – opened 1661 – closed 1744 and became barracks, auction room, Salopian China Warehouse – demolished 1848 for extension of Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons

Lion Theatre(NYC) – Pageant in Exile 1977

Lisle’s Tennis Court (LONDON) – see Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre

Little (TORONTO) – Yonge Street Arcade

Little Drury Lane Theatre (LONDON) – see Olympic Theatre

Little Met (NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Little Shubert Theatre(NYC) – 422 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th) – 499 seats – opens November 26,2002 with Tommy Tune:White Tie and Tails

Little Theatre(NYC) – 1912 (299 seats) – 240 West 44th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue – First Year 1920 (760); 1964 changed to Winthrop Ames and back to Little 1965 - later the Helen Hayes - Gemini 1977 (1,789)

Little Theatre (LONDON) – John Adam Street, Adelphi – 1910 (309 seats) – theatre damaged by bombing 1917 – reopened 1920 – damaged again in WWII 1941 and demolished in 1949 - Autumn Fire 1926 (8 weeks)

Little Theatre in the Hay (LONDON) – see Haymarket Theatre

*Living Arts Centre (TORONTO) , 4141 Living Arts Centre Drive, Mississauga - houses the Hammerson Hall (1,315 seats), Royal Bank Theatre (300 seats), and the Rogers Theatre (100 seats)

Living Theatre(NYC) – off Broadway group formed in 1951 – used Cherry Lane Theatre – from 1954-56 performed in lift at Broadway & 100th Street – 1959 opened theatre with 162 seats at 14th and Sixth Avenue - Connection 1959 (722); Red Eye of Love 1961 (169); Mann Ist Mann 1962 (175) – 1963 they were evicted and toured Europe

Loew's 175th Street (NYC) - built 1930 by Thomas W. Lamb (3,565 seats) - still in existence, being used as a church (Ike's United), and most of the elaborate details are still intact

Loew's Paradise(NYC) - 188th Street - talk of restoration but nothing materialized - remains shuttered

Loew's 72nd Street (NYC) - built in 1932 by Thomas W. Lamb & Eberson (3,200 seats) – demolished

Loew's State Theatre(NYC) - opened a block south of the Palace in Times Square - appearances by W.C. Fields, David Warfield, Frank Fay, Rudy Vallee and others

Loew's Uptown (TORONTO) - built 1920 - 3000 seats - 764 Yonge Street at Bloor Street - divided into 5 theatres with 2 backstage cinemas I and II added (31 Balmuto Avenue at Bloor Street in rear of the theatre)- closed and the Uptown is slated to be closed in September, 2003 due to nonincorporation of handicapped facilities to the theatres

Loew's Vaudeville Theatre (TORONTO) - see Elgin Theatre

Loew's Yonge Street (TORONTO) – 189 Yonge Street above Queen (2149 seats) 1913 - see Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, also Yonge Theatre

Loft (TORONTO) - 235 Queens Quay West

*London Apollo (LONDON) (formerly Labbatts) - (Hammersmith) Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith

London Casino (LONDON) - see Prince Edward

*London Colisseum (LONDON) - (Charing Cross)- St. Martin's Lane - 1904 - London's largest theatre (2358) - since 1968 home of the English National Opera (formerly Sadler's Wells Opera) - Nijinsky Clown of God (Bejart)(currently closed for renovations - reopening 2004)- Cinderella(Tommy Steele)1958 – see Colisseum

London Hippodrome (LONDON) – Westminster - Joy-Bells 1919; Round in Fifty 1922 (471); Leap Year 1924 (471) - see Hippodrome – now other use

London Music-Hall (LONDON), Shoreditch – see Music-Hall

*London Palladium (LONDON) - (Oxford Circus)- Argyll Street - built 1871 (2286 seats) as Hengler's Circus, 1871 reconstructed as Music-Hall (2325 seats) - changed to Palladium in 1910 – 1928 theatre used as cinema but back to theatre three months later – renamed London Palladium in 1934 - Swinging Down the Lane (Max Bygraves) 1959 (328); Babes in the Wood 1965; Barnum 1981 (Michael Crawford); Ziegfeld 1988; Stairway to the Stars 1989; Fred Astaire – His Daughter’s Tribute 2001 King and I - revival; Barnum; Singin' in the Rain; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

London Pavillion and The Trocadero (LONDON), Piccadilly (both originally theatres) - famous music hall – began as song and supper room of Black Horse Inn in Tichborne Street - built 1859 as 2000 seat Pavilion Music Hall - converted to cinema in 1934 and became shopping centre in late 1980s – 2nd Pavillion opened same year – 1934 became a cinema and 1981 closed for demolition - Trocadero has been theatre, music hall and circus

London Pavillion (LONDON), Tichborne Street - built 1861 (2,000 seats) - demolished in 1885 and rebuilt in Piccadilly

London Theatre(NYC) – old burlesque house in the Houston district

*Longacre(NYC) - 220 West 48th Street just off Broadway – (1115 seats) – 1913 - Great Lover 1915 (245), Nothing But the Truth 1916 (332), Leave It To Jane 1917; Adam and Eva 1919 (312), Butter and Egg Man 1925 (243), Waiting For Lefty 1935 (168), Mornings at Seven 1939 (44), On Borrowed Time 1938 (321) – 1944 turned to broadcasting until 1953 - Pleasure of His Company 1958 (474), Slapstick Tragedy (Kate Reid,Margaret Leighton)(7); Mark Twain Tonight (Hal Holbrook)1966 (9 weeks); I Never Sang for My Father 1968; Ritz 1975 (400), Belle of Amherst (Julie Harris) 1976 (15 weeks); Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (Al Pacino) 1977 (363); Ain't Misbehavin' (Nell Carter,Ken Page, Andre DeShields)1978 (1604)- moved from Manhattan Theatre Club; Children of a Lesser God 1980 (887); I Never Sang For My Father, My Sweet Charlie, Passion, Trip Back Down; Cuba and His Teddy Bear (Robert DeNiro) 1986 (53)Medea (Diana Rigg) 1994 (82); Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm 1999 (17); Taller Than a Dwarf (Matthew Broderick,Parker Posey) 2000 (56) – demolished

Long Shong 2 (TORONTO) – 4350 Steeles Ave East (1998-2001) – Chinese films

Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People (TORONTO) - see Young Peoples Theatre

Loud Mouth Asian Babes (TORONTO) - dedicated to the development and production of new Canadian works by, for and about Loud Mouth Asian women who may or may not be Babes, Loud Mouth Asian Babes who may or may not be women, and Loud Mouth Babes that we really dig - Theatre Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Fringe

Lucille La Verne Theatre(NYC) – see Princess Theatre

*Lucille Lortel Theatre(NYC) - 121 Christopher St (between Hudson & Bleeker Sts) - 299 seats - changed from Theatre De Lys - original productions - Cloud 9; Eden; Life in the Theatre; Gertrude Stein and a Companion 1986 (54); Steel Magnolias 1987 (817); Top Girls (299); Destiny of Me/Normal Heart (Piper Laurie) 1992 (175); As Bees in Honey Drown 1997; If Love Were All (Twiggy) 1999; Suite in Two Keys (Hayley Mills,Judith Ivey,Paxton Whitehead) 2000

Lucy Rushton’s Theatre(NYC) - see New York Theatre

*Lunt-Fontanne(NYC) - 205 West 46th St. (Nederlander-1,492 seats) Opened in 1910 as the Globe Theatre – 1938 became a cinema - renamed in 1958 Lunt-Fontanne to honour Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne – 1714 seats - recently renovated - No No Nanette 1925 (321), The Visit 1958 (featuring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne); Goldilocks (Elaine Stritch) 1958 (161); Sound of Music (Mary Martin) 1959 (original 1443), Little Me 1962 (257); Ben Franklin in Paris 1964; Skyscraper 1965, Walking Happy 1966, How Now Dow Jones 1967, Her First Roman 1968; Look to the Lilies 1970; Rothchilds 1970 (507), Rex 1976, Peter Pan 1979 (revival Sandy Duncan) (551), Sophisticated Ladies 1981 (767), Uptown...It's Hot 1986; Smile 1986; Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public 1994 (16); Hello Dolly 1995 - revival with Carol Channing (188); Titanic 1997 (804); Night Must Fall (Matthew Broderick) 1999;

Lusby's Summer and Winter Palace (LONDON), Stepney - 1848 to 1933 - from 1912 called Mile End Empire

*Lyceum Theatre (LONDON) - (Covent Garden/Charing Cross) Wellington Street, just off Strand – entertainment space here as early as 1765 - 1771 – 1809 Drury Lane company moved here (1800 seats) – 1817 reopened as English Opera House – 1830 theatre burnt down - 1830- 1816 renamed Theatre Royal English Opera; Royal Lyceum Theatre and English Opera House opened 1834-1904; 1902 partly demolished - rebuilt in 1904 as music hall with the 1834 facade retained - one of London's most historic theatres - 1938 theatre threatened with demolition - 1945 became a dance hall (Mecca Ballroom)- closed in 1982 - now completely refurbished - Jesus Christ Superstar

*Lyceum Theatre (LONDON) - see Royal Lyceum English Opera House 1839; Theatre Royal, English Opera 1839-1841; Theatre Royal, Lyceum 1844-1845; Lyceum Theatre 1847; Royal Lyceum Theatre 1848

Lyceum Theatre(NYC) - 1885 – opened 1885 on the West side of 4th Avenue between 23rd and 24th – (referred to as the New Lyceum Theatre) - Charity Ball 1889 (200), Gold Diggers of 1919 (720), Lion and the Mouse 1905 (686), Mrs. Bumpstead'-Leigh 1911 (64), One of Our Girls 1885 (200), Pocahontas or The Gentle Savage 1855 (played off and on for 30 years)demolished in 1902

*Lyceum Theatre(NYC) - 149 West 45th St East of Broadway (Shubert-924 seats) Built in 1903 – Charity Ball 1889; oldest Broadway theatre still in use - (1965 to 1969 home of the Phoenix Theatre and the APA Repertory Company - (You Can't Take It With You, The Show Off, The Cocktail Party and The Misanthrope), winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1968 - Lion and the Mouse 1905 (686); Boys of Company "B" (John Barrymore,Mack Sennett) 1907; Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh (Mrs. Fiske) 1911; Gold Diggers 1919 (720), Sailor Beware 1933 (500); Pre-Honeymoon 1936; Having Wonderful Time 1937 (372), Junior Miss 1941 (710), - home of Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre - upper floor now home of Shubert archives - Beautiful People 1941 (120); Doughgirls 1942 (671), their longest run was Born Yesterday 1946 (1642); Caretaker, Country Girl 1950 (235); Anna Christie (Celeste Holm); Take a Giant Step (Louis Gossett) 1953; Hatful of Rain 1955 (398), Goodbye Charlie 1959 (109); Angel Street, Cold Storage, Taste of Honey (Angela Lansbury,Joan Plowright,Nigel Davenport,Billy Dee Williams) 1960 (49 weeks); Caretaker 1961; Your Arm's Too Short To Box With God 1976;Wings 1979 (117); Morning's at Seven 1980 (564); Master Harold..and the Boys (Zakes Mokae,Danny Glover) 1982; Whoopi Goldberg solo show 1984 (148); Players, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (revival) 1995; Taste of Honey; Sunshine Boys (Jack Klugman,Tony Randall) 1997 (230); Night Must Fall (Matthew Broderick) 1999; Lonesome West 1999; 2nd – Lyceum – 312-16 4th Avenue (23rd and 24th – 1902 theatre demolished; 3rd – Lyceum – Broadway and Warren Street – survived a single season in 1808; 4th – Lyceum – Wallack’s Lyceum when opened in 1850 was known as the Lyceum, as was 5th – Lyceum – Fourteenth Street Theatre from 1873 to 1886

LyceumTheatre (TORONTO) – (ran 1846-1847) – located near the Royal Alexandra Theatre - seated 1,149 - changed to film house in 1930 - demolished

Lyndhurst (TORONTO) – see Esquire – Bloor ST. near Runnymede (1927-1937)

Lyric Hall (LONDON) – see Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (LONDON) – King Street – opened as Lyric Hall 1888 – reconstructed and opened as Lyric Opera House 1890 – 1895 seating increased from 550 to 800 – 1918 renamed Lyric Theatre – Beggar’s Opera 1920 (1463 perf); 1933 theatre stood empty – 1946 reopened - Venice Preserved (John Gielgud,Paul Scofield) 1953; Grab Me a Gondola 1956; Share My Lettuce 1957; Valmouth 1958 (84); Hooray for Daisy 1960; New Cranks 1960; - closed 1966 - Aladdin 1979; Nightingale 1982; Moll Flanders 1993 – demolished 1972 – some of Victorian plasterworks used in the 2nd Lyric Hammersmith, 20 yards away (450 seats) – restored old name and reopened in 1979 – also small studio theatre of 130 seats

Lyric Opera House (LONDON) – see Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith

Lyric Theatre (TORONTO) - Yiddish theatre built in a converted Methodist church - later became the National

Lyric Theatre (NYC) - 100 Third Avenue between 12th and 13th St. (1274 seats) - built 1880 as a restaurant - converted into Music Hall - 1910 renovated into motion picture house doubling its seating - building still intact as a movie theatre - City 1909 (190)

Lyric Theatre (NYC) - 213 W 42nd Street - built 1903 (1261 seats) - also entrance on 43rd Street - tucked between the Republic Theatre and Times Square Theatre - facade left intact, but interior demolished when Ford Centre for the Performing Arts constructed - York Idea 1906 (66); Coconuts, Old Heidelburg, Lady and the Sea, Chocolate Soldier, For Goodness Sake, Three Musketeers (Dennis King,Vivienne Segal) 1928, Fifty Million Frenchmen 1929 (257), Firefly 1912 (120) - in 1934 converted to a movie house and in 1966 Lyric and Apollo were purchased by Livent and the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1999 - see Ford Center for the Performing Arts; 2nd Lyric – Criterion Theatre was known as Lyric for its first four years

*Lyric Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Shaftesbury Avenue - 1888 - (950 seats) – Floradora 1899 - reconstructed 1933 - oldest of six surviving theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue - rear parts were built on the site of an anatomical theatre and museum - Strange Interlude; Victoria Regina 1937 (42 weeks); Winslow Boy 1946 (476); Little Hut 1950; Vortex (Dirk Bogarde) 1952; Irma La Douce 1958 (1512); Robert and Elizabeth 1964; Plaza Suite 1969; Battle of Shrivings (John Gielgud,Wendy Hiller) 1970 (73); How the Other Half Loves; Habeus Corpus, Poor Horace, Blood Brothers 1983; Five Guys Named Moe 1990 (long run); Maddie 1997

Lyric Theatre (LONDON) – Shaftesbury Avenue – 1306 seats – 1888 – seating later reduced to 948 – Robert and Elizabeth 1964; Habeas Corpus 1973

*Lyttleton Theatre (LONDON) - see National Theatre – first of three theatres – 890 seats - 1976

Mabou Mines(NYC) – see La Mama

*MacMillan Theatre (TORONTO) -80 Queen's Park - University of Toronto

Madison (TORONTO) – 506 Bloor St West – (1919-1939) - see Bloor Cinema, Midtown, Eden, Capri and Eve

Madison (TORONTO) – North York (1939-1940)

Madison 5 (TORONTO) – 4950 Yonge St. near Sheppard – 5 screens (1986-1998)

Madison Square(NYC) - 7th Avenue & 32nd Street – Hazel Kirke 1880

Madison Square Garden(NYC) – singers engaged at 1.00 per night to sing before the fights

Madison Square Theatre(NYC) – South side of 24th Street West of Broadway (between 5th & Madison (688 seats) - built 1880 on site of Daly’s first 5th Avenue Theatre – 1891 renamed Hoyt’s Theatre - On The Quiet 1901 – demolished 1908

Madison Square Garden Theatre (Hoyt's Theatre) (NYC) - 7th Avenue & 34th St.- built 1879 on site of 5th Avenue Theatre (700) - demolished in 1908 - Hazel Kirke 1880 (486), Held By the Enemy 1886 (70), Rajah or Wyncot's Ward 1883 (190), Trip to Chinatown or An Idyl of San Francisco 1891 (657), Young Mrs. Withrop 1882 (190), Esmeralda 1881 (350), Beau Brummell 1890 (150), Alabama 1891 (37)

Madison Square Theatre(NYC) – see Madison Square Garden Theatre

Maidman Theatre(NYC) - Greenwich Village - Pocket Watch; Streets of New York 1963

Main Stage Theatre(NYC) - see Queens Theatre in the Park

Majestic (TORONTO) - (1903-1930) - 1175 seats - Adelaide Street west of Yonge Street - later renamed the Regent - torn down

Majestic Music Hall (TORONTO) – built as a vaudeville theatre (1909-1915)

Majestic Theatre(NYC) - 1903 - 5 Columbus Circle - fronting 58th and 59th Street - 1354 seats - Wizard of Oz, Babes in Toyland - name changed to Park in 1911 - 1922 became Minsky's Park Music Hall; 1923 it became Cosmopolitan - in 1931 it became a film and vaudeville house called Cosmo Varieties - 1934 became The Theatre of Young America - 1935 became The Park once again - renamed the International in 1944 - 1945 became the Columbus Circle and changed to International - 1949 became NBC studios "Your Show of Shows," - demolished June 1954 for new convention center

*Majestic Theatre(NYC) - 245 West 44th St. (Shubert-1,655 seats)- opened 1927 - Considered Broadway's best theatre with a history of highly successful hit musicals - Babes in Toyland 1903 (192), Wizard of Oz 1903 (293), Pardon My English 1932; Stars in Your Eyes 1939; Yokel Boy (Buddy Ebsen) 1939 (208); Carousel 1945 (890), Allegro 1947 (315); South Pacific 1949 (1925), Me and Juliet 1953 (358); Fanny 1954 (888); By the Beautiful Sea (Shirley Booth) 1954; Happy Hunting 1956; Music Man (Robert Preston,Barbara Cook) 1957 (1375), Camelot (Richard Burton,Julie Andrews,Robert Goulet,Roddy McDowell,Mel D’owd) 1960 (873), Jennie 1963; Golden Boy 1964 (569); Anyone Can Whistle (Angela Lansbury,Lee Remick) 1964 (9); Sugar (Tony Roberts,Robert Morse,Elaine Joyce) 1972 (505); Mack and Mabel (Bernadette Peters,Robert Preston) 1974 (65); Wiz 1975 (1672); I Remember Mama (Liv Ullmann) 1979 (108), Act (Liza Minnelli) 1977, Ballroom 1978; 42nd Street 1981; Blackstone, First Monday in October, Most Happy Fella, *Phantom of the Opera (1/88 still running - 4689); 2nd Majestic – 5 Columbus Circle – opened as Cosmopolitan in 1903 – 1911 renamed Park – 1923-1944 used as cinema – renamed International (1946-1949); then tv studio – demolished 1954 and New York Coliseum built on site

Major Rogers Road (TORONTO) – 435 Rogers Road – 663 seats (1927-1955)

Major St. Clair (TORONTO) – 1780 St. Clair Ave West (1927-1955) – now a church

Malton (TORONTO) – Mississauga – 312 seats (1979-1982)

Manhattan Center - see Hammerstein's Ballroom

*Manhattan Class Company Theater(NYC) - 120 West 28th St (between 6th & 7th Aves)

*Manhattan Ensemble Theatre(NYC) - 55 Mercer Street (140 seats)

Manhattan Music Hall(NYC) - see Hammerstein's Theatre

Manhattan Opera House(NYC) – - see Koster & Bial’s Music Hall - built 1892 on 34th Street West of Broadway – built and owned by Oscar Hammerstein on the site where Macy's is today - Eternal Road (Lotte Lenya) 1937

Manhattan Theatre(NYC) - 6th Avenue and 33rd Street - Way Down East 1898 (152), Leah Kleschna 1904 (131) – demolished

Manhattan Theatre(NYC) – 1697 Broadway between 53rd and 54th – opened 1927 as Hammerstein's Theatre – 1931 renamed Manhattan – 1934 became Billy Rose Music-Hall and later Manhattan Music Hall – renamed Ed Sullivan Theatre 1967; 2nd Manhattan Theatre – from 1897 to 1901 Standard Theatre was known as Manhattan Theatre

*Manhattan Theatre Club(NYC) - 131 West 55th St.(between 6th & 7th Aves)- Stages I (299 seats) and Stages II (150 seats) - founded in 1970 and has been located at City Center since 1984 - - see Biltmore Theatre - The Contractor 1973 (72); Ain't Misbehavin 1978 (moved to Longacre); Crimes of the Heart 1981; It's Only a Play 1986; Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune (Kathy Bates,Kenneth Welsh) 1987 (533); Loman Family Picnic (City Center Stage 2) 1989; Lips Together,Teeth Apart (City Center) (Nathan Lane,Swoozie Kurtz,Christine Baranski) - transfer to Lucille Lortel 1991; Perfect Ganesh (Zoe Caldwell,Frances Sternhagen) 1993; Love,Valor,Compassion 1994 (transferred to Walter Kerr Theatre); Labor Day 1998; Fuddy Meers 1999; East Is East 1999; Wild Party 2000 (transferred)

*Manhattan Theatre Source(NYC) - 177 MacDougal Street – houses Playhouse (50 seats) and WindowBox Cafι – can be used as cabaret

*Man in the Moon Theatre (LONDON) - 392 Kings Road - Chelsea, London (Sloane Square) – last play “Kicking Oscar’s Corpse” – closing after 20 years of fringe venues – Sept 2002

Manor (TORONTO) – 202 Kingston Road (1938-1940)

Mansfield(NYC) - 256 West 47th St – opened1926 – with Night Duel – in 1960 became the Brooks Atkinson – Ladder 1926 (789); Green Pastures 1930 (640);

Mansion House (TORONTO) - 1825 - north side of King Street, just east of Sherbourne Street, performance by a travelling American company - Richard III

Maple Leaf (TORONTO) – Queen Street West

*Maple Leaf Gardens (TORONTO) - 60 Carlton Street - (at Church Street) - (15,700 seats) - hockey arena stretching some 350 feet along Carlton and Wood Streets, and 300 feet on Church Street - built in 1931 - also housed the Hot Stove Lounge - architects Ross and Macdonald who were responsible for Eaton's College Street, Union Station, Royal York Hotel and a former bank building at the northeast corner of King and Yonge - The Gardens are now abandoned for the new Air Canada Centre - used for circuses, ice shows, rock concerts - even ballet and opera before the O'Keefe Centre/Hummingbird Centre was built - Bob Dylan, Bolshoi, (Don Quixote), Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, La Traviata), dance companies like Festa Italiana, Mazowsze, Moiseyev, the Moscow Circus, Victor Borge's Comedy in Music (849); currently the site is on the market and the decision should be made by around July - hopefully the facade can be saved

Market Square 6 Cinema (TORONTO) - 80 Front Street East (6 cinemas - Odeon Cineplex) – (1983-2001) - now closed

Markham Theatre (TORONTO) - Town Centre

Mark Hellinger Theatre(NYC) - 237 West 51st St. - see Hollywood Theatre - opened as a cinema in 1930 (Warner Hollywood)- designed by Lamb, 1,600 seats, but was soon converted to a playhouse and the name changed, then a showcase film theatre in 1930, the Hollywood Theatre - reverted to legitimate theatre in 1934 - name changed to 51st Street Theatre on 2 occasions 1936 and 1940 - 1949 became the Mark Hellinger – Texas L’il Darlin’ 1949; Two on the Aisle 1951; Three Wishes for Jamie 1952; Hazel Flagg 1953; Girl in Pink Tights 1954; Ankles Aweigh 1955; Plain and Fancy 1955 (461), My Fair Lady (Rex Harrison,Julie Andrews,Cathleen Nesbitt,Stanley Holloway) 1956 (2717), Fade Out Fade In (Carol Burnett) 1964; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Barbara Harris) 1965, Joyful Noise 1966; Illya Darling (Melina Mercouri,Orson Bean) 1967 (319); Coco (Katharine Hepburn) 1969; Dear World (Angela Lansbury) 1969; Jesus Christ Superstar 1971 (720), 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 1976; Timbuktu 1978 (221); Sugar Babies 1979, Doll's Life 1982, film version of A Chorus Line was filmed here - Jesus Christ Superstar 1971 (720), Sunset (Alexis Smith) 1978; As You Like It, Merlin, Sugar Babies 1979 (1208), Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall 1979; A Doll’s Life 1982; Grind 1985; Rags 1986; Legs Diamond 1988; Tony Awards - now the Times Square Church

Markville (TORONTO) – Hwy 7 and McCowan – 6 screens (1982-2000)

Marlborough Theatre (LONDON) – Islington – demolished

*Marquis(NYC) - 1535 Broadway (45th & 46th) (Nederlander-1,584 seats) - Built in the Marriott Marquis Hotel - three theatres were demolished to build this complex - Me and My Gal 1986 (George S. Irving,Jane Connell) (1420), Nick and Nora 1991; Goodbye Girl (Martin Short,Bernadette Peters)1993; Victor Victoria (Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts) 1995 (734); Capeman (Ruben Blades) 1997 (68); Annie Get Your Gun (Bernadette Peters,Tom Wopat/Cheryl Ladd)1999

*Martin Beck(NYC) - 302 West 45th St. (Jujamcyn-1,302 seats) (Being renamed the Al Hirschfield Theatre on June 21, 2003, the artist's 100th birthday) - Built in 1924 for a vaudeville showman - Shanghai Gesture 1926 (331), Dynamo 1929 (50), Apple Cart (Claude Rains) 1930 (11 weeks); Hotel Universe (Ruth Gordon,Franchot Tone) 1930 (10 weeks); Winterset 1935 (195), High Tor 1937 (171), Reunion in Vienna 1931 (264), Cabin in the Sky (Ethel Waters,Katharine Dunham) 1940 (156), Watch on the Rhine 1941 (378),The Army Play-by-Play 1943 (40); This Foolish Notion (Tallulah Bankhead) 1945 (13 weeks); Iceman Cometh 1946 (136), St. Louis Woman (Pearl Bailey) 1946 (113); Barefoot Boy With Cheek (Red Buttons,Nancy Walker) 1947; Rose Tattoo 1951 (306), Teahouse of the August Moon 1953 (1027), Crucible (Madeleine Sherwood,E.G. Marshall) 1953 (197); Major Barbara 1956 (232); Candide (Barbara Cook) 1956 (73); Mister Johnson (Earle Hyman) 1956 (44); Orpheus Descending (Maureen Stapleton,Cliff Robertson) 1957 (68); Sweet Bird of Youth (Geraldine Page,Paul Newman,Rip Torn)1959 (375), Bye Bye Birdie 1960 (607); Beg Borrow or Steal (Estelle Parsons,Eddie Bracken,Betty Garrick,Larry Parks) 1960 (5); Happiest Girl in the World 1961; Milk and Honey 1961 (541), Ballad of a Sad Cafe 1963 (123); I Had a Ball (Buddy Hackett) 1964; Physicists (Jessica Tandy,Hume Cronyn) 1964 (55); Drat the Cat 1965; Marat/Sade 1965; Delicate Balance (Jessica Tandy,Hume Cronyn,Rosemary Murphy,Carmen Mathews,Marian Seldes,Henderson Forsythe) 1966; Hallelujah Baby (Leslie Uggams) 1967 (293); Grass Harp 1971; All Over (John Gielgud,Jessica Tandy,Colleen Dewhurst) 1971 (42); Habeas Corpus 1975; Dracula 1977 (revival 925), Onward Victoria 1980; Bring Back Birdie 1981; Little Foxes (Elizabeth Taylor,Maureen Stapleton) 1981; Come Back to the 5 and Dime,Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Sandy Dennis,Cher,Karen Black,Kathy Bates) 1982 (52); Rink (Liza Minnelli,Chita Rivera) 1984, Into the Woods (Bernadette Peters,Joanna Gleason,Barbara Bryne) 1987 (765), Grand Hotel 1989 (1077), Guys and Dolls (Nathan Lane,Faith Prince,Peter Gallagher) - revival 1992 (over 800 performances ), Moon Over Buffalo (Carol Burnett) 1995 (308); Habeus Corpus, Happy End, Saturday Sunday Monday, Strange Interlude; Annie (revival Nell Carter) 1997 (238); revival Sound of Music (Rebecca Luke, later Richard Chamberlain 1998 (553)

Martinique Theatre(NYC) – Crucible 1958 (571), Six Characters in Search of an Author 1963 (529)

*Martin Kaufman(NYC) - 534 West 42nd St.(between 10th & 11th Aves) (97 seats)

Martinique Theatre(NYC) – Kittiwake Island 1960; All in Love 1963; Othello (James Earl Jones) 1964 (224); In White America (Gloria Foster) - now defunct

