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Plymouth Theatre (Boston)


The Plymouth Theatre (1911–1957) of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Stuart Street in today's Boston Theater District. Architect Clarence Blackall designed the building for Liebler & Co. Performers included Henry Jewett,Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, 8-year-old Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bette Davis. In October 1911, the touring Abbey Theatre presented Synge's Playboy of the Western World at the Plymouth; in the audience were W. B. Yeats, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

"The Shubert Organization of New York bought the Plymouth in 1927 and used it largely for tryouts of plays headed for New York or going on tour, and for some long run performances." In 1957 the building became the Gary Theater.

Plymouth Theatre, Boston, 1910s

Irish actors Sara Allgood and J. M. Kerrigan in Synge's Playboy of the Western World, 1911

Seating chart, 1912

Interior, c. 1915

Advertisement, 1919

Advertisement, 1920

Coordinates: 42°21′4.21″N 71°3′57.47″W / 42.3511694°N 71.0659639°W / 42.3511694; -71.0659639


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