National Theatre (Manhattan)

(Redirected from National Theater (Manhattan)) Defunct Yiddish theater

For the Broadway theatre previously known as the National Theatre, see Nederlander Theatre. For the 1833–41 theater at Leonard and Church Streets in Manhattan, see Lorenzo Da Ponte § American career.

The National Theatre was a Yiddish theater at the southwest corner of Chrystie Street and Houston Street in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan, New York City, United States. When first built it was leased to Boris Thomashefsky and Julius Adler. Its grand opening as the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre was on September 24, 1912.

The theater was one of the many designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, and seated 1,900 when it opened. It was built as one of a pair of theaters, with the Crown Theater, seating 963, in the rooftop theater. Both theaters closed in 1941, re-opened in 1951 as a pair of cinemas (the National Theater and the Roosevelt Theater), and were demolished in 1959.

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