Martinson Hall (NYC) – see Public Theatre

Marylebone Music-Hall (LONDON) – see Music-Hall

Marylebone Theatre (LONDON) – see West London Theatre

Marymount Manhattan Theatre(NYC) - housed within Marymount Manhattan College on Upper East Side - Uncommon Women and Others (Jill Eikenberry,Glenn Close,Swoosie Kurtz) 1977 (22); Getting Out 1978 (22), Scribes – demolished

Mary Pickford Theatre (TORONTO) - (1916-1947) Northwest corner of Queen and Spadina – see the Pickford, and also Auditorium, Avenue, Variety

Masonic Hall (TORONTO) - Toronto Street 1857 - site for operas

Masque Theatre(NYC) - see John Golden - Mann Ist Mann 1962 (175)

*Massey Hall (TORONTO) - 178 Victoria Street - started building in 1889 and opened in 1894 as Massey Music Hall - later called Massey Hall - acts from Great Caruso to wrestling - (2765 seats) - replaced by the new Roy Thompson Hall, but still used for concerts and one-man type shows - Restless Underwear, Paul Simon, Bob Newhart, Carol Channing

*Maverick Theatre(NYC) - 307 West 26th St – former home of the American Jewish Theatre

Mavety (TORONTO) – see West End

Maxine Elliott's (NYC) - 1908 - 109 West 39th Street East of Broadway (900 seats) - surrounded by the Casino, Empire, Abbeys, Princess, Nazimovas and Comedy Theatres – opened with Chaperon; Eyes of Youth 1917 (414), Romance 1913 (160), Mountain Man 1921 (163); Rain 1922 (648), Coquette 1927 (366); Children's Hour 1934 (691), Horse Eats Hat 1936; Separate Rooms 1940 (613), - CBS produced Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan from this theatre - they closed the theatre in 1959 and it was demolished in 1960

Maxine Elliott Theatre (LONDON) - Lure 1913

Mayfair (TORONTO) – 347 Jane St. below Annette – 478 seats (1929-1959) – now a bank

Mayfair Theatre(NYC) – Fly Blackbird 1962; Ballad For Bimshire 1963; Dance With Me – demolished

Mayfair Theatre (LONDON) - Stratton Street – part of Mayfair Hotel – 310 seats - opened in 1963 and sold in 1964 - since 1992 it had been used for conferences - reopened in May 2001 after 10 years - renovation - Philanthropist; Song of Singapore 2001

* MCC Theatre(NYC) - 120 West 28th St.- Wit 1998 (75) - then moved to Union Square (545)

*McGinn-Cazale Theatre(NYC) - 2162 Broadway (fourth floor) & 76th ? 108 seats - named after two actors who died much too soon - Walter McGinn (1936-1977) (Canterbury Tales,Here’s Where I Belong, Bobby Deerfield, Dog Day Afternoon, Deadliest Season, Kill Me If You Can), and John Cazale (1935-1978) (Deer Hunter, Conversation, Godfather) - previously home to Second Stage

McLaughlin Performance Hall (TORONTO) - see York University

*Meadowvale Theatre (TORONTO) - 6315 Montevideo Road, Mississauga

Mecca Auditorium(NYC) – No For An Answer 1941

Mecca Ballroom (LONDON) - see Lyceum

Mechanics’ Social Hall(NYC) – Christie’s Minstrels 1864

Medicine Show (NYC) – see Ensemble Studio Theatre

*Medieval Times (TORONTO) - dinner show and adventure - Exhibition Place at the Dufferin Gates

Melody(TORONTO) – 344 College Street – see Playhouse (1963-1964)

Melody Fair (TORONTO) – run in Toronto from 1951 to 1954 in 1,600 seat tent at Dufferin Park Raceway but closed 4 years later – then housed for a time in the Mutual Street Arena

Mercer Arts Center (NYC) - El Grande de Coca Cola 1973 (1114)

Mercer-Hansberry Theatre(NYC) - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (William Devane) 1971 (1025)

Mercer-O'Casey Theatre(NYC) - Effect of the Gamma Rays (Sada Thompson,Swoosie Kurtz) 1970 (819); Exchange 1970; Doctor Selavy’s Magic Theatre 1972; Hark 1972

Mercury Theatre(NYC) - see Comedy Theatre

Mercury Theatre (LONDON) – Notting Hill Gate – 150 seats – opened 1933 – used by Ballet Rambert - Playboy of the Western World 1939

Mermaid Theatre(NYC) - Greenwich Village - Pocket Watch

Mermaid Theatre (LONDON) – originally a private theatre in the garden of a house – 1951 – 1953 re-erected in London and permanent home opened in 1959 at Puddle Dock (500 seats) - in danger of demolition currently - The Mermaid's glory days under Bernard Miles are over thirty years ago, it is a tribute to the affection in which the City of London's first post-war purpose-built theatre is held by those who have worked there that so many well-known theatre personalities have raised their voices and fired off letters to the Corporation of London - in its defense - September 2001; Lock Up Your Daughters 1959; Virtue in Danger 1963; We’d Rather Switch 1969; Saint Joan 1969; Cowardy Custard 1972; Treasure Island 1973; Cole 1974; Point 1976; Side By Side By Sondheim (Millicent Martin,Ned Sherrin,Julie McKenzie,David Kernan) 1976 - transferred to Wyndhams 1976 (781); Treasure Island; St. Joan - revival 1969; renovated 1981 with studio for children, Molecule Club (250 seats)

Meta-Physical Theatre (TORONTO) - PO Box 404, Station C

Metro (TORONTO) – 679 Bloor St. West at Manning – (1938-1967) – art deco – reopened 1978-1982 as porno house - still operating

Metro Central YMCA (TORONTO) - 20 Grosvenor Street

Metro Playhouse(NYC) – see Connelly

Metropolitan Alcazar(NYC) - 40th and Broadway - built 1880 - demolished 1930s

Metropolitan Casino(NYC) – see Broadway Theatre

Metropolitan Music Hall (LONDON) – Edgeware Road – 1862 – was small concert hall attached to White Lion Inn – refurbished and reopened as Turnham’s Music Hall – renamed Metropolitan 1864 – rebuilt 1897 (1855 seats) – became tv studio – shut down 1962 – demolished 1963

Metropolitan Opera House(NYC) - Broadway between 39th & 40th Streets - founded 1883 - built as the New Opera House (3,045 seats) - damaged by fire in 1892 - demolished in 1967 - moved to Lincoln Centre (West 65th Street) in 1966

*Metropolitan Playhouse of New York(NYC) - 220 East 4th St.(Avenues A & B)

Metropolitan Theatre (Tripler Hall) (NYC) – see New York Theatre – 667-77 Broadway – built on site of Tripler Hall which was burnt down 1854 – became circus – 1859 became Winter Garden – 1867 theatre burnt down and not rebuilt

M. Franconi's Hippodrome(NYC) - Broadway and 23rd St - 1853 - torn down in 1856 to make way for Fifth Avenue Hotel

Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts(NYC) - situated at Pace Uiversity - Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street - new home of the National Actors Theatre (Tony Randall)

Michael's Pub(NYC) - (Renaissance Hotel)- 7th Avenue between 47th and 48th St. (was 57 East 54th St.) - intimate cabaret - Mel Torme, Woody Allen - closed December 98 and now situated at Park Restaurant in Hotel Lombardy, 111 East 56th Street - Julie Wilson

Middlesex Music-Hall (LONDON) – Drury Lane – originally Mogul Saloon since early 19th Century – 1851 became Middlesex Music-Hall – reconstructed 1872, 1891 and 1911 opened as New Middlesex Theatre of Varieties (3000 seats) – closed 1919 – reopened as Winter Garden Theatre – site is now New London Theatre

Midget Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Midtown(NYC) - 99th & Broadway - built in 1933 by Boak and Paris – demolished

Midtown (TORONTO) – 506 Bloor St. West at Bathurst – 1100 seats – opened as the Madison (1941-1966) – now operating as the Bloor Cinema – also was known as the Capri and Eden

Mighty Brave Theatre (TORONTO) - productions presented at Equity Theatre Showcase, Cameron House etc.

Miles’s Musick House (LONDON) – see Music Hall and Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Miller’s Assembly Room (TORONTO) – 1809 – refurbished from a former coffee house

Mimico Rex (TORONTO)

Mind the Gap Theatre(NYC)

Miner’s Bowery Theatre(NYC) – old burlesque theatre in the Houston district – Fridays were first amateur nights in burlesque – 1896 – changed name to Knickerbockers – Wine, Women and Song

Miners’ Eighth Street Theatre(NYC)

*Minetta Lane(NYC) - 18 Minetta Lane (Just East of 6th Ave. to West 3rd St.) (407) – Personals 1985; Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down 1985; Other People's Money 1989 (990); Jeffrey 1993 (10 months); Cowgirls 1996; Gross Indecency:the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde 1997; Thwak 1999;

*Minkler Auditorium (TORONTO) - see Seneca College

*Minskoff(NYC) - 1515 Broadway/200 West 45th St. (44th and 45th) (Nederlander-1,621 seats) - Opened in 1973 on third floor of 1 Astor Plaza, site of former Astor Hotel with Irene (Debbie Reynolds,Patsy Kelly,George S.Irving) revival (604), Clams on the Half Shell Revue (Bette Midler) 1975 (67); Rockabye Hamlet 1976; Angel 1978; King of Hearts 1978, Dance a Little Closer 1983; Teddy and Alice 1987; Black and Blue 1989 (824), Marilyn, West Side Story revival; Sunset Boulevard 1994 (977); Scarlet Pimpernel (Christine Andreas) 1997 (640) – revised and ran to (772) performances; Tom Sawyer (less than 2 weeks) 2001;

Minsky’s Oriental Theatre(NYC) - Broadway

Minsky's Park Music Hall (NYC) - see Majestic Theatre

Mint Theatre Company(NYC) 311 West 43rd St.(between 8th & 9th Aves) (74 seats)- in small office building on 5th floor - Macbeth (all female) 2000

Mirabel (TORONTO) – 465 seats (1979-1980)

*Miranda Theatre(NYC) - 259 West 30th St. (66) (7th & 8th)

Mirror Theatre (LONDON) – see Holborn Theatre

Miss Kelly’s Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty Theatre

Mitchell’s Olympic Theatre(NYC) – see Olympic – opened 1839

*Mitzi E. Newhouse(NYC) - @ Lincoln Center (see Vivian Beaumont also) 150 West 65th St (Lincoln Centre-299 seats) - Streamers 1976 (478), Sing Happy, You're the Top; Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen (William H. Macy) 1991; Sisters Rosenweig (Jane Alexander,Madeline Kahn,Robert Klein,Frances McDormand) 1992 (149)(transferred to Ethel Barrymore in 1993); Hello Again 1994; Suburbia 1994; New Brain (Malcolm Gets,Kristin Chenoweth,Penny Fuller) 1998; Contact 1999 (transferred to Vivian Beaumont);Spinning Into Butter 2000; Bad Friend 2002

Mixed Company (TORONTO) - a Toronto-based theatre company that uses the techniques of Augusto Boal and the Sweet Medicine teachings of the Deer Tribe to educate and bring focus to pressing social issues

Mocambo(NYC) - famous New York nightspot

Model (TORONTO) – 416 Danforth Ave (1929-1933) - see Granada

Modern Times Stage Company (TORONTO) - 96 Spadina Avenue, Suite 705

Mogul Saloon (LONDON) – see Middlesex Music-Hall

*Molson Amphitheatre (TORONTO) - Ontario Place (16,000 seats)- opened 1996 - originally opened as The Forum with topnotch entertainers - Ella Fitzgerald, Jane Oliver, National Ballet of Canada

*Molson Indy (TORONTO) - Exhibition Place (70,000 per day)- see Canadian National Exhibition

Monarch (TORONTO) – 720 College St.

Moore's Musee Theatre (TORONTO) - see Sheas Theatre

Morosco(NYC) - 217 West 45th Street - 1917 - 954 seats - Bat 1920 (867), Beyond the Horizon (Pulitzer Prize) 1920 (111), Firebrand 1924 (287), Craig's Wife 1925 (360), Blithe Spirit 1941 (657), Voice of the Turtle 1943 (1557), Sons and Soldiers (Geraldine Fitzgerald,Gregory Peck,Stella Adler,Karl Malden) 1943 (22); Death of a Salesman (Lee J. Cobb) 1949 (742), Second Threshold 1951 (126); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Barbara Bel Geddes,Burl Ives,Mildred Dunnock,Ben Gazzara) 1955 (694), Don't Drink the Water 1966 (598), Best Man 1960 (520), The Private Ear and the Public Eye 1963; Forty Carats 1968 (780), Price (Kate Reid) 1968; Butley 1972 (135); Moon For the Misbegotten (Jason Robards,Colleen Dewhurst 1973; Norman Conquests 1975 (76); Gemini 1977 (696-moved theatres), Shadow Box 1977 (315), Da 1978 (697), Come on Strong, Golda, A Life 1980 (72), Billy Bishop Goes to War 1980 (12) - transferred to Theatre de Lys - demolished 1982 along with the Astor, Victoria, Bijou and Helen Hayes to make way for Marriott Marquis Hotel and the Minskoff Theatre

Moss Park (TORONTO) – see Regent

Moulin Rouge(NYC) - see Olympia Theatre and New York Theatre

Mt. Dennis (TORONTO) – Weston - 661 seats (1929-1975)

Mt. Pleasant Theatre (TORONTO) - 675 Mount Pleasant Road – 450 seats – 1949 – still operating

Mountview Theatre School (LONDON) – 104 Crouch Hill – amateur group founded 1947 in derelict hall made into small theatre – bad fire 1963 – renovations – performances presented in Mountview Theatre and studio theatre opened in 1971 named in honour of Dame Judi Dench

Movieland(NYC) - see Central Theatre

Moviplex 9 (TORONTO) – Pickering – 1994

Musee (TORONTO) - see Robinson's Musee

Museum Theatre (TORONTO) – in the Royal Ontario Museum

Musical Theatre Works(NYC) - 440 Lafayette St.

*Music Box(NYC) - 239 West 45th St. (Shubert-1,010 seats) - Built in 1921 by Irving Berlin and Sam Harris to house Irving Berlin's revues – opened with Berlin’s Music Box Revue - Music Box Revues 1921-22-23 and 1924, Cradle Snatchers 1925 (485), Chicago 1926 (172), Paris Bound 1927 (234), Once in a Lifetime 1930 (406), Of Thee I Sing 1931 (441), Dinner at Eight 1932 (232), As Thousands Cheer 1933 (400), Of Mice and Men 1937 (207), Man Who Came to Dinner 1939 (739), Star and Garter 1942 (609), I Remember Mama (Marlon Brando) 1944 (714), Summer and Smoke 1948 (100), Lost in the Stars 1949 (273), Flight Into Egypt (Zero Mostel,Jo Van Fleet,Paul Mann) 1952; Picnic 1953 (477), Bus Stop (Kim Stanley) 1955 (478), Separate Tables 1956; Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Pat Hingle,Teresa Wright) 1957 (468), Rashomon (Claire Bloom,Rod Steiger) 1959 (20 weeks); Far Country 1961; Any Wednesday 1964 (982), Sleuth 1970 (1222), Absurd Person Singular 1974 (592), Comedians 1976; Side by Side by Sondheim (Millicent Martin,Julie N. McKenzie,David Kernan,Ned Sherrin) 1977 (384), Deathtrap 1978 (1809), Far Country, Five Finger Exercise, Veronica's Room, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Agnes of God (Geraldine Page,Elizabeth Ashley,Amanda Plummer) 1982 (599), Comedians, A Few Good Men 1989 (497); State Fair (Donna McKechnie,John Davidson,Andrea McArdle) 1996 (118); Diary of Anne Frank (George Hearn,Linda Lavin) 1997 (221); Barrymore (Christopher Plummer) 1997 (240); Diary of Anne Frank (revival) 1998; Barrymore (Christopher Plummer) 1998 (240); Closer (Natasha Richardson,Rupert Graves) 1999 (173); Macbeth (Kelsey Grammer,Michael Gross) 2000 (13); Dinner Party 2000 (366);

Music Fair (TORONTO) – (1958-1960) - summer musical shows in a 2000 seat tent at Dixie Plaza - Goodbye Charlie, Most Happy Fella, Redhead, Silk Stockings, Song of Norway (860)

*Music Hall (TORONTO) - 147 Danforth Avenue - see Allen Danforth and the Century Theatre – renamed 1977 from Danforth – 1200 seats

Mutual Street Arena (TORONTO) – see Melody Fair

Mutual Theatre(NYC) – built as a burlesque house

Mysteriously Yours Dinner Theatre (TORONTO) - 2026 Yonge Street

Naaz (TORONTO) – 750 seats – opened and closed in 1979

* Nada (NYC) - 445 West 45th Street

*Nada(NYC) - 167 Ludlow St. (60)

Nassau Street Theatre(NYC) – 1750 – 64-6 Nassau Street – opened originally as New Theatre in 1732 - a large room used for about 4 years; second Nassau Theatre opened in 1753 with Conscious Lovers – abandoned 1754

Nathan Phillips Square (TORONTO) - City Hall - Queen Street West at Bay Street

National (TORONTO) – 287 Spadina Avenue – built as home for Yiddish theatre – torn down and became the Victory

National (TORONTO) – Yonge and Gerrard - see Rio - 1934

*National Ballet of Canada (TORONTO) - now in their 51st year (2002) - see also Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts and Royal Alexandra Theatre - the company was formed in 1951 under the direction of Celia Franca, first performances at Eaton Auditorium, rehearsals at St. Lawrence Hall, with principal dancers Brian MacDonald, Grant Strate, Yves Cousineau, Angela Leigh, David Adams, Lois Smith, Lawrence Adams, Lilian Jarvis, Robert Ito, Earl Kraul, Veronica Tennant, Nadia Potts - in the late 1950s a 6 week season at the Royal Alexandra, plus touring -- 1960s the season was at the O'Keefe Centre where it still presents its season -- early 1970s European tour as well as major U.S. cities

National Ballet School (TORONTO) - to develop a former CBC property, add a new training facility, and to renovate and refurbish some of its existing facilities

National Theatre (TORONTO) - see Lyric

National Black Theatre(NYC) - 2031-33 Fifth Avenue (125 & 126th) - founded 1968 (125)

National Concert Hall(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

National Music Hall(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

National Opera House(NYC) - N.W. corner of Leonard and Church Streets - burned 1841

National Theatre(NYC) - 2nd Avenue and Houston - (3000 seats)- opened in 1838 – the renovated former Italian Opera House which opened in 1833 - Uncle Tom's Cabin 1853 (325) (Purdy's National), Tortesa the Usurer 1839 (6), Ten Nights in a Barroom 1858 (7), Trial of Mary Dugan 1927 (437), home of burlesque, run by Minsky's - Criminal Code 1929 (174), Cat and the Canary 1922 (349)

National Theatre(NYC) - stood where Shubert and Booth Theatres are now – 1921 - abandoned and demolished to create Shubert and Booth Theatres - Cat and the Canary (Florence Eldridge) 1922; Ethan Frome (Raymond Massey,Pauline Lord,Ruth Gordon) 1936 (15 weeks); Little Foxes 1939 (410) Patriots 1943 (172), Call Me Mister 1946 (734), Medea 1947 (214); Lend an Ear 1948 (460); Camino Real (Jo Van Fleet,Martin Balsam)1953 (7 weeks); Mrs. Patterson 1954; Inherit the Wind (Ed Begley,Paul Muni) 1955 (806), - demolished

National Theatre(NYC) – 1921 – 1959 changed to the Billy Rose

National Theatre (LONDON) - see Royal National Theatre - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1969 - - in 1976 moved to the South Bank and in 1982 the Barbican Centre opened as the new home for the Royal Shakespeare Company - Medea (John Gielgud, Judith Anderson, Marian Seldes) 1947 (214); Jumpers (Diana Rigg); Amadeus

Native Canadian Centre (TORONTO) - 16 Spadina Road

Native Earth Performing Arts (TORONTO) - 720 Bathurst Street, Suite 503

New Theatre (LONDON) - Queen of Scots (Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies,Laurence Olivier) 1934 (106); Seagull (Edith Evans,John Gielgud,Alex Guiness) 1936; Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1957 (254); London Assurance (Donald Sinden,Judi Dench,Elizabeth Spriggs) 1970 (390)- transferred to Palace Theatre ,NYC;

*National Theatre Cottesloe (LONDON) - 1977 (25th Anniversary on London's South Bank October/01)(Waterloo) South Bank - 320 seats

*National Theatre Lyttelton (LONDON) - 1976(25th Anniversary on London's South Bank October/01) (Waterloo) South Bank - 900 seats

*National Theatre Olivier (LONDON) - 1976(25th Anniversary on London's South Bank October/01)(Waterloo) South Bank

National Theatre (LONDON) - see Royal National Theatre - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1969 - - in 1976 moved to the South Bank and in 1982 the Barbican Centre opened as the new home for the Royal Shakespeare Company - Medea (John Gielgud, Judith Anderson, Marian Seldes) 1947 (214); Jumpers (Diana Rigg); Amadeus

National Winter Garden Theatre(NYC) – Houston Street – served as a synagogue – then a movie house, and to burlesque

National Youth Theatre (LONDON) – founded 1956 – used Toynbee Hall; various venues – 1971 took over Shaw Theatre (510 seats)

Nazimova Theatre(NYC) – see 39th Street Theatre –

Nazimova's 39th Street Theatre(NYC) - 1910 - 119 West 39th Street (699) - became the 39th Street Theatre in 1911 - closed in 1926 and the theatre was razed and a 20 storey office building erected

Necessary Angel (TORONTO) - now in their 21st season - co-founded by Stratford Festival's Richard Rose

NDWT (TORONTO) – (1975-1982) – a Toronto group set up to tour Canada – active until 1982 – home was the Bathurst Street Theatre – left there in 1980

*Nederlander(NYC) - 208 West 41st St. (Nederlander-1,206 seats) Nederlander - see Trafalgar Theatre - 208 West 41st St. (Nederlander-1,206 seats) Built as the Billy Rose, only Broadway theatre below 42nd St. - Here's Where I Belong; November People; Rose Tattoo; Sherlock's Last Case; Devil's Advocate (Leo Genn) 1961 (116); Tiny Alice (Irene Worth) 1964 (167); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Uta Hagen,Arthur Hill,Ben Piazza)1962 (664), One Night Stand 1980;Amen Corner 1983; currently Rent (Adam Pascal) 1996 is breaking records

Negro Ensemble Company(NYC) - formed 1967/68 - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1969 - Brownsville Raid, Sty of the Blind Pig - located for a period at Theatre de Lys

*Neighbourhood Playhouse(NYC) - 340 E. 54th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)- First Man 1922 (27)

Neighbourhood Playhouse(NYC) - 466 Grand Street – 1915 – closed 1927 and school of acting under same name opened at 340 East 54th Street

Neil Simon(NYC) - 250 West 52nd St. (Nederlander-1,334 seats) - built in 1927 as the Alvin - renamed Neil Simon in 1983 - Funny Face 1927 (250); Girl Crazy 1930 (272); Anything Goes 1934 (420); Boys From Syracuse 1938 (235); I'd Rather Be Right (George M. Cohan) 1937 (290); Mary of Scotland 1933 (248); Music in the Air 1932 (342); Mary of Scotland 1933; Porgy and Bess 1935 (124); There Shall Be No Night (Alfred Lunt,Lynn Fontanne) 1940 (181); Helen Goes to Troy 1944 (3 months); Mister Roberts 1948 (1157); Lady in the Dark 1941 (467); No Time For Sergeants (796);Darkness at Noon (Claude Rains) 1951; House of Flowers (Pearl Bailey,Diahann Carroll,Juanita Hall,Geoffrey Holder) 1954; Oh Captain (Tony Randall) 1958 (192); Wildcat (Lucille Ball) 1960 (171); Greenwillow (Anthony Perkins, Pert Kelton,Cecil Kellaway) 1960 (97); Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Zero Mostel) 1962 (964); High Spirits (Beatrice Lillie,Tammy Grimes) 1964 (375); 1964 (375); It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (Bob Holiday,Patricia Morand) 1966 (75), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1967 (421); Great White Hope 1968 (556); The Music Man; Shenandoah 1975 (1050), Company(Elaine Stritch) 1970 (706); Annie (Andrea McArdle,Reid Shelton,Dorothy Loudon) 1977; Brighton Beach Memoirs (Matthew Broderick)1983 (1530); Biloxi Blues (Matthew Broderick) 1985 (524); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Jason Robards,Colleen Dewhurst) 1988; Jake's Women (Alan Alda,Brenda Vaccaro,Joyce Van Patten,Kate Burton) 1992; King and I (Lou Diamond Phillips,Donna Murphy)1996 (807); Dinner at Eight, Swan Lake (Matthew Bourne) 1998

New Actors Workshop(NYC)

New Albion Theatre (LONDON), Poplar - Queen's Theatre, Poplar - opened 1856

*New Ambassador's (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) West Street

New American Museum(NYC) – see American Museum - 539-41 Broadway – 1865 – had been the Chinese Rooms – 1868 burnt to ground and never rebuilt

*New Amsterdam Theatre(NYC) - 214 West 42nd St. (Disney - 1,771 seats) - Opened in 1903 with Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, the same night as the Lyceum - next door to the Lyric Theatre - built by Hearts & Tallant) (1,100 seats)- roof housed 680 seat Aerial Gardens (1904-1910)- Jardin de Paris - reopened 1915 as Danse de Follies until 1921; 1923 became The Dresden and later renamed the Frolic; in 1930 became a radio studio - Caesar and Cleopatra 1906, Free Lance 1906 (35); - housed Ziegfeld Follies 1913 to 1924, Brewster's Millions 1906 (163); Forty Five Minutes from Broadway 1906; Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 (Ed Wynn,Leon Errol) 112; Face the Music 1932 (21 weeks); Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway 1906 (90),Merry Widow 1907; Madame Sherry 1910 (231), Pink Lady 1911 (312), Sweethearts 1913 (136), Watch Your Step 1914 (175), Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 (Fannie Brice,W.C.Fields) 1920 (78); Sally 1920 (570), Sunny 1925 (517); Whoopee 1928; Band Wagon (Fred and Adele Astaire) 1931 (260), Roberta 1933 (295); Midsummer Nights Dream, She Stoops to Conquer - in 1914 the rooftop theatre became Canse de Follies, and in 1923 became Frolic Theatre - then became a movie house in 1936, in 1983 theatre underwent extensive renovations and was completely restored by the Disney Company at a cost of 34 Million with parts leased to Madame Tussauds and AMC. In 1996 the sleaze died on 42nd Street, replaced by glowing new and refurbished theatres – King David 1997; *The Lion King (Heather Headley) opened November 13, 1997 (still running as of May 2002) in what is once again the crown jewel of Broadway's theatres.

