THEATRES OF NEW YORK, LONDON AND TORONTO (ALPHABETICAL)

SITE UPDATED OCTOBER 23, 2002

Abbey’s New Park Theatre(NYC) – see Park Theatre

Abbey's Theater(NYC) - 1893 - 1500 seats - next door to Casino Theater at 1396 Broadway and 39th St. - Red Mill - 1896 it was renamed Knickerbocker - demolished 1930

ABC Cinema (LONDON) (Piccadilly) - being turned into cabaret venue - 400 seats (near Jermyn Street Theatre, which is also used for cabaret venues)

*Abington,(NYC) - 432 West 42nd Street – 4th Floor

*Abrons Art Center(NYC) - 466 Grand St. @ Pitt Street – see Henry Street Settlement

Academy (TORONTO) – 1286 Bloor St. West near Lansdowne (1934-1965) – between larger Lansdowns and Kenwood – still standing but with different uses

Academy of Music (TORONTO) - (1889-1895) Church and Adelaide Streets - changed to Princess

Academy of Music(NYC) - 14th Street between 3rd Avenue and Irving Place - (1279 seats)- predates Brooklyn Academy of Music - In Old Kentucky 1893 (160) - burned to the ground in 1866

Academy Theatre(NYC) - see Apollo

Ace (TORONTO) – see Photodrome

Ace (TORONTO) – 603 Danforth Ave – (1945-1954) 585 seats – now a Shoppers Drug Mart

Acme Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Acropolis (TORONTO) (1964-1975) 904 seats

Actors Collective(NYC) - Perfect Crime 1987 (still running at another theatre) – demolished

Actors' Colony Theatre (TORONTO) - under direction of John Holden - 1934 to 1941 - summer seasons held in Bala, Muskoka and from 1936 to 1940 winter sessions in Winnipeg's Dominion Theatre

Actors’ Institute(NYC)

Actors Outlet (NYC) – Olympus on My Mind 1986

*Actors Playhouse(NYC) - 100 7th Avenue S. - between Bleecker St. & 4th St - an off Broadway theatre for more than 40 years - Saturday's Children 1927 (310); Riverwind 1962; Pocket Watch 1966 (725); Fortune and Men's Eyes 1967 (382); Boy Meets Boy 1975; Crimes Against Nature 1978 (10 weeks); Marry Me a Little 1981; What's a Nice Country Like You...Doing in a State Like This 1985 (252); Howard Crabtree’s Whoop-Dee-Doo 1993; Making Porn (Rex Chandler) 1996 (395); Naked Boys Singing 1999 (2 years July 22/01)

Actors’ Studio Drama School(NYC)- Three Sisters 1964

Air Canada Centre (TORONTO) - 40 Bay Street (19,800 seats) - the new replacement for Maple Leaf Concerts

Ajax 10 (TORONTO) – 248 Kingston Road – 10 cinemas – 1997

Aladdin Theatre (TORONTO) - 1975

Albert Saloon, Hoxton (LONDON) - 1843-1851

*Albery Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - built 1903 as The New Theatre - (883 seats) - name changed in 1973 - Anne of Green Gables 1965; Cocktail Party; Oliver; Candide 1977; Pal Joey 1981; Children of a Lesser God; Torch Song Trilogy; Company (revival); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Albion (LONDON) (Whitechapel)

Albion 2 (TORONTO) – Kipling and Albion Road – 1964

*Aldwych Theatre (LONDON) -(Holborn/Covent Garden) Aldwych - 1905 - (1176 seats) – damaged during World War I – restored 1923 - Gay Gordons 1907; Royal Shakespeare Company used as home (1960-1982) – Streetcar Named Desire (Vivien Leigh) 1949; Under the Sycamore Tree (Alec Guiness)1952; The Homecoming; Pieces of Eight 1960 (300+); 1960 became home of Royal Shakespeare Company - Taming of the Shrew (Vanessa Redgrave) 1961; Homecoming 1965; London Assurance (Donald Sinden, Judi Dench) 1970 (transferred to New Theatre)(390); Travesties 1974; Zykovs (Paul Rogers,Mia Farrow) 1976; Privates on Parade 1977; Coriolanus 1979; Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1980); Swan Down Gloves 1981; Andy Capp 1982; Whistle Down the Wind 1998; Secret Garden

Alexandra Theatre (LONDON) – 3 theatres by this name; 1st Alexandra – hall in Highbury Barn 1861-1871; 2nd Alexandra – Park Street – Camden Town 1873 – 1879 became Park Theatre – burned down 1881 and never rebuilt; 3rd Alexandra in Stoke - Newington Road - built in 1897 – closed 1940 – demolished

Alhambra (TORONTO) – 568 Bloor St. West at Bathurst – 1000 seats (1925-1969) – now a Swiss Chalet restaurant

Alhambra Palace Music Hall (LONDON) - Leicester Square – famous music hall – opened 1854 as exhibition centre – seating 3500 – changed to Palace; Music Hall; Theatre – as Alhambra in 1860 – 1882 burnt down – rebuilt – 1936 theatre demolished and Odeon Cinema erected on the site - Carmen 1903; Psyche 1909; Bing Boys are Here 1916

Al Hirschfield Theatre - see Martin Beck

Alianak Theatre Productions (TORONTO), 556 Palmerston Ave

Alice Tully Hall(NYC) - see Philharmonic Hall

Algonquin Hotel(NYC) - see Oak Room

Al Khaima Dining Theatre (TORONTO) - 767 Dovercourt Road

All Cartoon Movie Theatre(NYC) - see Bijou Theatre

Allenby (TORONTO) – 1215 Danforth Ave, East of Greenwood (1936-1970) – art deco -775 seats – became Roxy and now operated as the Grand

Allen Theatre (TORONTO) - Danforth - changed to Century Theatre and then the Music Hall

Allen Theatre (TORONTO) at 19 Richmond Street East - changed to Tivoli - Christmas pantomimes; Peter Pan - demolished 1970s

All Nations (TORONTO) – see Playhouse

*Almeida (LONDON) - Almeida St., Islington (Angel Islington)

*Almeida at the Albery Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - Medea 1992

Almost Free Theatre (LONDON)

*Altered Stages(NYC) - 212 West 29th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues

*Alumnae Theatre (TORONTO) - 70 Berkeley Street - for 30 years this theatre, in a converted firehall built in 1900 - corner of Berkeley and Adelaide Streets - theatre group founded in 1919 by women graduates of University College, University of Toronto

Alumni Hall (TORONTO) - St. Michael's College

Alvin Theatre(NYC) – 250 West 52nd Street – (1344 seats) - opened 1927 with Funny Face (Fred and Adele Astaire) - see Neil Simon (renamed in 1983 in honour of the playwright)- Girl Crazy 1930; Music in the Air 1932; Anything Goes 1934; Red Hot and Blue 1936; Boys From Syracuse 1938; Very Warm For May 1939; Lady in the Dark 1941; Something For The Boys (Ethel Merman) 1943 (422); Billion Dollar Baby 1945; Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Shirley Booth) 1951 (267); Two’s Company 1952; House of Flowers 1954; No Time For Sergeants 1955 (796); Oh Captain (Tony Randall) 1958 (192); First Impressions 1959; Greenwillow (Anthony Perkins,Pert Kelton,Cecil Kellaway) 1960 (97); Wildcat 1960; Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1962; High Spirits 1964; Flora the Red Menace 1965; Yearling 1965; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Brian Murray,John Wood)1967 (421); It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s Superman 1966; Great White Hope 1968 (556); Company 1970 (690); Shenandoah 1975; Annie 1977; Merrily We Roll Along 1981; Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? 1982;

AMAS Repertory(NYC) – 4 Guys Named Jose; Beowulf 1977

* Ambassador(NYC) - 215 West 49th St. opened 1921(Shubert-seats 1125)- First of six theatres the Shuberts will build on 48th and 49th Streets - opening show was Rose Girl 1921; Blossom Time 1921 (576); -Great Gatsby 1926 (14 weeks); Racket 1927 (119); Night of January 16 1935 (232); Eugenia (Tallulah Bankhead) 1957 (12); You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running 1967 (755);Celebration 1969; Me and Bessie 1974 (453); Godspell (1976) appeared at 3 theatres after leaving off-Broadway (Ambassador, Broadhurst and Plymouth to log up 2,124 performances); Eubie (Gregory Hines,Maurice Hines) 1978 (439); Division Street (John Lithgow,Christine Lahti) 1980 (21); Lion in Winter, Miss Margarida's Way, Leader of the Pack 1985; Ain't Misbehavin - revival 1988 (176); Bring in da Noise, Bring in Da Funk 1996; Ride Down Mount Morgan 2000; Class Act 2001;

*Ambassadors Theatre (LONDON) - West Street near St. Martin’s Lane - 1913 - (190 seats) - Rope (Brian Aherne) 1929; Mask of Virtue (Vivien Leigh) 1935 (117); Mousetrap opened here in 1952 before moving to St. Martin's in 1974; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Shopping and F---ing 1996;

Ambrose Small Grand Opera House (TORONTO) – Adelaide Street West – converted to Regent

AMC Courteney Park (TORONTO) – 401 and Highway 10 – 16 cinemas

AMC Interchange 30 (TORONTO) – 30 Interchange Way, Vaughan – 1999 – 30 cinemas

AMC Kennedy Commons 20 (TORONTO) – 401 and Kennedy Rd – 1998 – 20 cinemas

AMC Metropolis 24 (TORONTO) – Dundas and Yonge – to open 2002/03

AMC Whitby 24 (TORONTO) – 401 and Thickson Road – 1999 – 24 cinemas

AMC Winston Churchill 24 (TORONTO) – QEW and Winston Churchill Blvd - 1998

American Academy of Dramatic Arts(NYC)

*American Airlines Theatre(NYC) - 229 West 42nd Street - built as Selwyn Theatre - 1918 - 1000 seats - See Roundabout Theatre - Royal Family 1927 (343), Information Please, Crowded Hour, Buddies - 1934 became a movie theatre - 25 million renovation and reopened as American Airlines Theatre (750 seats)- Man Who Came to Dinner (Nathan Lane) 2000;The Women (Cynthia Nixon,Jennifer Tilly,Rue McClanahan)2001;

American Comedy Institute(NYC)

American Globe Theatre(NYC)

* American Jewish Theatre(NYC) - see Maverick Theatre - 307 West 26th St.- Bertha The Sewing Machine Girl 1906 (9)

American Laboratory Theatre(NYC) – 1920s – training school and producing company

American Museum(NYC) – Broadway and Ann Street – 1841 – by 1849 became a theatre – enlarged 1850 – 1865 building burnt down

American Music Hall (NYC)- see American Theatre

American Negro Theatre(NYC) - founded in Harlem - 1940 by playwright Abram Hill and actors Frederick O'Neal and Austin Briggs-Hall - presented original scripts at 135th Street Branch of New York Public Library – company abandoned early 1950s

American Opera House(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

* American Place Theatre(NYC) - 111 West 46th St.(between 6th Ave & Broadway)- 300 seats - founded in 1964 - 2 smaller spaces of 299 and 74 seats - group founded in 1963 at St. Clement's Church and moved to present location in 1971 - Hogan's Goat 1965 (607); Karl Marx Play 1973; Cold Storage (Martin Balsam) 1977 (6 weeks); A…My Name Will Always Be Alice 1984; I'm Not Rappaport (Judd Hirsch,Cleavon Little) 1985 (181 - transferred to Booth Theatre); Night and Her Stars 1995; Runt 2001 (100 perf. Aug 19/01)

American Roof Garden(NYC) - above American Music Hall - earlier called American Theatre 1893

American Show Shop(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

American Theatre(NYC) – 1893 – 260 West 42nd Street and 8th Avenue – 1893 - with entrances on 41st, 42nd and 8th Avenues - 2100 seats - 1908 renamed American Music Hall, had American Roof Garden – became burlesque house 1929 - burned in 1930 and never reopened as a theatre – demolished 1932 - now a parking lot; 2nd American Music Hall opened 1934 in converted church at 139-41 East 55th Street

* American Theater of Actors(NYC) - 314 West 54th St - houses 3 theatres - Chernuchin, Beckman, Sargeant – see ATA – Urinetown 2001

