Belasco Theatre

As the playwright David Belasco, the leased by Oscar Hammerstein I Theatre Republic (now the New Victory Theatre ) was planning to leave, he was inspired by the architect George Keister few blocks from this theater built, the first called Stuyvesant Theatre and opened on October 16, 1907 been.

The building is designed in the style of historicism, from Gothic Revival to New Georgianik. The interior shows examples of Tiffany glass art. Because Belasco was stage manager and theater producer, was located him from equipping it with the most modern stage equipment and lighting. Integrated is an apartment with ten rooms, which used Belasco as apartment and office. Three years later, the theater was renamed the Belasco Theatre. After the death Belasco 1931, it was repeatedly rented and purchased in 1948 by the Shubert Organization, which owns it today.

On the program were melodramas and comedies and musicals in recent times. Played here in 1929 Humphrey Bogart, John Barrymore in 1940, 1946 Marlon Brando, 1957 Noel Coward. From 1971, the musical ran Oh! Calcutta! and in 1975 The Rocky Horror Show in 1981 was followed by Is not Misbehavin '.