New Apollo(NYC) - see Apollo

New Arts Theatre Club (LONDON) – Cambridge Circus 1963

New Bowery Theatre(NYC) – 1859 - see Bowery Theatre - Nick of the Woods 1839 (12)

New Century(NYC) - see Jolson's 59th St. Theatre - Up in Central Park 1945 (504), High Button Shoes 1947 (727), Kiss Me Kate 1948 (1077); Out of this World 1950 - demolished

New Chatham Theatre(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

New Chelsea Theatre (LONDON) – see Royal Court Theatre

New Coliseum(NYC) - 701 West 181st St. (Broadway )

New Colonial(NYC) - see Colonial Theatre

New Cross Empire (LONDON) - demolished

New End Theatre (LONDON) – Day in Hollywood, Night in the Ukraine 1979

New English Opera House (LONDON) – see Royalty Theatre

*New 42nd Street Theatre(NYC) - 348 West 42nd St (between 8th & 9th)

New Georges Theatre(NYC)

New Globe Theatre (TORONTO) - 357 Lonsdale Road

New Grant (TORONTO) – see Grant

New Holborn Theatre Royal (LONDON) - Holborn Theatre; Theatre Royal, Holborn 1869; Royal Holborn Theatre 1870; Mirror Theatre 1875-1880; Duke's Theatre

Newington Butts Theatre (LONDON) – about 1576 – in area of present Elephant and Castle

New Lindsey Theatre (LONDON) – Chrysanthemum 1956

*New London (LONDON) - (Holborn or Covent Garden) Drury Lane - 1973 - (1106 seats) - theatres were here from 1663 - New Theatre of Varieties opened here in 1911 - later renamed the Winter Garden and demolished in 1965 - stands on the site of Middlesex Music Hall which was rebuilt in 1911 - renamed Winter Garden in 1919 - In 1965 redeveloped into the New London Theatre with offices, shops, and apartments - The Unknown Soldier and His Wife; Grease; Cats opened 1981 and still playing as the longest running show ever

New London Theatre (LONDON) – Drury Lane – designed by Sean Kenny – erected on site of former Winter Garden Theatre – auditorium on 2 levels (911 seats) 1973 - 1977 to 1980 used as tv studios – 1981 returned to theatre with Cats 1981 – former New Theatre (St. Martin’s Lane) changed name to Albery

New Middlesex Theatre (LONDON) – Holborn – demolished

New National Theatre(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

New Olympic(NYC) - 1812

New Olympic Theatre(NYC) – see Olympic Theatre

New Opera House(NYC) - The "Old Met" "New Opera House" is the "Old Met", the original Metropolitan Opera House. It opened in 1883, and was demolished in 1966 - see Metropolitan Opera

New Park Theatre(NYC) – see Park Theatre – 932 Broadway between 21st and 22nd Streets – 1874 – 1882 destroyed by fire and never rebuilt; 2nd was on NE corner of Broadway and 35th Street on site of old Aquarium – 1883 – materials bought when Booth Theatre demolished – 1884 became a museum

New Play Society (TORONTO) – 1946 – used the 450 seat ROM theatre – Spring Thaw was their baby, which ran from 1948 to 1971, literally every spring, at various theatres – Royal Alexandra,Boris Volkoff building on Yonge Street,Eaton Auditorium and the Avenue Theatre

New Royal Lyceum (TORONTO) – see Royal Lyceum

New Royalty Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty Theatre

(New) Royalty Theatre (LONDON) - opened 1840 and closed in 1938

New Theatre (LONDON) – St. Martin’s Lane - opened 1903 - see Albery – after bombing of Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells – both companies used the theatre – Sadler’s Wells until 1944 and Old Vic until 1950 - Oliver 1960; Jorrocks 1966; Anne of Green Gables 1969; Tyger 1971 – 1973 renamed Albery

New Theatre (LONDON), Greenwich (New Theatre Greenwich Royal)

New Theatre(NYC) – 1909 – reopened as the Century Theatre in 1911

New Theatre(NYC) – see Century, Nassau Street Theatre and Park Theatre - 1753 Nassau St – renamed John Street Theatre – Richard III 1767; Prince of Parthia 1767; 2nd New Theatre (changed to Century Theatre) - Central Park West and West 62nd and 63rd Streetsopened 1909 - (2300) - 62nd and Central Park West (2,318) - faced Central Park - roof theater called Century Roof - became Coconut Grove and then Casino de Paris - Nigger 1909; closed 1929 - 1930 building was razed to accommodate apartment house; 3rd New Theatre - Scuba Duba 1967 (692); Knack 1964 (685), Mad Show 1966 (871); Oh Coward 1972 (294)

New Theatre (LONDON) - Queen of Scots (Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies,Laurence Olivier) 1934 (106); Seagull (Edith Evans,John Gielgud,Alex Guiness) 1936; Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1957 (254); London Assurance (Donald Sinden,Judi Dench,Elizabeth Spriggs) 1970 (390)- transferred to Palace Theatre ,NYC;

New Theatre (TORONTO) – (1971-1980) – formed group which used the Colonnade Theatre and then Bathurst Street Theatre (220 seats)

New Theatre Comique(NYC) – see New York Theatre

New Theatre of Varieties (LONDON) - see New London

New Victoria Cinema (LONDON) - see Apollo Victoria

New Victoria Palace (LONDON) – see Old Vic

* New Victory(NYC) - 209 West 42nd St.(between 8th & 9th) - see Theatre Republic, Victory and Republic Theatres - built in 1900 by Oscar Hammerstein; in 1931 Gypsy Rose Lee played here, WWII became a movie house and then an X rated movie house - technically an off-Broadway theatre - First theatre to be opened under 42nd Street redevelopment programme - faηade restored along with the theatre in 1995 - New York's theatre for kids and families

New Wallack’s Theatre(NYC) – see Wallack’s Theatre

New Watergate Theatre (LONDON) – Buccaneer 1953; Cranks 1955

New York Academy of Music(NYC) - see Academy of Music

New York City Center(NYC) – see City Center of Music and Drama

New York City Opera(NYC)

*New Yorker Theatre(NYC) - opened 1930 on 254 West 54th Street - see Studio 54 – opened as Gallo 1927 and reopened 1930 as the New Yorker, with The Vikings - later become Studio 54 the name changed – 1933 became Casino de Paree – then Federal Music Theatre and once again New Yorker – 1943 converted to radio and tv studio

New York Hippodrome(NYC) – see Hippodrome

New York International Fringe Festival(NYC)

*New York Performance Works(NYC) - 128 Chambers St (Just East of W. Broadway)

New York Philharmonic(NYC)

*New York Shakespeare Festival(NYC) - (see Public Theatre) - founded in 1954 by Joseph Papp - Delacorte Theatre (Central Park) 1962 - winner of two Regional Theatre Tony Awards in 1958 and 1970 - underwent 4.35 million renovation in 1999 - Public Theatre (see) opened in 1966 with Hair

*New York State Theatre(NYC) - West 65th St. (see Lincoln Centre) - New York City Ballet (founded in 1946)- Showboat (David Wayne,Constance Towers,Barbara Cook) 1967 (63)

New York Theatre(NYC) – 724-8 Broadway – originally Church of the Messiah – 1866 renamed New York – later theatre known as Fox’s Broadway and then Globe – 1881 became New Theatre Comique – burnt down 1884 and not rebuilt; 2nd New York Theatre – on Broadway between 44th and 45th – originally Olympia Music Hall which opened 1895 as part of Hammerstein’s Olympia complex, along with Lyric Theatre (later Criterion) – reopened 1899 as New York Theatre – later used for vaudeville and films – demolished 1935 – see Lucy Rushton’s Theatre; 3rd New York Theatre – Bowery – see Bowery Theatre

New York Theatre(NYC) – opened 1854 and was built on the site of the old Metropolitan Theatre (Tripler Hall) - Under the Gaslight 1867 (47), Naughty Marietta 1910 (136), In Dahomey 1903 (53)

New York Theatre Ballet(NYC)

*New York Theatre Workshop(NYC) - 79 East 4th St.(between Bowery & 2nd Aves) (150)- Love’s Fowl 1998; Bright Lights,Big City 1999

New York Youth Theatre(NYC) - 422 West 57th St. (Looking Glass Company)

New Yorker Theatre(NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

*New Yorker Theatre (TORONTO) -built as the Astor Theatre - 651 Yonge Street below Bloor St – 522 seats - film house recently converted to a small theatre - Forever Plaid, My Own Private Oshawa

Next Stage(NYC) - 145 West 46th St. (6th & 7th)

Niblo's Gardens/Niblo’s Garden Theatre(NYC) - (housed the Sans Souci Theatre) – NE corner of Broadway and Prince Street (537 Broadway (near Spring Street) & Prince Sts) on site of Columbia Garden – opened 1827 as Sans Couci Theatre - rebuilt (1762 to 3,000 seats)- reopened in 1829 as Niblo’s Gardens - burned down in 1846 - rebuilt in 1849 as New Niblo’s Gardens, part of the Metropolitan Hotel - and rebuilt again after another fire in 1872 - demolished in 1895 and was New York's oldest playhouse - Kit The Arkansas Traveller 1871 (40), Evangeline or Belle of Acadia 1874 (16), Leah the Forsaken 1863 (35), Black Crook 1866 (475)(first Broadway show to run for more than a year) – 1872 burnt down again, rebuilt, but demolished 1895

*Nightwood Theatre Studio (TORONTO) - 9 St. Nicholas Street

92nd Street YMCA(NYC)

95th Street Market(NYC) - see Symphony Space

Nora Bayes Theatre(NYC) - 1913 - see Weber and Fields Music Hall and 44th Street Theatre - rooftop - destroyed when New York Times enlarged printing plant

North London Colisseum (LONDON) - built in 1860s

Nortown (TORONTO) – 875 Eglinton Avenue West and Bathurst Street – 959 seats – (1948-1973) – demolished

Norworth Theatre(NYC) - 125 West 48th St - 1918 - just east of the Playhouse - about 500 seats - renamed Belmont and in 1919 became Theatre Parisien but by 1920 was once again the Belmont - Americana (224) - theatre closed in 1933 until 1937 when it became a cinema - demolished and replaced by commercial buildings in 1951

Novelty Theatre (LONDON) – see Kingsway Theatre

*Nuyorican Poets Cafι(NYC) - 236 East 3rd St.

Oak Room(NYC) - (Algonquin Hotel) - 59 West 44th St (between 5th and 6th) - Andrea Marcovicci, Julie Wilson

Oakwood (TORONTO) – 165 Oakwood Ave, North of St. Clair – 1400 seats (1919-1962) – demolished – now apartment building

Oakwood Village Library Theatre (TORONTO) - 341 Oakwood

*Oasis Theatre(NYC) - 230 East 9th St.

Odell’s Theatre (LONDON) – see Goodman’s Fields Theatre

Odeon (TORONTO) – 1474 Queen St. West – 752 seats - renamed Lakeshore 1968

Odeon Brampton (TORONTO) – 710 seats (1949-1983)

Odeon Carlton (TORONTO) – next door to Maple Leaf Gardens – restaurant on Mezzanine level – 20 Carlton St – opened 1948 as the Odeon Toronto “Showplace of the Dominion” and renamed the Carlton in 1956 – featured organ and 2318 seats - largest of its type in North America - tremendous curtain and organ - glorious film and legitimate house demolished in 1974 (City of Toronto could have bought for $1.00 but reneged as O’Keefe Centre was losing money) and space left vacant for many years

Odeon Carlton (TORONTO) - 20 Carlton Street, East of Yonge Street - Cineplex Odeon with 8 small cinemas

Odeon Hyland (TORONTO) - Yonge Street above St. Clair Avenue - two theatres - now closed

Odeon Richmond Hill (TORONTO) 408 seats (1966-1980)

Odeon Theatre(NYC) - East 145th Street, near 7th Avenue - now Union Baptist Church

Odeon Theatre(NYC) - see Central Theatre

Odeon Toronto (TORONTO) – 20 Carlton St at Yonge – renamed Carlton 1956 – 2318 seats

Odeon Weston (TORONTO) – 801 seats (1964-1982)

Off -Off Broadway.com(NYC)

Off-Off Broadway Review(NYC)

*Ohio Theatre(NYC) - 66 Wooster St.(between Spring & Broome St) (Soho Think Tank - resident company) - founded 1979 - loft area was a former hat factory (120)

O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts (TORONTO) - opened in 1960 - renamed The Hummingbird Centre - saw just about everything presented from the opening night of Camelot 1960 (873) prior to Broadway, to the greats, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Carpenters, Sonny and Cher - great musicals, plays, home of both the National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company - too many events to list here - in the hundreds, some of the longer running hits included Annie Get Your Gun, with Ethel Merman (original 1147), Beatlemania (920), Can Can (892), Carousel (original 890), Cabaret (revival - 423), Funny Girl (1348), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (original 964), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (original - 1417), Kiss Me Kate (1070), Kiss of the Spider Woman (906), Man of La Mancha (2328), No No Nanette (pre-Broadway) (revival 861), Showboat (revival - 951), The Who's Tommy (900)

Old Angelos (TORONTO) - cabaret review – 1961 through mid 1970s - closed - Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter; El Grande de Coca Cola

Old Bowery Theatre(NYC) – see Bowery Theatre

Old Lyceum Theatre(NYC) – see Lyceum

Old Mill Dinner Theatre (TORONTO) - 21 Old Mill Street

*Old Vic Theatre (LONDON) - (Waterloo) Waterloo Road - opened in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre with materials coming from old Savoy Palace - in 1833 renamed Royal Victoria Theatre (affectionately called “Old Vic” – 1871 sold and became New Victoria Palace - 1880 purchased and renamed Royal Victorian Music Hall - severely damaged by bombs 1941 during WWII - Pericles (Lilian Baylis) 1921; School For Scandal (Alaistair Sim,Anthony Quayle,Peggy Ashcroft) 1933; rebuilt and reopened in 1950 - Major Barbara (Peter O'Toole,Moira Shearer) 1956; Crucible 1965; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1967; Jumpers 1972; Equus 1973; Tempest (John Gielgud) 1974; closed in 1976 - refurbished and reopened in 1983 - owned for a time by Canadian Ed Mirvish – Blondel 1983

*Olivier Theatre (LONDON) – largest of three National Theatre houses – 1165 seats – 1976 - see Royal National Theatre

Olympia(NYC) - 1895 – East side of Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets – built for Oscar Hammerstein in 1895 - 2 main auditoriums Music Hall (later known as New York Theatre) and Lyric and Roof Garden (Jardin de Paris 1907) - 2800 seats - North of Metropolitan Opera - 1912 theatre changed to Moulin Rouge - 1915 became vaudeville and film house - Lyric Theatre became Criterion in 1899 - Lyric's name changed to Vitagraph in 1914 but back to Criterion in 1916 - Happiness (Laurette Taylor) 1917 (136); see Hammerstein's Music Hall - was demolished in 1935

Olympic(NYC) - Broadway near Bleecker St - Rip Van Winkle 1864 (35), Humpty Dumpty 1868 (483), Horizon 1871 (63), Glance at New York 1848 (75),

Olympic Music Hall (LONDON) – see Standard Theatre

Olympic Theatre (LONDON) - Aldwych – Wych Street, Strand, near site of Australia House – opened as Olympic Pavilion 1805 - reconstructed 1813 and became Little Drury Lane Theatre – became Olympic - burned down and rebuilt 1849 - rebuilt 1890 – theatre closed 1889 and again 1897 – derelict - demolished 1899 to make way for Kingsway and during reconstruction of the Aldwych

Olympic Theatre(NYC) – 444 Broadway between Howard and Grand Streets - opened as a burlesque house 1937 – 1839 became Mitchell’s Olympic – 1850 closed and again in 1851 – burnt down 1854; 2nd Olympic Theatre – 622-4 Broadway, above Houston St – 1856 and became Laura Keene’s Varieties – 1863 reopened as Olympic – Humpty-Dumpty 1868 (483) – closed 1880 and was demolished – shops built on site; 3rd New Olympic Theatre – 585 Broadway – 1856 – became Buckley’s Olympic; 4th – Anthony Street Theatre was known as Olympic 1812; 5th – there was a circus known as Olympic Arena 1858; 6th – short-lived Olympic on 8th Avenue in 1860; 7th – Olympic Music-Hall at 600 Broadway on site of old Alhambra (1860-1861); and 8th – Wallack’s Theatre was renamed Olympic in 1862

O’Neals Times Square(NYC) – Broadway Scandals of 1928 1982

175th Street Theatre(NYC), at Broadway, in Washington Heights - opened in 1930- now used as a church - was a Loews theatre

135th Street Library Theatre(NYC) - Anna Lucasta 1944 (Earle Hyman) - American Negro Theatre production - transferred to Broadway

One Sheridan Square(NYC) - l Sheridan Square - Greenwich Village U.S.A. 1960, Hostage 1961 (545)

Ontario Film Theatre (TORONTO) - 1968 started with Gerald Pratley at the helm, at the Ontario Science Centre

*Ontario Place (TORONTO) - opened May, 1971 - see Molson Amphitheatre

Ontario Place Cinesphere (TORONTO) - 955 Lakeshore Blvd. West – see Ontario Place

*Ontario Science Centre (TORONTO) - one time home of the Ontario Film Theatre under Gerald Pratley - many major films premiered here, along with the directors, stars etc. – now has IMAX screen

* Ontological Theatre at St. Mark's Church(NYC) - 131 E. 10th St.

*Open Air Theatre (LONDON) - Inner Circle - (Baker Street) Regent's Park – Queen Mary’s Garden – 1933 – 1975 site reconstructed

Open Circle Theatre (TORONTO) (1973-1982) - founded by Ray Whelan and Sylvia Tucker - Mackerel, Primary English Class 1977 – closed

Opera Comique (LONDON) – Strand and Holywell St – back to back with olf Globe Theatre in Newcastle Street – 1870 – 1877 D’Oyly Carte took over – redecorated 1885 – 1899 closed and demolished 1902

Opera House (TORONTO) – see La Plaza

Opera House (TORONTO) (see Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts) - being built at Queen and University - cost a probable 100 million - land donated by the City of Toronto, and Federal government have promised 25 million as of 2002 - capital funding program being scheduled - official opening probably Fall, 2005

*Orange Tree Theatre (LONDON) - considered off West End - 1 Clarence Square, Richmond, Surrey - founded 1971 in a room above the Orange Tree Pub - the new theatre opened in 1991 behind the facade of a Victorian school - this is their 30th Anniversary season (2001)

Oriole (TORONTO) – 2061 Yonge Street at Manor Road – (1933-1942) - 1920s changed to the Cinema and then in 1949 after renovation, became the International Cinema – open well into 1980s as art house – now retail stores

Orpheum (TORONTO) – 600 Queen Street West, west of Bathurst- 645 seats – (1949-1975) – closed in 1970s – now a furniture store

*Orpheum(NYC) - 126 Second Ave. (7th & St. Mark's Place) was premiere Yiddish theatre in the early 1900s (347)- originally called the Players Theatre - later changed to Orpheum - Billy Barty; original productions of Oleanna 1992 (513); Little Mary Sunshine 1959 (1143); Half Past Wednesday 1962; Your Own Thing 1968 (933), Me Nobody Knows 1970; Little Shop of Horrors 1982 (2209); Psycho Beach Party 1987 (344); Oleanna 1992 (513); oldest site of continuous entertainment in Manhattan from the 1880s - in 1950s became off-Broadway theatre - currently Stomp in its 7th year (as of Feb. 28/01)

Other Place (LONDON) - see Statford-Upon-Avon – Royal Shakespeare Company’s Studio Theatre

Other Stage(NYC) – see Public Theatre

Oxford (TORONTO)– 1512 Danforth Ave – 803 seats – (1933-1955) – now retail stores

Oxford Music Hall (LONDON) - Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road - 1861 - rebuilt 1869, 1873 and 1893 - 1917 became Oxford Theatre - Better 'Ole 1917 (811 perf) - 1921 old hall converted to theatre - theatre closed 1926 and demolished 1927 - Lyons Corner House built on site

Pace University(NYC) - see Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

Pagoda (TORONTO) – 477 seats (1974-1985)

Palace (TORONTO) – 664 Danforth Ave, E of Pape – 1,500 seats – 1921 – was bingo parlour – torn down

Palace (TORONTO) – New Toronto – 393 seats (1954-1971)

*Palace(NYC) - 1564 Broadway @ 47th (Nederlander-1,683 seats - Built as vaudeville house in 1913 by Martin Beck on Broadway between 46th and 47th – became a cinema – then became the mecca for aspiring artists - Troubles of 1920 with George Jessel 1920; film house in 1930s - 1965 renovated and now a major home to Broadway musicals - featured Eva Tanguary,Georgie Jessel,Ethel Barrymore,Lily Langtry(with Alfred Lunt); Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Jack Benny, Sophie Tucker (1924); George Burns and Gracie Allen (1926) - had Monday matinees - Oklahoma (original opened 3/43 to 5/48 - 2,212), renovated to the legendary theatre where Judy Garland made her comeback; Sweet Charity (Gwen Verdon) 1966 (608), Henry Sweet Henry 1967; George M (Joel Grey) 1968 (427); Applause (Lauren Bacall) 1970 (896); Cyrano (musical-Christopher Plummer) 1973; Lorelei (Carol Channing) 1974; Goodtime Charley 1975, Grand Tour 1979; revival Oklahoma 1979; Woman of the Year (Lauren Bacall,Harry Guardino) 1981 (770), Cage aux Folles (6/83 to 11/87 - 1,761 performances), First Breeze of Summer, Treemonisha; Will Rogers Follies 1991 (983), Beauty and the Beast (transferred to Lunt Fontanne Nov. 1999) 1994; *Aida (still running); Minnelli on Minnelli 1999;

*Palace Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square/Tottenham Court Road) Shaftesbury Avenue - 1891 - (1400 seats) - Cambridge Circus - a London landmark opened as Royal English Opera House - renamed Palace Theatre of Varieties 1892 – present name in 1911 - Airs and Graces 1917; No No Nanette 1925; On Your Toes 1937; Zip Goes a Million 1951 (544); Much Ado About Nothing (John Gielgud,Peggy Ashcroft)Where's Charley 1958 (404); Flower Drum Song 1960 (600); The Sound of Music 1961 (2,385); Danny LaRue at the Palace 1970, Jesus Christ Superstar, Maid of the Mountain; Two Cities 1969; Song and Dance 1982; Jesus Christ Superstar 1972 (8 years); since 1985 home of Les Miserables

Palace Theatre of Variety (LONDON) - see Palace

Palladium (LONDON) – see London Palladium –

Palladium Theatre(NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

Palladium Theatre(NYC) - West 14th St. - National Lampoon Show (Gilda Radner,John Belushi,Bill Murray)1975 (23 weeks)

Palmer’s Theatre(NYC) – see Wallack’s Theatre

Palmer's Theatre(NYC) - Margaret Fleming 1891 (1)

Palmerston Library (TORONTO) - 560 Palmerston Avenue - opened 1903

Palmo’s Opera House(NYC) – 1844 – see Burton’s Theatre

Palsson's Supper Club(NYC) - Forbidden Broadway 1982 (2,332; 534 2nd Edition; 576 - 3rd Edition)

*Pantages (TORONTO) - (1913-1920)- 244 Victoria Street/faces 263 Yonge Street near Dundas) - built by Thomas Lamb as Canada's largest theatre - 3626 seats - second largest theatre after Capital in New York - Mary Pickford - Kathleen Stokes played the organ - was first to be equipped with Cinemascope screen - 1930 changed to Imperial and turned into sixplex which closed in 1987 - (when built it was the largest vaudeville house in the British Empire) -now completely refurbished (1988-89) (2260 seats) and in 1998 changed to AT&T Centre for Performing Arts Pantages, and as of September 1, 2001 it will be known as The Canon Theatre - *Phantom of the Opera (1989-99) in its tenth year (4,226)- Phantom closing Oct. 31/99 more than 7 million people have seen, the longest running musical in Canadian theatre history – see Imperial

*Pantheon(NYC) – 303 West 42nd St

Pape (TORONTO) – 336 Pape and Gerrard – 419 seats (1940-1955) – see Park

Paradise Cinema (TORONTO) - 1006 Bloor St. West, west of Ossington, was Kitchener – opened as Bloor Palace with 643 seats – 1939 became the New Paradise and later shortened to Paradise – still operating as repertory cinema

Paradise Theatre (NYC) - see Loew's Paradise

Paradise Theatre(NYC) - 64 East 4th St. (Bowery & 2nd)

Paragon Theatre (LONDON) – Stepney – demolished

*Paramount Canada's Wonderland (TORONTO) - Vaughan, Ontario - built as Canada's Wonderland, prior to sale to Paramount - Kingswood Music Theatre (16,000 seats)- major stars like Bette Midler, rock groups

Paramount Theatre (NYC) - Manhattan - Casa Loma Orchestra, Buddy Roger's Orchestra - demolished

Paramount Theatre(NYC) - Times Square at 43rd Street - 1 block S of Astor Hotel - The Paramount's stage was graced regularly by the likes of Benny Goodman, Jack Benny, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin - theatre was closed in 1964 - The WWF is spending $7.5 million to rebuild the marquee and arch that once framed Times Square's Paramount Theater. The five-story gateway at Broadway and 43rd Street is scheduled for completion in June and will lead visitors to the WWF's store and restaurant, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The Paramount Building, designed by Rapp & Rapp, was constructed from 1926 to 1927 with a 3,600-seat auditorium at its base. The theater closed in 1964 and was replaced by office floors while the marquee and arch disappeared, said Robert Mark Parnes of Tobin Parnes, the firm hired to do the restoration. The rebuilding is to be done from photographs, presenting architects with a challenge since fine details appear slightly different in each picture. The WWF logo will be in the crown of the 39-foot marquee, which will be faced in three large fiber-reinforced plastic panels with a bonded bronze finish. The word "Paramount" will be illuminated with 400 lights above the arch in the script of the movie studio. The smaller-sized word "Building" underneath. The crown will be strong enough to serve as an outdoor stage – Christmas Carol 1994

Paramount Theatre (TORONTO) – 1069 St. Clair Ave West – 432 seats (1935-1957) – now retail stores

Paramount Theatre (TORONTO) – Queen St. West

Paramount Toronto (TORONTO) - 259 Richmond Avenue West at John St - opened May 19, 1999 with new stadium style seating cinemas - 15 cinemas of varying sizes with wall to wall screens, THX and digital sound, and includes a IMAX 3-D theatre

Park (TORONTO) – opened as Bedford – 3291 Yonge Street – 1162 seats – 1929 – became the Park in 1948 – closed 1961 – now retail store Storkland

Park (TORONTO) – see Pape

Park (TORONTO) – Lansdowne and Bloor (1919-1937)

Park (TORONTO)– 3291 Yonge Street at Lawrence – 847 seats (1949-1984)

Park Avenue Armory(NYC) - Tamara 1987 (1036)

Park Lane Theatre(NYC) - see 63rd St. Music Hall/Daly’s 63rd St. Music Hall

Park-Miller Theatre(NYC) - see Henry Miller's Theatre

Park Theatre(NYC) – 21-5 Park Row – first important theatre in U.S. – known as “Old Drury of America,” built 1798 as New Theatre to replace the John Street Theatre - 24th Street West of Broadway (Park Row) - New York's only playhouse for 25 years - in 1841 "London Assurance" ran for 3 weeks - the earlies "long run" - burned down 1820 – 1841 Park was used as circus but burned again 1848 and not rebuilt - - As You Like It 1786, Female Patriotism or Death of Joan d'Arc 1798, Hunchback; Andre 1798 (3); Fashion or Life in New York 1845 (20), Gladiator 1831, Lion of the West 1831, Metamora or the Last of the Wampanoags 1829, Hamlet 1832; Mighty Dollar 1875 (104), Our Boarding House 1877 (104), People's Lawyer 1842 (1), Midsummer Night's Dream 1826, She Would Be Soldier or The Plains of Chippewa 1819, Spy, Tale of the Neutral Ground 1822, Widow's Son or Which is the Traitor 1825, Colonel Sellers 1874(119), Brutus or Fall of Tarquin 1819, Bianca Visconti or the Heart Overtasked 1837 – destroyed by fire in 1820 and reopened in 1821 as The New Park Theatre (2600 seats) ; New Park Theatre opened in 1874 and in 1876 the name was changed to Abbey’s New Park Theatre – burned down in 1882 – demolished; 2nd Park Theatre – first professional playhouse built in Brooklyn 1863 – 1876 became burlesque – burnt down 1908 and not rebuilt; 3rd Park – from 1889 to 1894 Herald Square Theatre was known as Park; 4th – as was the Majestic Theatre for some years from 1911

Park Theatre(NYC) - opened 1863 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Park Theatre (LONDON) – see Alexandra Theatre

Parkdale (TORONTO) – 1866 Queen Street West – see Allen – 1921 – now a mall

Parkdale (TORONTO) – 1605 Queen Street West, east of Roncesvalles – 1405 seats (1924-1970) – now retail stores

Parkway 6 (TORONTO) – Hwy 404 and Highway 7 – 6 screens (1989-2001)

Parliament (TORONTO)– 425 Parliament St – 941 seats (1929-1963)

Pavilion Music-Hall (LONDON) – see London Pavilion

Pavilion Theatre (LONDON) – Whitechapel Road – 1928 – destroyed by fire 1856 – rebuilt 3500 seats – rebuilt again 1874 2500 seats and again 1894 – closed 1933 and stood empty – demolished 1961 as damaged by bombing World War II - Cochran's 1931 Revue (book and lyrics by Noel Coward) 1931 - demolished

Pavilion Theatre(NYC) – see Anthony Street Theatre and Chatham Theatre

*Peacock (LONDON) - (Holborn) Portugal Street – Snowman 1982

Pea Green Theatre Group (TORONTO) - 60 Lindsay Ave

*Pearl Theater Company(NYC) - 80 St. Mark's Place (between 1st & 2nd Aves)

Pelican Studio Theatre(NYC) - 750 8th Ave (New Perspectives resident company) (60) - building is made up of two townhouses joined together - was a speakeasy in 1920s, a jazz club and a movie theatre - hand and footprints of such stars as Ruby Keeler, Myrna Loy and Gloria Swanson

Peoples (TORONTO) – Queen St. West

Performance Space 122(NYC) - Surface Transit 2000

Perry Street(NYC)- 31 Perry Street

*Peter Norton Space(NYC) - 555 West 42nd Street - see Signature Theatre Company at Peter Norton Space

Peter Norton Symphony Space(NYC) - see Symphony Space

*Phil Bosakowski Theatre(NYC) - 354 West 45th St (between 8th & 9th Aves)- built 1902 and has housed porn filmmakers - street level is Primary Stages (99 seats) and other theatre 1 flight up (75 seats)

Philharmonic Hall(NYC) - now Alice Tully Hall - West 65th St. (Lincoln Centre) - Leonard Bernstein conducting at opening - Consecration of the House - see Avery Fisher Hall - New York Philharmonic is the oldest major symphony orchestra in the U.S., founded in 1842

* Phoenix Concert Theatre (TORONTO) - built in 1853 in the gaslight section of old Toronto

Phoenix Theatre (TORONTO) (1975-1983) started by Graham Harley on Dupont Street (135 seats) - Ashes, Canadian Gothic and American Modern, Chinchilla, Find Your Way Home – 1983 ceased operations - closed

Phoenix Theatre(NYC) - 1953 - a former movie house on East 12th Street and 2nd Avenue, formerly Yiddish Art Theatre – 1100 seats – opened as Phoenix in 1953, 1961 became Casino East – became burlesque house 1965 – renamed Eden 1969 – Oh Calcutta – 1977 became Entermedia with 1143 seats - Seagull 1954; Golden Apple (Kaye Ballard) 1954 (173-moved to Alvin for 125 perf.); Littlest Revue 1956; Once Upon a Mattress 1959 - moved in 1961 to 2nd Phoenix, also known as Phoenix 74th Street Theatre, originally the East 74th Street Theatre - smaller 400 seat theatre at 74th Street - Oh Dad Poor Dad 1962 (454) debut at the new space – renamed Eastside Playhouse 1968

*Phoenix Theatre (LONDON) - (Tottenham Court Road) Charing Cross Road - 1930 - (1012 seats) - Private Lives 1930; Browning Version; Harlequinade; Bloomsbury (53); Death of a Salesman; Sleeping Prince 1953; Canterbury Tales 1968 (2,082); Biograph Girl 1980; Blood Brothers 1983 ; Peg 1984; Are You Lonesome Tonight 1985; Into the Woods; Dancing at Lughasa; 2nd Phoenix Theatre – Drury Lane – see Cockpit

Photodrome (TORONTO) – Queen Street, west of Bay, to east of the Bay Theatre – built as the Ace

Phyllis Anderson Theatre(NYC) – Bei Mir Bistu Schoen 1961

Piano Bars(NYC)

Piano Store(NYC) - 158 Ludlow St. (S. of Stanton St.)