Amusement Park(NYC) – Freedomland U.S.A. 1960

Anco Theatre(NYC) - see Lew M. Fields Theatre

Anne Wilder(NYC) see Playwrights Horizon

*Annex Theatre (TORONTO)

Ansbacher Theatre(NYC) – see Public Theatre – Hair 1967

Ansonia Baths(NYC) - (Continental Baths - became known as "The Tubs," west 70s - performances by Bette Midler

Anspacher Theatre(NYC) – see Public Theatre

ANT(NYC) - see American Negro Theatre

Anta(NYC) (American National Theatre and Academy) - 245 West 52nd St. – built by Theatre Guild 1925 – opened as Guild Theatre - changed in 1950 to Anta Playhouse and Anta Theatre in 1954 - in 1981 became the Virginia - theatre sold in 1981 - renovated 1995 - Second Man 1927 (178), Porgy 1927 (217), Marco Millions 1928 (92), Mourning Becomes Electra 1931 (157), Ah Wilderness 1933 (289), End of Summer 1936 (152), Biography 1932 (267);Seventh Heaven 1955; Great Sebastians (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) 1956; Say Darling 1958; J.B. 1958 (364);Middle of the Night (Edward G. Robinson,Gena Rowlands) 1956 (477),Thurber Carnival (Paul Ford,Peggy Cass,John McGiver,Alice Ghostley,Tom Ewell) 1960 (16 weeks and additional 12 weeks later); Man for All Seasons 1961 (637); Blues For Mr. Charlie (Rip Torn,Al Freeman Jr) 1964 (148); Owl and the Pussycat 1964 (421); Royal Hunt of the Sun 1965 (261); Maggie Flynn 1968; Different Times 1972; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - revival-(Elizabeth Ashley,Keir Dullea,Fred Gwynne,Kate Reid) 1974 (160);Bubbling Brown Sugar 1976 (766); Summer Brave (Alexis Smith)1975, Heartaches of a Pussycat 1980; Oh, Brother 1981;

A.N.T.A Washington Square Theatre(NYC) – opened 1964 with After the Fall (208); But For Whom Charlie (Ralph Meeker)(47); Man of La Mancha 1965 (2328)- moved to Martin Beck, then the Eden and Mark Hellinger, - torn down

Anthony Street Theatre(NYC) - 79-85 Worth Street – 1812 opened as Olympic Theatre – 1813 became present name – later became Commonwealth and the Pavillion – demolished 1821

Anthony’s Villa (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret – Blue Champagne 1976

Apollo (TORONTO) – 2901 Dundas Street West (1936-1954) – 551 seats - built as the Crystal and changed to Apollo in 1930s – now a hair salon

Apollo Hall(NYC) (Fifth Avenue Theatre) 1873 - several name changes and burned in 1891 and was rebuilt as vaudeville/film and burlesque theatre - torn down in 1938

Apollon(TORONTO) – 1969 0 700 seats

*Apollo Theatre(NYC) - 253 West 125th Street - built 1934 - 1,463 seats - was the home of great black talent, like Lena Horne, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bobby Short, Jewel Box Revue -closed from 1976 to 1978 - refurbished - Now, as the Apollo starts a $6 million renovation, the theater is planning to install a production with an open-ended run. The theater is to announce today that a new revue, "Harlem Song," is in the works, celebrating the history of Harlem since the 1920's through song, dance, dialogue, photographs and film. The theater is to start its renovation in June 2001, including redoing its marquee and facade. For the first time, Dance Theater of Harlem will perform its season at the Apollo.

Apollo Theatre(NYC) - 223 West 42nd Street - built 1920 (1194 seats) opened as The Bryant in 1910 for vaudeville and films - rebuilt as the Apollo – Manhattan Mary 1927 (264); Flying High 1930 (347), Jimmie, Poppy, George White's Scandals - closed 1933 to show movies, became a burlesque house from 1934 to 1937 but in 1938 returned to foreign films and in 1968 action films - 1978 renovated and entrance moved to 43rd Street - back to live theatre - On Golden Pond 1979, Bent (240), Fifth of July 1980 (511) - in 1983 returned to showing films - name changed to the Academy - featuring rock concerts - gutted in 1996 along with the Lyric to build Ford Centre for the Performing Arts engulfing the Apollo and Lyric theatres; 3 other theatres were Apollo for short time – Third Avenue Variety Theatre 1885; Playhouse on Chuter Street 1926 and a burlesque house on 125th Street

*Apollo Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus)29 Shaftesbury Avenue - 1901 (775 seats)- Girl From Kay's 1902; Treasure Hunt 1949 (11 months); Tiger at the Gates (Michael Redgrave) 1955; Boeing Boeing (3 years); Alpha Beta; Forty Years On 1968; Forget Me Not Lane 1971; Norman Conquests 1975 (700 performances)

*Apollo Victoria (LONDON) - (Victoria) 17 Wilton Road - 1930 - (1524 seats) - opened as the New Victoria Cinema (2500)- converted to a theatre - closed in the 1950s and reopened in 1980 - Starlight Express opened 1984 (17 years when it closes January 12/02)- 2nd longest running musical in West End history

Aquarium Theatre (LONDON) – see Imperial Theatre

Aquatic Theatre (LONDON) – see Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Arabesque Dance Company (TORONTO) 20 College Street, 2nd Floor

Arcade (TORONTO) – Yonge Street – (1961-1962)

Arcadian (TORONTO) – 10 Queen St. East, beside Town Tavern – 370 seats (1935-1950) – opened as the Variety – now a hair salon

*Arci's Place(NYC) - 450 Park Avenue South (between 30th and 31st Streets) - opened 1998 as an intimate cabaret venue – closing March 15/02 - to open a new space in theatre district July/August 2002 - Arci's Place opened its doors in 1998, and its first headliner was current Mamma Mia! star Karen Mason, who returned to the cabaret's intimate stage several times. Other performers who made Arci's their home included Donna McKechnie, Christine Ebersole, Sam Harris, Tom Wopat, Marilyn Sokol, Baby Jane Dexter, John Barrowman, Carol Woods, Margaret Whiting, Priscilla Lopez, Paige Price, Sally Mayes and several others. Acclaimed Gypsy standby Jana Robbins was currently in the midst of a month-long Sunday-night gig singing the songs of Cy Coleman, and Melba Moore, the Tony-winning Purlie star, was scheduled to play a two week engagement beginning March 20. Lonnie Ackerman was performing Tuesdays and McKechnie had two more shows of her My Musical Comedy Life planned

*ArcLight Theater(NYC) - 152 West 71st St (between 6th Ave & Broadway) - 99 seat theatre in basement of a church

Argyll Rooms (LONDON) – see Trocadero Palace of Varieties

*Arno Ristorante(NYC) - 141 West 38th Street (between Broadway and 7th Avenue) - Murdered By The Mob - in its 5th year

Artef Theatre(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre and Comedy Theatre

*Art Gallery of Ontario (TORONTO) - Dundas Street - used for an occasional play - The Chairs, Zoo Story

Art Party(NYC) - see Zipper Theatre - new company formed 2002 by Alan Cumming and associates

Arts and Letters Club (TORONTO) - housed in St. George's Hall which opened 1892, the club itself founded in 1908 as meeting place for writers/actors/musicians – 1910 opened in back of York County Courthouse on Adelaide St. East – 1920 moved to 14 Elm Street

Arts Laboratory (LONDON) – Drury Lane 1968 – closed 1969

Arts Theatre(NYC) - Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land 1976 (1667)

Arts Theatre (LONDON) – Listen to the Wind 1955; Waltz of the Toreadors 1956; Comedy of Errors 1956; Four to the Bar 1961; Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land 1976 - played after engagement at Almost Free Theatre 1976 (1,667); Slice of Saturday Night 1989; 2nd – Arts Theatre – see Cambridge; 3rd Arts Theatre – Great Newport Street – off St. Martin’s Lane – 1927 (347 seats)

*Artword Theatre (TORONTO) - 75 Portland - small studio space

Assembly Hall (TORONTO) - 3121 Lakeshore Road West

Assembly Theatre(NYC) – see Princess Theatre

A Space (TORONTO) - St. Nicholas Street - art, photographic and performance space in the 1960s and early 1970s

Aster (TORONTO) – Ossington and Dundas – see Pix (1928-1942)

Astley's Theatre (LONDON) - 1844-1865 known as Astley's Royal Amphitheatre of Arts; Astley's Royal Amphitheatre; Astley's; Europe's National Amphitheatre – South bank of Thames in Westminster Bridge Road – 1769 – originally open circus ring – 1784 covered amphitheatre built – fire 1794 and reopened 1795 as the Royal Grove – fire 1803 – rebuilt as Royal Amphitheatre – fire 1830 – 1841 burnt down – rebuilt – 1862 renamed Theatre Royal, Westminster – reconstructed 1872/3 seating 2407 as Sanger’s Grand National Amphitheatre – closed 1893 and demolished 1895

Astor Hotel(NYC) – Fly With Me 1920

Astor Theatre (TORONTO) – built as Embassy – 651 Yonge Street below Bloor – became the New Yorker

Astoria Theatre (LONDON) – Elvis 1977; Hired Man 1984

Astor Library (NYC) - Hair opened here in 1967 before transferring to Broadway in 1968, stopping off first at a discotheque on the Upper West Side

* Astor Place Opera House(NYC) - built for Italian Opera in 1847 – Macbeth 1849 - anti-English mobs set fire to the theatre 1849 – theatre repaired and reopened – closed 1850 - 1854 building was renamed Clinton Hall – a library and lecture room - demolished

*Astor Place Theatre(NYC) - 434 Layfayette St. (7th & 8th)- residential building converted to theatre in 1969 (298 seats) - Paid in Full 1908 (167), Man From Home 1908 (496), Seven Days 1909 (397), Why Marry 1917 (120), Seven Keys to Baldpate 1913 (320), Hit-The-Trail Holliday 1915 (336), East is West 1918 (680), Boss 1911 (88), Indian Wants the Bronx/It's Called the Sugar Plum (Marsha Mason) 1968 - converted to a theatre in 1969 (298) - Peace 1969 (192); Gertrude Stein’s First Reader 1969; Dirtiest Show in Town 1970 (509); Blue Man Group in recent years - Cockeyed Tiger, Family Business, Dirtiest Show in Town 1970(509), Dining Room 1982 (583), Foreigner 1984 (686), Tubes 1991 (over 900 performances)

Astor Theatre(NYC) - built 1906 - 1537 Broadway at 45th Street - 1925 became a film house for 50 years - closed in 1972 - with adjoining Victoria, Helen Hayes, Morosco and Bijou Theatres became a new hotel tower - plans were delayed due to the glut of office space - in 1982 the five theatres were demolished - Her Soldier Boy 1916 (198); East is West 1918 (680) - today houses Broadways newest theatre The Minskoff

*ATA(NYC) (American Theatre of Actors) - 314 West 54th Street – 3 theatres Chernuchin (140 seats); Sargent (65) and Beckmann (35)

*AT & T Centre for the Performing Arts (TORONTO) - see Pantages

Athenion (TORONTO) – (1964-1970) – 507 seats

* Atlantic(NYC) - 336 West 20th St. (182)- housed in old church - Atlantic Company moved here in 1991 - Hothouse 1999; Brave 1999

*Atlantis Theatre (TORONTO) - 955 Lakeshore West in Ontario Place (1-888-449-4463)- 450 seats

Auditorium (TORONTO) – see Pickford

Audrey Wood Theatre(NYC) 0 Kuni-Leml 1984; Love 1984

Avalon (TORONTO) – 2921 Danforth – 403 seats (1937-1955)

Avenue (TORONTO) – see Pickford

Avenue Theatre (TORONTO) - 331 Eglinton Avenue West, W of Avenue Road – (1937-1955) – 680 seats - originally a movie theatre – became home to annual review Spring Thaw – demolished 1957 to become parking lot

Avenue Theatre (LONDON) - 1882 - see Playhouse - in 1933 and closed in 1951 bombed during blitz – Poppy 1982; Les Miserables opened here 1985 - transferred to the Palace Theatre; Sondheim Tonight 1998

*Avery Fisher Hall(NYC) - see Philharmonic Hall (Lincoln Center)

