Gilmore's Garden (~1870) Madison Square Garden (1880) Garden Theatre (1890) | |
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| Address | 55–61 Madison Avenue. and 22–32 E. 27th Street New York City, New York United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′35″N 73°59′10″W / 40.743°N 73.986°W |
| Owner | Madison Square Garden Company |
| Operator | T. Henry French, A.M. Palmer Charles Frohman, Gustav Amberg, William R. Coleman, Emanuel Reicher, Maurice Schwartz, others |
| Type | Broadway (until ~1910) |
| Capacity | 1,200, +400 standees |
| Construction | |
| Opened | September 27, 1890 |
| Closed | 1925 |
| Demolished | 1925 |
| Years active | 1890–1925 |
| Architect | McKim, Mead & White |
The Garden Theatre was a major theater on Madison Avenue and 27th Street in Manhattan, New York City. The theatre opened on September 27, 1890, and closed in 1925.[1] Part of the second Madison Square Garden complex, the theatre presented Broadway plays for two decades and then, as high-end theatres moved uptown to the Times Square area, became a facility for German and Yiddish theatre, motion pictures, lectures, and meetings of trade and political groups.
The Garden Theatre has been erroneously referred to as the Madison Square Garden Theatre. It was not related to a theater three blocks south (at Madison Avenue and 24th Street) that was called the Madison Square Theatre from 1879 to 1891 and later called Hoyt's Theatre.
- ^ Brown, History of the New York Stage, v.III, p. 518.