*Piccadilly Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Denman Street - opened 1928- (1200 seats) – became cinema – back to theatre the next year – damaged by bombs – reopened 1945 - Romanoff and Juliet (Peter Ustinov)1956 (47 weeks); Man of Magic 1966; Blithe Spirit; Vivat Vivat Regina 1970, I and Albert 1972; Pull Both Ends 1972; Streetcar Named Desire (Claire Bloom) 1974; Who Killed Santa Claus, Gypsy; Educating Rita; Piaf; Mack and Mabel; Mutiny 1985; Shop in the Name of Love 1988; Metropolis 1989; Moby Dick 1992; Piaf 1993; Swan Lake; Shockheaded Peter

Pickford (TORONTO) – 382 Queen St. West at Spadina – in 1908 opened as the Auditorium – in 1913 it became the Avenue – in 1915 it became the Pickford, named after Mary Pickford – in 1945 it became the Variety – closed in 1950s – demolished and is now a MacDonalds

Pike’s Opera House(NYC) – see Grand Opera House

Pip Simmons Theatre Group (LONDON) – fringe theatre group

Pix (TORONTO) – opened as the Aster - 233 Ossington Ave, S of Dundas – 450 seats (1942-1961) – now a bank

P.K. Creek Bar and Grill (TORONTO) - 255 Dundas St. West

Platform 9 Theatre (TORONTO) - 793 Euclid Avenue

*Players(NYC) - 115 MacDougal Street (between West 3rd St. & Minetta Lane) (248)- Parade 1960; Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1964; Lovers 1975; Psycho Beach Party (Charles Busch) 1987 (344); Ruthless 1992; Zombies From the Beyond 1995; Rubbers and Yanks

Players Theatre - see Orpheum - World of Lenny Bruce 1974 (17 weeks)

*Players Theatre (LONDON) - started in 1936 as private theatre club Playroom Six at 6 New Compton Street – 1927 – 1929 name changed – 1936 moved to King Street, Covent Garden – 1937 reopened as New Players – 1940 moved to 13 Albemarle Street – 1946 acquired part of Gatti’s-Under-the-Arches - "March/02-Industry paper The Stage has announced that the landlords of the Players Theatre have temporarily had the theatre shut down in the hope of finding a management that they are happier working with" – Boyfriend 1953; Divorce Me, Darling 1964

Playhouse (TORONTO) – 344 College Street – became the Melody and All Nations – now apartment building

Playhouse (TORONTO) - Mount Pleasant - cinema turned into a legitimate house and now back again - Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Spring Thaw, Touch Kiss, Your Own Thing, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

*Playhouse 91(NYC) - 316 East 91st St. (between 1st & 2nd Aves)- 299 seats - home of Jewish Repertory Company – Yours, Anne 1985; Radical Radio 1995; Syringa Tree 2000

Playhouse (LONDON), Newington Butts - 1580 – demolished; 2nd *Playhouse - (Embankment) Northumberland Avenue - built 1882 as Royal Avenue Theatre (761 seats)(Portland Stone exterior remains) - 1905 theatre wrecked when part of Charing Cross Station collapsed and 6 people were killed and 20 injured – new theatre, the Playhouse, opened 1907 with 679 seats – 1951 became BBC studio – 1975 was given up - renovated in 1987 - previously the Avenue Theatre - Arms and the Man

Playhouse on Van Dam(NYC) - see Soho Playhouse - Bought and Paid For 1911 (431)

Playhouse Theatre(NYC) - see Plymouth - Duke of Darkness 1944; Simply Heavenly 1957; Make a Million 1958 (308); Miracle Worker (Anne Bancroft,Patty Duke) 1959 (719); Don’t Bother I Can’t Cope 1972; Bistro Car on the CNR 1978; Cleavage 1982

Playhouse Theatre/William Brady's Playhouse(NYC) - 137 West 48th Street - 900 seats – opened with Bought and Paid For 1911 (431), Man Who Came to Dinner 1917 (400); Show Off 1924 (571; Street Scene 1929 (601); Glass Menagerie 1945 (561); - ABC Studios 1949 to 1952 - Make a Million 1958 (308); Miracle Worker (Anne Bancroft,Patty Duke) 1959 (700); Impossible Years 1965 (670); Later demolished 1968 and now is McGraw-Hill building; 2nd Playhouse Theatre – off Broadway at 359 West 48th Street – originally Presbyterian Church – opened 1970 with 499 seat Playhouse Theatre on upper floor and 200 seat Bijou Theatre on lower

* Playwrights Horizon(NYC) - (Anne Wilder) 416 West 42nd St.(between 9th & 10th Aves) (145 seats)- started in 1971 at Clark Center for the Performing Arts - home to Playwright's Horizon and to have a new home in Sept. 2002 - existing theatre to be torn down in summer of 2001 - development of new theatre on same site - 198 seat mainstage and a 96/128 studio space, as well as rehearsal rooms and costume shop under one roof - In Trousers 1979; March of the Falsettos 1981; Sister Mary Ignatius 1981 (947), Isn't It Romantic 1983 (733), Three Postcards 1986; Perfect Party 1986 (70); Driving Miss Daisy 1987 (1195); Lucky Stiff 1988; Falsettoland (Faith Prince) 1990 - transferred to Lucille Lortel; Once on This Island 1990 - transferred to the Booth Theatre (469) ; Assassins 1991; Later Life (Carole Shelley) 1993;Avenue X 1994; Violet 1997; Baby Anger 1997; Uneasy Chair 1998; Betty's Summer Vacation 1999; James Joyce's The Dead (Christopher Walken,Blair Brown) 1999 - transferred to Belasco 1999; Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin 2000; Other People 2000

Playwright's Theatre(NYC) – see Provincetown Playhouse

Plaza 2 Cinema (TORONTO) - Bloor and Yonge Street in Hudsons Bay complex, with underground lobby (1976-2001) - now closed

Plaza 9 Music Hall (Plaza Hotel) (NYC) - Free Fall, Julius Monk's reviews - Dime a Dozen (1962) (728)

Plaza Flamingo (TORONTO) - 423 College Street

Pleiades Theatre (TORONTO) - 56 O'Hara Avenue

*Plymouth Theatre(NYC) - 236 West 45th St. - (Shubert-1,079 seats) Built in 1917-18 – opened with The Naked Truth; Man Who Came Back 1916 (457); You Can't Take It With You (original 837); Night Lodging (Edward G. Robinson, Pauline Lord) 1919 (14); Show Off 1924 (571); Street Scene 1929 (601); Road to Rome 1927 (392); Holiday 1928 (230); Old Soak 1922 (325); What Price Glory 1924 (435); Burlesque 1927 (372); Counsellor-at-Law 1931 (397); Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1932 (472); Lone Valley 1933 (3)Three Men on a Horse 1935 (835); Accent on Youth 1934 (229); Skin of Our Teeth (Tallulah Bankhead,Frederic March,Florence Eldridge) 1942 (359); Glass Menagerie (Laurette Taylor) 1945 (561); Lute Song (Mary Martin,Yul Brynner) 1946 (18 weeks); Happy Time 1950 (614); Dial M For Murder 1952 (552); Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Henry Fonda,Lloyd Nolan-directed by Charles Laughton) 1954; 3 For Tonight (Harry Belafonte,Marge and Gower Champion) 1955 (11 weeks); Trouble in Tahiti/27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Maureen Stapleton) 1956 (6 weeks); The Marriage-Go-Round 1958; Miracle Worker (Anne Bancroft,Patty Duke) 1959 (719); Odd Couple (Walter Matthau,Tony Randall) 1965 (964); Irma La Douce (Elizabeth Seal)1960 (524); Gideon 1961 (236); Plaza Suite (Maureeen Stapleton,George C. Scott) 1968 (1097); Never Too Late 1962 (1007); Impossible Years 1965 (670); Gingerbread Lady 1970 (193); Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope 1972 (1065); Equus 1974 (1209); Otherwise Engaged 1977; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1981;Slab Boys (Sean Penn,Kevin Bacon,Val Kilmer) 1983; Real Thing (Jeremy Irons,Glenn Close) 1984; Real Thing 1984 (566), Burn This (John Malkovich) 1987 (437); Heidi Chronicles 1989 (621); Everything in the Garden, Irma La Douce, Otherwise Engaged, Runaways, Dancing at Lughnasa 1991 (421); Passion (Marin Mazzie,Donna Murphy) 1994; Delicate Balance (revival Rosemary Harris,George Grizzard,Elaine Stritch,Elizabeth Wilson,Mary Beth Hurt) 1996 (186); Jekyll and Hyde (Linda Eder) 1997; Thou Shalt Not 2001

Pocket Theatre(NYC) - America Hurrah 1966 (634); How to Steal an Election 1968

*Poor Alex (TORONTO) - 296 Brunswick Street - (120 seats) - small intimate theatre rented to various companies over the years - All Over, Aspern Papers, Dressing Gown, Garden District, Jest Society, Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Rehearsal, Right Honourable Gentleman

Porter’s Hall (LONDON) – playhouse erected 1615 in precincts of Blackfriars, near Puddle Wharg – not used after 1618

Portfolio Studio(NYC) – Philemon 1975

Portman Theatre (LONDON) – see West London Theatre

Ports of Call (TORONTO) – former Toronto restaurant and cabaret – Yonge Street and Summerhill – featuring themed restaurants like Dickens Room, Bali Hai Room etc

Powerhouse Theatre(NYC) - see Vasser College

*Premiere Dance Theatre (TORONTO) - 207 Queen's Quay West - see Harbourfront Centre

*Present Company Theatorium(NYC) - 198 Stanton St. - resident companies Fringe NYC; Fringe Central; Present Co.; Magic Circle; Childrens' Series; Monster Dog Series; Public Works Project

President Theatre(NYC) - Ben Bagley's Shoestring Revue (Chita Rivera,Beatrice Arthur,Arte Johnson)1955

President Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre – Shoestring Revue 1955

* Primary Stages(NYC) - 354 West 45th St. (8th & 9th)- built in 1902 (99 seats)(see Phil Bosakowski Theatre also)

*Prince Edward Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square/Tottenham Court Road) Old Compton Street - 1930 - (1622 seats) – closed 1935 - rebuilt as London Casino (1936 to 1978), during war was Queensberry All Services Club - then a cinema (1954 to 1974) - Cinerama - restored 1992 - has been theatre, cabaret, cinema and a club - long running Evita played here - reopened 1978; Chess 1986; Anything Goes; Crazy for You (over 3 years); Children of Eden 1991; Hunting of the Snark 1991; Martin Guerre 1996; currently Mamma Mia opened 1999

Prince James (TORONTO) – West Toronto Junction

Prince of Wales (TORONTO) – 2094 Danforth Ave – 1200 seats (1927-1966)

Prince of Wales Theatre (TORONTO) – see Royal Lyceum

*Prince of Wales (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Coventry Street - opened 1884 as the Prince's Theatre (1133 seats) - became Prince of Wales in 1886 – 1937 building demolished; 2nd Prince of Wales opened 1937 (1139 seats) – see also Scala Theatre - Gaiety Girl 1893; See-see 1906 (152); Blue Lagoon 1920; Hamlet 1925; Harvey 1949; Fancy Free 1951 (369); Water Gipsies 1954; Summer Song 1956; World of Suzie Wong 1959-over 800 perf); Funny Girl; Come Blow Your Horn; Johnny the Priest 1960; King Kong 1961 Passion Flower Hotel 1965; Good Old Bad Old Days 1972; Smilin’ Through 1972; Mardi Gras 1976; Underneath the Arches 1981; Aspects of Love (1989 - 3 years); City of Angels; Copacabana 1994; Witches of Eastwick;

Prince's Theatre (LONDON) - see Prince of Wales –

Prince's Theatre (LONDON) - opened 1911 - see Shaftesbury Theatre, Prince of Wales, Shaftesbury Avenue; King Street Piccadilly, St. James- Coventry Street –

*Princess of Wales (TORONTO) - 300 King Street West (2,000 seats) - opened May 1993 with *Miss Saigon (3332)TICKETS ONLINE - new home of The Lion King (2000)

Princess Theatre(NYC) - Fearless Frank 1980 (12)

Princess Theatre(NYC) - 104 West 39th St - 1913 - 299 seats -(Broadway and 6th Avenue) - 299 seats - built by the Shuberts - Very Good Eddie 1915 (341), Oh Lady! Lady! 1918 (219), Oh Boy 1917 (463), Great Divide 1906 (238)- theatre was renamed for actress Lucille La Verne 1928 but next year back to Princess and to Assembly 1929 - early thirties film house called REO Cinema - International Ladies Garment Workers Union acquired and changed to Labor Stage in 1937 - Pins and Needles 1937 (1108) - in 1937 became a film house - 1944 reopened as Cinema Dante and became Theatre Workshop - 1947 became home of Experimental Theatre Group– from 1947 under various names -1948 name changed to Little Met and in 1952 to Cinema Verdi -– Pump Boys and Dinettes 1982 (573) – was cinema until demolished in 1955

Princess's Theatre (LONDON) – 1836 building in Oxford Street known as Queen’s Bazaar – converted to theatre - opened in 1840 – theatre closed 1880 and reopened as Royal Princess’s – building became warehouse - Streets of London 1864; Royal Princess's Theatre; closed 1902 - demolished 1931

Princess Theatre (TORONTO) – (1909-1934) – Church and Adelaide Streets – Deborah 1913

Princess Theatre (TORONTO) - (1895-1930) South side of King Street West of York, opened 1889 as the Academy of Music – first public building in city with electric lights – had banquet room, art gallery, drawing room and ballroom – renamed the Princess in 1895 after being refurbished – burned down 1915 and reopened as the New Princess in 1917 - operated into the 1930s - Madam Butterfly 1907 - demolished in 1934 to become an electrical shop and for the widening of University Avenue

Proctor’s Fifth Avenue(NYC) – vaudeville house on 28th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue

Proctor's 58th Street Theatre(NYC) - approx 3000 seats - first theatre in New York City to be wired for RCA sound

Proctor's 23rd Street(NYC) - Men and Women 1890 (204), Country Fair 1889 (105), Lillian Russell (1905)

* Producers Club Theatre(NYC) - 358 West 44th St. (8th & 9th)- several smaller to medium size theatres

*Producers Club II (NYC)- 616 Ninth Avenue

Promenade 6 (TORONTO) – Bathurst and Centre Street (1896-2001) – reopened as Rainbow Cinemas 2001

*Promenade Theatre(NYC) - 2162 Broadway (North of 76th St.) (402)- large off Broadway house – Promenade 1969; Godspell (transferred from Cherry Lane, before opening on Broadway in 1976) 1971; Preppies 1983; Hey,Ma…Kaye Ballard 1984; Hurlyburly (William Hurt,Harvey Keitel,Christopher Walken,Jerry Stiller,Cynthia Nixon,Sigourney Weaver,Judith Ivey) 1984 (45 perf. and transferred to Ethel Barrymore); Curse of the Starving Class 1985 (267); Lie of the Mind 1985 (185); Birds of Paradise 1987; Cocktail Hour (Nancy Marchand,Bruce Davison) 1988 (350); Love Letters 1989; Catch Me If I Fall 1990; Curse of the Starving Class (267 perf);Old Wicked Songs 1996 (210); Phantom of the Opera 1997; Power Plays (Elaine May,Alan Arkin) 1998; Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight 1999

*Provincetown Playhouse/Provincetown Players(NYC) – group of American actors founded in 1916 – Wharf Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island, a converted fishing shack – moved to Playwrights Theatre in Greenwich Village opened in 1916 in a town house at 139 MacDougal St., and after 2 seasons moved 1918 to number 133 MacDougal St., formerly a stables and bottling plant - – between Washington Square South and West 3rd St - launched the career of Eugene O'Neill – ceased operations in 1921 – reopened 1924 - demise after 1929 stock market crash – demolished 1930 after brief life as the Irish Theatre - closed until 1936 and reopened as WPA Federal Theatre Project - in 1941 four buildings (133-139) were rebuilt as apartments, offices and a new Provincetown Playhouse - the theatre is once again dark - The God of Vengeance 1922; in 1924 a production of O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings because of an interracial kiss led to bomb threats against the theatre - Provincetown Playhouse gave up affiliation in 1929) -- Zoo Story/Krapp's Last Tape 1960 (582), Sun Up 1923 (356), Moon of the Caribbees 1918, Long Voyage Home 1917, Hairy Ape 1922 (120), In Abraham's Bosom 1926 (277), All God's Chillun Got Wings 1924 (43), Krapp's Last Tape/Zoo Story 1960 (582), O Say Can You See 1962; Golden Screw 1967; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom 1985 (2024); Unfinished Song 1991

Prudhomme’s Garden Centre Theatre (TORONTO) – 1952 – Vineland – 450 seat playhouse – used closed 1966

*P.S. 122(NYC) - 150 First Avenue (9th & 10th) - 160 seats - two theatres housed in former public school

*Public Theatre/Joseph Papp(NYC) - 425 Lafayette Street (between Astor Place & 4th St)- the brilliant Joseph Papp leased old Astor Library building in 1967 and it now houses a total of 6 performance spaces including Martinson Hall (193) 1971; Newman (299) 1970; Anspacher (277) opened 1967; Shiva (99) 1968; LuEsther (199) and Joe's Pub (150) - Hair 1967 (1836 with transfer to Broadway), No Place to be Somebody 1969 (250), Sticks and Bones 1971 (366)(121 off Broadway and 366 on Broadway), Creditors and The Stronger (Geraldine Page/Rip Torn), Fen, Prayer for My Daughter, Rebel Women,That Championship Season 1972 (844), Chorus Line 1975 - transferred to Shubert for long run; For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…1976; I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road 1978 (1165); Runaways 1978; FOB 1980; Human Comedy 1983 (transferred to Broadway); Marriage of Bette and Boo (Joan Allen,Mercedes Ruehl,Olympia Dukakis) 1985; Aunt Dan and Lemon 1985 (191); Hamlet (Kevin Kline) 1986; Twilight: Los Angeles,1992 (1994); Wings 1993; Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk 1995 - transferred to Ambassador in 1996; Pericles 1998; Love's Fire 1998; Everybody's Ruby 1999; Ride Down Mount Morgan 1999

Puddle Wharf Theatre (LONDON) – see Porter’s Hall

*Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre(NYC) - 304 West 47th St. (8th & 9th) (194 seats) - see 47th Street Theatre

*Pulse Theatre(NYC) - 432 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)

Punch & Judy Theatre(NYC) - 153 West 49th Street - 1914 - in 1926 became the Charles Hopkins Theatre and in 1934 changed to Westminster Cinema - 1935 became the World Theatre - Devil in the Cheese (Bela Lugosi) 1926 - 1982 became the Embassy 49th Theatre - demolished in 1987

Punch’s Playhouse (LONDON) – see Strand Theatre

Purdy's (New) National(NYC) - see National, and Chatham Theatre

Purple Onion(NYC) - intimate cabaret of 1970s

Pussycat (TORONTO) – 687 Yonge Street – (1971-1972) – porno house

Pylon (TORONTO) – 506 College St at Clinton – 749 seats – (1939-1955) - changed to Royal– footprints of Anna Neagle still there under carpet

*Pyramid Club(NYC) - 101 Avenue A (6th & 7th)

Q Theatre (LONDON) – on Brentford side of Kew Bridge – 500 seats – 1924 in converted hall – Dial M For Murder – demolished 1958

Quaigh(NYC) - Momma's Little Angels – demolished

Queen (TORONTO) – (1935-1944)

Queen (TORONTO) – 414 seats (1979-1980)

*Queen Elizabeth Theatre (TORONTO) - Exhibition Grounds - Peter Allen

Queen Royal (TORONTO) – Yonge and St. Clair (1929-1930)

Queen’s Royal Opera House (LONDON) – Crouch End - demolished

>*Queen's Theatre (LONDON), Neal Street & Long Acre – erected 1849 as St. Martin’s Hall beside John Menzies' newsagent - part of the outside walls still stand in Endell Street and Arne Street opened 1867 converted to 2nd largest theatre in London – name changed to National in 1877 - closed in 1879; 2nd Queen’s - *Queen's Theatre - (Piccadilly Circus) Shaftesbury Avenue - 1907 - (977 seats) – (see also Dorset Garden Theatre, Her Majesty’s Theatre and Scala Theatre) - built as twin to The Globe which it adjoins - damaged during blitz - exterior rebuilt 1950 - derelict until 1959 - Old Folks at Home 1933 (204); Ages of Man; Otherwise Engaged; The Dresser; Stop the World I Want to Get Off (Anthony Newley) 1961 (485); Lady From the Sea (Margaret Leighton) 1961; Vanity Fair 1962; 12 Angry Men (Leo Genn) 1964 (99); Conduct Unbecoming 1969; What the Butler Saw (Ralph Richardson,Coral Browne) 1969 (101); Getting On 1971; Tommy 1979 (118) Conduct Unbecoming; Card 1973; Bordello 1974; Flowers for Algernon (Michael Crawford) 1979 (28); Matador 1991; Radio Times 1992; Lenny (Eddie Izzard) 1999

Queens Theatre in the Park(NYC) - Flushing Meadows, Corona Park near Shea Stadium (Queens, NY) - renamed Main Stage Theatre and in 2002 will become the Claire Shulman Playhouse (464 seats) - originally designed for NY World's Fair in 1964 and then served as the mainstage for Playwrights Horizon in the late 1970s - to undergo a $4 million renovation starting in 2003 – Prince and the Pauper 1997

Queens Theatre (TORONTO)- (1874-1883) – 1000 seat vaudeville and variety house - demolished

Queensway (TORONTO) – 1025 The Queensway – 18 screens

Questors Theatre (LONDON) - Matlock Lane, Ealing - largest amateur theatre - founded in 1929 – 1933 adapted disused chapel for its productions – new theatre opened 1964 (325-450 seats)

*Quintero Theatre(NYC) - see Jose Quintero Theatre

Radiant Center(NYC)- see Craig Theatre

Radio City (TORONTO) – 1454 Bathurst St. at St. Clair – live shows – 833 seats (1936-1975) – now retail stores

*Radio City Music Hall(NYC) - largest indoor theatre in the world at 1260 6th Avenue @ 50th Street - built in 1931 to 1939 with Rockefeller Center, as the International Music Hall but changed before it opened in 1932 - by Donald Desky (6,200 seats)- companion house RKO Roxy cinema - 70 million renovation in 1999 to restore to original Deco splendour - originally showed lst run film along with stage show featuring the Rockettes - Riverdance - 1996; 1997; 1998; 2000-01

Radio Playhouse No 4 (NYC)- see Gallo Opera House

Radio Playhouse No 1(NYC) - see Hammerstein's Theatre

Raglan Music Hall (LONDON) - Lord Raglan Music Hall and Public House 1855-1878

Rainbow and Stars(NYC) (opened 1989)- now closed (Rainbow Room - opened 1934) - atop Rockefeller Centre at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (between 49th and 50th Sts) - Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Anthony Newley, Karen Mason, Vivian Reed, Joe Williams, Ann Hampton Callaway, Amanda McBroom; Leading Men Don’t Dance 1997

Rainbow 6 (TORONTO) – Bathurst and Centre Streets, Thornhill – was Cineplex Odeon Promenade

Random Arts(NYC)

*Rattlestick Theatre(NYC) - 224 Waverly Place (just west of 7th Avenue)- Crumple Zone 2000

* Raw Space(NYC) - 529 West 42nd St. (10th & 11th)- several theatres and rehearsal spaces

*Raymond J. Greenwald(NYC) - 307 West 26th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves)

Recital Theatre(NYC) - see Daly’s 63rd St. Music Hall

*Red Barn Theatre (TORONTO) - 991 Lake Drive, Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe - Canada's oldest professional summer theatre - summer stock theatre operated since 1948 in a barn built in 1876 - many actors have worked here including Marigold Charlesworth, Jean Roberts, Bill Glassco, Araby Lockhart, Sylvia Lennick - Arsenic and Old Lace (1444), Bus Stop, Dial M for Murder, Dream Girl, 5th Season, For Love or Money, Fourposter, Harvey (1775), Laura, Little Hut, Moon is Blue (924), Murder Without Crime, My Three Angels, Oh Men Oh Women, Oh Mr. Meadowbrook, Period of Adjustment, Rain, Raise Your Hat, Say Who You Are, Seven Year Itch (1141), Solid Gold Cadillac, Streetcar Named Desire (855), Summer and Smoke, Summer of the 17th Doll, Tender Trap, Vinegar Tree, Voice of the Turtle (1557)

Red Bull Theatre (LONDON) – Upper Street, Clerkenwell – originally an Inn – adapted as permanent theatre in 1605 – renovated 1625 – 1661 theatre fell into disuse – demolished between 1663-65 (see also Inns)

Red Light Theatre (TORONTO) (1974-1977) devoted to plays about women's issues and women playwrights

Red Lion Playhouse (LONDON) - England's first public amphitheatre opened in Whitechapel in 1567

*Red Room(NYC) - see Kraine, St. Marks and Horse Trade Theatres

Regal (TORONTO)– Bloor Street West (1944-1945)

Regency Hotel(NYC) - see Feinsteins

Regency Theatre(NYC) - 1987 Broadway (67 & 68th)

Regency Theatre (LONDON) – see Scala Theatre

Regent Music Hall (LONDON) - 1861-1879

Regent’s Park (LONDON) – Open Air – Bashville 1983

Regent Theatre (LONDON) – Euston Road – 1310 seats – 1900 as Euston Music-Hall – became Playhouse 1922 – 1932 became cinema

Regent Theatre(NYC) - 116th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd in Harlem - built 1912 - now First Corinthian Baptist Church

Regent Theatre (TORONTO) – see Ambrose Smalls Grand Opera House

Regent Theatre (TORONTO)– 225 Queen St. East near Sherbourne – 530 seats (1919-1950) – built as the Moss Park, currently the Anishnawbe Centre

Regent Theatre (TORONTO) - 551 Mount Pleasant Road at Davisville – 1988 – 640 seats – still in operation

Regent Theatre(TORONTO) -27 Adelaide St. West - see Grand Opera House - torn down

Regina Opera Company(NYC)

Renaissance Convention Centre (TORONTO) - 3045 Southcreek Drive, Mississauga

Reno Sweeney's(NYC) - 126 West 13th Street - small intimate club in Village on East 13th Street in the 1970s - Barbara Cook, Ellen Greene, Julie Budd, Peter Allen, Manhattan Transfer, Marcia Lewis, Maxene Andrews, Judy Kaye, Sybill Shepherd - closed

REO Cinema(NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Reo (TORONTO) – Queen St. West

Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center(NYC) - founded 1960 by Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan as co-directors - see Vivian Beaumont Theatre - see Lincoln Center

Republic Theatre(NYC) - opened as a burlesque house on 207 West 42nd Street West of 7th Avenue, adjoining the Victoria Theatre (1899) - see also Victory Theatre, Belasco Theatre and also Theatre Republic - built 1900 - changed to Belasco 1902 but reverted to Republic in 1910 as Belasco’s 2nd theatre, Stuyvesant was renamed Belasco - Woman 1911 (247), Good Little Devil (Mary Pickford,Lillian Gish) 1913 (131); Common Clay 1915 (316); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath 1917 (232); Parlor, Bedroom and Bath 1917 (232); Peter Ibbetson (John Barrymore,Lionel Barrymore,Constance Collier,Laura Hope Crews) 1917; Lawful Larceny 1922; Porgy 1927; Hit the Deck 1927 (352); in 1932 became home to Minsky's Burlesque shows - 1942 converted to movie theatre, the Victory - fell into decline - New Victory reopened in 1995

Revelation Theatre - new nonprofit Off-Broadway outfit, will stage its first production in mid-November - new theatre is being constructed in a space in an old garage at 334 W. 39th Street, a few blocks from Times Square - 154 seats and a wide playing area similar to Signature Theatre Company's digs on W. 42nd Street

Revue Cinema (TORONTO) - 400 Roncesvalles Ave – built 1911 - 521 seats - repertory cinema

Rex (TORONTO)– see Joy – Mimico – 494 seats (1931-1960)

Rialto Theatre(NYC) – Musical Chairs 1980; Blues in the Night (Leslie Uggams) 1982

*Riant Theatre(NYC) - 161 Hudson St. (120)

*Richard Rodgers(NYC) - 226 West 46th St. (Nederlander-1,368 seats) - Built as the 46th Street Theatre - Follow Thru 1929 (403), Good News 1927 (557), Farmer Takes a Wife 1934; Hellzapoppin 1938 (1404), DuBarry Was a Lady 1939 (408), Panama Hattie (Ethel Merman) 1940 (501), Dark of the Moon 1945 (318), Finian's Rainbow 1947 (725), Guys and Dolls 1950 (1200),Damn Yankees 1955 (1019), New Girl in Town 1957 (431), I Do I Do 1966 (560), Killing of Sister George 1966 (205); How To Succeed in Business 1961 (1417), 1776 (Howard DaSilva,William Daniels,Ken Howard,Betty Buckley) 1969 (1217), No No Nanette 1971 revival (861), Raisin 1973 (847), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1978 (1639), Chicago 1975 (898), Do You Turn Somersaults, Ritz 1975 (400), 1776 (original 1217), Working 1978; Nine(Raul Julia) 1982 (732), Fences (James Earl Jones) 1987 (526), Oh Kay (revival) 1990 (77); Lost in Yonkers (Mercedes Ruehl,Irene Worth,Kevin Spacey) 1991 (780), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Matthew Broderick) 1995; Chicago (Bebe Neuwirth,Ann Reinking,Joel Grey) 1996 – moved to Shubert; Steel Pier (Karen Ziemba,Gregory Harrison,Debra Monk) 1997 (76); Seussical - 2000 Side Show (Alice Ripley,Emily Skinner) 1997 (91); Footloose 1998; Seussical 2000; 45 Seconds From Broadway (Marian Seldes) 2001 (73);

Richmond (TORONTO) – Richmond Hill - 408 seats (1949-1965)

Richmond Hill (TORONTO) (1979-1980)

Richmond Hill Theatre(NYC) – SE corner of Varick and Charlton Street – 1822 – later known as Tivoli Gardens and back to original name – demolished 1849

Ring (LONDON) – large octagonal structure – originally chapel on Blackfriars Road – 1783 became boxing ring and theatre-in-the-round – demolished after WWII – has been confused with nearby Rotunda

Rio Theatre (TORONTO) – 373 Yonge St. below Gerrard Street – 500 seats (1939-1990 – was National and became the Rio in 1943 – now movie parlour and retail shop

Ritz(NYC) - 225 West 48th Street – Power 1937; 1939 taken over for radio and tv - Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood 1986 (13) - reconditioned 1972 - Doubles (John Cullum,Ron Leibman,Austin Pendleton,Tony Roberts) 1985 (277); Late Night Comic 1987 - See Walter Kerr

Riverside Studios (LONDON) – Hammersmith – arts centre housing theatre, concerts, films, dance – originally a foundry – was the largest TV centre in Europe – vacated 1974 – centre opened 1976/78 - Invade My Privacy 1993

Rivoli(NYC) - Times Square – demolished

Rivoli (TORONTO) – see The Rivoli

RKO Alhambra Theatre(NYC) - 7th Avenue (Powell Blvd) and 126th Street - now home of Department of Motor Vehicles

RKO Center Theatre(NYC) - see RKO Roxy Theatre

RKO Roxy Theatre(NYC) - 6th Avenue & 49th Street - 1932 - 6200 seats - 1933 name changed to RKO Center Theatre and showed movies until 1934 when RKO was dropped as it opened with The Great Waltz for nine months and then back to films - then White House Inn 1936 - in 1940 it started ice shows featuring Sonja Henie - then space leased to NBC for television studio and in 1954 building was demolished for a 19 storey skyscraper

*Robert Gill Theatre (TORONTO) - 214 College Street (170 seats) – see Central Library Theatre

Robinson's Musee (TORONTO) - Yonge Street - 1897 - featured freak shows, magic lantern and movies

Roof Garden Theatres(NYC) - see American Theatre, Olympia Theatre, Victoria Theatre, New Amsterdam Theatre, New Theatre and Weber & Fields' Music Hall

Roosevelt Theatre(NYC) - 7th Avenue and 145th Street - now a Pioneer Supermarket

Rose, Bankside (LONDON) - built 1587 – halfway between Globe and Hope Theatres - lease expired in 1605 - see also Globe Theatre - campaign to protect and display the remains of the Rose theatre has been given a further boost - Mike Corfield, chief scientist for English Heritage, says the remains are far better preserved than had been expected - The Rose has been something of a poor relation to the Globe - recreated, a few yards from the Rose's site on the South bank of the Thames, and under the artistic direction of Mark Rylance - The Rose was more closely asociated with Christopher Marlowe than with Shakespeare, but was recreated for the film Shakespeare in Love. There has been some talk of it being erected close to the current remains of, and museum devoted to, the original Rose Theatre

Rosedale (TORONTO) – 805 Yonge Street – demolished early 1930s

Rosedale United Church (TORONTO)

Rosemary (TORONTO) – 498 seats (1979-1980)

*Rose's Turn(NYC) - 55 Grove Street - intimate cabaret

Rotunda (LONDON) – hall in Blackfriar's Road – sometimes confused with Ring (opposite side of road about 500 yards away) – 1790 opened as museum – from 1833-1838 was known as Globe Theatre – 150 seats – later Britannia Music Hall – became warehouse – demolished 1945

*Roundabout(NYC)--Stage Right- 1530 Broadway @ 45th St.- over 30 years (Criterion Center Stage Right)- 1974 -in a converted cinema - largest list of regular subscribers in New York - Come Back Little Sheba (Philip Bosco,Shirley Knight) 1984; Privates on Parade (Jim Dale,Donna Murphy) 1989 (64); Stand Up Tragedy 1990 (13); Price of Fame (Charles Grodin) 1990; Light Up the Sky 1990; Grand Night for Singing 1993; Company - revival 1995(68); 1776 (Tom Aldredge,Pat Hingle) 1997 (333); View From the Bridge 1997 (239); Impossible Marriage 1998 (Laura Pels); Side Man 1998 (transferred to John Golden with Christian Slater) 1998; Lion in Winter (Stockard Channing,Laurence Fishburne) 1999; Skull in Connemara 2001

Roundhouse (LONDON) – Chalk Farm Road – Camden Town – disused locomotive shed – taken over 1961 as Centre 42 - Catch My Soul 1968; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1972; Big Sin City 1978

Roxy(NYC) - 135 West 50th Street - built 1927 - 6,200 seats - replaced in 1964 by a bland office tower

Roxy (TORONTO) – Brampton – 618 seats (1949-1960)

Roxy (TORONTO) – see Broadway and Grand

Roxy (TORONTO)– see Cooksville – 450 seats (1949-1971)

Roxy (TORONTO) – 1215 Danforth Avenue at Greenwood – see Allenby – 680 seats (1973-1990)

Roxy (TORONTO) – Milton – 298 seats (1959-1990)

Roxy (TORONTO) – West Hill – 598 seats (1949-1950)

Roxy (TORONTO) – Woodbridge – 494 seats (1949-1960)

Royal (TORONTO) – see Golden Princess

Royal (TORONTO) – see Pylon – 608 College St – 1985 – still in operation

Royal (TORONTO) – 1487 Dundas St. West – 338 seats (1920-1961)

Royal (TORONTO) – Long Branch - 619 seats (1949-1950)

Royal Adelaide Theatre (LONDON) – see Gatti’s

Royal Adelphi Theatre (LONDON) – see Adelphi

*Royal Albert Hall (LONDON)

Royal Alexandra Theatre (LONDON) - opened in 1865 and closed in 1871

*Royal Alexandra (TORONTO) - 260 King Street West (1906-07) - most famous of Canada’s legitimate houses - Chu Chin Chow 1920 (300 cast members); Beautifully restored in 1962 at over 1 million dollars (at that time the theatre was scheduled for demolition)(1500 seats)- by present owner Ed Mirvish and very viable subscription series of touring plus locally produced shows - one of the oldest continuously operating theatres in North America - I have seen just about everything produced there since the late 1950s as second balcony tickets could be had for about 2.50 - originally housed both the National Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company before the O'Keefe Centre opened in 1960 - most of the majors have trod the boards here - among Broadway's longer running plays I have seen - Any Wednesday (982), Applause (896), Born Yesterday (1642), Barefoot in the Park (1530), Butterflies Are Free (1128), Blood Brothers (839), Crazy For You (1622)(1993), Chicago (revival-1019), Damn Yankees (1019), Godspell 1972, Grease (revival - 1501), Guys and Dolls (1200), Hair 1970 (1750), King and I (original 1246), Les Ballets Africains 1959 (trouble with nudity); Luv (901), *Les Miserables (4991)(1989-1993), Me and My Girl (1420), Music Man (1375), Never Too Late (1007), Oklahoma (2212), Pajama Game (original - 1063), *Rent (1238), South Pacific (1925), Subject Was Roses (832), *Sound of Music (revival - 469), Teahouse of the August Moon (1027)TICKETS ON LINE

Royal Alfred Theatre (LONDON) – see West London Theatre

Royal Amphitheatre (LONDON) – see Astley’s Amphitheatre

Royal Aquarium Theatre (LONDON) – see Imperial Theatre

Royal Artillery Theatre (LONDON) – Woolwich – built to take place of theatre constructed in old garrison church in 1863 – closed due to bomb damage – 1956

Royal Avenue Theatre (LONDON) – see Playhouse

Royal Brunswick Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty Theatre

Royal Cinema (TORONTO)- 4606 College Street

Royal Cinema (TORONTO)– Markingston Square Mall – Scarborough (1998-2000)

Royal Circus (LONDON) – see Surrey Theatre

Royal Coburg Theatre (LONDON) – see Old Vic

Royal Colosseum (LONDON), Albany Street

*Royal Conservatory of Music (TORONTO) - University of Toronto - Die Kluge - creating a Performance and Learning Centre, and building an additional 850 seat multi-purpose concert hall, and adding four floors of program space

Royal Court Theatre (LONDON) - Lower George Street, Chelsea – from a Noncomformist Chapel – opened as New Chelsea 1870 – changed to Belgravia – opened 1871 as Royal Court – closed 1887 and was demolished; 2nd Royal Court - *Royal Court - (Sloane Square) – East side of Sloane Square - 1888 – built to replace Royal Court – seating 642 – 1888 – 1932 became cinema – damaged 1940 by bomb – reopened 1952 – closed 1964 for reconstruction – 1969 Theatre Upstairs addedfamous as the home of new playwrights from Shaw to Osborne - Look Back in Anger (Kenneth Haigh,Mary Ure,Alan Bates) 1956; Entertainer (Laurence Olivier) 1957; Changeling (Robert Shaw,Mary Ure,Zoe Caldwell) 1961; Big Wolf, Lovers of Viorne, The Sea

*Royal Court Jerwood Theatre (LONDON) - Sloane Square - see Royal Court

Royal English Opera House (LONDON) - see Palace

*Royal Festival Hall (LONDON) - (Waterloo) South Bank Centre

Royal Foresters' Music Hall (LONDON), Mile End - opened 1825 and closed in 1917

Royal George (TORONTO) – 1217 St. Clair Ave West, West of Dufferin – 1919 – 500 seats – closed 1950s - became the Continental in the 1960s – now a food store

Royal Globe Theatre (LONDON) - opened in 1868 until 1870

Royal Grecian Theatre (LONDON), Shoreditch - opened in 1825 and closed in 1882

Royal Grove Theatre (LONDON) – see Astley’s Amphitheatre

Royal (Holborn) Music-Hall (LONDON) – see Holborn Empire

*Royal Lyceum (LONDON) - The Lion King opened 1999

Royal Lyceum Theatre (TORONTO) - built 1848 - largest and first fully equipped theatre in Toronto – (740 seats) - forerunner to both Grand Opera House and St. Lawrence Hall - Holman Troupe - Toronto's first opera company - Ellen Terry, Lily Langtry, Sarah Bernhardt - destroyed by fire 1874 and in 1875 site became the Royal Opera House - destroyed by fire 1883 - now site of Toronto Dominion Bank's bronze pasture sculture

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) (TORONTO)- small theatre - new signature building being built, and additional exhibition halls

Royal York Hotel (TORONTO)- 100 Front Street West - home of the famed Imperial Room - Chita Rivera, Alexis Smith, Allan Jones

Royal Lyceum Theatre (TORONTO) - (1848-1874) Toronto’s first purpose built theatre – behind shops on South side of King Street, between York and Bay Streets, access through Theatre Lane or an opening between 99 and 101 King Street West – changed to Prince of Wales in 1960 and to New Royal Lyceum in 1872 - had 750 seats (previosuly the Lyceum 1846-1847) burned down in 1874 - international stars such as Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Lily Langtry, Sarah Bernhardt appeared - burned in 1874, and in 1875 became home to Royal Opera House, burned down 1883

Royal (Late Weston's) Music Hall (LONDON) - opened in 1857 and closed by bombing in 1941 - demolished in 1961

*Royal National Theatre (LONDON) - 1976 - three theatres - Olivier (1160), Lyttelton (890)- revival My Fair Lady, Cottesloe (400); Plenty (Kate Nelligan) 1978

Royal Olympic Theatre (LONDON) - 1831 - remodelled in 1849 - demolished in 1889 - rebuilt in 1890 and finally torn down in 1905

*Royal Opera House (LONDON) - Covent Garden - reopening December 1999, completely rebuilt and refurbished - houses the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera - this is the third theatre built on this site - originally built in 1732 - Handel premiered some of his important works here, as well as actors like David Garrick, playwrights like Sheridan and Goldsmith - remodelled and seating capacity increased in 1782 and 1792 - burnt to the ground 1808 and reopened 1809 - Queen Victoria and her consort became regular attendees - 1846 theatre substantially rebuilt as the Royal Italian Opera - 1856 after a riot, theatre is razed to the ground by fire - reopened in 1858 and entertained talents like Nellie Melba and Adelina Patti - 1892 renamed The Royal Opera House - used mostly as a furniture store during the war 1914-18 - 1939-45 theatre used as a dance hall for the troops - 1946 theatre houses the Covent Garden Opera Company and the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company - 1956 Sadler's Wells renamed The Royal Ballet featuring Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev - closed for redevelopment in July 1997 for 2 and a half years, reopening the spectular new theatre in 1999 - also houses the Linbury Studio Theatre, close to the Theatre Museum

Royal Opera House (TORONTO) - (1874-1883)- see also Royal Lyceum Theatre and Colborne Street Theatre - 1,450 seats, used for touring productions - torn down

Royal Panopticon (LONDON) – see Alhambra

Royal Pavillion (LONDON) - there in 1837

Royal St. George's College (TORONTO) - 120 Howland St. (100 seats)

Royal Shakespeare Company (LONDON) – formed 1961 – moved to Barbican arts complex 1982

Royal Shakespeare Theatre(LONDON) – name given to Shakespeare Memorial Theatre - 1928 Twenty-nine year old Elizabeth Scott wins the architectural design competition for a new Stratford Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Scott, the lone female entrant, incorporates some of the remains of the burnt building, but her Art Deco design breaks with the former Victorian tradition - see Stratford-Upon-Avon - Pericles (Ian Richardson) 1969

Royal Strand (LONDON) - at Aldwych Underground Station, south of Aldwych - 1882 - demolished 1905

*Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford Upon Avon (LONDON) - theatre built in 1932 (Royal Shakespeare Theatre) - the original festival of presenting Shakespeare's plays was started in 1769

Royal Soho Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty Theatre

Royal Standard Music-Hall (LONDON) – Pimlico – see Victoria Palace

Royale (TORONTO) – Eglinton and Danforth (1985-1987)

* Royale(NYC) - 242 West 45th (Shubert-1,078 seats) – opened 1927 - Diamond Lil (Mae West) 1928 (22 weeks); Both Your Houses 1933 Pulitzer Prize (120), - 1934 renamed John Golden – 1936-40 used for broadcasting – returned to old name in 1940 - Importance of Being Earnest (John Gielgud) 1947 (10 weeks); Affairs of State 1950 (610), New Faces 1952 (Eartha Kitt,Ronny Graham,Alice Ghostley,Carol Lawrence) (365); The Immoralist 1954 (James Dean, Louis Jordan,Geraldine Page for 3 months);Matchmaker 1955 (486), Tunnel of Love 1957 (417); La Plume de Ma Tante 1958 (835), Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer) 1962 (175); Subject Was Roses (Martin Sheen,Jack Albertson) 1964 (832); Hughie (Jason Robards Jr) 1964 (51); Cactus Flower (Lauren Bacall,Barry Nelson) 1965 (1234), Man in the Glass Booth 1968; Moonchildren 1972 (16), Grease (2/72 to 4/80 - 3,388 performances), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1982 (747), Human Comedy (Matthew Broderick,Rex Smith) 1984, Man in the Glass Booth, Roza; Song and Dance (Bernadette Peters) 1985 (474); Speed the Plow (Madonna,Joe Mantegna,Ron Silver) 1988 (278); Lend Me a Tenor (Victor Garber,Philip Bosco,Tovah Feldshuh); Conversations With My Father (Judd Hirsch) 1992; Skylight 1996 (116); Triumph of Love 1997; Art (Victor Garber,Alan Alda,Alfred Molina) 1998 (600); Copenhagen 2000

Royalty Theatre (LONDON) – Well Street, Wellclose Square – 1787 – 1813 changed to East London – 1826 burnt down – rebuilt as Royal Brunswick – opened 1828 and collapsed three days later due to weight of roof – 15 people were killed and 20 injured;2nd Royalty – Dean Street – Soho and then New English Opera House – 1861 reopened as New Royalty – reconstructed in 1895, 1906, & 1911 – closed 1938 – badly damaged during war – demolished 1955 - Disraeli 1916 (128); At Mrs. Beam's 1923 (280) ; 3rd Royalty - *Royalty Theatre - (Holborn) – Portugal Street, Kingsway - 1960 - built as part of office development on site of Stoll Theatre (1911) as rival to Royal Opera House – 997 seats – 1960-61 became cinema and reopened as live theatre 1970 with Oh Calcutta (3 years) – 1981 became tv studio

Royal Victoria Hall and Coffee Tavern (LONDON) – see Old Vic

*Roy Thomson Hall (TORONTO) - 60 Simcoe Street and King - new theatre built to replace Massey Hall (2800 seats) - home of the Toronto Symphony - currently improvements being made to acoustics, installing latest technologies in sound and lighting, reconfiguring seating, and building a new lounge

Roxy Theatre(NYC) - 7th Avenue and 50th Street - built 1927 by W.W. Ahlschlager (6,214 seats) - was world's largest and most elaborate movie palace ever built - demolished 1960

Royce (TORONTO) – 1619 Dupont St – 587 seats (1928-1954) – now office building

*Rude Mechanicals(NYC)

Runnymede Theatre (TORONTO) – 2225 Bloor Street West at Runnymede (1914-1999) – built as the first atmospheric style in Canada – 1400 seats – stage shows - renovated and serves as a spectacular Chapters Book store

Russell's Hotel (TORONTO) - Church Street above Front Street - Knights of the Masonic Temple on the upper floors of the hotel presented operas from 1849 to 1857 when a new Masonic Hall was built on Toronto Street

Russian Tea Room(NYC) – a landmark for over 75 years – closed July 28, 2002

Ryan's Stage(NYC) - 128 Chambers Street

*Ryerson Theatre (TORONTO) - 43 Gerrard St. East - 1948 - celebrated its 54th anniversary in 2002 - theatre and drama department - Andorra, Broken Pieces, Peter Pan, RIOT

*Sadler's Wells (LONDON) - (Angel) - Rosebery Avenue - 1927 - In 1683 Sadler discovered amedieval well & enclosed it with garden and stage - first stone theatre built 1746 - newly refurbished

*Sadler's Wells (LONDON) - Theatre Royal Sadler's Wells – Rosebery Avenue, Finsbury - opened 1683- a popular pleasure-garden became known as Sadler’s Wells – 1685 a wooden music room to house concerts – 1699 renamed Miles’s Musick House – 1753 became a theatre – 1765 wooden building replaced with stone one – 1804 became Aquatic Theatre, but soon returned to former name – 1807 false alarm of fire resulted in death of 20 people – closed 1878 as dangerous structure – reopened same year – closed down 1906 – 1927 new theatre built – opened 1931 (1650 seats, later 1499) – closed 1940 – reopening 1945 - Polish Mime Theatre; Trelawny 1972; Ragged Child 1988

St. Aidan's Memorial Hall (TORONTO)

St. Clair (TORONTO) – 1154 St. Clair at Dufferin – 1400 seats – became 2 screens before its demise (1924-1976) – now a retail mall

* St. Clements Theatre (St. Clements Episcopal Church) (NYC) - 423 West 46th St. (9 & 10th) (151 seats), Hogan's Goat 1965 (607); Sexual Perversity in Chicago 1975; Juan Darien-a Carnival Mass 1988; Joy Luck Club 1999 (transferred to Theatre Four (80)

St. George's Hall (LONDON), Regent Street - opened 1867 and destroyed by bombing during World War II

St. George’s Theatre (LONDON) – Islington – 1976 in converted church

St. James Cathedral (TORONTO)- 65 Church Street

*St. James Theatre(NYC) - 246 West 44th St. (Jujamcyn- purchased from Shuberts in 1957 - renovated in 1958 - 1,623 seats) Opened as Erlanger in 1927 - renamed St. James in 1932 – Twelfth Night (Helen Hayes,Maurice Evans)1940 (129); Native Son 1941 (114), Oklahoma/Away We Go-original title (Alfred Drake,Celeste Holm) 1943 (2248), Where's Charley (Ray Bolger) 1948 (792), Don't Listen,Ladies (Constance Cummings,Denholm Elliott); King and I (Gertrude Lawrence,Doretta Morrow,Yul Brynner) 1951 (1246), Pajama Game 1954 (1063), L'il Abner 1956 (693), Flower Drum Song 1958 (600), Becket (Laurence Olivier,Anthony Quinn) 1960 (193); Do Re Mi 1960; Subways Are For Sleeping 1961; Mr. President (Anita Gillette,Robert Ryan,Nanette Fabray) 1962 (265), Luther 1963; Hello Dolly (Carol Channing) 1964 (2844), Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971 (627), My Fair Lady (revival)(Ian Richardson,Christine Andreas) 1976 (377)- (original opened 3/56 to 9/62 -2,717 performances), On the 20th Century (Kevin Kline,Madeleine Kahn,Imogene Coca) 1978 (453), Carmelina 1979; Barnum (Jim Dale) 1980(854), Pilobolus; My One and Only (Tommy Tune,Twiggy) 1983 (767), Jerry’s Girls 1985; Gypsy (Tyne Daly) 1989 (582)(production returned to the Marquis Theatre), Secret Garden 1991 (706), Secret Garden (Rebecca Luker) 1991 (706); The Who's Tommy 1993; A Funny Thing Happened….(Nathan Lane) 1996 (715); High Society (John McMartin) 1998 (144); Civil War 1999 (61); Filumena, Musical Jubilee, Music Is, Producers (Nathan Lane,Matthew Broderick) 2001;

St. James Theatre (LONDON) - St. James Theatre - opened December 14, 1835 - built on the site of a rundown hotel - renovated 1900 (1,200 seats) - demolished in 1957 to make way for an office block; 2nd St. James's Theatre - Royal St. James' Theatre – King Street, Piccadilly - Opened as St. James House 1835 - 1200 seats - 1840 became the Prince's Theatre - in 1842 became St. James - reconstructed in 1879 - auditorium rebuilt 1900 - Bella Donna (Mrs. Patrick Campbell) 1911 (253); roof damaged by bombing 1944 – Separate Tables 1954 (726); theatre closed 1957 - demolished 1957 for offices

* St. John's Church(NYC) - 81 Christopher St.