Avon(NYC) - see Klaw Theatre – Strictly Dishonorable 1929 (557)

Avon Theatre (TORONTO) – 1092 Queen St. West & Dovercourt – opened as Kings Playhouse – 325 seats – owned by Nathan Cohen (1949-1955) – now a sign shop

Avon Theatre(NYC) – see Klaw Theatre

Avon-at-the-Hudson(NYC) - see Henry Miller's Theatre

Backstage(NYC) (Ted Hook's Backstage) - 318 West 45th Street - intimate cabaret/restaurant - Ethel Merman, Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Anne Miller, Liza Minnelli

Backstage 1 (151 seats) & 2 (126 seats) (TORONTO) – Bloor and Balmuto (1971-2000) – built in backstage area of Loew's Uptown

Ballroom(NYC) - Chelsea cabaret of 1970s - Eartha Kitt, Martha Raye, Yma Sumac, Margaret Whiting

* BAM(NYC) (Brooklyn Academy of Music) - (Harvey Theatre) - 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn; Howard Gilman Opera House - 30 Lafayette St - winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1988 -Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; American Premiere of Hamlet 2001

Bandbox Theatre(NYC) – opened 1912 as Adolph Phillip Theatre – 1914 changed to present name– 205 East 57th Street – (299 seats)- closed 1917 and cinema was built on site

*Bank Street Theatre(NYC) - 155 Bank Street (between Washington & West St)

Banvard’s Museum(NYC) – see Daly’s Theatre

Barbarann Theatre Restaurant(NYC) - Starting Here Starting Now 1977 – Demolished

*Barbican Centre (LONDON) - (Barbican/Moorgate) Silk Street - built in 1982 to house the Royal Shakespeare Company – 1172 seats – houses the Hall, Theatre, and The Pit – area badly bombed during blitz – Poppy 1982; Les Miserables opened here 1985 – tansferred to the Palace Theatre; Sondheim Tonight 1998

Barbizon Plaza(NYC) – Shoestring ’57 1956

Bar Italia (TORONTO) - 584 College Street

Barnes Theatre (LONDON) – Church Road, Barnes – 2 tier hall built 1905 – opened as theatre 1925 – ended 1926

Barnum's American Museum(NYC) - Drunkard or the Fallen Saved 1850 (100)

Barnum’s New Museum(NYC) – opened in 1865

Baronet (TORONTO) – Bloor and Bathurst – 745 seats (1969-1972) – currently the Regent

*Baron's Court Theatre (LONDON) - 28A Comeragh Road, London (Baron's Court)

Barrymore Theatre(NYC) - see Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Basin Street Cabaret (TORONTO) - 1970s – former Queen Street cabaret – Indigo 1978; Let My People Come 1981, Shimmytime

Basin Street East(NYC) - Duke Ellington (1963-1964); Peggy Lee

*Bathurst Street Theatre (TORONTO) - 736 Bathurst Street at Bloor - a converted church built in 1888 as Methodist and changed to United Church in 1924 - 550 seats - mid 1960s became a legitimate theatre, also houses the Annex Theatre and is now home to the Randolph Academy of Performing Arts - Bent, Binge, Born of Medusa's Blood, Hosanna, I Wanna Die in Ruby Red Tap Shoes, Wozzeck, Eddy Izzard

Bay (TORONTO) – 43 Queen St. West, across from old City Hall (1919-1960) – opened as Colonial – is now Simpsons Tower

Bayridges (TORONTO) – Pickering (1964-1979) – indoor auditorium of Drive-in

Bayview Playhouse (TORONTO) – 605 Bayview Ave below Eglinton – art deco - East Side – (1936-1961) - originally a cinema – 674 seats - in 1960s and 1970s it became a legitimate theatre, but now is the site of Bruno's Fine Foods - Bistro Car on the CNR, Cloud 9, Musical Evening With Joshua Logan

Bayview Village 4 (TORONTO) – Bayview Village Shopping Centre – 1977

B.B. King Blues Club and Grill(NYC) - The owner of the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, and the blues musician B. B. King have opened B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, a 550-seat club that presents blues, rock and jazz music in the E Walk entertainment complex on the north side of 42nd Street, near Eighth Avenue

Beach (TORONTO) – 1971 Queen St. East – built as Allen – East of Woodbine – 1300 seats (1919-1970) – now a mall

Beach Cinemas 6 (TORONTO) - 1651 Queen Street East - 6 theatres – 1999

Beacon(NYC) - 2124 Broadway at 74th St. - built in 1929 by W.W. Ahlschlager (2,657 seats) - still used for performances – Young Man,Older Woman 1995

Beaver (TORONTO) – 2942 Dundas St. West near Pacific – 1162 seats – (1913-1961) – now retail stores

Bedford (TORONTO) – see Park

Bedford Music-Hall (LONDON) – Camden High Street – built on part of tea garden of Bedford Arms – 1861 – 1168 seats – 1949 closed – demolished 1969

Beekman Street Theatre(NYC) – see Chapel Street Theatre

Belasco Theatre(NYC) - see Theatre Republic –

*Belasco(NYC) - West 42nd Street – originally known as Republic Theatre; 2nd Theatre – opened as Stuyvesant Theatre 1907 – 111 West 44th St. (Shubert-1,018 seats)- renamed Belasco 1910 – 1935-1941 was headquarters of Group Theatre –1910 changed to the Belasco - later returned to Republic Theatre - Darling of the Gods 1902 (182), Music Master 1904 (627); Girl of the Golden West 1905 (224), Music Master 1904 (627), Polly With a Past 1917 (315), Return of Peter Grimm 1911 (231), Rose of the Rancho 1906 (327), Easiest Way 1909 (157), Secret 1913 (143); Boomerang 1915 (522), Kiki 1921 (600); Hit the Deck 1927 (352), Lulu Belle 1926 (461), Dead End 1935 (687), Awake and Sing 1935 (184), Gentle People 1939 (141), Golden Boy 1937 (250), Kiki (600), Mr. & Mrs. North 1941; Mrs. January and Mr X (Billie Burke,Barbara Bel Geddes) 1944; used for broadcasting 1949-1953 when it was once again a theatre -Solid Gold Cadillac 1953 (526), All The Way Home 1960 (334), Killing of Sister George Beryl Reed,Eileen Atkins) 1966 (205); Oh Calcutta (over 1300 performances total - 704 Off Broadway); Almost Perfect Person, American Buffalo 1977 (135); Rocky Horror Show (Tim Curry) 1980; James Joyce's The Dead (Christopher Walken,Blair Brown) 2000 (transferred from Playwrights' Horizon); If You Ever Leave Me...I'm Going With You (Joseph Bologna,Renee Taylor) 2001;

Belgrade Theatre (LONDON) – Coventry – 1958 – 900 seats – Belgrade Venue – stages experimental works

Belgravia Theatre (LONDON) – see Royal Court

Bellevue (TORONTO) – 360 College St at Brunswick – art deco – 800 seats (1937-1958) – changed to Electra and then Lux, a burlesque house – now retail stores

Belmont(NYC) - You and I 1923 (174), Hero 1921 (80), Miss Lulu Bett 1920 (201) – demolished

Belmont Theatre(NYC) - see Norworth Theatre – 125 West 48th St – originally Norworth built 1918 and name changed 3 months later to Belmont Theatre - Kempy 1922 – became cinema 1936 – demolished 1951

*Belmont Theatre/Toronto Truck Theatre (TORONTO) - 94 Belmont Street – Toronto Truck Theatre was forme in 1971 as touring company – moved in 1973 to Colonnade Theatre (200 seats), then to former church on Belmont – seating 170 – also purchased Bayview Playhouse (520 seats) the former art deco cinema in 1978 - Brecht on Brecht - now running The Mousetrap (over 8,000 performances in this tiny theatre)

Belsize (TORONTO) – 551 Mount Pleasant Rd, North of Davisville – 1927-1950) – 850 seats – became the Crest Theatre

Belt and Braces (LONDON) – fringe theatre

*Berkeley Street Theatre (TORONTO) - see also Canadian Stage, and St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Bert Wheeler Theatre(NYC) - 250 West 43rd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue - named after actor comedian/actor Bert Wheeler (1895-1968) - Autumn's Here 1966; Curley McDimple with Bernadette Peters 1967 (931), Christy 1975 – demolished

*Betty Oliphant Theatre (TORONTO) - 404 Jarvis Street - 297 seats

Beverly (TORONTO) – Yonge and St. Clair (1932-1942)

*Bickford Theatre Centre (TORONTO) - 777 Bloor Street West

Big Apple(NYC) - famous Harlem nightclub - 7th Avenue - Billie Holiday 1936 - now a pharmacy

Bijou (TORONTO) – Morningside Plaza, West Hill – 700 seats (1971-1978)

Bijou Opera House(NYC) – opened 1880 at Broadway between 30th and 31st St as the Brighton Theatre in 1878 - Sparks 1882; Adonis 1884 (603), Climbers 1901 (163), Gentleman From Mississippi 1908 (407)

Bijou Theatre(NYC) – 1239 Broadway – opened as the Brighton 1878 – also known as Wood’s Broadway Theatre and Broadway Opera House before Bijou in 1880 – 1883 demolished and a larger theatre built – demolished 1915; 2nd Bijou Theatre - 209 West 45th St - built 1917 - 603 seats - adjacent to Morosco Theatre – Adonis 1884 (603); Nancy Brown 1903; Mr. Wix of Wickham (Julian Eltinge) 1904; Skidding (448); Dover Road 1921; Springtime for Henry 1931 (199)- 1931 became a cinema the Toho, showing Japanese films - in 1935 was all-cartoon movie theatre - dark from 1936 to 1943 – reopened as theatre 1945 - movies from 1947 to 1953 and another 6 years of stage shows - Moon For the Misbegotten 1957 (68); 1959 Bijou closed while Astor Theatre was expanded and reopened in 1962 as the D.W. Griffith - a 300 seat cinema – 1962-1972 became Toho Cinema and back to the Bijou in 1965 until 1970 when Foreplay did a brief stint and Mummenshantz 1977 (1326), Moon For The Misbegotten 1957 (68); Potting Shed (Sybil Thorndyke) 1957; Play's The Thing (David Dukes) 1973 (11 weeks) - demolished 1982 for the Marriott Marquis Hotel along with the Morosco, Astor, Victoria and Helen Hayes; 3rd Bijou – 200 seats in off Broadway Playhouse Theatre at 359 West 48th St – opened 1970

Bijou Theatre (LONDON) – were 2 small theatres of this name – 1st Bijou in Haymarket – concert hall attached to Royal Opera House (later Her Majesty’s Theatre) – burned down with Opera House 1876; 2nd Bijou – a hall in Archer Street, Bayswater – renamed Bijou in 1886 – renamed Century in 1925 – became a warehouse

Billie Holiday Theatre(NYC)

Billy Munk(NYC) - Love Death Plays of William Inge - demolished

Billy Rose(NYC) - see Nederlander – 208 West 41st St – opened 1921 as National (1162 seats) – alterations 1941 and in 1959 bought by Billy Rose and given his name – chnaged to Trafalgar in 1979 - Family Affair 1962; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Uta Hagen,Arthur Hill,Melinda Dillon,George Grizzard) 1962 (664); Earl of Ruston 1971; Heathen 1972; Who’s Life is it Anyway – then theatre renamed Nederlander in 1980

Billy Rose's Music Hall(NYC) - 1697 Broadway at 53rd St - see Hammerstein's Theatre

Biltmore (TORONTO) – 1831 Weston Road, South of Lawrence – now a church

Biltmore (TORONTO) – New Toronto – 676 seats (1947-1964)

Biltmore (TORONTO) - cinema – 319 Yonge Street above Dundas – 929 seats - showed double and triple features - put to other uses over the years (1948-1977)

Biltmore (TORONTO) – Weston – 800 seats (1949-1964)

*Biltmore Theatre(NYC) - 261-5 West 47th St. (Nederlander) - opened 1925 with Easy Come Easy Go (transferred from George M. Cohan Theatre) - 948 seats - The Manhattan Theater Club, one of New York City's most prominent nonprofit theaters, has agreed to renovate and take over operation of the Biltmore Theater, a deteriorating Broadway landmark that has been dormant for more than a decade - Brother Rat 1936 (577), What a Life (Butterfly McQueen,Eddie Bracken) 1938 (538), My Sister Eileen (Shirley Booth) 1940 (864); Kiss and Tell 1943 (957); Heiress 1947 (410), from 1952-1962 used for broadcasting and then back to theatre - Man in the Moon 1963; Barefoot in the Park 1963 (1530),Hair 1968 (1742); Robber Bridegroom 1976, Appearing Nightly (Lily Tomlin)1977 (84), Cheaters, Knock Knock, Murder Among Friends, Staircase, Up in One, Butterflies Are Free, Deathtrap, Take Her She's Mine, Doonesbury 1983 - leased to CBS in 1951 for 10 years as Studio No 62 - then back to legitimate theatre - Dec. 1987 arsonists set fire on stage and in auditorium and vandals left theatre in unsafe condition - future is in doubt

The Biltmore 47 Associates' application to build a 62-story tower at 47 St. and Eighth Avenue will be reviewed by Manhattan Community Board 5?s Land Use Committee on May 6. The review of the application, which is part of the rehabilitation of the Biltmore Theatre, will take place at the Fashion Institute of Technology, located at 227 W. 27 St. (north side), Building A, 8th floor, Room A803.

