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circuit. In 1921, it was renamed the Acme Theatre and converted into a cinema that eventually showed Soviet films and closed in 1936. The original structure was revealed during a November 1992 demolition of Union Square between 4th Avenue & Broadway, and was finally demolished in December. Today
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The first theatre with this name in New York City was located at 58 East 14th Street. It opened in 1870 and played a mixture of plays and operettas. It staged
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that opened in 1870, was converted into a cinema in 1921 and closed in 1936. The second was an
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The second theatre was located at 100 East 17th Street (also known as
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building, built in 1929. It opened in 1994 and was operated by
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The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Volume II, 1870-1945
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan
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44 Union Square
100 East 17th St.
New York City
Coordinates
40°44′11″N 73°59′20″W / 40.73639°N 73.98889°W / 40.73639; -73.98889
Capacity
Union Square
Manhattan
New York City
Broadway theatre
Off-Broadway

Oscar Wilde
Vera; or, The Nihilists
vaudeville
B. F. Keith Circuit
Keith-Albee-Orpheum
Citibank

Led Astray
Dion Boucicault
The Two Orphans
Steele MacKaye
A Celebrated Case
Bronson Howard
Bartley Campbell
The Lights o' London
A Parisian Romance
Bronson Howard

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