Republic Theatre
| Theatre Republic, Belasco Theatre, Minsky's Burlesque, Victory Theater | |
The New Victory Theater in 2006
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| Address | 209 W. 42nd Street New York City United States |
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| Owner | City and State of New York |
| Operator | New 42nd Street |
| Type | Family theater |
| Capacity | 500 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | September 27, 1900 |
| Reopened | December 11, 1995 |
| Rebuilt | 1994–1995 |
| Architect | Albert Westover |
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| New 42nd Street | |
| Website | |
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Coordinates: 40°45′21″N 73°59′18″W / 40.755833°N 73.988333°W
The New Victory Theater is an off-Broadway theater located at 209 West 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, in Midtown Manhattan. The New Victory is New York's first and only theater presenting work for children and family audiences year-round, programming a full season of theater, dance, puppetry, circus, opera, physical theater and other types of performance art from around the world. In 2012, The New Victory Theater received a special Drama Desk Award for “providing enchanting, sophisticated theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people.”
Built by Oscar Hammerstein I in 1900 and designed by architect Albert Westover, the theater opened as the Theatre Republic on September 27, 1900, with Lionel Barrymore in James Herne's play Sag Harbor. It was the third theater built on West 42nd Street. Inside the theater, the elaborately decorated interior was crowned with a large dome that featured lyre-playing cherubs (or putti in Italian) perched on its rim. Amazingly, all of the original putti and one lyre still remain today.
Two years later the house was leased by David Belasco, who renamed it the Belasco Theatre and made major renovations to both the house and the stage. Belasco produced a series of plays at the theater starring Mrs. Leslie Carter, George Arliss, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish.
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