Walter Kerr Theatre (New York). Despite a checkered history that saw it reduced to a porn movie house and a massage parlor for a time, this playhouse on West 48th Street has survived and today is a very desirable house for nonmusical plays. The 1,000‐seat theatre was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Italian Renaissance style and built by the Shuberts in 1921 as the Ritz Theatre. During the 1930s it was used by the Federal Theatre Project and was called the WPA Theatre, then in 1939 it was renamed CBS Theatre No. 4 and was used for radio broadcasts. In the 1940s and 1950s it fluctuated from legit to radio and television and then to movies, reaching its low point in the 1960s. The Ritz returned as a legit house in 1970, and in 1983 it was bought by Jujamcyn, which renovated it and kept the space busy with small productions. In 1990 a more extensive restoration returned the theatre to its original luster, and it was renamed once again, this time after critic Walter Kerr.
Walter Kerr Theatre
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The Walter Kerr Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre. Located at 218 West 48th Street, it is owned by the Jujamcyn Amusement Corporation. One of the smaller auditoriums in the theatre district, it seats 975.
The theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and built as the Ritz Theatre in 1921 by the Shubert family. It operated as a radio and then television studio between 1943 and 1965, and remained vacant from 1965 to 1971, when it reopened with the musical Soon, which closed after three performances. The last production to be housed by the Ritz was Chu Chem. After it closed, Jujamcyn hired EverGreene Architectural Arts to renovate the interior, and reopened the venue now renamed for theatre critic Walter Kerr, in 1990 with August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Since then it has housed six winners of the Tony Award for Best Play: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Proof, Take Me Out, and Doubt.
Other notable productions
- 1938: Murder in the Cathedral
- 1942: My Sister Eileen
- 1971: Dance of Death
- 1973: No Sex Please, We're British
- 1991: I Hate Hamlet
- 1992: Two Trains Running
- 1996: Seven Guitars
- 1998: The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- 1999: The Weir
- 2000: A Moon for the Misbegotten
- 2004: Gem of the Ocean
- 2006: Grey Gardens
- 2008: A Catered Affair
- 2008: The Seagull
- 2009: Irena's Vow, A Little Night Music
External links
- Walter Kerr Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jujamcyn official website
- Walter Kerr Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Guide
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- Jujamcyn Theatres (American Theater)
- Two Trains Running (American Theater)
- Love! Valour! Compassion! (American Theater)
- The Piano Lesson (American Theater)
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- Seven Guitars (American Theater)
- Proof (Critical Overview) (play)
- Doubt (play)
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- Take Me Out (Critical Overview) (play)
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