Following a fire in 1987, the theatre was closed, and the building suffered damage from rain coming through holes in the ceiling and abuse from vandals. The Biltmore was home to such productions as Hair, Butterflies Are Free, Take Her, She's Mine, Barefoot in the Park and Deathtrap. It opened Dec. 7, 1925, with a play called Easy Come, Easy Go, a farce by Owen Davis that moved from the Cohan Theatre. The house was built by the Chanin brothers and designed by Herbert J. Krapp. The Federal Theatre Project presented works there in the 1930 and the theatre was later run by Warner Bros. as a home for theatre director George Abbott's productions. My Sister Eileen had a healthy run there, as did The Heiress. From 1952-61, the theatre was leased to CBS. there. The 35 million renovation will relight in the Fall of 2003

Birchcliff (TORONTO) – 1485 Kingston Road, East of Warden (a former streetcar barn) – (1949-1974) – now an ambulance station

Black Cat (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Blackfriar's Playhouse (LONDON) - opened 1576 - in 1609 became the headquarters for the King's Men - destroyed in 1655

Blackfriar's Theatre (LONDON) – 2 theatres built within boundaries of old monastery – 1st 1576 part of building became theatre – unused after 1584; in 1596 another theatre; theatres closed in 1642 – 2nd Blackfriars fell into disrepair after 1642 and demolished 1655 due to concern that masses could spread plague

Blanchard’s Amphitheatre(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

*Bleeker 45(NYC) - 45 Bleeker Street between Broadway & Lafayette St. - one of the newer off Broadway theatres in the area

Bloomsbury Theatre (LONDON)

Bloor (TORONTO) – Bloor St. West at Bathurst – now Lee’s Palace

Bloor Cinema (TORONTO) - 529 Bloor Street at Bathurst - a Toronto landmark - 850 seats - local repertory house

Bloordale (TORONTO) – Bloor St. West & Indian Road - art deco - see State

Bloor Palace (TORONTO) – see Paradise

* Blue Angel(NYC) - 152 East 55th Street - cabaret famous in the 1960s and 1970s - Barbra Streisand (1961-1963); Charles Pierce; Pearl Bailey; Bobby Short; Eartha Kitt; Yul Brynner; Carol Burnett; Dorothy Loudon; Mike Nichols and Elaine May; Mildred Bailey (1944 to 1947)

*Blue Angel Theatre(NYC) - 323 West 44th St (between 8th & 9th Aves) – Pageant 1991; Swingtime Canteen 1995;

Blue Angel (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Bluebell (TORONTO) – 309 Parliament Street, South of Queen St., beside Eclipse Theatre (1943-1954) – became the Gay in the mid 1940s – now townhouses

*Blue Heron Arts Centre(NYC) - 121 East 24th St. (between Park & Lexington)- new arts complex dedicated to theatre - two theatres, one 98 seats and one 45 seats

Blue Hill Troupe(NYC)

Bluma Appel Theatre (TORONTO) - see St. Lawrence Centre

*Bob Hope Theatre (LONDON) - Wythfield Road, Eltham

Bohemian Embassy (TORONTO) - 1960s meeting place for local poets - The Iceman Cometh – closed

Bollicine (TORONTO) - 127 Strachan - exotic cabaret on weekends (10:00 p.m. to 3 a.m.)

Bonita (TORONTO) – 1035 Gerrard St. East 542 seats – still in operation

Bon Soir(NYC) - 40 West 8th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues - intimate cabaret of 1960s and 1970s - Barbra Streisand (1960-1962)was the opening act for Phyllis Diller; Charles Pierce; Kaye Ballard

Bon Ton Theatre(NYC) – see Koster and Bial’s Music Hall

*Booth(NYC) - 222 West 45th St. (Shubert-781 seats) Opened in 1913 to honour of great actor Edwin Booth - Zip or Point Lynne Light 1874 (21);Experience 1914 (255), Seventh Heaven 1922 (704), Saturday's Children 1927 (310), Bird in Hand 1929 (500), Grand Street Follies (James Cagney) 1929 (93); Kind Lady (Grace George) 1935 (102); You Can't Take It With You 1936 (837), Time of Your Life 1939 (185); Claudia 1941 (722), Two Mrs. Carrolls 1943 (585), You Touched Me (Tennessee Williams, playwright, with Montgomery Clift,Edmund Gwenn) 1945 (109); Playboy of the Western World 1946 (10 weeks); Come Back Little Sheba 1950 (190); Magic and the Loss (Uta Hagen) 1954 (27); Visit to a Small Planet 1957 (388), Two For the Seesaw 1958 (750); Tenth Man 1959 (623), Spoon River Anthology; Butterflies Are Free 1969 (1128), Luv 1964 (901), Birthday Party (Henderson Forsythe,Ruth White) 1967 (4 months); New Faces of 1968, That Championship Season 1972 (700); Bad Habits 1974 (after run at Astor Theatre); For Coloured Girls.... (after run at Public Theatre) 1976 (742), Sunday in the Park With George (Mandy Patinkin,Bernadette Peters) 1984 (540),Shirley Valentine 1989; Old Neighborhood 1997 (197); Elephant Man Philip Anglim,Carole Shelley,Kevin Conway) 1979 (916), Sunday in the Park With George (Mandy Patinkin,Bernadette Peters) 1984; I'm Not Rappaport 1985 (890), All Over Town, Very Good Eddie; Tru 1989 (295); Once on This Island 1990 (469) - transferred from off-Broadway; Old Neighbourhood (Patti LuPone) 1997 (197); Evening with Jerry Herman (Lee Roy Reams) 1998; Via Dolorosa 1999; Dame Edna - The Royal Tour 1999 (260)

Booth’s Theater(NYC) - 1869 - 23rd and SW corner of 6th Avenue - razed few years later 1883 and large department store built

Boston Museum Theatre(NYC) - Silver Spoon 1852

* Bouwerie Lane(NYC) - 330 Bowery (Bond & 2nd Sts) a converted bank building - home to Jean Cocteau Repertory (140)- Dames at Sea (Bernadette Peters) 1968 (575); DeSade Illustrated 1969

Bower Theatre (LONDON) , Lambeth - opened 1837 - closed 1877

Bowery Amphitheatre(NYC) – 1821 - Zoological Institute at 37-9 Broadway was adapted as theatre in 1835 - (used for Minstrel shows from 1840s to 1880s) – in 1844 became Knickerbocker, by 1854 was the Stadt Theatre - Witchcraft or the Martyrs of Salem 1847 (5), Broker of Bogota 1834 – demolished

Bowery Theatres(NYC) – first Bowery Theatre opened 1826 – 46-8 Bowery – opened as New York Theatre, Bowery – 1828 theatre burnt down, the second in 1828 and burnt down 1836; the third 1837 and again destroyed by fire 1838 – reopened 1839 – burned down 1845 and rebuilt again and closed 1878 – reopening as the Thalia – destroyed by fire 1923 and again in 1929 – for a time was American Theatre, Bowery; 4th – the New Bowery opened 1859 – 1866 destroyed by fire and never rebuilt

Brandy's Piano Bar(NYC)

Bowery Volks Garden(NYC)

Bramalea 3 (TORONTO) – Dixie Road and Hwy 7 (1973-1988)

*Bridewell Theatre (LONDON) - (St. Bride's Church - off Fleet Street near Blackfriars Station) - former indoor Victorian swimming pool - produces small scale musicals as well as plays - i.e. works of Sondheim - Pacific Overtures; Saturday Night 1997; Moving On 2000 - Launched January 1944

Brighton Theatre(NYC) – see Bijou Opera House

Brighton (TORONTO) – 127 Roncesvalles Avenue – 418 seats – still in existence

Brittania Music Hall (LONDON) – see Rotunda

Brittania Theatre (LONDON) , High Street, Hoxton – originally Brittania Saloon – 1841 rebuilt in 1858 to seat 3923 - in 1923 became a cinema – demolished by bombs in 1940

Brixton Theatre and Opera House (LONDON) - opened 1851 - Canterbury Theatre of Varieties 1904-1912 and 1914-1922 - destroyed 1942

*Broadhurst(NYC) - 235 West 44th (Shubert-1,186 seats) Opened in 1917 for playwright George Broadhurst - Hold Everything 1928 (413), June Moon 1929 (273), Green Hat (Katharine Cornell) 1925; Beggar on Horseback 1924 (224), Broadway 1926 (603); Animal Kingdom (Leslie Howard) 1932 (183), Twentieth Century 1932 (152), Men in White 1933 (351), Petrified Forest (Leslie Howard,Humphrey Bogart) 1935 (197), Victoria Regina 1935 (517), Happy Birthday 1946 (564); Flahooley (Barbara Cook,Yma Sumac) 1951 (5 weeks); Seventeen (Kenneth Nelson) 1951 (23 weeks); Pal Joey 1952 (540), Anniversary Waltz 1954 (615), Auntie Mame 1956 (639), World of Suzie Wong 1958 (508), Fiorello 1959 (796), Sail Away 1961, Bravo Giovanni 1962; 110 In The Shade 1963; Kelly 1965; Half a Sixpence 1965 (512), Cabaret 1966 (original 1165), Little Murders (Barbara Cook,Elliot Gould,Ruth White) 1967 (7), More Stately Mansions 1967 (142); Fig Leaves Are Falling 1969; Play It Again Sam 1969 (453), Cry For Us All 1970; 70 Girls 70 1971; Godspell 1971 (2124 - moved from Cherry Lane), Sunshine Boys 1972 (538), Sunshine Boys 1972 (538), Godspell 1976 (527); Dancin' 1978 (1774), Tribute 1978 (212); Amadeus (Iam McKellen,Tim Curry 1980 (1181), Tap Dance Kid (Savion Glover) 1983 (669), Odd Couple (female version Rita Moreno,Sally Struthers) 1985 (295); Broadway Bound 1986 (756), Rumors 1988 (531), Texas Trilogy, Only Game in Town, Sherlock Holmes, Sly Fox, Death and the Maiden (Glenn Close,Richard Dreyfuss,Gene Hackman) 1992; Kiss of the Spider Woman (Chita Rivera,Brent Carver,Anthony Crivello) 1993 (906);Once Upon a Mattress (Heath Lamberts,Sarah Jessica Parker,Jane Krakowski 1996 (187); Judas Kiss (Liam Neeson) 1998 (102); I’m Telling You for the Last Time (Jerry Seinfeld) 1998; Fosse 1999; Dance of Death (Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren)2001

Broadview (TORONTO) – Broadway at Gerrard (1941-1945)

Broadway (TORONTO) – 75 Queen St. West, next to Casino Theatre – 486 seats - opened as the Globe and later became the Roxy (1941-1965)

Broadway Music Hall(NYC) – see Wallack’s Lyceum

Broadway Opera House(NYC) – see Bijou Theatre

Broadway Theatre(NYC) - Southwest corner of Broadway at 41st St – opened as Metropolitan Casino in 1880 and then Broadway - original theatre built 1847 - rebuilt 1888, seating 1,800 – Francesca da Rimini 1855 – 1913 became a cinema - demolished 1929 after trials of film and vaudeville