*St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (TORONTO) - 27 Front Street East - opened in 1970 - houses the Jane Mallett Theatre (497 seats) and the Bluma Appel Theatre (originally Town Hall Theatre) (876 seats)- originally had their own repertory company - Au Pair Man, Awake and Sing, Belles Soeurs, Broadway, Children, Dining Room, Dusa Fish Stas & Vi, Dybuk, Effect of the Gamma Rays, Fatal Attraction, Faust, Galileo, House of Blue Leaves, Knackers ABC, Loot, Man Inc., Mary Mary (1572), Narrow Road to the Deep North, Puntila and Matti His Hired Hand, Quartermaine's Terms, Streetcar Named Desire (855), Striker Schneiderman, Surprise Surprise, Three Sisters, Trelawney of the Wells, What the Butler Saw, Yard of Sun, world premiere of Livent's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" 1992 (Chita Rivera, Richard Monette) prior to New York – closed from 1981 to 1983 while seating was increased, and the theatres reopened renamed Bluma Appel 1983, and Jane Mallett 1985

*St. Lawrence Hall (TORONTO) - (opened in 1851 - ) beautifully restored during Centennial, now houses upscale restaurant and offices, did house bank but bank relocated in 1998 - originally could seat 1,000 people - Jenny Lind (1851);Anna Bishop (1851); Adeline Patti; Great Farini; Henriette Sontag; Tom Thumb - for few years used as mens' hostel until the National Ballet moved in 1951 - completely restored building reopened in 1966

*St. Luke's Church(NYC) - 308 West 46th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves)- Late Night Catechism 1996

* St. Mark's Church in the Bowery(NYC) - 131 East 10th St @ 2nd Avenue - Blacks

*St. Mark's Playhouse(NYC) - Home 1979 (82); Blacks 1961 (1408); Cowboy and The Rock Garden 1964; Happy Ending/Day of Absence 1965 (504); Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (Negro Ensemble Company) 1968;

St. Martin’s Hall (LONDON)– see Queen’s Theatre

*St. Martin's Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) - West Street – St. Martin’s Lane - 1916 - (550 seats) - The Ghost Train 1925; When We Are Married 1938; Shop at Sly Corner 1945 (over 800 perf); Enter a Free Man 1968 (44); Sleuth 1970; The Creeper; 1961 (2,385); Sleuth 1970; Say Goodnight to Grandma; "The Mousetrap" moved here in 1974- now in its 48th year

St. Mary's Art Centre (TORONTO) - 40 Westmoreland

*St. Michael's College Alumni Theatre (TORONTO) - 121 St. Joseph Street

St. Patrick's German Parish Hall (TORONTO) - 131 McCaul Street

St. Peter's Church (NYC)- see Theatre at St. Peter's Church

* St. Peter's Church (Theatre) (NYC) - 619 Lexington Ave @ 54th - York Theatre Company resident company -

St. Regis Roof(NYC) - hotel opened in 1904 at 2 East 55th St. - Mabel Mercer

*St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church (TORONTO) - 103 Bellevue Avenue

*St. Vlad's Institute Theatre (TORONTO) - see Theatre 620 - 620 Spadina Avenue

Salisbury Court Theatre (LONDON) – 1629 on part of site of Dorset House between Fleet Street and Thames – interior destroyed 1649 during raid – restored 1660 – burnt down in Great Fire of 1666 – sometimes confused with Whitefriars Theatre, which it replaced

*Salon(NYC) - 49 Bleecker Street - an historic cast iron building (formerly a lumber yard) - home of The Culture Project

Sam H. Harris Theatre(NYC) - see Candler and Harris (Candler) Theatre - 226 West 42nd Street – opened as cinema 1914 but as Candler Theatre was sometimes used for plays – 1916 renamed Cohan and Harris Theatre and present name in 1921 – Hamlet (John Barrymore) 1922 (101 performances) - Six-Cylinder Love 1921 (430); Nervous Wreck 1923 (279), Icebound 1923 (170), Last Mile 1930 (285) – became cinema again in 1932 – demolished

Sam. S. Shubert(NYC) – see Shubert Theatre

Sam's (formerly Charlies) (NYC) - 263 West 45th Street - restaurant and cabaret

* Samuel Beckett(NYC) - 410 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)- may be demolished in 2000 to make room for modern complex containing six new theatres, topped by apartment tower - only the facade at 410-412 West 42nd Street housing Beckett and Clurman theatres would be left intact

San Carlo (TORONTO) - 583 seats (1979-1985) – Italian films

Sanctuary Theatre(NYC) – Jericho-Jim Crow 1964

*Sanford Meisner Theatre(NYC) - 164 11th Ave (22nd & 23rd) Vortex Theatre Co. - 74 seats - new works by gay and lesbian writers (74); Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God 1997 (216);

San Francisco Minstrels(NYC) - Broadway & 29th St. (493 seats) - Brook, or Jolly Day at the Picnic 1879 – demolished

Sanger’s Grand National Amphitheatre (LONDON) – see Astley’s Amphitheatre

San Pareil (LONDON) – see Adelphi

Sans Souci Theatre(NYC) - see Niblo's Garden

Sans Souci Theatre (LONDON) – 1791 – Strand – closed 1796 – reopened at corner of Leicester Place, Leicester Square 1796 – 1832 vaudeville – after 1834 became warehouse and hotel – demolished 1898

Sarah Lawrence College Theatre(NYC)

Sardi's(NYC)

*Saville Theatre (LONDON) - Shaftesbury Avenue - 1931 - the last theatre to be built on Shaftesbury - damaged in bombing 1941 - reopened as cinema in 1955 – Love From Judy 1952; Expresso Bongo 1958 (316); Pickwick (Harry Secombe) 1963 (694); On the Level 1966; Amen Corner, A Very Private Matter – closed 1970 – converted to twin cinemas

Savoy (TORONTO) – 399 Yonge St and Gerrard – 800 seats (1951-1963)

Savoy (NYC)- see Krause's Music Hall - Servant in the House 1908 (80), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 1904 (150), Man of the Hour 1906 (479), Girl With Green Eyes 1902 (108), Faith Healer 1910 (13), Chorus Lady 1906 (315)

Savoy Ballroom(NYC) - popular Harlem nightspot

Savoy Theatre(NYC) - see Hudson Theatre

*Savoy Theatre (LONDON) - (Charing Cross) Strand – Beaufort Buildings - 1881 - (1100 seats) built as D'Oyly Carte's theatre - first to be lit by electricity - refurbished in 1929 – Merrie England 1902; Caesar and Cleopatra 1907; Journey's End 1929 (594); 1921 reconstruction – 1121 seats - 1930 art deco; Othello (Paul Robeson,Peggy Ashcroft) 1930; Free As Air 1957; Marigold 1959; Murder in the Vicarage 1976 (1776) - moved to Fortune Theatre; interior destroyed by fire 1990; - reopened in 1993 restored; Whose life is it Anyway 1978 (672); Travesties, She Loves Me;

Scala Theatre (LONDON) – Tottenham Court Road – opened as King’s Concert Rooms in 1772 and 1802 became Cognoscenti Theatre – closed 1808 – reopened as Tottenham Street Theatre 1810 – 1814 became Regency Theatre – closed for many years – reopened 1831 as Queen’s or Fitzroy – became nicknamed “Dust Hole” – redecorated 1865 – renamed Prince of Wales – 1882 closed for repairs – became Salvation Army Hostel – 1930 demolished – original portico served as stage door entrance to new theatre – 1193 persons called the Scala – 1905 – 1969 theatre closed – demolished 1972 – see West London Theatre; Tottenham Street (1820-1831); Queen's Theatre, Tottenham Street (1831-1833) and (1839-1865); Fitzroy Theatre (1833-1835) and (1837-1839); Prince of Wales Theatre, Tottenham Street (1865-1905); Scala (1905-1969) - closed for demolition - opened in 1772 and closed in 1969 – demolished 1972

Scarboro – 960 Kingston Road –art deco – 700 seats - (1936-1966) – now Sports Bar

Scarborough Town Centre (TORONTO) – 12 screens (1981-2000)

Scarborough Village Theatre (TORONTO) - 3600 Kingston Road (at Markham Road) - home to Scarborough Music Theatre (40th Anniversary 1962-2002); Scarborough Players and Scarborough Theatre Guild, each of which presents a season of plays/musicals in the theatre of the community centre

Second Avenue Theatre(NYC) – Golden Land 1985

*Second City (TORONTO) - 56 Blue Jays Way - 350 seats - created in Toronto 1973 from Chicago parent company - talents included Dan Ackroyd, Jayne Eastwood, Gilda Radner, John Candy, Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara

Second Stage Theatre(NYC) - 307 West 43rd Street (@ 8th Avenue)- opened April 1999 - located in an old bank building - box office is placed in the old vault - Film Society (Nathan Lane) 1988 (31); Chesapeake 1999; Jar the Floor 1999; Saturday Night (Stephen Sondheim) 2000; Jitney 2000 - transferred to Union Square Theatre

Selwyn Theatre(NYC) - see American Airlines Theatre – 229 West 42nd St – 1918 - Partners Again (Potash and Perlmutter) 1922; Royal Family 1927; became cinema early 1930s -Hairy Ape (Willem Dafoe) 1997 - The Roundabout Theatre Co. has completed its historic restoration of the Selwyn Theater on 42nd Street. Second Stage Theater, the neighborhood’s newest theater recently opened at Eighth Avenue and 43rd Street

*Seneca College (TORONTO) - houses Minkler Auditorium 1116 seats - opened in 1971 - theatre for dance concerts, plays etc - Polish Mime, Merce Cunningham Dance Co.

7:84 Theatre Company (LONDON) – fringe theatre group

Seventh House Performing Arts (TORONTO)

*78th St. Theatre Lab(NYC) - see Stand Upstairs Theatre - Man in the Flying Lawnchair 2000

Shaftesbury Hall (TORONTO) (1871-1902)- Queen and Yonge Street - located where entrance to Eaton Centre now stands - 1700 seats

*Shaftesbury Theatre (LONDON) - (Holborn) 210 Shaftesbury Avenue - 1887 (1404 seats) - formerly Prince's Theatre - Shaftesbury built on this site – In Dahomey (first Negro musical) 1903 (251 perf); Middleman 1889; Arcadians 1909; Daniel (Sarah Bernhardt) 1921; - destroyed during blitz in 1941; 2nd Shaftesbury at Holborn end of Shaftesbury Avenue – 1300 seats – opened 1911 as New Prince’s Theatre – “new” was dropped – badly bombed 1940-1 but stayed open – 1962 renovated and reopened as Shaftesbury Theatre - Pal Joey 1954; Wonderful Town 1955; How to Succeed in Business 1963; Our Man Crichton 1964; Twang 1965; Hair 1968; Dad’s Army 1975;Big Bad Mouse; Hair (2000 performances)1968 - 1974 saved from demolition and led to founding of Theatres Trust to protect endangered theatres; Liza of Lambeth 1976; Drake’s Dream 1977; Maggie 1977; Follies 1987 (18 months); Phantom of the Opera 1991; Out of the Blue 1994; M. Butterfly; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Carousel; Tommy; Rent (18 months);

Shakespeare and Company(NYC)

Shakespeare's Globe (LONDON) - see Globe Theatre

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (LONDON) – Stratford-Upon-Avon – Warwickshire – 1879 – 1926 destroyed by fire – new theatre opened 1932 – 1500 seats – 1961 theatre renamed Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Shakespeare Theatre(NYC) - see Jolson's 59th St. Theatre

Shared Experience (LONDON) – fringe theatre group

*Shaw Festival (TORONTO) - started 1962 by Brian Doherty Niagara on the Lake – opened 1973 - the second largest repertory company in North America with three theatres, The Festival (opened 1973) - 10 Queens Parade (861 seats), 2nd floor of Court House - Picton Street (316 seats) and the Royal George (1980) - Picton Street (328 seats), a former movie house and originally build in 1913 as vaudeville house - in addition to many productions of Shaw's plays, they have also done a number of Shaw's contemporaries - 40th Anniversary season 2002 – now employs 60-70 actors

Shaw Theatre (LONDON) - built 1979 – see National Youth Theatre - Beatlemania 1976; closed 1984 – Challenge 1992 - part of the Shaw Park Plaza Hotel - renovated and reopened in May, 2001

Shaw Theatre (TORONTO) – 630 seats (1979-1990) – Chinese films

Sheas (TORONTO) – 400 Bay Street at City Hall Square (opposite old City Hall) – (1909-1956) – 2373 seats - see Sheas Hippodrome

Sheas Hippodrome (TORONTO) (1914-1956) - originally at Southeast corner of Yonge Street at Adelaide Street - opened 1891 as The Wonderland Museum and between 1892 and 1897 when it was destroyed by fire, it was known as Moore's Musee Theatre - burned down 1905 - rebuilt and opened as Sheas Theatre in 1899 (1700 seats) - destroyed by fire in 1905 - and stood from 1914-1956 on its new location - Bay Street opposite City Hall, 3,663 seats, one of the largest vaudeville theatres in the world and attracted the best vaudeville acts, Canada's largest theatre one of the big four including Orpheum in Los Angeles, Loew's State and the Palace in New York - O'Connor Sisters; Red Skelton 1936; Roy Rogers; Harry Lauder; Carmen Miranda; had a full 24 piece orchestra (Jack Arthur was the orchestra leader and later did the CNE grandstand shows along with his wife Midge Arthur - eventually changed to just Sheas - demolished in 1957 for new City Hall, pipe organ now housed in Casa Loma

Sheas Victoria (TORONTO) - (1910-1956)- southeast corner of Victoria and Richmond Streets - 2,000 seats, two balconies - was Canada's largest theatre until the Hippodrome opened - now a parking lot and beneath the asphalt lies what is left of the theatre

Shea's Yonge Street (TORONTO) - built 1910 - one of the first to bring in hit shows from New York - changed to Star Burlesque soon after the Victoria opened - see Elgin and Winter Garden

Sheraton Centre 2 (TORONTO) - Bay and Queen in Sheraton Hotel – 2 screens (1973-1995) - now closed

*Sheridan College (TORONTO) - Minkler Auditorium

Sheridan (TORONTO) – Mississauga – 2 screens (1969-1986)

Sheridan (TORONTO) – North York – 1700 Wilson Ave at Jane – 1976

Sheridan Square Playhouse(NYC) – see Circle Repertory - Leave It To Jane 1959 (928), View From the Bridge (Robert Duvall,Jon Voight) 1965 (780); Love and Let Love 1968; Man With the Flower in His Mouth/License/Jar (Danny DeVito) 1969; Present Tense (Come Next Tuesday/Twas Brillig/So Please Be Kind)(Biff Maguire) 1972 (8)

Sherway Cinemas (TORONTO) – 30 Bancer Dr., Etobicoke – 13 screens (1987-2001)

Shoppers (TORONTO) – Hwy 10 and Stelles, Brampton – 636 seats (1969-1985)

Shoppers Drugmart Omnimax at Ontario Science Centre (TORONTO) – Eglinton and Don Mills Rd – opened 1997

Shoreditch Empire Theatre (LONDON) – see Music-Hall - opened 1576 - known as The Theatre - the first private playhouse

Show Shop Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Showcase (TORONTO) – 651 Yonge St – 537 seats (1984-1995)

*Shubert/Sam S. Shubert Theatre(NYC) - 225 West 44th St. (1,521 seats) named for Sam S. Shubert who was killed in a train crash – opened 1913 - Maytime 1917 (492), Copperhead 1918 (120), Vogues of 1924 (Fred Allen)(3 mos); Night in Venice (choreographed by Busby Berkeley) 1929 (22 weeks); Dodsworth (Walter Huston,Fay Bainter) 1934 (131); Idiot's Delight (Alred Lunt,Lynn Fontanne) 1936 (299), Babes in Arms 1937 (289); I Married an Angel 1938 (42 weeks); Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn,Van Heflin,Shirley Booth,Joseph Cotten) 1939 (417), Hang On To Your Hat with Al Jolson 1940; Higher and Higher 1940; Louisiana Purchase 1940; By Jupiter 1942; Othello (Paul Robeson,Uta Hagen) 1943 (295); Bloomer Girl 1944 (654), Anne of the Thousand Days (Joyce Redman,Rex Harrison) 1948 (288), I Know,My Love (Alfred Lunt/Lynn Fontanne) 1949; Paint Your Wagon 1951; Can Can 1953 (892), Pipe Dream (Helen Trauble) 1955 (246); Bells Are Ringing (Judy Holliday) 1956 (924), Whoop Up 1958; Take Me Along (Jackie Gleason) 1959; Majority of One (Gertrude Berg) 1959 (556); Gay Life (Barbara Cook, Walter Chiari) 1961; Stop the World I Want to Get Off (Anthony Newley) 1962 (555); I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Barbra Streisand,Elliot Gould) 1962, Here’s Love 1963; Bajour (Chita Rivera) 1964; Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd 1965; Apple Tree (Barbara Harris,Alan Alda,Allan Arkin)1966; Promises Promises 1968 (1281), Golden Rainbow (Eydie Gorme,Steve Lawrence) 1968 (385); Crazy for You (822+ ); Evening With Richard Nixon (George S. Irving) 1972 (2 weeks); Little Night Music 1973 (601), Sondheim: A Musical Tribute 1973; Over Here 1974; A Chorus Line 1975 (10/75 to 4/90 - 6,137 performances) ran for 11 years, Evening of Music and Song, Tony Awards; Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story 1990 (225); Crazy For You 1992; Big 1996 (192);

Signature Theatre Company/Peter Norton Space(NYC) - 555 West 42nd St.(between 10th & 11th Aves) - (160 seats) - see Peter Norton Space - home of Signature Theatre Company

Silent Cinema (TORONTO) – Avenue Road near Bloor (1969-1972)

Silver City (TORONTO) - 2300 Yonge Street at Eglinton - 7 cinemas

Silver City (TORONTO) – Brampton – 50 Great Lakes Dr. - 16 screens – 1999

Silver City (TORONTO) – Empress Walk – 5095 Yonge St – 10 screens - 1999

Silver City (TORONTO) – Mississauga – Hwy 403 at Hwy 5 – 10 screens - 1997

Silver City (TORONTO) – Richmond Hill – 8771 Yonge St at Hwy 7 – 1998

Silver City (TORONTO) – Yonge and Eglinton – 9 screens – 1998

Silver City (TORONTO) – Yorkdale – 10 screens – 1999

Six Stages (TORONTO) - see DNA Theatre - 109 Niagara Street

62nd & Broadway Theatre(NYC) - 1871 Broadway

63rd Street Music Hall(NYC) - 22 West 63rd Street - 1909 - 1024 seats - built for presentation of biblical movies and lectures - 1919 began showing movies for children - not successful - renamed Cort's 63rd Street, but changed back very shortly - Shuffle Along 1921 (504)- then became Daly's 63rd Street - then became the Coburn - became a number of different names during the 1930s - Recital, Park Lane, Gilmore's 63rd Street, the Experimental - by 1938 the theatre was once again Daly's 63rd Street - 1957 the theatre was demolished

*Sky Dome (TORONTO) - 1 Blue Jays Way (53,506)- new domed stadium - official home of the Toronto Blue Jays, circus, large scale concerts, opera "Aida"

Skyline 2 (TORONTO) – Dixon Rd & Hwy 27 – 2 cinemas (1971-1991)

Skyway 6 (TORONTO) – Dixon Rd & Hwy 27 – 6 cinemas (1981-1998)

Small's Paradise(NYC) - 135th Street and 7th Avenue - popular Harlem nightspot with beautiful showgirls and dancing waiters

Society for Theatre Research (LONDON) - founded 1948 – encourages preservation of theatre buildings, source material and photographic records – instrumental in founding British Theatre Museum – helped in founding of “International Federation of Theatre Research” - 1956 American Society for Theatre Research was founded

*Soho Playhouse(NYC) - 15 Vandam Street (198 seats)- Killer Joe (Scott Glenn,Amanda Plummer) 1998;

Soho Poly (LONDON) – fringe theatre

*Soho Repertory Company/Walkerspace(NYC) - 46 Walker St. (Between Church St. & Broadway)- one of N.Y. oldest non-profit theatres (100)

*Solo Arts Group(NYC) - 36 West 17th St.

*Solar Stage (TORONTO) - 40 King Street West (Scotia Plaza, Concourse Level) - lunchtime and children's theatre - established in 1976 (90 seats)

Song of Singapore Theatre(NYC) – Song of Singapore 1991

Soulpepper Theatre Company (TORONTO) - see Harbourfront (Premiere Dance Theatre)

South Bank Centre (LONDON)

South Common (TORONTO) – 2150 Burnhamthorpe Rd West (1989-2001)

South London Music Hall (LONDON) – see Music Hall

South London Palace (of Varieties) (LONDON), Lambeth - opened 1860 (formerly South London Music Hall)

South Street Theatre(NYC) – One Man Band 1985; People Who Could Fly 1989 (41)

Southwark Theatre(NYC) - Much Ado About Nothing 1789

Space (TORONTO) – see The Space

Spat’s (TORONTO) – 904 seats (1979-1980)

Spivy's Roof(NYC) - intimate cabaret - Paul Lynde (1951)

Spring Thaw (TORONTO) - annual review held in various venues i.e. Avenue Theatre, Crest, Royal Alexandra - from 1948 to 1973

Square East Theatre(NYC) – Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter Revisited 1965

Square One Cinemas 10 (TORONTO) – 100 City Centre, Mississauga – 10 cinemas – 2001

Stables (TORONTO) - Bell Book and Candle – closed

Stadt Theatre(NYC) – see Bowery Theatre

Stage Centre Productions (TORONTO) - see also Fairview Library Theatre

Stage Door Canteen(NYC)- see Weber & Fields Music Hall

Stage I and II @ City Centre(NYC) - 131 West 55th St.

Stage 73(NYC) - Best Foot Forward (Liza Minelli) 1963 (224); Tom Paine – demolished

*Stage West Dinner Theatre (TORONTO) - 5400 Dixie Road and Eglinton Avenues – started 1986 - television star vehicles

*Stand Upstairs Theatre(NYC)- 236 West 78th St. (78th St. Theatre Lab)

Standard Theatre(NYC) – West side of Broadway between 32nd & 33rd (1,126 seats) – opened as the Eagle in 1875 – renamed Standard 1879 – 1883 destroyed by fire – rebuilt 1884 and in 1896 renamed the Manhattan - Robin Hood 1891 (40), demolished 1909 to make way for Gimbel’s Department Store

Standard Theatre (LONDON), Shoreditch – originally pleasure garden attached to Royal Standard Public House from1837 – 3000 seat circus ring burnt down 1866 – rebuilt 1867 as Standard Theatre – 1876 reopened as New National Standard Theatre – 1907 became Olympia, Shoreditch, then Music-Hall and used as a cinema from 1926 – damaged by bombs 1940 – demolished soon after - also known as New Great National Standard Theatre (c. 1859)

Standard Theatre (LONDON) - demolished

Standard Theatre (TORONTO) - Dundas and Spadina Avenue - renamed Victory Theatre and became burlesque theatre - then renamed Golden Harvest and showed Chinese films - has been destroyed

Standard Theatre (TORONTO) – Spadina and Dundas – Yiddish theatre (1930-1931) – see Victory

Star Burlesque (TORONTO) - (formerly the Empire Theatre)- see Empire Theatre

* Stardust(NYC) - 1650 Broadway @ 51st - located in basement of Ellen’s Stardust Diner, next door to the Winter Garden - has housed Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act 1998

Star Theatre(NYC) – NE corner of Broadway & 13th St (1,448 seats) – opened 1861 as Wallack’s – became the Star in 1882 - Shenandoah 1889 (250) demolished 1901

Star Theatre (TORONTO) – (1909-1920) a burlesque house – 1912 Darlings of Paris

State (TORONTO) – 1608 Bloor St. West – art deco – 694 seats(1948-1968) – opened as Bloordale – now retail

Stone Church (TORONTO) - 45 Davenport Road

Strand (TORONTO) – Yonge near King St – (1915-1920) - see Victory

Strand (TORONTO)– Islington (1934-1950)

State(NYC) - Times Square - demolished

Steinway Hall(NYC) - 14th Street on Union Square (1,256 seats) - demolished

Stella Adler Theatre(NYC) - 419 Lafayette St. (4th & Astor Place)

Steve McGraw's Supper Club(NYC) - renamed Triad Theatre - Forever Plaid 1990(over 1700 performances)

Stoll-Moss Theatres (LONDON)

Stoll Theatre (LONDON) – Kingsway – 2430 seats – built for Oscar Hammerstein I as London Opera House 1911 – 1917 became Stoll Picture Theatre and back to theatre as Stoll in 1941 – Porgy and Bess 1952; Kismet 1955 (648) – closed 1957 – Royalty Theatre in Portugal Street built on part of the site

*Stork Club(NYC) - 3 East 53rd Street - speakeasy with entertainment - literary and theatre crowd

Storm Theatre(NYC)

Strand Music-Hall (LONDON)– see Gaiety Theatre

Strand Theatre (LONDON) –168-9 Strand – building near Somerset House which was used for panoramas (1803-1828) – converted to theatre 1832 as Rayner’s New Strand Subscription Theatre – closed and reopened 1833 – again remodelled and reopened 1836 – 1850 became Punch’s Playhouse – reconstructed 1865 – closed 1905 – demolished for Aldwych underground station; 2nd >*Strand Theatre - (Charing Cross) - Aldwych – 1084 seats – opened 1905 as Waldorf – (1077 seats) - 1909 became Strand Theatre – 1911 the Whitney – back to Strand in 1913 - Arsenic and Old Lace 1942; Sailor Beware (1955); A Funny Thing Happened 1960; Belle 1961; Wait Until Dark 1966; Not Now Darling 1968; The Real Thing; No Sex Please We're British 1971; Buddy currently in its 9th year

Strand Theatre(NYC) – Times Square - designed by Thomas Lamb - O'Connor Sisters- demolished

Stratford Borough Theatre (LONDON) – Stratford East - demolished

Stratford Circus Theatre (LONDON) - opening June 2001 - Theatre Square (adjacent to Theatre Royal and Stratford Picture House) - the Circus will contain four performance spaces, meeting rooms, a computer suite, bars and a cafι. The centre aims to deliver up to 2,000 events a year, including touring shows from across the performance spectrum, plus a full programme of classes, workshops and community events.

*Stratford Shakespearian Festival (TORONTO)- Stratford, started in 1953 by journalist Tom Patterson - in a huge canvas tent, and the great Festival Theatre was completed for the 1957 season (1836 seats), the Avon Theatre (acquired 1963) was built in 1901 as Theatre Albert (1,883 seats) for vaudeville, and later films, and in 1956 was used for the Festival, the Tom Patterson Theatre was built in 1971 as the Other Stage (1800 seats)- in addition to the great many Shakespearian plays I have seen here, they have produced many musicals from Irma La Douce, West Side Story, My Fair Lady (2717), Gilbert and Sullivan plus many contemporary plays like Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, Kennedy's Children, as well as classics like The Crucible, Cherry Orchard etc; in 2002, their 50th Anniversary Season, there will be an additional theatre - The Studio Theatre (250 seats) in the Avon Theatre, with a separate entrance off St. George Street

Stratford-Upon-Avon (LONDON) – Warwickshire – birthplace of Shakespeare – 1st festival 1769 – theatre built 1827 – demolished 1872 (see Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Theatre – now houses a three theatre complex - see Royal Shakespeare Theatre - 1300 seats - built in 1932; Swan; and Other Place - plans for being demolished and replaced plus refurbishing the other 2 theatres - scheduled for completion by 2008 - total capacity of the 3 theatres would increase from 1,855 to 2,132, and the cost would be 72.7 million U.S. dollars

Studio(TORONTO) – 565 College St at Manning – 542 seats (1949-1970) – now apartment building

* Studio(NYC) - 145 West 46th St. (6th & 7th) (American Globe; Next Stage; Turnip -all resident companies)

*Studio 54(NYC) - see New Yorker Theatre; *Studio 54(NYC) - 254 West 54th St. - Cabaret (currently running)- see Gallo Opera House *Studio 54(NYC) - 254 West 54th St. - Cabaret (currently running)- see Gallo Opera House

Studio Lab Theatre (TORONTO) - founded in 1965-1987 as Studio Children’s Theatre and in 1969 renamed Studio Lab by Ernest Schwarz - Beard, Dionysus in '69

Studio No. 52(NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

Studio L(NYC) - see Raw Space

Studio No. 62(NYC) - see Biltmore Theatre

*Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - 4 Glen Morris

*Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - Toronto Centre for the Arts - 5040 Yonge Street

Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - 235 Queen's Quay West

*Studio Theatre (TORONTO), Erindale

Stuyvesant Theatre(NYC) - built 1906 and opened with Grand Army Man (David Belasco) and in 1910 renamed the Belasco Theatre

Sullivan Street Lounge(NYC) - 189 Sullivan St. (Bleecker & Houston)

*Sullivan Street Playhouse(NYC) - 181 Sullivan St. (between Houston & Bleeker Sts)(153) 39 of its 40 year history has been running The Fantasticks (opened May 3, 1960 - closed January 2002)

Summer Theatre(NYC) - Greenwich Street

Sunset Theatre(NYC) - 125th Street - between Morningside and Manhattan Avenues - now L Gree Baptist Church

Sun Wah (TORONTO) – (1989-1998) -2001)

Suny Stonybrook School of Theatre Arts(NYC)

Supper Club(NYC)

Surf Reality(NYC) - 172 Allen St. (used for comedy showcases for HBO) (50)

Surrey Music Hall (LONDON), Surrey Garden Music Hall – see Winchester Music Hall

Surrey Theatre (LONDON), Blackfriars Road, Lambeth – on site of Royal Circus (1782-1810) – burnt down 1799 and 1805 – rebuilt 1806 and converted to theatre as Surrey – 1814 became a circus again until 1816 – opened in 1832 - New Strand Theatre (1838-1840); Strand Theatre (1844); and Royal Strand Theatre (1859) - 1865 theatre burnt down and new theatre (2161 seats) opened – 1920 became cinema – closed 1924 and demolished 1934

Surrey (Garden) Music Hall – 1856 - burned down 1861 – building on site used by St. Thomas’s Hospital until 1872 – was remodelled as Music-Hall – used until 1877 when it closed – demolished 1878

Susan Bloch Theatre(NYC) – Ten Percent Revue 1988

Susan Stein Shivz Theatre(NYC) - see Vasser College

Sussex Centre (TORONTO) – Hwy 10 & Burnhamthorpe Rd – 4 cinemas (1987-2001)

Swan's Paradise(NYC) - Harlem – demolished

Swan Theatre (LONDON) - see Stratford-Upon-Avon - Bankside in Southwark, in Paris Garden – 4th theatre to be built in London - 1595 - (3,000 seats) – wooden – used for sports and fencing and plays – when Hope Theatre opened 1614 – Swan was disused until 1632 and fell into disrepair - Isle of Dogs 1597 - closed in 1637

*Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse(NYC) - East 68th Street

*Symphony Space(NYC) - Broadway at 95th Street - built 1915 as 95th Street Market - Symphony Space for 22 years, also houses New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players - (800 seats) - plans to incorporate the Thalia Theatre (175 seats) and will repopen in 2002 as the Peter Norton Symphony Space

Synchronicity Theatre Group(NYC) - 55 Mercer St. - 7 resident theatre companies

Talk of the Town (LONDON) – see Hippodrome

*Tarragon (TORONTO) - and Extra Space - 30 Bridgman Avenue - was founded by Bill Glassco in 1970 with a Mainspace (205 seats) and Extra Space (100 seats)- this small theatre is Toronto's greatest off-Broadway type house and has shown us not only great actors, but exciting new Canadian playwrights like Michel Tremblay, David Freeman, David French - Albertine in Five Times, Artichoke, Bonjour la Bonjour, Dream Play, 18 Wheels, Forever Yours Marie Lou, I'll Be Back Before Midnight, Impromptu of Outremont, Jitters, Johannes and the Talmud, Leaving Home, Lulu, Hosanna, Mr. Joyce is Leaving Paris, Night No One Yelled, Of The Fields Lately, One Crack Out, One Night Stand, Riddle of the World, Sticks and Stones, Temps d'une Vie, Top Girls, Waiting for the Parade, White Biting Dog, White Boys, You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy. Bill Glassco, the artistic director is in my estimation, the greatest influence on Canadian theatre we have had. As of 1983 the artistic manager was Urjo Kareda, former theatre critic (deceased 2001)

Taverns (TORONTO)- 1809 - Dundas and Bay streets - first recorded theatrical performance in York - travelling group of American actors presented School For Scandal

Tavistock House (LONDON) – 1855

Tavistock Repertory Company (LONDON) – see Tower Theatre

Teck (TORONTO) – 700 Queen St. East, West of Broadview (1931-1933) – now a bar

Ted Hook's Backstage(NYC) - see Backstage

Ted's Wrecking Yard (TORONTO) - 549 College St.

