Ziegfeld Theatre

The Ziegfeld Theatre is a historic theater in New York City. It was built in 1969 as a classic movie palace, one of the last of its kind in the U.S., and is the last movie theater with a single large movie theater, which is still in operation in Manhattan. It is located on the corner 141ste West/54ste street just a few hundred yards from the spot where in 1966 demolished Broadway theater of the same name was located.

The theater has 1,131 seats, of which 306 are located on the balcony at the rear. Outwardly unassuming, the cinema inside is lavishly decorated with red carpets and velvet paneling, crystal chandeliers and gold ornaments. The walls of the corridors decorate old photos of movie stars. Architects Emery Roth & Sons, designers was Irving Gershon. The interior architecture concerned the cinema outfitter John McNamara. In the late 1990s, the Ziegfeld Theatre was extensively renovated and digitized after the turn of the millennium. In 2008, the Film Society of Lincoln Center used the movie palace on the event of the New York Film Festival. To this day, see world premieres by international press receptions of American films take place, in December 2008 by The Reader with Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes. Since 2010, the Ziegfeld Theatre belongs to the New York theater chain Clearview Cinemas, a subsidiary of the media company Cablevision.