Broadway Theatre(NYC) – 326 Broadway – 1847 – 1855 theatre collapsed – rebuilt - Francesca da Rimini 1855 (8), Danites, or the Heart of the Sierras 1877 (30),El Capitan 1896 (112), Midnight Sons (Vernon Castle) 1909 (8 mos) – closed 1859; 2nd Broadway Theatre – 410 Broadway – originally the Euterpean Hall – renamed Broadway for brief period in 1837; 3rd – Broadway Theatre – Wallack’s Lyceum in last years was called the Broadway

*Broadway Theatre(NYC)- built as cinema at 1681 Broadway @ 53rd – 1924 - (Shubert-1,752 seats) - became legitimate house in 1930 – Green Pastures 1930; Earl Carroll's Vanities - Milton Berle 1932 (87);Little Johnny Jones 1943 (502), Carmen Jones 1943 (502); Beggars Holiday 1946; Mr. Wonderful Sammy Davis Jr.) 1956 (383); Shinbone Alley (Eartha Kitt,Eddie Bracken) 1957 (49); Body Beautiful 1958; Gypsy (Ethel Merman) 1959 (702), Kean (Alfred Drake) 1961 (92); Girl Who Came to Supper 1963; Tovarich (Vivian Leigh,Jean-Pierre Aumont) 1963 (264); Baker Street 1965; Time For Singing 1966; Happy Time 1968 (286), Purlie 1970, Dude 1972; house was gutted and renovated for Harold Prince's revival of Candide (1974) (740), Evita (Patti LuPone,Mandy Patinkin) 1979 (1,567), Guys and Dolls 1992 (revival 1144 - original 1200), *Miss Saigon (Jonathan Pryce,Lea Salonga,Hinton Battle) (4/91)(3332), Sarava, *Les Miserables 1987 (still running - 6000 performances Oct 3/01); 2nd Broadway – Daly’s Theatre at 1221 Broadway in 1877-8 was called the Broadway

Brock (TORONTO) – 1585 Dundas St. West – built as the Dundas – 612 seats (1933-1955) – was Toronto’s first burlesque house - now a restaurant

Brooklyn Academy of Music(NYC) - see BAM

*Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts(NYC) - Walt Whitman Theatre - campus of Brooklyn College - 2900 Campus Road & Hillel Place

Brooklyn Paramount(NYC) - Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue - 4,100 seats built by Rapp & Rapp - opened in 1928 - used for rock and roll concerts in the 1950s - has been converted to a gym in 1963

Brooklyn Theatre(NYC) – 1871 – burnt down 1876

*Brooks Atkinson(NYC) - 256 West 47th St. (Nederlander-seats 1086) - opened as Mansfield in 1926 - renamed in 1960 in honour of the N.Y. Times drama critic - Ladder 1926 (794), Green Pastures 1930 (640), Anna Lucasta 1944 (957), 1946 used for radio and tv until 1960 reopened as Brooks Atkinson - Come Blow Your Horn 1961 (677), Lenny (Cliff Gorman) 1972; River Niger (NEC) 1973 (280), Same Time Next Year 1975 (1453), Same Time Next Year 1975 (1453), Tribute (Jack Lemmon) 1978 (212); Talley's Folly 1980 (277), Noises Off 1983 (553), Edmund Kean (Ben Kingsley) 1983; Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Night Life, Wally's Cafι; Buried Child 1996; Play On (Andre DeShields)1997; Wait Until Dark (Quentin Tarantino,Marisa Tomei) 1998 (97); Fool Moon 1998; Iceman Cometh (Kevin Spacey) 1999 (91); Uncle Vanya (Derek Jacobi,Laura Linney) 1999

Brothers and Sisters(NYC) - West 46th Street - intimate club of the 1970s in the theatre district i.e. first saw the legendary Barbara Cook 1980s in her new cabaret career, after having seen her in numerous musicals on Broadway, and I will never forget the first time she started singing in the darkened room, after being Marian the Librarian, even I was not ready for her one woman shows, two hours of gooseflesh, Julie Wilson, Sylvia Syms, Marcia Lewis - torn down

Brougham’s Lyceum Theatre(NYC) – 1850 – Broadway and Broome Streets

Brunswick Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty

Bryant’s Opera House(NYC) – see Koster and Bial’s Music Hall

Bryant Theatre(NYC) - see Apollo Theatre

Buckley’s Olympic Theatre(NYC) – see Olympic Theatre

*Buddies in Bad Times (TORONTO) - 12 Alexander Street - gay theatre founded in 1979 by Skye Gilbert, Matt Walsh & Gerard Ciccoritti - originally Toronto Workshop Productions - Eyecons, My Own Private Oshawa, We're Funny That Way, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

Burnhamthorpe Auditorium (TORONTO) - 500 The East Mall, Burnhamthorpe

*Burton Auditorium (TORONTO) - see York University

Burton's Chambers Street Theatre(NYC) - Toodles 1848

Burton’s New Theatre(NYC) – Broadway opposite Bond Street – Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1858; Richard III (Barry Sullivan)

Burton’s Theatre(NYC) – 1848 – formerly Palmo’s Opera House built in 1844

Bushes(NYC) - intimate club on the west side of Central Park (in 70s) - Joe Masiell 1980s

Bush Theatre (LONDON) - considered off West End - in the Fringe and Firkin Pub, Shepherd's Bush Green (Shepherd's Bush) - founded 1972 above the Bush Pub - pub has changed hands but the theatre remains upstairs

Cabaret East (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Cabaret 1050(NYC)

Cabbagetown Theatre Company (TORONTO)

Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre(NYC) - see the 91 year old (2002) Winter Garden Theatre

*Cafι Carlyle(NYC) (Bemelmans Bar)(Carlysle Hotel)- Madison Avenue at 76th Street - Bobby Short debut in 1968, Barbara Cook

Cafe Cino(NYC) - New York's first "Off-Broadway" theatre in 1958

Cafι des Copains (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Cafι La Mama(NYC) – see La Mama Experimental Theatre Club

Cafe Pierre(NYC)

Cafe Society(NYC) - intimate cabaret - Billie Holliday

Cafι Soho (TORONTO) – former Toronto cabaret

Caffe Cino(NYC) – 31 Cornelia Street – 1958 – regarded as the beginning of off-off Broadway

Cahoots Theatre Project (TORONTO) - 174 Spandia Avenue, Suite 610

*Cambridge Theatre (LONDON) - (Covent Garden) Earlham Street - 1930 - (1287 seats) - art deco - Reluctant Debutante (Anna Massey,Celia Johnson,Wilfrid Hyde White) 1955 (752); Crooked Mile 1959 (164); Wrong Side of the Park (Margaret Leighton) 1960 (22 weeks); Billy Liar 1960; Signpost to Murder 1962 (419); Half a Sixpence 1963; Ann Veronica 1969; Behind the Fridge; Tom Brown's Schooldays (Roy Dotrice) 1972; Black Mikado 1975; Troubador 1978; Dear Anyone 1983; - restored in 1987 - Budgie 1988; Return to the Forbidden Planet 1989; Sherlock Holmes 1989 ;Chicago; Fame - the Musical; Beautiful Game 2000

Cameo (TORONTO) – 989 Pape Ave North of Danforth – 750 seats (1934-1957) – art deco – sold to Loblaws, and now Canada Trust

Cameron House (TORONTO) - 408 Queen St. West

Canada Square Cinema (TORONTO) - 2198 Yonge Street below Eglinton – (1985-2001) - recently reopened as cinema 2001

*Canada's Wonderland (TORONTO) - opened 1981 - see Paramount Canada's Wonderland

Canadia dell'Arte Studio Theatre (TORONTO) - 186 Munro

*Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (TORONTO) - created in 1936 (Church and Jarvis Streets) - now located in new building on Front Street which houses the Glenn Gould Studio - an important organization for the development of Canadian stage talent in the early days

*Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) (TORONTO) - started in 1879 as the Toronto Industrial Exhibition - Magnificent Spectacular Production 1896; Stars of the Hippodrome & Circus World 1917; Georgeous Cleopatra Spectacle & Grand Opera in $1,500,000 Coliseum (1923); CNE Chorus performed in Colisseum 1927 & 1932; Benny Goodman,Guy Lombardo,Glen Gray,Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey 1939; (As a teenager and before, I can remember my parents taking me to the Exhibition where the highlights were the spectacular Grandstand Shows. I have seen (from a great distance), the wonderful Midge Arthur's Canadettes, Bob Hope 1976; Danny Kaye, Marilyn Bell 1984; Victor Borge, Bob Hope, Womenfolk and Midge Arthur's 50 Canadettes 1955; Bob Hope, Scottish World Festival Tattoo, Charley Pride, Dolly Parton, Burton Cummings, Osmonds, Bill Cosby, Shaun Cassidy, Englebert 1994; Jimmy Durante; Olson and Johnson 1947; Ed Sullivan, Marilyn Bell, Lassie and the Four Lads 1965; Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Phil Silvers, Geoffrey Holder, Alan and Blanche Lund, Howard Cable and his orchestra, a helicopter landing on stage as well as various vehicles driving across the huge stage, laden with breathtaking sets and costumes - Scottish Tattoo - solo singers as well - Tina Turner, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers - demolished in 1999 - see Exhibition Stadium

*Canadian Opera Company (TORONTO) - acquired two neighbouring buildings on Front Street. One, the former Standard Woollen Mills (built 1882), was converted to administrative offices, a box office, library, archives and workshops for the company. The other, the former Consumers Gas Purifying House (built 1887-88), now houses the 450-seat Imperial Oil Opera Theatre and facilities for rehearsal, coaching, workshops and receptions - the company was founded in 1950 and has used various venues from Eaton Auditorium, Royal Alexandra, presently Hummingbird Centre and soon a new 2,000 seat theatre which it will share with the National Ballet of Canada

Canadian Players (TORONTO) - 1954-1966 – formed in Stratford, Ontario, with a nine month season in Toronto’s Central Library Theatre – became Theatre Toronto - used various theatres

*Canadian Stage Company (TORONTO) - 26 Berkeley Street - located in a turn of the Century factory and refinery - formed 1988 with the merger of Toronto Free Theatre and Centrestage - see St. Lawrence Centre - Angels in America

Candler Theatre(NYC) - 226 West 42nd St – see Sam H. Harris Theatre - 1914 - opened as a movie house but soon became legitimate house - (1,200 seats) - in 1916 name changed to Cohan and Harris and in 1921 changed to Sam. H. Harris Theatre - Hamlet - by 1933 became a movie house - as part of redevelopment Harris will be joined with the Empire and Liberty Theatres to form part of the AMC movie complex and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum – On Trial 1914 (365); Tailor Made Man 1917 (398), Welcome Stranger 1920 (309), Tavern 1920 (252)- 1933 turned to films for 55 years - theatre will be gutted and be part of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

Canon Theatre (TORONTO) - see the Pantages

Canterbury Music Hall (LONDON) – Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth – 1852 – originally called Canterbury Hall – 1500 seats – demolished by bombs 1942

Capital Fine Arts (TORONTO) – see Capital

Capital (TORONTO) – New Toronto – 1100 seats (1929-1975)

Capital Theatre (TORONTO) - 2492 Yonge Street at Castlefield (1924-1998) – 1079 seats - formerly a film theatre - now closed and used for a rental hall, was also known as Capital Fine Arts

Capitol(NYC) - Times Square - built in 1919 by Thomas W. Lamb (5,230 seats) - world's largest theatre when it opened - Aimee Semple McPherson – demolished

Capri (TORONTO) – see Madison, Bloor Cinema and Midtown

*Cap 21(NYC) - 15 West 28th St (between 5th & 6th Aves)

Carlton (TORONTO) – 509 Parliament Street, North of Carlton – 1000 seats – (1930-1954) - became CBC TV studio and currently dance studio

Carlton (TORONTO) - see Odeon Carlton

Carlton Cinemas 9 (TORONTO) – Carlton and Yonge Streets – 1981 – renovated 1988

Carlu (TORONTO) - working title - see Eaton Auditorium

* Carnegie Hall(NYC) - 154 West 57th St at 7th Avenue - Remodelled in 1986 - Lights On 1986 (benefit concert)

