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. [1] When first built it was leased to Boris Thomashefsky and Julius Adler. [2] Its grand opening as the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre was on September 24, 1912. [3] [4]
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. [5] Both theaters closed in 1941, re-opened in 1951 as a pair of cinemas (the National Theatre and the Roosevelt Theatre), and were demolished in 1959. [2]
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