Television Studio No 50 (NYC)- see Hammerstein's Theatre

Teller's Cage Dinner Theatre (TORONTO) – Sweet Reason 1975 - closed

Temperance Hall (TORONTO) - 1848 - Toronto's first opera house - Temperance Street (one block North of Adelaide off Yonge)- replaced by the Empire Theatre in 1899

Temple (TORONTO) – Queen St West

Tenement Theatre(NYC) - 97 Orchard St. 1870s was a saloon - opened in 1998

Terry's Theatre (LONDON) – Westminster - 105-109 The Strand on site of Norman House - 1887 to 1923 - originally built on side of Coal Hole - a forerunner of the music hall - became cinema in 1910 and demolished in 1923 when road was widened

Texas Pavillion(NYC) – World’s Fair New York 1964 – To Broadway With Love 1964

Thalia Spanish Theatre(NYC)

Thalia Theatre(NYC) – 1877 – see Bowery Theatre – see Symphony Space - Mlle Francoise Hotin was featured – see Bowery Theatre

Theatorium (TORONTO) - built 1906 (17 ft wide x 100 ft deep) - 150 seats

Theatre (LONDON) - built 1576 - see Shoreditch Theatre – first playhouse to be built in London – on site now occupied by Holywell Lane, Shoreditch – circular wooden building – 1576 – theatre dismantled 1597 and timber used to build Globe Theatre

Theatre at Noon(NYC) – What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? 1972

*Theatre at St. Clements(NYC) - see St. Clements Church

*Theatre at St. Peter's Church(NYC) - Citicorp Center (Lexington Ave & 54th St.)- 147 seats – Show Goes On 1997; Jello is Always Red 1998

Theatre at West Park Church (Frog and Peach Theatre Co) (NYC)- 165 West 86th St. (Amsterdam)

Theatre at York (TORONTO) - see York University

*Theatre Centre (TORONTO) - 1032 Queen St. West

Theatre Centre Studio Space (TORONTO) - 9 St. Nicholas Street, 6th Floor

Theatre Columbus/Factory (TORONTO) - 125 Bathurst Street

Theatre Comique(NYC) - 514 Broadway (1,164 seats) - Mulligan Guard's Ball 1879 (138), Cordelia's Aspirations 1883 (176) - demolished

Theatre Compact (TORONTO) – (1976-1978) – disbanded after only 6 quality productions at various venues

Theatre De Lys(NYC) – 121 Christopher Street – formerly a cinema – opened 1952 – later changed to Lucille Lortel - Threepenny Opera 1955 (2611), Brecht on Brecht (Lotte Lenya,Viveca Linfors, Dane Clark,Anne Jackson) 1962 (424); Now is the Time for All Good Men 1967; Whispers on the Wind 1970; Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill 1972; Life in the Theatre (Ellis Rabb) 1977 (288); Buried Child 1978 (152), Cloud 9 1981 (971); Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me 1992 (175)

Theatre East(NYC) – Forbidden Broadway 1990; Forbidden Broadway 1991½ 1991

Theatre 80 St. Marks(NYC) - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown 1967 (1597)

Theatre Erindale (TORONTO) - 3359 Mississauga Road

*Theatre for the New City(NYC) - 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th – 2 theatres (240 seats & 60 seats)

*Theatre 4(WPP) (NYC) - Two Can Play (Negro Ensemble Co) 1985; - Boys From Syracuse 1963 (500) - 424 West 55th St. (between 9th & 10th Aves) (254 seats) - Soldier's Play (NEC) 1981 (468), Boys in the Band 1968 (1000), Picnic on the Battlefield, Boys From Syracuse (500), All Night Strut 1979; Housewives’ Cantata 1980; Rhinoceros (revival) 1996; Perfect Crime - transferred to Duffy Theatre - demolished

*Theatre Francais de Toronto (TORONTO) - 26 Berkeley Street

Theatre Francaise(NYC) - 105 West 14th St - see Civic Repertory Theatre and 14th Street Theatre

Theatre Glendon (TORONTO) - see York University

Theatre Guild(NYC) – founded 1919 – used various venues i.e. Garrick before opening its own theatre, Guild Theatre in 1925 – but still used other theatres

Theatre Humber (TORONTO) - 3131 Lakeshore Blvd. West

Theatre In The Dell (TORONTO)– Elm Street – opened 1962 - Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter, Oh Coward 1970; El Grande de Coca Cola; Toronto Toronto 1980 – closed

Theatre Marquee(NYC) - La Ronde – She Shall Have Music 1959 – demolished

Theatre Masque(NYC) - 252 West 45th St – 1927 – changed to John Golden Theatre – Puppets of Passion

Theatre Museum (LONDON) - see Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) – formed association 1957 – came into being 1974 in Victoria and Albert Museum – to have been transferred to Covent Garden when reopened

Theatre of Action (1935-1940)

* Theater Off Park (NYC) - Most Men Are 1995

Theatre Offstage (TORONTO) - 823 Manning Avenue

Theatre of Young America (NYC)- see Majestic Theatre

Theatre Parisien(NYC) - see Norworth Theatre

*Theatre Passe Muraille (TORONTO) - and Backspace - 16 Ryerson Avenue - founded in 1968 by Jim Garrard and Paul Thompson at Rochdale College, moved to 11 Trinity Square, then bought the current building which had been candy factory, bakery and stable (200 to 400 seats) - All the Ghosts, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Bond Honoured, Charles Manson, D + C, Doukhobors 1971; Farm Show 1972; Futz 1969, Go Go Boys, I Love You Baby Blue - 1975 - parts I and II, Master, Memories for My Brother, Pilk's Madhouse, Studhorse Man, Sweet Eros and In His Own Write, Tantrums, Vampyr, When You Comin' Back Red Ryder

Theatre Plus (TORONTO) - founded 1973 by Marion Andre – used 500 seat Town Hall, now Jane Mallett) – disbanded

Theatre Republic(NYC) - 1900 - also Hammerstein's Theatre Republic - 207 West 42nd Street - (973 seats) - see Republic - renamed Belasco in 1902 - Leah Kleschna 1904 (131); 1910 back to Theatre Republic - Abie's Irish Rose transferred here from Fulton Theatre in 1922 (2,327 performances); Gentle People (Sam Jaffe,Franchot Tone) 1939 - 1931 converted to burlesque until 1942 - changed to Victory Theatre and showed films - Kiss Them For Me (Judy Holliday,Richard Widmark,Paul Ford) 1945 (111); closed for restoration in early 1990s costing 11.4 million-reopened as New Victory in 1995

* Theatre Row Theatre(NYC) - 424 West 42nd St. (9th & 10th)

Theatre Royal (TORONTO) - Northeast corner of King and York Streets (1836-1840) frame building, former carpentry shop and was the site of former Methodist Church - The Burning of Moscow - burned down 1840

Theatre Royal (TORONTO) (2nd by that name) - 1839 - King and York Streets in a converted carpentry shop - where Toronto Stock Exchange is presently - laneway - gutted by fire

*Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (LONDON)(Covent Garden) - first opened in 1663-1671 as Brydges Street Playhouse - destroyed by fire, The Playhouse (1674-1775), Drury Lane Theatre, Henry Holland (1791), Theatre Royal Drury Lane (1812) - one of the world's most famous theatres and oldest site in Britain used continuously as a theatre - 4th and present opened October 10, 1812 - remodelled in 1821 (3,060) - remodelled 1831 and a major renovation in 1847 - Cavalcade 1931; Glamorous Night 1935; Careless Rapture 1936; Dancing Years 1939; Pacific 1860 1946; My Fair Lady 1958 (2281); Four Musketeers 1967; Gone With the Wind 1972; Billy 1974; Evening with Alan Jay Lerner 1987; Miss Saigon 1989; Witches of Eastwick 2000; 2nd Theatre Royal - Theatre Royal, Haymarket - Haymarket (Piccadilly Circus) - there in 1833-1869 - built as Little Theatre 1720; Theatre Royal 1821 on site south of the Little Theatre; reconstructed 1880; present interior 1905 - one of 3 Grade 1 historic buildings, along with Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Royal Opera House Covent Garden remodelled 1858- The Chalk Garden, Voyage Round My Father; Lust 1993; Miss Saigon (10 years); 3rd Theatre Royal - Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (See Royal Opera House) - built in 1732 - plays were being presented 1652-1685; Handel played here 1745-1747 - burned plus subsequent building - present building erected in 1858; 1859 became Royal English Opera, Covent Garden; 4th Theatre Royal - Theatre Royal, Marylebone - opened 1832 as Royal Pavillion West; West London Theatre - became a cinema in 1923; 5th Theatre Royal - Theatre Royal - Glenarm Road - built in 1860s; 6th Theatre Royal - Theatre Royal, Stratford East – in Gerry Raffles Square – 470 seats – 1884 – 1902 damaged by fire – reopened on Dec. 13, 2001. The multi-million pound renovation of one of the two jewels in East London's crown (the other being the Hackney Empire) took a couple of years, but the wait has been worth it and the architect and builders have produced a theatre that can carry on into the millennium with confidence and panache - The Theatre Royal's previous glory days were under the direction of Joan Littlewood whose revolutionary approach to theatre production gave London A Taste of Honey and Oh What a Lovely War - Under Miss Littlewood the Theatre Royal became known for its interest in plays about the working class, reflecting the make up of the local community. That community is now drawn from a great many different ethnic groups, and Afro-Caribbean and Asian work is now a strong feature of the Theatre Royal's artistic programming - Although the newly refurbished theatre has launched with a seasonal pantomime, Aladdin, the next year will see a play, Shoot 2 Win set around a netball team, and a musical version of the Indian cinema epic Baju Bawra - Three productions that originated at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East - Five Guys Named Mo, The Phantom of the Opera (not the Lloyd Webebr version) and The Invisible Man have transferred to the West End during Philip Hedley's time as Artistic Director, and hopefully this list will be extended now that his theatre has the resources to showcase new plays and musicals to even greater effect - Square Thing, a 100 seat studio opened 1979; 7th Theatre Royal - Theatre Royal, St. James

Theatre Second Floor (TORONTO) (1975-1979) - founded by Paul Bettis

Theatre Sheridan (TORONTO) - see Sheridan College

Theatre 620 (TORONTO) - St. Vladimir Institue, 620 Spadina Avenue

Theatresports (TORONTO) - Harbourfront Centre - York Quay Centre - 235 Queens Quay West

*Theatre Ten Ten(NYC) - 1010 Park Avenue (84th & 85th)- in the basement of a church

*Theatre 3/Melting Pot(NYC) - 311 West 43rd St (between 8th & 9th Aves)- 96 seats

Theatre Toronto (TORONTO) - 1964-1969 - amalgamation of the Crest Theatre and Canadian Players in 1968 - disbanded

*Theatre 22(NYC) - 54 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th)- 40 seats

Theatre Unique(NYC) - 1908 – sideshows

Theatre Upstairs (LONDON) – see Royal Court - Rocky Horror Show 1973

Theatreworks USA(NYC)

Theatre Workshop(NYC) – see Princess Theatre

Theatre Workshop (LONDON) – founded in Kendal in 1945 – toured England and Europe – 1952 took over Theatre Royal, Stratford opening 1953 – Oh What a Lovely War 1963 – group dispersed 1973

Theatrical Commonwealth(NYC) – 1813 – group of actors set up in converted circus on Broadway – disbanded at end of 1813

The Docks (TORONTO) - 11 Polson Street

The Great Hall (TORONTO) - 1087 Queen Street West

The Rivoli (TORONTO) - 334 Queen St. West

The Space (TORONTO) - 489 Dupont Street

The Theatre (LONDON) – see Theatre - built in 1576 - destroyed and its timbers used to build the Globe in 1598

Thirteenth Street Repertory Company(NYC) - see also Thirteenth Street Theatre

Thirteenth Street Theater (NYC)- 50 West 13th Street - bottom floor of a townhouse

*13th Street Repertory Company(NYC) - 50 West 13th St. (between 5th & 6th) - been performing Israel Horovitz's "Line" for 25 years

39th Street Theatre(NYC) – 119 West 39th St – 1910 – named Nazimova - see Nazimova Theatre – became 39th Street in 1911 - Unchastened Woman 1915 (193), Is Zat So (618), Caught – Welded (Doris Keane,Jacob Ben-Ami) 1924 (3 weeks); Is Zat So 1925 (618) - demolished 1925

Thorncliffe (TORONTO) – 477 seats (1969-1972)

Thormville Square 3 (TORONTO)– Bayview & John St – 3 cinemas (1981-1989)

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts(NYC)

Times Square Paramount (NYC)- built in 1926 by Rapp & Rapp (3,664 seats )- demolished

Times Square Theatre(NYC) - 219 W. 42nd St. built 1920 (1057 seats)- (500 seats) - original productions Enemy 1925 (203); Mirage, Demi-Virgin, Private Lives (256), Fool 1922 (360), Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924 (Gertrude Lawrence,Beatrice Lillie); Front Page 1928 (276), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1926 (199), Front Page 1928 (281); Strike Up The Band 1930 (191), Forsaking All Others - reopened 1934 as a movie house - 1940 a retail store was constructed on the stage area - was also entrance to Apollo Theatre - fate of the theatre not yet decided.

Times Square Theatre and Entertainment Center(NYC) - new center for Off and Off-Off Broadway productions will open its doors on New Year's Day, 2002, after previews running throughout December. The new complex, which has been in the works for over two years, will house rehearsal halls, screening rooms, an art gallery, a gift shop, bar, restaurant as well as a late night club cabaret for events and private parties. It will be located on 8th Ave. between 42nd and 43rd Streets

Tim Sim's Playhouse (TORONTO) - 56 Blue Jays Way - 100 seats

Tisch School of the Arts(NYC)

Titania (TORONTO) – 1183 seats (1974-1985)

Tivoli Gardens Theatre(NYC) – see Richmond Hill Theatre

Tivoli Music-Hall (LONDON) - 65 The Strand (bet. Adam and Durham House St (1890-demolished 1957) – erected on site of beer hall – opened 1890 as Tivoli Theatre of Varieties – closed 1914 – demolished and replaced 1923 by a cinema – demolished 1957 and site became department store

Tivoli Theatre (TORONTO) – 13 Richmond St. East at Victoria – 1919 – opened as the Allen 1000 seats – renamed the Tivoli in 1923 - across the street from Shea's Victoria - see Allen Theatre - Richmond Street East at Victoria Streets – Navy Show 1943 - theatre which housed TODD-AO, now demolished and is the Cambridge Hotel – closed 1973

TKTS - ONE HALF PRICE THEATRE TICKETS(NYC) - opened June 25, 1973

*Todmorden Mills Theatre (TORONTO) - Pottery Road between Bayview Extension and Broadview

Toho Cinema(NYC) - see Bijou Theatre

Tony Pastor's Opera House(NYC) - 1865 - Broadway and Prince Street - opened larger theatre in 1875 and in 1881 opened theatre on 14th Street - Parlor Match 1884 (16),

Tony's(NYC) - small cabaret - Mabel Mercer

Toole's Theatre (LONDON) - William IV St. & The Strand (1854-1895)- built on the site of 5 previous theatres - Best Man 1894 - closed in 1895

Top of the Gate(NYC) – Tuscaloosa’s Calling Me…But I’m Not Going 1975; Nightclub Cantata 1977 (145); Rap Master Ronnie 1984; Beehive 1986 - see Village Gate

Top 'o the Senator (TORONTO)- (249 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON - 416-364 7517) - cabaret

Top of the Square (TORONTO) - 279 Yonge Street

Toronto Centre for the Arts (TORONTO) (see Studio Theatre)(see Ford Centre for the Performing Arts)- 5040 Yonge Street

Toronto Cinema (TORONTO) – 266 seats (1994 opened and closed)

*Toronto Dance Theatre (TORONTO)

Toronto Free Theatre (TORONTO) - (1971-1988) founded by Adrienne Clarkson, Martin Kinch and John Palmer - 26 Berkeley Street (Theatre Upstairs 180 seats and Theatre Downstairs 280 seats) – building from late 1880s gasworks – merged with Centre Stage in 1988 and became Canadian Stage - talents included Paul Gross, Clare Coulter, Fiona Reid, Jackie Burroughs, and Michael Hogan - Angel City, As Is, Baal, Buried Child, Desperados, Domino Courts, Fool for Love, Me, Passion and Sin, Workingman and the Jones Boy

Toronto Fringe Festival (TORONTO) - various theatres - each summer theatre companies from around the world perform at various stages throughout the city over 11 days in July

Toronto Opera House (TORONTO) - (1886-1903) - Adelaide Street, West of Yonge

*Toronto Operetta Theatre (TORONTO)

*Toronto Symphony (TORONTO) - formed 1906-08 - see Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall

*Toronto Truck Theatre (TORONTO) - formed 1971 - see Belmont Theatre

Toronto Workshop Productions (TORONTO) (now Buddies in Bad Times) - (1959-1988) opened as Workshop Productions – Toronto was added in 1963 when they were at 47 Fraser Avenue – moved to current location in 1967 – damaged by fire in 1974 – theatre under the brilliant direction of George Luscombe, an experimental theatre pioneer – was the oldest theatre company in Toronto before closing - Alchemist, Black Comedy, Captain of Kopenick, Che Guevara, Chicago 70, Creeps, Daganawida, Damnee Manon Sacree Sandra, Easter, Faces, Flowers, Game, Gentlemen Be Seated, Good Soldier Schweik,Hey Rube, Hosanna, Indians, Inspector General, Letters from Earth, Mr. Bones, 1969 and often repeated, Nunsense, Orators, Salome,Salt Water Moon, Tempest, Ten Lost Years 1976, Tom Paine, Toronto Pixie Caper, Travellers, View From the Bridge (Vincent Gardenia)

Tottenham Street Theatre (LONDON) – see Scala Theatre

Tower Theatre (LONDON) – Canonbury Place – Islington – home of Tavistock Repertory Company (founded 1932) in 1952 moved to Canonbury Tower, Islington – well preserved 16th Century building – adjacent hall became 160 seat theatre opening 1953 as Tower

* Town Hall(NYC) - 123 West 43rd St. between 6th & 7th - now a National historic site in the heart of the theatre district - serving the community since 1921 – Canadian Portia White debut 1944; Young Tom Edison 1997

Towne and Countrye (TORONTO) – Yonge and Steeles 1969 – renamed Centrepoint in 1991 – 2 cinemas

Towne Cinema (TORONTO) – 57 Bloor St East – 693 seats – art cinema (1949-1985)

Town Tonics (TORONTO) - 1932 to 1942 under the direction of Jane Mallett

Trafalgar Square Theatre (LONDON)– see Duke of York’s

Trafalgar Theatre (NYC) - see Nederlander, and Billy Rose - Who's Life Is It Anyway

Tranzac Club (TORONTO) - 292 Brunswick Avenue

*Triad(NYC) - 158 West 72nd St. (Broadway & Columbus Circle)- 130 seats on 2nd floor of upper West Side Club -cabaret style space - see Steve McGraw's Supper Club – Big City Rhythm 1995; Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back 1996; Secrets Every Smart Traveller Should Know 1997; American Rhapsody 2001

*Tribeca Playhouse(NYC) - 111 Reade St (just East of W. Broadway)

Tricycle Theatre (LONDON) - considered off West End - 269 Kilburn Road (Kilburn) - a theatre and cinema with a pub in the middle - began 1980 in converted Foresters Hall - almost destroyed by fire in 1987 - 225 seats, plus a rehearsal studio, arts studio, smaller theatre/workshop and art gallery, cafe and bar - The Tricycle has been home to British premieres of several August Wilson plays (which later moved on to larger venues), and James Baldwin's "The Amen Corner" which moved on the West End. The Tricycle was also the original home to the British premieres of "Ain't Misbehavin'" the Fats Waller musical and the South African musical "Kat & the Kings" both of which moved on to the West End

*Trilogy(NYC) - 341 West 44th St.(between 8th & 9th Aves) (2 theatres on 2nd floor of office building) - 70 seats and 30 seats)

*Trinity Basement Theatre (TORONTO) - 619 Sherbourne Street

Trinity St. Paul's Centre (TORONTO) - 427 Bloor St. West

*Trinity Square (TORONTO) - Eaton Centre built around this church - Lady's Not For Burning, Marat Sade

Trinity Workshop Theatre (TORONTO) - 619 Sherbourne Street

Trocadero Palace of Varieties (LONDON) – Great Windmill Street- built on site of 1744 tennis court – opened 1829 as Subscription Theatre – closed from 1835-50 when reopened as Argyll Rooms – closed 1878 – 1882 reopened as Trocadero – 600 seats – 1895 converted to grill room – 1965 converted to bowling alley

*Tropicana Dinner Theatre (TORONTO) - 247 Spadina Avenue

Tryptych Productions (TORONTO) - 583 Drurie Street - various venues used – Most Happy Fella (02)

Truck and Warehouse Theatre(NYC) - Steambath 1970 (127); House of Blue Leaves 1971 (337), Women Behind Bars – demolished

Tripler Hall(NYC) – see Winter Garden Theatre and New York Theatre

Trocadero Cabaret Theatre(NYC) – One Foot Out of the Door 1993

Truck and Warehouse Theatre(NYC) – Steambath (Anthony Perkins,Hector Elizondo) 1970 (127); Billy Noname 1970; Faggot 1973

*T. Schreiber Studio(NYC) - 151 West 26th St. (7th)

Turnham’s Music-all (LONDON) – see Metropolitan Music-Hall

Twentieth Century Theatre (LONDON) – see Bijou

21st Century Love Cinema (TORONTO) – 245 Yonge Street – (1973 opened and closed)

21st Century Love Cinema (TORONTO) – 325 Yonge Street - (1973 opened and closed)

28th Street Theatre(NYC) - 120 West 28th St. (home to MCC Theatre Company)

*29th Street Rep(NYC) - 212 West 29th Street, between 7th & 8th

22 Steps Theatre(NYC) - Dogg's Hamlet/Cahoot's Macbeth 1979 (direct from London's Collegiate Theatre)

TWP (TORONTO) - see Toronto Workshop Productions

U-Kum (TORONTO) – College and Dovercourt (1919-1920)

*Uni Theatre (TORONTO) - 67067-3200 Erin Mills Parkway, Mississauga

Unicorn Theatre Company (LONDON) - a new children's theatre to be built near London Bridge, near the National and Globe theatres on Tooley Street near the London Dungeon

*Union Square Theatre(NYC) - 100 East 17th St.(between Union Square & Irving Place) (499) – opened 1871 - was once Tammany Hall – opened as variety hall – burnt down 1888 – rebuilt under various names – became burlesque house, then cinema – was one of the largest off-Broadway houses – demolished 1936 – rebuilt and was home of the Roundabout Theatre Company for 7 years – Eating Raoul 1992; London Suite (Carole Shelly,Kate Burton,Paxton Whitehead) 1995; Visiting Mr. Green (Eli Wallach-replaced by Hal Linden) 1998; Wit 1998 transferred from MCC Theatre (545); Laramie Project 2000 (126); Jitney 2000 - transferred here from Second Stage

Union Theatre(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

Unity Theatre (LONDON) – Goldington Street, St. Pancras – small theatre – 200 seats – 1936 – destroyed by fire 1975

University Alumnae Dramatic Club (TORONTO) - founded 1918-1984 – performed at the Women’s Union, Conservatory of Music, Hart House, and were housed at various locales - Huntley Street, Bedford Road, Huron Street (converted synagogue) and Maplewood Avenue – since 1972 housed at Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley Street (154 seats) and Elizabeth Mascall Studio (75 seats)

*University College Drama Program (TORONTO) - Hart House Theatre (renamed Robert Gill Theatre)

University of Toronto at Mississauga (TORONTO) - 3359 Mississauga Road

University Theatre (TORONTO) - Bloor Street West of Bay Street on North side – 1556 seats - (built 1949-1986) - there was a petition of over 25,000 people against the demolition of this theatre but it was demolished anyway

Upstairs at Jimmy's(NYC) - What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This 1973 (543)

*Upstairs at Rose's Turn(NYC) - see Rose's Turn

Upstairs at the Downstairs/Downstairs at the Upstairs(NYC) - intimate uptown club of 1950s and 1960s with revues by Julius Monk – Take Five 1957; Demi-Dozen 1958 (728); Pieces of Eight 1959; Dressed to the Nines 1960; Seven Come Eleven 1961; Just For Openers 1965; Below the Belt 1966; Mixed Doubles 1966; Freefall; (728)

Upstart Crow Theatre Company (TORONTO) - is the Indie theatre company that is completely self-reliant. Whether it's publicity, performance, creative design, fundraising, marketing, technical support, administration - or even playwrighting - it is our Ensemble who perform all of the tasks

Uptown Theatre (TORONTO) - see Loew's Uptown – 764 Yonge Street, South of Bloor – 1922 – 2743 seats – 1st Toronto theatre equipped for sound – stage shows accompanied the films – 5 screens 1969 – Cinema 1-929; Cinema 2-605 and Cinema 3-407

*Urban Stages(NYC) - 259 West 30th Street – housed in a storefront – between 7th & 8th

Urban’s Ziegfeld (NYC)- 1927

Uris Theatre(NYC) - 51st Street – 1900 seats – Circle in the Square housed in basement – opened 1972 - see Gershwin – Seesaw 1973; Gigi 1973; King and I 1977 (696); Porgy and Bess 1979; Sweeney Todd (Angela Lansbury,Len Cariou) 1979 (558); Pirates of Penzance 1981 (772);

Valencia Theatre(NYC) - opened in 1929 at Jamaica Avenue and Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens - used as a church - was a Loews theatre designed by John Eberson, 3500 seats

Van Dam Theatre(NYC) – Sing Muse! 1961

Vanderbilt Theatre(NYC) - 148 West 48th Street - 1918 - 780 seats - Irene 1919 (670), Anna Christie 1921 (177); Girl Friend (Rodgers & Hart) 1926; Peggy-Ann 1926 (333); Connecticut Yankee 1927 (418), Mulatto 1935 (373); From 1939 NBC did network broadcasts as did ABC and it returned to stage shows in 1952 - demolished in 1954 and became a parking garage

Variety (TORONTO)– see Arcadian

Variety (TORONTO)– see Pickford

*Variety Arts(NYC) - 110 - 3rd Avenue & 14th St. (498) - built 1911 as a nickelodeon - refurbished and renovated in 1991 - 498 seats – Annie Warbucks 1993; Zombie Prom 1996; Always...Patsy Cline 1997; Savion Glover/Downtown 1998; Dinner With Friends celebrated 1 year (Nov. 19, 2000) - possibly the oldest existing theatre in Manhattan

Variety Dinner Theatre (TORONTO)– Oh Calcutta 1983

Variety Theatre(NYC) (Variety Photoplays) - built 1900

Varsity (TORONTO)– Bloor and Bay - opened 1974 with 2 screens – 8 screens in 1997 plus 4 VIP cinemas in 1998

*Varsity Arena (TORONTO) - 275 Bloor Street West @ Bedford Road -Requiem

Varsity Cinema (TORONTO)- 55 Bloor St. West at Bay - 8 cinemas in the Manulife Centre

*Varsity Stadium (TORONTO) - 275 Bloor Street West @ bedford Road

Vasser College(NYC) - Powerhouse Theatre, Mainstage and Susan Stein Shivz Theatre - Mr. Goldwyn (Alan King) 2001;

*Vaudeville Theatre (LONDON) - (Charing Cross) - Strand - 1870 (690 seats) – renevated and reopened 1891 - Rosmersholm; Hedda Gabler; Salad Days 1954-1960 (nearly 6 years); Chips With Everything; Arsenic and Old Lace (Subil Thorndike) 1966; Absurd Person Singular; Move Over Mrs. Markham 1970, A Private Matter- closed and renovated many times over the years

Vaudeville Theatre (LONDON) - Strand - 1870 - reconstructed 1891 and 1926 - Joseph's Sweetheart 1888; Belle of Mayfair 1906; Salad Days 1955; Follow That Girl 1960; Wildest Dreams 1961; Present Laughter 1981; Who Plays Wins 1985;