Carter Theatre(NYC) – Ka-boom! 1980

Caruso Cinema(NYC) - see Edyth Totten Theatre

Casa Manana(NYC) - see Earl Carroll Theatre

Cascade Theatre (TORONTO) - 39 Strathmore Boulevard

Casino de Paris(NYC) - see New Theatre

Casino de Paris(NYC) - see Gallo Opera House

Casino Theatre(NYC) - 1882 – Southeast corner of Broadway and 39th Streets (1300 seats) - was first theatre to have shows on its roof –stood until 1930 when it and Knickerbocker gave way to expanding garment district - next door to Henry Abbey's Theatre (804seats) - - in 1882 the first roof garden opened atop the theatre - old Metropolitan Opera House later erected on Northwest corner)first legitimate theatre designed exclusively for the performance of musicals – Floradora 1900 (553); Runaways 1903 (21 weeks) - after fire in 1903 reopened in 1905 with 1,300 seats - Passing Show 1894,In Gay New York 1898 - see Earl Carroll Theatre - Belle of New York 1897 (56), Origin of the Cake Walk or Clorindy 1898, Floradora 1900 (553), I'll Say She Is (Marx Brothers) 1924; Vagabond King 1925 (511)- Desert Song 1926 (465), razed early 1930s; 2nd – Earl Carroll Theatre was renamed Casino from 1932-1934

Casino Theatre (TORONTO) - burlesque house at 87 Queen Street West of Bay – opened 1939 as The Vaudeville Theatre – 1121 seats - demolished in 1957 - to house Sheraton Centre - I spent many, many hours at the Casino seeing name entertainers like Johnny Rae, Patti Page, Gene Nelson, Frankie Laine,the exciting Sally Rand with her fans, a bevy of female strippers with some class in those days, not just bumps and grinds, the Crewcuts, the Four Lads, Billy Daniels and Rosemary Clooney. - turned into a legitimate house - The Civic Square Theatre for a short time - Rhinoceros

*Castillo Theatre(NYC) - 500 Greenwich St. - multicultural arts centre (72)

Castle Garden(NYC) - Between 1808 and 1811 a fort was constructed on the rocks off the tip of Manhattan Island. Originally named "The Southwest Battery," it was renamed Castle Clinton in 1817 in honor of DeWitt Clinton, Mayor of New York City. The army vacated the fort in 1821 and the structure was deeded to New York City in 1823. In the summer of 1824, a new restaurant and entertainment center opened at the site, now called Castle Garden. A roof was added in the 1840s and Castle Garden served as an opera house and theater until 1854. On August 3, 1855, Castle Garden, now leased to New York State, opened as an immigrant landing depot. During the next 34 years, over 8 million people entered the United States through Castle Garden, until it was closed on April 18, 1890. On April 19, 1890 a temporary center was set up in the old Barge Office near the Customhouse on the southeast foot of Manhattan and used until January 1, 1892 when Ellis Island opened. After immigration functions had been transferred to the Barge Office and Ellis Island, Castle Garden was altered once again and reopened as the New York City Aquarium on December 10, 1896. It was one of the city's most popular attractions until it closed in 1941. It was reopened later as Castle Clinton National Monument. Sept. 11,1850 - lst appearance of Jenny Lind - organized by P.T. Barnum

Catagonia Club(NYC) - Harlem nightspot - Bill Bojangles Robinson; Ethel Waters

CBC (TORONTO) - see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

CBS Radio Playhouse No 2 (NYC) - see Klaw Theatre

Cedarbrae (TORONTO) – Lawrence and Markham Road – 1969

Centennial 3 (TORONTO) – Brampton – (1981-2000)

Centerfold Theatre(NYC) - 263 West 86th St. (75)

Centerpoint (TORONTO) – Yonge and Steeles – renamed from Towne & Countrye in 1991 and closed in 1999

*Center Stage NY(NYC) - 48 West 21st, 4th floor (5th & 6th)- 74 seats - In Arabia We'd All Be Kings 1999 (Labyrinth Theatre Co); Jesus Hopped the A Train 2000

Center Theatre(NYC) - Stars on Ice 1942 (830), Hats Off to Ice 1944 (889)

Central (NYC) - 1918 - 1567 Broadway at 47th Street - across from the legendary Palace Theatre - 1,100 seats - Forever After (312)- leased to Universal in 1921 - in 1934 it was renamed the Columbia for burlesque but went back to old name quickly - in 1944 name was changed to the Gotham and remained movie theatre for 7 years - 1951 theatre was renovated and reopened as the Holiday but by 1957 it was back to striptease and then to movie house under names Odeon, the Forum, the Forum 47th Street, and Movieland - it was sold in 1989 and became a disco, Club USA and the lobby a Roxy Deli - the buildings now are vacant since 1997 with demolition likely

Central Library Theatre (TORONTO) - College Street - opened in 1961 (209 seats) - was closed as Library has moved to Yonge and Bloor Streets - 1977, now called the Robert Gill Theatre – was home to Canadian Players/University Alumnae - Beauty and the Beast 2098), Capful of Pennies, Departures, Ecstacy of Rita Joe, Eh, Firebugs, Fortune and Men's Eyes 1967 (15 weeks), Here Lies Sara Binks, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jacques and Jill, Just For Love, Small Craft Warnings

Central Park(NYC) – see Delacorte Theatre

Central Parkway 4 (TORONTO) – Hwy 10 and Burnhamthorpe, Mississauga (1980-2000) and reopened in 2001

Centre (TORONTO) – 772 Dundas St. West – opened as the Duchess – 500 seats (1935-1977) – now retail stores

* Centre for Indigenous Theatre (TORONTO) - founded in 1974

Centre Stage (TORONTO) – 1970 – resident producing company of St. Lawrence Centre until a 1988 merger with Toronto Free Theatre

Century(NYC) - 46th Street in Century Paramount Hotel - (299 seats) - Follow the Girls 1944 (882); High Button Shoes 1947 (727); American Dance Machine, Boccaccio; Exact Center of the Universe (Frances Sternhagen,Reed Birney) 1999 (142)

*Century Center(NYC) - 111 East 15th Street (Union Square) – opened March 1997 (299 seats)

Century Grove Theatre(NYC) – see Century Theatre

Century Roof(NYC) - see New Theatre

Century Theatre(NYC) – Central Park and 62nd Street – 1909 – opened as New Theatre – reopened as Century in 1911 – closed 1929 and demolished 1930 – on roof was small theatre, Cocoanut Grive/Century; 2nd Century – 932 7th Avenue between 58th & 59th – opened as Jolson Theatre in 1921 – from 1934-37 known as the Venice – renamed Century in 1944 - Inside USA 1948 – demolished 1961

Century Theatre (LONDON) – see Adelphi and Bijou

Century Theatre (TORONTO) – built as Allen Theatre – 147 Danforth Ave, East of Broadview (1919) – 1354 seats – currently the Music Hall

Chambers Street Theatre(NYC) – 39-41 Chambers St – opened 1844 as Palmo’s Opera House on site of Steppani’s Arcade Baths – 1848 became Burton’s Chamber Street Theatre – for season 1857 called the American Theatre – closed 1857

Chanfrau’s New National Theatre(NYC) – see Chatham Theatre

Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre(NYC) – see 46th Street Theatre

Chapel Street Theatre(NYC) – Chapel Street (later Beekman) (1761-1766)

Chapman’s Temple of the Muses(NYC) – a floating theatre opened in 1845

Charing Cross Theatre (LONDON) – King William Street – originally Polygraphic Hall – 1876 renamed Folly – 1895 demolished for extension of Charing Cross Hospital

Charles Hopkins Theatre(NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre

Chashama Theatre(NYC) - 135 West 42nd Street

Chateau (TORONTO) – 550 Queen St. West at Bathurst – 331 seats (1949-1955)

Chatham Garden Theatre(NYC) – 1824

Chatham Theatre(NYC) – referred to as the New Chatham Theatre – between Duane and Pearl Streets – originally opened as the Pavilion in 1823 – 1300 seats – 1829 renamed American Opera House – closed 1832 and became Presbyterian Chapel; 2nd Chatham Theatre – New Chatham – SE side of Chatham Street 1839 – 2200 seats – 1848 renamed New National Theatre, also known as National – damaged by fire 1860 but continued use as Union Theatre, the National Concert Hall, and again as the Chatham – finally became National Music Hall and demolished in 1862

*Chelsea Playhouse(NYC) - 125 West 22nd St. (6th & 7th)- Lark Theatre Company & Gilgamesh Theatre Co. (72)- Contractor (Reid Shelton) 1973 (72); Diamond Studs, Tuscaloosa's Calling Me, Vanities

Chelsea Theatre (LONDON) – see Royal Court

Chelsea Theatre Centre(NYC) – founded 1965 in Chelsea area but in 1968 moved to Brooklyn Academy of Music - Total Eclipse 1974 (4 weeks)

Chelsea Westside Theatre(NYC) - Vanities (1785)

* Cherry Lane Theatre(NYC) - 38 Commerce St. (Bedford & Hudson Street) (178) – early 19th century building converted to a theatre in 1924 – 1927 became New Playwright’s Theatre – reverted to Cherry Lane in 1928 - Living Theatre Company before opening their own theatre in 1951 - theatre has been renovated - Boyfriend 1958 (763); Smiling the Boy Fell Dead 1961; Duck Variations and Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Pinter Plays 1962 (578); In Circles 1968; Godspell 1971 - moved to Promenade and on to Broadway in 1976 (2124); Passion of Dracula 1977 (714); To Bury a Cousin 1980; True West (Gary Sinese,John Malkovich) 1982 (762); Nunsense 1985 (3672); Closer Than Ever 1989; Taffetas 1989; Sum of Us 1990 (355); Inside Out 1994; Beautiful Thing 1998

*Chez Suzette(NYC) - 675 B Ninth Avenue, NYC

Chicago City Limits Theatre(NYC) - 1105 First Avenue

Chickering Hall (NYC)- 5th Avenue and 18th St (1,247 seats) – demolished

China Cinema (TORONTO) – 785 seats (1974-1980)

Chiswick Empire Theatre (LONDON) – Chiswick – see Music Hall - demolished

Christian C. Yegan Theatre(NYC) - Springtime for Henry (Roundabout)(Tovah Feldshuh)1985;

Christie (TORONTO) – 665 St. Clair Ave West – 848 seats (1926-1963)

Church of the Holy Trinity (TORONTO) - rear of Eaton Centre - Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You

Church on Berkeley (TORONTO) - 315 Queen Street East - Sondheim Tribute, Jack and Jim's Wedding Party

Cinecity (TORONTO) - Yonge and Charles Street – 261 seats (1967-1975) - showed art and underground films - was located in old post office complex - currently Gold Gym upstairs and a MacDonalds on main floor

Cinema (TORONTO) – see Oriole

Cinema at Toronto Dominion Centre (TORONTO) – King and Bay Streets – 690 seats (1967-1983)

Cinema Dante(NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Cinema 49(NYC) - see 49th Street Theatre

Cinema Lumiere (TORONTO) – 290 College Street – 260 seats (1969-1978)

Cinema – The Theatre Beautiful (TORONTO) – 2061 Yonge St (1942-1946)

Cinema 2000 (TORONTO) – 329 Yonge Street at Dundas (1969-1983) – reopened as Cinema 2002 - porno palace

Cinema Verdi(NYC) - see Princess Theatre

Cinematek (TORONTO) – 2637 Yonge Street – 136 seats (1973-1974)

Cineplex Odeon (TORONTO) - Eaton Centre - Yonge and Dundas Streets - now closed

Cinesphere (TORONTO) – Ontario Place – built 1972 – world’s oldest IMAX theatre

Circle (TORONTO) – 2567 Yonge Street North – North of Sherwood Ave – 750 seats (1932-1956) – now strip plaza

