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The City and the Theatre: The History of New York Playhouses - A 250-Year Journey from Bowling Green to Times Square

The City and the Theatre: The History of New York Playhouses - A 250-Year Journey from Bowling Green to Times Square

The City and the Theatre: The History of New York Playhouses - A 250-Year Journey from Bowling Green to Times Square

$24.95

Henderson, Mary

Cl. New York, 2004

Book ID: 62881

Complete with illustrations and biographies of more than seventy-five Broadway theatres, this is a vivid, thorough history of Manhattan and the rise of its Theatre District: from 1699, when a petition was first made for a license to perform plays in Manhattan, to the twentieth century and the birth of Times Square, to the recent revitalization of Forty-second Street in the mid-1990's.

382 pp., B&W illus.