Vaudeville Theatre (TORONTO)- see Casino Theatre - 87 Queen Street West (formerly Vaudeville) demolished in 1957 - as Casino was great vaudeville site, with headliners like Johnnie Ray, Billy Daniels, Frankie Laine, Sally Rand, Patti Page, Gene Nelson, Rosemary Clooney, Crew Cuts, Four Lads - 1,100 seats, strippers or name star got 300.00 a week for 24 shows, chorus girls got 27.50 per week for same 24 shows - just before being torn down in 1957 did a stint as a legitimate house called Civic Square

Vaughan (TORONTO) – 558 St. Clair Ave West & Vaughan Road – 1947 – 1000 seats – closed 1973 and demolished 1980s

Vauxhall (LONDON) – place of entertainment on south bank of Thames – originally Spring Gardens, Foxhall, opening 1660 – 18th Century used for concerts and spectaculars – early 19th Century known as Royal Gardens, Vauxhall

Vauxhall Garden Theatre(NYC)– opened 1806 on Fourth Avenue and Astor Place – replacing original which was on Greenwich Street – new Saloon Theatre opened 1838 – demolished 1855; 2nd Vauxhall - Vauxhall Garden Theatre Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre - 161 West 22nd St. (7th Avenue)

Venice Theatre(NYC) - see Jolson's 59th St. Theatre and Century Theatre

Venue (LONDON) - new theatre space created by Adam Kenwright in 2002 - a conversion of a church basement off Leicester Square into a 300 seater theatrical space has created the first new West End theatre since the Arts - also near Leicester Square - some seventy years ago. Any new theatre space in central London is to be welcomed, and there seems to be something particularly suitable about basements near churches - two leading fringe venues created in the 1990s, Jermyn Street Theatre and the Bridewell, are both in basements next to or near famous Wren churches - Taboo 2002

Vere Street Theatre (LONDON) – Clare Market – originally tennis court 1634 – used for plays after closing of theatre in 1642 – became fencing school 1669-1671 – then meeting house, carpenter’s, slaughter house – destroyed by fire 1809 – Stoll Theatre built on part of this site in 1911

Versailles Club(NYC)

Verulamium (LONDON) – St. Alban’s – Roman Theatre AD140 and 150 – mainly used for sport – AD200 stage enlarged – end of 3rd Century theatre was rebuilt – abandoned end of 4th Century – discovered 1847 and excavated 1934

Victoria (TORONTO)– Richmond at 83 Victoria Street (1948-1952)

Victoria (TORONTO)– (1926-1927)

*Victoria Palace (LONDON) - (Victoria) Victoria Street - 1911 - (1500 seats) - recently renovated - built on site of three previous music halls - Black and White Minstrels (10 years); Me and My Girl 1937; Little Foxes 1982; Annie (3 and half years); Barnum 1984; Buddy 1989; Jolson; Fame

Victoria Palace (LONDON) – Victoria Street on site of Royal Standard Hotel – 1840 – room known as Moy’s Music Hall – 1863 renovated and became Royal Standard Music Hall – 1910 present theatre built – 1565 seats - Me and My Girl 1937; Annie 1978; Windy City 1982; Buddy 1989; Jolson 1996; Always 1997;

Victoria Terrace (TORONTO)– 1989 - sixplex

Victoria Theatre (LONDON), Lambeth - (later known as Old Vic) opened in 1818 as Royal Coburg Theatre; 2nd Victoria Theatre – Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire – converted cinema – 347 seats; 3rd Victoria Theatre - other side of the Thames

Victoria Theatre(NYC) - see Gaiety Theatre

Victoria Theatre(NYC) - built 1899 - 1200 seats - 42nd Street and 7th Avenue – see Gaiety - Paradise Roof Garden - became Hammersteins demolished 1935

Victoria Five Theatre(NYC) - 310 West 125th St. (8th Avenue)

Victory(NYC) - 207 West 42nd St - see Republic - see Belasco - built 1899 (500 seats) originally 1,100 seats - located west of Hammerstein'as Victoria - Sag Harbor, Abie's irish Rose - see New Victory Theatre

Victory Theatre (TORONTO)– built as Standard in 1922 replacing the demolished National for Yiddish theatre – 287 Spadina Ave – 1935 became the Strand and in 1940 the Victory – which went from films to strip shows - later became the Golden Harvest playing Chinese films – now retail stores

Vieux-Colombier Theatre(NYC) – see Garrick Theatre

Village (TORONTO)– Spadina Road, North of St. Clair – 821 seats – (1936-1955)

Village Arena Theatre(NYC) – Touch 1970

Village Barn (NYC)- 8th Street - in basement of newly built 8th Street Playhouse, an innovative movie theatre for the time, circa 1927 (information on Village Gate/Top of the Gate and Village Barn supplied by Scott C. Parker NYC - the space where the Village Barn was is now the Electric Lady Recording Studios. Founded by Jimi Hendrix. The movie theater upstairs is, unfortunately, now a video store.

Village Gate/Top of the Gate(NYC) – see also Top of the Gate - Bleeker and Thompson Streets - Nina Simone 1961; Byrds 1966; MacBird (Stacy Keach,Rue McClanahan) 1967 (386); Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris 1968 (1847), National Lampoon's Lemmings 1973; Let My People Come 1974 (1327)(moved after 2 years at Village Gate to Morosco Theatre); Tuscaloosa's Calling Me But I'm Not Going 1975 (Top); Lovesong 1976; Tony Williams 1976; Scrambled Feet 1979 (831), One Mo' Time 1979 (1372); Lies and Legends: Musical Stories of Harry Chapin 1985; Mayor 1985; Beehive 1986 (600) - Rap Master Ronnie 1984; Lies and Legends: Musical Stories of Harry Chapin 1985; Mayor 1985; Beehive 1986 (600); Mama's Boys, 2 by 5; Prom Queens Unchained 1991 - now a drug store

Village Gate(NYC) - a new endeavour opened a few doors from the original and being used as a night club

Village Light Opera Group(NYC)

Village Playhouse (TORONTO) - 2190 Bloor Street West

Village Vanguard(NYC) - 178 8th Avenue South, Greenwich Village - jazz cabaret - Judy Holliday, Eartha Kitt, Lenny Bruce, Woody Guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, Harry Belafonte, Betty Comden and Adolph Green

*Vineyard Theater/Dimson(NYC) - 108 East 15th St.@ Union Square East(120)- housed in a modern apartment/office tower – Clues to a Life 1982; Goblin Market 1985; Hannah….39 1990; Bed and Sofa 1996; How I Learned to Drive (Mary-Louise Parker,David Morse) - transferred to Century - Pulitizer Prize 1997; Dying Gaul 1998

Vinnie Black's Chapel of Love (TORONTO) - 56 Blue Jays Way

Vinnies(NYC) - 147 Waverly Place

*Virginia(NYC) - (see Guild, and Anta) - 245 West 52nd St. (Jujamcyn-1,264 seats) - Home of the Theatre Guild - built in 1925 as the Guild Theatre, then was extensively renovated in 1950 and became the Anta, and in 1981 The Virginia after daughter of the founder - On Your Toes 1983 (505), Carrie (Betty Buckley) 1988; City of Angels 1989 (878), Jelly's Last Jam (Gregory Hines,Savion Glover) 1992(569), Smokey Joe’s Cafι 1995; A Man For All Seasons, Wild Party (Mandy Patinkin,Toni Collette,Eartha Kitt) 2000, Best Man (Charles Durning,Spalding Gray,Chris Noth,Elizabeth Ashley,Christine Ebersole) 2000 (121); King Hedley II (Brian Stokes Mitchell,Leslie Uggams) 2001;

Vitagraph Theatre(NYC) - see Olympia

*Vital (Theatre on Three) (NYC) – 432 West 42nd Street – 3rdfloor (39 seats)

*Vivian Beaumont Theatre(NYC) - 150 West 65th St. @ Broadway (see Lincoln Centre) (1,080 seats) - built 1965 in Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts - houses two theatres, the Vivian Beaumont and the Mitzi E. Newhouse (299 seats)-originally called the Forum (opened 1966) until 1973 - in 1996 both theatres underwent 8 million dollar renovation - several dark seasons - reopened in 1986 - Black Picture Show 1975 (41); Steamers 1976, Threepenny Opera 1976 (307), Cherry Orchard 1977,Anything Goes (Patti LuPone) 1987 (804), Six Degrees of Separation 1990 (485), Au Pair Man, My Favorite Year 1992; Carousel (Audra McDonald) 1994; Floating Light Bulb, Parade (Brent Carver) 1998; Marie Christine 1999; Contact (Karen Ziemba) 2000 transferred from Newhouse; Matters of the Heart 2000 (Patti LuPone)

Vogue (TORONTO)– 1574 Queen St East – now restaurant

Waldorf (LONDON) - see Strand - Antelope 1908

Waldorf Astoria(NYC) - 301 Park Avenue - built 1929 - Guy Lombardo New Year's Eves

Waldorf Theatre(NYC) - 116 West 50th St - 1926 - 1048 seats - Take the Air (204), revival of That's Gratitude (204) – 1933 became a movie house - 1941 became retail space and was demolished in the late 1960s for Rockefeller Center's Exxon Building

Waldorf Theatre (LONDON) – see Strand Theatre

Walker Street Theatre(NYC) - 46 Walker St. (Church & Broadway)

Wallack’s Lyceum Theatre(NYC) – 485 Broadway - opened as Brougham's Lyceum 1850 and opened 1852 with present name - 1861 became Broadway Music Hall, then Olympic and later Broadway Theatre - demolished 1869

Wallack's Theatre(NYC) – Broadway and 30th Street – 1882 – became Palmer 1888 – reverted to Wallack’s 1896 – closed 1915 – demolished; 2nd Wallack’s Theatre was at 254 West 42nd Street – 1924 – originally opened as Lew Fields – 1906 became Hackett – 1911 Harris and Frazee respectively – became cinema 1931; 3rd Wallack’s Theatre – Star Theatre was known as Wallack’s from 1861 to 1882; 4th Wallack’s Theatre - Broadway & 13th Sts (922 seats) - Poor of New York 1857 (42); New Wallack’s Theatre opened in 1861 - Rosedale or Rifle Ball 1863 (125), Shaughraun 1874 (143); name changed to Star Theatre in 1881; New Park Theatre opened in 1882 - Fortune Teller 1898 (40), Fritz, Disraeli (George Arliss) 1911 (280); Our Cousin German 1928 (63), Squaw Man 1905 (222), Sultan of Sulu 1902 (192), Time The Place and the Girl 1907 (32), County Chairman 1903 (222), Alias Jimmy Valentine 1910 (155) – see also Palmer’s Theatre – demolished

Walter Hall Faculty of Music (TORONTO)- University of Toronto - 80 Queen's Park

*Walter Kerr(NYC) - 219 West 48th St. (Jujamcyn-945 seats) Opened in 1921 as the Ritz - reconditioned in 1972 - renamed in 1990 for the renowned drama critic - Piano Lesson 1990 (320); Angels in America: Millennium Aproaches (Ron Leibman) 1993; Patti LuPone on Broadway 1995 (46); Love,Valor,Compassion 1995; Forever Tango 1997; Beauty Queen of Leenane 1998 (374); Weir 1999 (276); Moon for the Misbegotten(Cherry Jones)2000; Proof (Mary Louise Parker) 2000;

Walter Reed Theatre(NYC) - West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam

Warden Woods (TORONTO)– 725 Warden Ave – 8 plex (1982-2001)

Warehouse Theatre (LONDON) - Royal Shakespeare Company’s studio theatre – 200 seats – 1977 – Royal Shakespeare Company left Warehouse in 1982

Warner Hollywood(NYC) - 51st Street and Broadway - 1,600 seats opened as a cinema in 1930 but became the Mark Hellinger Theatre (see)

Washington Square Church(NYC) - Tony and Tina's Wedding 1988 (over 2000 performances)

Washington Square Players(NYC) – 1914 – used various venues – 1916 moved to Comedy Theatre – disbanded 1918

Washington Square Theatre(NYC) – 40 West 4th Street – 1964 – Man of La Mancha 1965 – demolished 1968

*Waterloo Bridge Theatre(NYC) - 203 West 38th St. (7th)

Waverley Theatre(NYC) - 720 Broadway (opposite New York Hotel)

Way Off Broadway Theatre School (NYC)- 95 Christopher Street

Weber and Fields Music Hall(NYC) - 29th Street - opened 1895 - closed 1904

Weber and Fields' Music Hall(NYC) - 216 West 44th St – 1902 – formerly the Imperial Theatre - 1463 seats - name changed to 44th Street when comedy team broke up - Johnny Johnson 1936 (68),Animal Crackers, Rosalinda 1942(521) - roof theatre Lew Fields' 44th Street Roof Garden - the house changed names 9 times in 24 years i.e. Nora Bayes Theatre - basement became the legendary Stage Door Canteen - Lillian Russell, Fay Templeton, David Warfield, DeWolf Hopper, Weber & Fields - see also Nora Bayes Theatre - theatre was razed in 1945 and the Times building constructed on the site

Weill Recital Hall(NYC) – Widow’s Waltz 1992

Westbank-Laurie Beechman(NYC)

*Westbeth Theatre Centre(NYC) - 151 Bank Street – 2 theatres – Song Floating 1994

West End (TORONTO)– (1942-1958) - 215 Mavety St, West of Keele and Dundas – 1921 – built as the Mavety – now apartment building

West Hill (TORONTO)– Roxy – (1956-1967)

West London Theatre (LONDON) – Church Street, off Edgware Road – opened 1832 as Royal Pavilion West – 1835 renamed Portman – 1837 became Marylebone Theatre – 1868 became Royal Alfred and 1873 once again Marylebone – end of 19th Century renamed West London – became cinema 1932 – damaged 1941 then used as warehouse – while being demolished 1962 was destroyed by fire; 2nd West London Theatre – Tottenham Court Road – see Scala Theatre

Westminster Cinema(NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre

Westminster Theatre (LONDON) – opened 1832 – closed due to lack of a licence – site later occupied by part of Imperial Theatre and subsequently Central Hall, Westminster; 2nd Westminster Theatre - *Westminster Theatre - 12 Palace Road, near Victoria Station - 1924 - originally the Charlotte Chapel built in 1766, then a cinema 1921 - 600 seats - the St. James Picture Theatre - became a theatre in 1931, the only theatre in west end not to serve alcohol (Moral Rearmament Movement 1960)- 1946 it was acquired by the Westminster Memorial Trust – Space is So Startling 1962; Relative Values (Margaret Lockwood) 1972; Follow the Star 1975; Ride! Ride! 1976- being demolished 2002, but the developers of the site have agreed to create a smaller theatre within the new development - this new theatre is earmarked for the Talawa theatre company, so there will be a continuity of performance on the site, but the fact that a central London theatre can be demolished remains a cause for great concern, especially in light of the continuing row about the proposed demolition of the existing Mermaid Theatre in the City of London - closing officially on March 3, 2002

Weston (TORONTO)– (1929-1931) - later Fox Weston (1954-1960 – 554 seats) – demolished – now government building

Weston Little Theatre (TORONTO)- 1 Ralph Street, Weston

Weston Recital Hall (TORONTO)- 5040 Yonge Street

Weston’s Music Hall (LONDON) – see Holborn Empire

* Westside Arts(NYC) - 234 West 44th St - (upstairs 299 seats; downstairs 250 seats)- built 1889 as German Baptist church - became a theatre in 1970s - renovated in 1991 with two theatres - Ashayna Maidel (501), Extremeties, Mystery of Irma Vep, Sea Horse, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Pump Boys and Dinettes 1981, I Can’t Keep Running in Place 1981; Pump Boys and Dinettes 1981; Charlotte Sweet 1982; Tallulah 1983, Penn and Teller 1985 (666), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune 1987 (533); A Shayna Maidel 1987 (501); And the World Goes Round 1991; I Love You You're Perfect Now Change - longest running Off-Broadway Musical Revue as of July 31/01 (5 years)

*Westside Theatre(NYC) - 407 West 43rd St (between 9th & 10th Aves)- Sea Horse (Conchata Ferrell) 1974 (4 months); Piano Bar 1978; And The World Goes Round 1991; Balancing Act 1992; Spic-O Rama - 1992 (80); Cryptogram (Ed Begley) 1995; I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change 1996 (6 years as of Aug 1/02); Vagina Monologues 1999

Westwood (TORONTO)– Malton – 3 cinemas (1959-1995)

Wharf Theatre(NYC) – see Cruger’s Wharf Theatre

*White Bear Theatre (LONDON) - 138 Kennington Park Road, London (Kennington) - about 20 years old (45 seats)

Whitefriar’s Theatre (LONDON) – private roofed theatre in refectory hall of Whitefriars Monastery (Bouverie Street) – adapted 1605 – still in use in 1621 – replaced by Salisbury Court Theatre 1629

*Whitehall Theatre (LONDON) - Whitehall(Charing Cross), near Trafalgar Square – 628 seats - Whitehall 1930 - Art Deco – Worm’s Eye View 1945 (1,745+ performances); Come Spy With Me 1966; Pajama Tops 1969 (5 ½ years); Tribute to the Blues Brothers 1991; Voyeurz 1996;

Whitney Theatre (LONDON) – see Strand

Willesden Empire (LONDON) – Willesden Wood Green – demolished

William Brady's Playhouse(NYC) - see Playhouse Theatre

William Street Theatre(NYC) – 1790

Willow (TORONTO) – 5269 Yonge Street North, between Sheppard and Finch, Willowdale – 1000 seats – (1948-1987) – demolished

Wilton’s Music Hall (LONDON) – see Music-Hall

Winchester Music Hall (LONDON), Southwark Bridge Road – saloon attached to Grapes Public House – known as Surrey Music Hall - opened 1830s – 1856 changed to Winchester - closed 1878 – demolished

*Winchester Street Theatre (TORONTO) - 80 Winchester Street at Metcalf

*Winter Garden/Elgin (TORONTO) - 189 Yonge Street - is an atmospheric type theatre - designed by Thomas Lamb - 1422 seats - Toronto's only piggyback theatres (1914-1928)were both restored to their original splendour in 1985 and reopened in 1989 at a cost of 30 million dollars; the Winter Garden Theatre had been closed since 1928, and remained closed for more than 60 years (992 seats). It is the top layer of theatres and closed due to fire and building codes and the decline in vaudeville. The Elgin continued to show films before being closed for restoration. - closed in the mid 1970s until restored to its original grandeur in the early 1980s Also see Elgin Theatre)- Das Wunder von Neukolln 2000

Windmill Theatre (LONDON) – Great Windmill Street, near Piccadilly Circus – 326 seats – 1931 in converted cinema dating from 1910 – featured the famous “Windmill Girls” appearing in nude tableaux – only theatre to remain open during the whole of the 2nd World War – reverted to cinema 1974 – became theatre once again with nude revues – 1981 converted to theatre-restaurant

Windsor Theatre (NYC)- see 48th Street Theatre - Maud of Arran; Cradle Will Rock 1938 (108) – demolished

*Wings Theatre(NYC) - 154 Christopher Street (74)(West of Washington St)- in basement of an arts center

Winter Garden(NYC) – opened 1859 located in the remodeled Tripler Hall – Julius Caesar (Booth Brothers) 1864; Hamlet (Edwin Booth) 1864 (100); Octoroon 1859 (48) – burned down

*Winter Garden(NYC) - 1634 Broadway @ 51st St. (Shubert-1,482 seats) - a former cattle barn, opened on March 20, 1911, with La Belle Paree, starring Al Jolson - Jolson would star in many Winter Garden shows - (1600 seats)East side of Broadway - East Lynne 1863 (20), home to many "Passing Shows" – 1911 became a cinema, but back to theatre with Passing Show of 1913;Queen of the Movies (Valli) 1914 (13 weeks); Robinson Crusoe Jr (Al Jolson)1916 (139); Kissing Time 1919 (430); Tell Me More 1925; Great Temptations (Jack Benny,Billy Van) 1926 (6 months); cinema again in mid 20s to 1933 - Ziegfeld Follies of 1934; At Home Abroad 1935; Ziegfeld Follies of 1936; You Never Know 1938; Sons o' Fun 1941 (742), Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 (Milton Berle) (553), Mexican Hayride 1944; Mike Todd's Peep Show 1950; I Make a Wish 1951; Top Banana (Phil Silvers) 1951; Wonderful Town 1953 (559), Peter Pan (Mary Martin) 1954 (149); Shangri-La 1956; West Side Story (Larry Kert,Carol Lawrence) 1957 (732), Juno 1959; Saratoga 1959; Unsinkable Molly Brown 1960 (532), All American (Ray Bolger,Anita Gillette) 1962 (86); Sophie 1963; Funny Girl (Barbra Streisand)1964 (1348), Mame (Angela Lansbury) 1966 (1508), Jimmy 1969; Follies (Alexis Smith,Gene Nelson,Dorothy Collins,John McMartin,Yvonne DeCarlo) 1971 (522), Gypsy - revival-Angela Lansbury 1974 (120); Pacific Overtures 1976 (193); Beatlemania 1977 (920), Forty Second Street 1980; Cats (Betty Buckley,Hector Jaime Mercado,Ken Page) (opened 10/82 - 6909) , 42nd Street (8/80 to 1/89 - 3,485 performances); 2nd – Metropolitan Theatre in 1858 renamed Winter Garden until burnt down in 1867

Winter Garden Theatre (LONDON) – Drury Lane – originally Middlesex Music Hall – later adapted to theatre – 1581 seats – 1919 – 1953 Witness for the Prosecution – closed 1960 – stood empty – demolished 1965 – New London Theatre occupies this site

Winthrop Ames Theatre(NYC) – 45th Street between Broadway and 8th - see Little Theatre – changed to Winthrop Ames in 1964

Women’s Project and Productions(NYC)

Wonderland (TORONTO) – West Toronto Junction

Wonderland Theatre (TORONTO) - see Sheas Theatre

Woodbine Centre 8 (TORONTO)– 1985

Woodside (TORONTO) – McCowan and Finch – 1981

Wood's Museum(NYC) - Davy Crockett, or Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead 1873 (12), Across the Continent 1871 (42)

Wood’s Theatre(NYC) – see Daly’s Theatre1869 renovated for 30,000 and opened with Ixion, ex-king of Thessaly or The Man at the Wheel

Woolwich Empire Theatre (LONDON) - demolished

Wordmachine (TORONTO) - 1034 Queen Street West

Workman Theatre (TORONTO) - 1001 Queen St. West

World Music Institute(NYC)

World Theatre(NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre

Worldwide Plaza Theatres(NYC) (see Dodger Stages) - 50th and 51st Street between 8th and 9th Avenues - scheduled for 2003 - plans to create five Off-Broadway theatres in the underground space that once held the Worldwide Plaza cinemas - former Loews Cineplex Odeon Theater space has 55,361 square feet and is located underground at Worldwide Plaza, a massive office-retail complex with a popular outdoor promenade. Dodger is planning two 499-seat theatres, two 400 seat theatres and a fifth with 299-seats. One box office would link the spaces, and a restaurant is part of the plan

*Worth Street Theatre(NYC) - 33 Worth St. (West Broadway)- Small Craft Warnings 1999

WOW Cafι(NYC) - 59 E. 4th St. (Women's One World Cafι) - only women's alternative theatre

WPA Federal Theatre(NYC) – see Federal Theatre

* WPA Theater(NYC) - 519 West 23rd St. (128); Steel Magnolias 1987 - opened and transferred to Lucille Lortel for 817 performances; Weird Romance 1992; New York Rock 1994; Songs for a New World 1995

WPP(NYC) - see Theatre 4

*Wyndhams Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) Charing Cross Road - opened 1899- (758 seats) – has last complete picture frame surround in London - Dancers (Tallulah Bankhead) 1923 (346); Ringer 1926 (410); Quiet Week-End 1941 (1000+ perf); Boy Friend 1954-59 (2084); Taste of Honey; Call It Love 1960; Italian Girl 1968 (315); Side by Side by Sondheim (transferred from Mermaid); Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Vanessa Redgrave) 1966 (588); Italian Girl 1968 (315); Boys in the Band 1969; Abelard and Heloise 1970; Hostage; Oh What a Lovely War; Godspell 1972 (1128 perf); Ride Down Mount Morgan 1991; Three Tall Women; Art;

Xenon(NYC) - see Henry Miller's Theatre

Yiddish Art Players(NYC) - see Jolson's 59th St. Theatre

Yiddish Art Theatre(NYC) - see Phoenix Theatre

YMCA Theatre for Young Audiences (TORONTO) - 20 Grosvenor Street

Yonge (TORONTO) – see Loews, Elgin, Winter Garden

York (TORONTO) – 812 Yonge Street North of Bloor

York I & II (TORONTO)– Eglinton Avenue East of Yonge St (Odeon Cineplex)- (built 1969-2001) - theatres 1 and 2 - now closed, but available for conventions, private screenings etc. as of January/02

Yorkdale 6 (TORONTO) – Dufferin & 401 – 1964 – Silver City 1999

York Hall (TORONTO)- Glendon College - 2275 Bayview Avenue

York Memorial Auditorium (TORONTO)- Eglinton at Keele

York Minstrels (TORONTO)

York Playhouse(NYC) - Garden District 1958; American Dream 1961 (370); Young Abe Lincoln 1961; Colette Collage 1983

York Quay Centre (TORONTO)- 235 Queen's Quay West

*York Theatre(NYC) (Theatre at St. Peter’s)(York Theatre Company) – 619 Lexington Ave (147 seats) – Jello is Always Red 1998; Taking a Chance on Love 2000

*York University (TORONTO) - Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre - Burton Auditorium -(600 seats) - Centre for Fine Arts - 4700 Keele Street - Burton Hall - Department of Dance is Canada's oldest and largest University dance department - Polish Mime, an Evening with Jerry Herman

Yorkwoods Library (TORONTO)- 1785 Finch Avenue

*Young Peoples Theatre (TORONTO) - 165 Front Street East - founded in 1966 by Susan Douglas Rubes as the only theatre centre in English Canada devoted exclusively to programs for young people - houses two theatres - the main stage Susan Rubes - 468 seats and the 115 seat Nathan Cohen Studio Theatre - operates out of a former Toronto Transit Commission generating station at 165 Front Street. Originally built as stables for horses of the Toronto Street Railway, the building was converted to a generating station when electric power replaced horse power. In 1906 the company began purchasing power from Niagara and shut the generators down. For more than half a century the building was used for storage or sat empty. It was saved from demolition in 1977 when the Young People’s Theatre converted it to theatre and studio space.Diary of Anne Frank

*Young Vic Theatre (LONDON) - considered off West End - 66 The Cut (?), South Bank – 1945 as part of new Old Vic Drama School – 2nd Young Vic - founded 1970 as part of National Theatre – erected on bomb site near Old Vic - 5 rows of seats plus a studio seating about 80 - theatre built in 1970

Yuk Yuk's East (TORONTO) - 235 Bayly, Ajax

Yuk Yuk's Supperclub (TORONTO) - 2335 Yonge Street

Yuk Yuk's West (TORONTO) - 5165 Dixie Road, Mississauga

Ziegfeld Theatre(NYC) - Northwest corner of 6th Avenue and 54th Steet - 1927 – Showboat 1927 (575) – 1932 became a cinema after Ziegfeld's death until bought by Billy Rose and reopened – restored and reopened in 1944 - Rio Rita 1927 (494), Ziegfeld Follies (final instalment - Helen Morgan) 1931 (164); Red Mill 1945 (531), Brigadoon 1947 (581), Magdalena 1948; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1949 (740); Kismet 1953 (583), Porgy and Bess - revival 1952 - Kismet 1953 (583); 1955 to 1963 leased to NBC for 7 years - Perry Como Show – returned to theatre in 1963- Foxy (Bert Lahr) 1964; Anya 1965 - demolished in 1966 and now houses the Burlington building and behind it Loew's built a new theatre, aptly named The Ziegfeld, just west of the original site

Zingaro Productions (TORONTO)- 92 Lowther Avenue

*Zipper Theatre(NYC) - Tony winner Alan Cumming has joined forces with Nick Philippou and Audrey Rosenberg to form a new theatre company, The Art Party. Based in New York, the Art Party is "for those who crave the thrill of living art, and the comfort and excess of a party." The fledgling company will collaborate with artists from other art-related fields: those from the fashion, film, photography and dance worlds. Art Party's first production is the English-language premiere of Jean Genet's Elle, which is scheduled for a July 17 to July 31 run at Zipper, 336 West 37th Street.

Please help me with this listing as I live in Toronto, Canada and do not have access to places like the New York Public Library or The Lincoln Centre Library for the Performing Arts to help me along.

If you see errors, additions, duplications or anything pertinent to this listing, please drop me a line: Clair Sedore

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