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The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza is a 1,200-person ballroom-style nightclub at 17 Irving Place and East 15th Street in New York City, New York. It was known as Irving Plaza until April 11, 2007.
History
Originally it was the Irving Hall, opened in 1860 as a home for balls, lectures, and concerts and for many years the base for one faction of the Democratic Party.[1]
The present venue opened as Amberg's German Theatre in 1888, under the management of Gustav Amberg as a home for German-language drama.[2] It had been built on the site of the Irving Hall.
In 1918 it became the home of a Yiddish theatre company under the management of Morris Schwartz.[3] By the 1920s burlesque shows were offered alongside Yiddish drama.[4]
It was converted in the late 1970s from an old Polish dance hall to a rock venue by Andrew Rasiej. The Plasmatics repeatedly sold out the venue, helping to give Irving Plaza national recognition and to become an established rock venue in New York City. Over the years, the three-level auditorium had served as a Polish Army veterans' headquarters, a Yiddish theatre, a burlesque house (ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee stripped here), and a boxing arena.
Heinrich Conried took on the management in 1993, and changed the name to the Irving Place Theatre.[5]
Live Nation, a spinoff of Clear Channel Communications, renovated and reopened Irving Plaza under the name "Fillmore New York At Irving Plaza" on April 11, 2007, with English pop-music singer and songwriter Lily Allen as the opening act.[6] The former Fillmore East in Manhattan's East Village was a rock-music venue that was open from 1968 to 1971.
Venue access and performance genres
The venue, which admits no people under 16 (unless accompanied by an adult), hosts many local and touring bands, theater-, dance-, and music-performing events in a variety of genres. The closest subway station to the nightclub is the 3rd Avenue Station on the New York City Subway's "L" line and many other subway lines at nearby Union Square.
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References
- ^ "Union Square Loses Its Old Residences". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). 18 June 1916. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C03E2DF123DEF3ABC4052DFB066838D609EDE. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ Ward & Trent, et al., ed (1907-21). "23". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes. XVIII. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. ISBN 1-58734-073-9. http://www.bartleby.com/228/0823.html.
- ^ "German Drama to Move; Irving Place Theatre Will Be Yiddish Playhouse". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. 14 February 1918. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE4D6103FE433A25757C1A9649C946996D6CF. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ Shteir, Rachel (2004). Striptease: the untold history of the girlie show. Oxford University Press US. pp. 65. ISBN 9780195127508. http://books.google.com/books?id=fEtWpyiGxDAC. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ "Conried Gets Amberg's.; Hereafter it will be the Irving Place Theatre". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). 10 February 1893. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806E2DC1731E033A25753C1A9649C94629ED7CF. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ Sisario, Ben (30 March 2007). "Arts, Briefly; New Name for Irving Plaza". New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E6DE1130F933A05750C0A9619C8B63. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
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