* Circle in the Square(NYC) - 1633 Broadway @ 50th St. - (founded 1951 under direction of Jose Quintero in association with Theodore Mann - opened uptown in 1972) - celebrated 45th anniversary under threat of bankruptcy - Iceman Cometh 1956 revival (565), Uncle Vanya (Lillian Gish,George C.Scott,Nicol Williamson,Julie Christie,Cathleen Nesbitt,Barnard Hughes,Conrad Bain,Elizabeth Wilson) 1973; Loose Ends 1979 (284), Ah Wilderness, Balcony, Club, Coastal Disturbances; Glass Menagerie, Hot L Baltimore 1973 (1166), Lady From the Sea, Loose Ends, Night of the Iguana, Once in a Lifetime, Pal Joey; Death of a Salesman (George C.Scott,Teresa Wright,Harvey Keitel,James Farentino) 1975;Marriage of Figaro (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Christopher Reeve,Dana Ivey) 1986 (77); Caretaker 1986 (45); Oil City Symphony 1987; Getting Married 1991 (70); Hughie 1996 (56) with Al Pacino; Not About Nightingales (1999 the theatre reopened with this play after bankruptcy); Getting Married 1991 (70); Hughie (Al Pacino) 1996 (65); Tartuffe:Born Again (John Glover) 1996; Salome and Chinese Coffee (Al Pacino) 1999; Rocky Horror Show 2000

Circle in the Square-Downtown(NYC) – 5 Sheridan Square 1951 – 1954 building closed as fire hazard – 1960 building demolished and company moved to former New Stages Theatre at 159 Bleecker St @ Thompson St. - started as a movie theatre (299)- winner of Regional Theatre Tony Award 1976 – Iceman Cometh 1956 (565); Balcony 1960 (672); Trojan Women 1963 (600); Eh (Dustin Hoffman) 1966 (232); 1972 moved uptown to 1633 Broadway in basement of Uris Theatre (650 seats); Trojan Women (600), Club 1976 (674), Greater Tuna 1982 (501), Oil City Symphony 1987 (626)

Circle in the Square Theatre School(NYC)

* Circle Repertory Company(NYC) - 99 Seventh Ave. S. – formed in loft at Broadway and 83rd St 1969 by Marshall W. Mason – company moved in 1974 to former Sheridan Square Playhouse which became Circle Repertory Company Theatre – 100-150 seats - Gemini 1977 (1778 with move to Broadway), Fifth of July (William Hurt) 1978 (158) moved to Broadway (511), Angels Fall, 5th of July, Glorious Morning, Harvesting, Tale Told, Talley's Folly, Tribute to Lily Lamont, Ulysses in Traction, Fool For Love (Ed Harris) 1983 (1,000); Balm in Gilead (Gary Sinise) 1984; Prelude to a Kiss (Alec Baldwin,Mary-Louise Parker - transferred to Helen Hayes with Timothy Hutton 1990; - closed in 1996 after 28 years of great theatre featuring the plays of Albert Innaurato, Edward Moore and Lanford Wilson (one of the founders)

Circle Theatre(NYC) - 1901 - 1825 Broadway at 60th Street - 1906 remodelled by Thomas Lamb – Wine,Women and Song ran one and a half years - 1935 a bomb damaged parts of the theatre - sold at auction - interior demolished 1939 - torn down to make way for the Convention Centre in 1954

*City Center/City Center Stage 2(NYC) - 131 West 55th St. (between 6th and 7th Avenues) - built in 1923 as Masonic Temple (2935 seats) with its unique Moorish facade - was slated for demolition in 1943 but saved by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia - both New York City Opera and the New York City Ballet had their beginnings here until they moved to Lincoln Centre - home to dozens of musical revivals - in the early 1970s it was slated for demolition once again but was instead given landmark status – Festival 1979 - also now home to the Manhattan Theatre Club - former home to Ancient and Accepted Order of the Mystic Shrine, Carousel (revival) (Barbara Cook,Jo Sullivan) 1954; Brigadoon (revival) (Peter Palmer) 1962; Music Man (Dick Van Dyke) 1980 (21); Extra Man (Manhattan Theatre Club) (Adam Arkin) 1992; Wonderful Town 2000 revival (City Centre Encores) (2000), My Favorite Broadway (with Julie Andrews 2000)

City of London Theatre (LONDON) – Norton Folgate – 2500 seats - there in 1837 - Royal City of London 1843; New City of London Theatre 1859 – 1871 destroyed by fire

City Pantheon (LONDON) – see City Theatre

City Theatre (LONDON) – Grub Street (later Milton) – converted chapel 1829/30 – name changed to City Pantheon 1830 – last used 1836 – became warehouse

City Theatre(NYC) – 15 Warren St – 1822 – outbreak of yellow fever closed theatre 1823; 2nd City Theatre - upper part of City Saloon on Broadway between Fulton and Ann Streets – 1837 – closed same year; 3rd City Theatre – 116 East 14th Street – 1910 – converted to vaudeville house and then Yiddish Art Theatre 1928 – to cinema 1929 – demolished 1952

Civic Square Theatre (TORONTO) - see Casino Theatre

Civilized Theatre (TORONTO) - #1 - 189 Huron Street

Classical Stage Productions (TORONTO) (1972-3)

* Classic Stage Co(NYC) - 136 East 13th St. (between 3rd Ave & 4th Ave) (175)

Classic Theatre (TORONTO) - built 1914 - 1300 Gerrard St. East (just East of Greenwood) - built as vaudeville house – film theatre from 1930-1956 when it became a warehouse and discount store - 1997 restored as performance space and cafe

Civic Repertory Theater(NYC) - 105 West 14th St - opened 1926 - opened 1866 as Theatre Francaise - was old 14th Street Theater - built 1866 (1100 seats) - changed to Civic Repertory in 1926 - in 1932 became the Labor Theatre - Alison's House 1930 (41)- closed 1935 - demolished

Claire Shulman Playhouse(NYC) - see Queens Theatre in the Park

Clam House(NYC) - 133rd Street between Lennox and 7th Aves

Clark Center for the Performing Arts(NYC) - see Playwrights Horizon

Classical Theatre of Harlem (Harlem School of the Arts) (NYC) – 645 St. Nicholas Avenue

Classic Stage Theatre(NYC) - 136 East 13th Street

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center(NYC) - 107 Suffolk St.

Cleo's(NYC) - 656 9th Avenue, between 45th and 46th Street - Mabel Mercer

Cliftcrest Community Centre (TORONTO) - 1 McCowan

Clinton Hall(NYC) - see Astor Place Opera House

Clockworks Theatre(NYC) - 508 East 12th Street (Cosmic Bicycle Company) (25)

Clown Hall (TORONTO) - 68 Broadview, Suite 201A

*Club El Flamingo(NYC) - 547 West 21st Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)

Club USA(NYC) - see Central Theatre

Club Varadero (TORONTO) - 1305 Dundas Street West

CNE (TORONTO) - see Canadian National Exhibition

Coach House Theatre (TORONTO) - now closed - The Birthday Party, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunicks, Mister Mister, Viet Rock

Coburg Theatre (LONDON) – see Old Vic

Coburn Theatre(NYC) - see 63rd St. Music Hall/Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

Cockpit (LONDON) – Drury Lane – built for cockfights 1609 – converted to theatre 1616 – burnt down 1617 – rebuilt as Phoenix – closed 1642; 2nd – Gateforth Street – children’s theatre 1970 (120-240 seats)

Cockpit-in-Court (LONDON)– edge of St. James Park – converted to playhouse 1604 – reconstructed 1632 and 1660 but not used as theatre after 1664

Cocoanut Grove(NYC) – see Century Theatre

Coconut Grove(NYC) - see New Theatre

CODCO (TORONTO) – 1973 – company never had permanent space was was disbanded in 1979

Cohan and Harris(NYC) - see Candler Theatre, see Sam H. Harris Theatre - see Harris (Candler) Theatre - Royal Vagabond 1919 (208)

Cohan's Theatre(NYC) - see George M. Cohan Theatre - Broadway and 43rd Street – 1911

Cohan Theatre(NYC) - Potash and Perlmutter 1913 (441),

Colborne Street Theatre (TORONTO) - Front and Church Streets, West of Jarvis St. - 1820s - destroyed by fire in 1883

*Coliseum (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - see London Coliseum – originally a Music Hall 1904 (2358 seats) – closed 1906 – reopened 1908 – closed again 1960 and reopened 1961 as cinema – 1968 modernized and taken over by Sadler’s Wells Opera Company

Coliseum (TORONTO) - Mississauga – 309 Rathburn Road – Square 1 – 1997 – 13 screens

Coliseum (TORONTO) – Scarborough 12 – Scarborough Town Centre 1998 – 12 screens

*Collective Unconscious(NYC) - 145 Ludlow Street (between Rivington & Stanton Sts)- storefront theatre

College (TORONTO) – 350 seats (1979-1985)

College (TORONTO) – 960 College St at Dovercourt, built as Allen – 1500 seats (1921-1967) now retail stores

Collegiate Theatre (LONDON) - Dogg's Hamlet/Cahoot's Macbeth 1979

Collin’s Music Hall (LONDON) – Islington Green – originally room in Lansdowne Arms Public House – used since 1851 – 1863 replaced by new building (600 seats) – 1897 rebuilt and enlarged for repertory theatre – damaged by fire 1958 and demolished

Colonial Tavern (TORONTO) - Yonge Street (above Queen) - opened 1947 and closed 1987 - building demolished

Colonial Theatre(NYC) - 1887 Broadway at 62nd St - 1265 seats - near the Circle Theatre - opened 1905 as as legitimate theatre but quickly became a vaudeville house for 20 years - 1912 became Keith's Colonial - 1917 became New Colonial - 1925 became Hampden's Theatre - became movie house in 1931 and in 1956 NBC acquired as televison studio - in the mid 1960s sold to ABC, and finally in 1971 bought by Rebekah Harkness to house her ballet company - opened as the Harkness in 1974 - Sweet Bird of Youth; Harkness Ballet - demolished in 1977 and replaced by condominiums

Colonial Theatre (TORONTO) – see Bay

Colonial Theatre (TORONTO) on Queen Street opposite City Hall - demolished in 1957

Colonnade Theatre (TORONTO) - no longer used - Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Six Tales of Canterbury, Staircase, The Good Doctor

Colonnades Theatre Lab(NYC) - Moliere In Spite of Himself 1978 (100)

Colony (TORONTO) – 1801 Eglinton Ave West & Dufferin – 838 seats (1939-1958) – demolished and now office building

Colosseum (LONDON) – Albany Street – Regent’s Park – 1830s – occasionally used for plays – closed 1840

Colosseum Theatre(NYC) – 1874 – see Herald Square Theatre

Colossus and Imax (TORONTO) – Weston Road in Vaughan 1999 – 18 screens

Columbia Theatre(NYC) - see Central Theatre – opened 1910 – heyday of burlesque – Broadway’s first burlesque house – demolished

Columbia University Theatre(NYC) - Upstage and Down (Varsity Revue)1919 (first song by Rodgers and Hammerstein)"There's Always Room for One More"

Columbus Circle Theatre(NYC) - see Majestic Theatre

Comedy Theatre(NYC) - 108 West 41st Street - built 1909 (796 seats) - closed from 1931 to 1935 - Theatre used by Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman in 1937 and renamed the Mercury - Shoemaker's Holiday 1938 - group collapsed in 1938 - 1940 renamed the Artef - In The Zone 1917, Kitty Mackay 1914 (278)- stood empty until demolished in 1942

*Comedy Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) Panton Street off Haymarket – 1881 Peg O’ My Heart (Laurette Taylor) 1914 (710 perf) - (796 seats) - reconstructed 1911, 1933 and 1954 - One Summer's Day 1897; Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman 1906 (351); For Better For Worse 1952 (607); Dear Love; View From the Bridge; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1956 to 1959); Day in the Death of Joe Egg 1967; Colette 1980; Gambler 1986

Comedywood Downtown (TORONTO) - 194 Bloor St. West

Comedywood Uptown (TORONTO) - 800 Steeles St. West

Comet Theatre(NYC) -

Common Basis Theatre(NYC) - 750 Eighth Avenue (46th & 47th)

Commonwealth Theatre (NYC)– see Anthony Street Theatre

Community (TORONTO) – 1202 Woodbine Ave – art deco - 742 seats (1937-1955) – became a TV studio – now retail stores

Company of Lost Souls (TORONTO) - works in collaboration with Fishbowl Theatre

Comus Music Theatre (TORONTO) (1975-1986) - started by Michael Bawtree - dissolved

Concert Theatre(NYC) – see John Golden Theatre

*Connelly Theatre/Metro Playhouse(NYC) - 220 East 4th St. (between Avenue A and Avenue B) (orphanage in late 19th Century) Reopened February 1997 - houses Connelly and Metro Playhouse (52 seats)

Connie's Inn(NYC) - 2221 7th Avenue at 131st Street - Louis Armstrong - whites only policy

Context (NYC)- 28 Avenue A (74)

Continental (TORONTO) – 456 seats

Cooksville (TORONTO) – West Hill – also see Roxy (1956-1960)

*Copacabana(NYC) - 617 West 57th St (between 11th and 12th Avenues) - notorious nightclub - featured Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne (1948); Jimmy Durante (1951); Sophie Tucker, Lena Horne (1948); Nat King Cole (1958); Sammy Davis Jr (1959); Howard Keele, and the Copa Girls; Enrique Iglesias - closed 1960 and reopened

Coronet Theatre(NYC) – see Eugene O’Neill Theatre - Dream Girl 1945 (348), Angel in the Wings (Elaine Stritch) 1947 (over a year); All My Sons (Arthur Kennedy,Ed Begley,Karl Malden) 1947 (328), View From the Bridge (Van Heflin,Jack Warden,Eileen Heckart) 1955 (149), demolished

Coronet Theatre (TORONTO) - cinema - Yonge Street at Gerrard - played double features (1963-1980) 1327 seats - now a Jewellry Exchange

Cort Theatre (TORONTO) - see Adelaide Theatre

*Cort(NYC) - 138 West 48th St. (Shubert-1,084 seats) - Opened in 1912 with Peg O' My Heart (Laurette Taylor) (603), - (from 1969 to 1974 theatre was used for "The Merv Griffin Show") - Under Cover 1914 (349), Abraham Lincoln 1919 (193); Merton of the Movies 1922 (398), Blonde Sinner 1926; Behold the Bridegroom 1927 (88), Three-Cornered Moon (Ruth Gordon,Brian Donlevy) 1933 (10 weeks); Boy Meets Girl 1935 (669), Room Service 1937 (500), Male Animal 1940 (243), Shrike (Jose Ferrer) 1952 (161), Fifth Season 1953 (654), Rainmaker 1954 (128); Diary of Anne Frank (Susan Strasberg,Joseph Schildkraut) 1955 (717), Sunrise at Campobello 1958 (556), Purlie Victorious (Ossie Davis,Ruby Dee,Godfrey Cambridge,Alan Alda) 1961 (261); Zulu and the Zayda 1965; Magic Show (Doug Henning,Nathan Lane) (5/74 to 12/78 - 1,920 performances), Richard III (Al Pacino) 1979; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 1984 (275), Sarafina 1988 (597), Advise and Consent, Apparition Theatre of Prague, Home, Grapes of Wrath (Gary Sinese) 1990; Twilight: Los Angeles,1992; Sex and Longing Dana Ivey,Sigourney Weaver) 1996 (45);Freak (John Leguizamo) 1998 (145); Marlene 1999, Kat and the Kings 1999 (157); The Green Bird 2000

Cort's 58th Street(NYC) - see John Golden Theatre

Cort's 63rd Street(NYC) - see 63rd Street Music Hall

Cosmopolitan Theatre(NYC) - see Majestic Theatre - (1043 seats) – demolished

Cosmo Varieties(NYC) - see Majestic Theatre

Cotillion Room(NYC) - intimate cabaret

Cottesloe Theatre (LONDON) – see National Theatre

Cotton Club(NYC) - 142nd Street and Lennox - opened 1923 and operated for 17 years as top Harlem nightspot of notoriety - all white policy with black performers - the biggest names played here - Duke Ellington 1927; Cab Calloway; Lena Horne started here at 16 years of age

Cotton Club(NYC) - 48th Street - Duke Ellington; Bill Bojanges Robinson; Ethel Waters - see also Cotton Club in Harlem on 142nd St.

Court Theatre (LONDON) – see Royal Court

Courtyard Theatre(NYC) - see Grove Street Playhouse - Perfect Crime (now uptown over 3,000 performances)

Covent Garden (LONDON) – Theatre Royal- see Royal Opera House – Bow Street – theatre here since 1732 (1897 seats) – 1782 gutted and reconstructed and again 1792 – 1808 theatre burnt down – rebuilt (2800 seats) – theatre closed 1842 – reopened 1847 as Royal Italian Opera House (4000 seats) – burnt down 1856 – new theatre opened 1858 – 1970 seating increased to 2158

Craig Theatre(NYC) - 152 West 54th St - 1928 - 1400 seats - 1931 theatre closed and reopened in 1934 as the Adelphi and in 1940 was renamed the Radiant Center - 1944 Shuberts returned the theatre to Adelphi with Street Scene, Look Ma I'm Dancin' and On The Town - 1949 DuMont Television Network signed a lease and shot the Honeymooners there - renamed 54th Street Theatre in 1958 - Bye Bye Birdie; Brigadoon (revival); No Strings; What Makes Sammy Run; - in 1965 it became the George Abbott Theatre - Darling of the Day, Gantry - bought by New York Hilton and demolished for a tower addition

Creation 2 (TORONTO) – (1969-1977) - theatre company

*Creative Place Theatre(NYC) - 750 Eighth Avenue

Credit (TORONTO) – Port Credit – 395 seats (1974-1975)

Crescent (TORONTO) – 2265 Dundas St. West (West Toronto Junction) (1932-1945)

Crest Theatre (TORONTO) - Mount Pleasant Road – see also Belsize – originally a movie theatre built in 1927 – refurbished and established in 1953 by Donald and Murray Davis, and their sister Barbara Chilcott, further renovations in 1958 and 1963 - closed in 1966 basically due to refusal of Canada Council grant (822 seats) - Charley's Aunt, Double Image, Emmanuel XOC, Epitaph for George Dillon, Evelyn, Four Faces, The Glass Cage, Hay Fever, Krapp's Last Tape, The Matchmaker, The Mousetrap, Mr. Scrooge 1963, The Physicists, Poor Bitos, Private Ear and the Public Eye, The Rainmaker, Spring Thaw, That Hamilton Woman, Tiger and the Typist, Tiny Alice, Witness for the Prosecution. This and Tarragon are/were probably Toronto's most important theatres

Crest Theatre (TORONTO) - room in Performing Arts Lodge - 110 The Esplanade

Cricket Theatre(NYC) - Blood Knot (James Earl Jones) 1964

Criterion(NYC) – see Herald Square Theatre - Barbara Frietchie 1899 (83)

Criterion Center Stage Right (NYC) - 1530 Broadway - (526 seats) see Roundabout Theatre Company – Starmites 1989

Criterion Theatre(NYC) - A Grand Night For Singing 1993 (52)

Criterion Theatre(NYC) - 1514 Broadway (on East side between 44th and 45th) - see Olympia – built as part of Hammerstein’s Olympia complet to seat 2800 with roof garden – opened as Lyric Theatre 1895 – 1899 changed to Criterion - Scrap of Paper 1914 – became cinema – demolished 1935 together with old Olympia Music Hall – 2nd Herald Square Theatre, originally Colosseum, was named Criterion from 1882-1885

*Criterion Theatre (LONDON) - (Piccadilly Circus) Piccadilly Circus – originally adjunct to Spiers and Pond’s Criterion Restaurant - 1873 - (591 seats) - reconstructed 1883 as closed as unsafe and 1903 - built entirely underground- restored in 1992 - French Without Tears; converted to BBC studio in 1939 - reopened in 1992 refurbished - Absurd Person Singular; Butley 1971; Tomfoolery 1980; Run for Your Wife as of 1987 over 1,800 performances; Real Inspector Hound; Play's The Thing 1995 (49);

Criterion (TORONTO) – Queen Street West

Crossing Jamaica Avenue Organization(NYC)

Crowder’s Music Hall(NYC) – see Greenwich Theatre

Crown (TORONTO) – Finch and Weston Road – 410 seats (1979-1982)

Crown (TORONTO) – 591 Gerrard St. East – 724 seats (1930-1956)

Crows Theatre (TORONTO) - 69 Massey Street

Crucial Arts Organization(NYC)

Cruger’s Wharf Theatre(NYC) – opened 1758 below Water Street – see also Wharf Theatre – not used after 1759

CSI Centre for the Arts(NYC)

Cubicolo Theatre(NYC) – Five After Eight 1979

Culture Project(NYC)

CUM-BACK (TORONTO) – see Adelphi

Cumberland 4 Cinemas (TORONTO) - 159 Cumberland Street at Avenue Road - 1980

*Currican/Altered Stages(NYC) - 154 West 29th St.(between 6th and 7th Aves) (74)

*Curtain Call Players (TORONTO) - Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive (Don Mills and Sheppard Avenue East)

Curtain Club Theatre (TORONTO) - 400 Newkirk, Richmond Hill

Curtain Theatre (LONDON) - in existence in late 1500s – in Curtain Close - see the Globe – from 1603-1609 Queen Anne’s Men occupied it – not used after 1622

Da Da Kamara (TORONTO) - 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 363

Daly’s Fifth Avenue(NYC) – opened in 1869 and burned in 1873

Daly's 63rd Street Theatre(NYC)- see 63rd Street Music Hall – 22-6 West 63rd Street – built as the Davenport in 1909 – renamed Daly’s 1922 – also known as Coburn (1928); Recital (1932); Park Lane (1932) and Gilmore’s (1934) – leased as Experimental Theatre 1936 – demolished 1957 after years of not being used

Daly’s Theatre(NYC) – Broadway and 39th Streets – 1879 – remodeled from the Broadway Theatre

Daly's Theatre(NYC) – 1221 Broadway and 30th St. (l,051 seats) - opened 1879 as Banvard’s and later Wood’s Museum – modeled on the Broadway Theatre at Broadway and 39th Streets - 1867 changed to Daly’s 1868 – later became Broadway – reopened 1879 as Daly’s–7-208 or Casting the Boomerang 1883 (49), Railroad of Love 1887 (108), Needles and Pins 1880 (79), Lottery of Love 1888 (105), Bird of Paradise 1912 (112), Baby Mine 1910 (287) – became a cinema 1915 demolished 1920

Daly's Theatre (LONDON) - 1893-1937 – Cranbourn Street, on the site of Warner West End - Leicester Square – 600 seats – Maid of the Mountains (1352 perf) - Artist's Model 1895; Merry Widow 1907; Merveilleuses 1906; Sirocco 1927 (Ivor Novello) (28) – closed 1937 – now Warner Cinema

Dancemakers Studio (TORONTO) - 927 Dupont Street

Dance Theatre Workshop(NYC)

Danforth (TORONTO) – see Music Hall

Danforth (TORONTO) – 147 Danforth at Pape – had theatre organ - 1946 – see Century

Danforth Mennonite Church (TORONTO) - 2174 Danforth Avenue

*Danforth Music Hall (TORONTO) - see Music Hall

*Danny Grossman Dance Company (TORONTO) - 1975 - Parliament Street - season held at Harbourfront

*Danny's Skylight Room Cabaret(NYC) - 346-348 West 46th Street

Danse de Follies(NYC) - see New Amsterdam Theatre

Darrell Kent Cultural Centre (TORONTO) - 454 Parliament Street

*Daryl Roth Theatre/De La Guarda(NYC) - 20 Union Square E @ 15th Street - In the next few weeks, construction will begin on a 99-seat, black box second stage at the Daryl Roth Theatre - De La Guarda 1998

Dave and Busters (TORONTO) - 120 Interchange Way

Davenport Theatre (NYC)– see Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre

Davis’s Royal Amphitheatre (LONDON) – see Astley’s Amphitheatre

Deering Theatre (TORONTO) - 1842 - Front Street (Berczy Park) - financial problems and converted into restaurant

*Delacorte Theatre(NYC) - Central Park - see New York Shakespeare Festival (1892 seats) 81st and Central Park - built as temporary structure and opened in June, 1962 – Merchant of Venice (George C. Scott) 1962; All's Well That End's Well & Richard III (Christopher Walken,Barbara Barrie) 1966; Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971; Henry V (Paul Rudd,Meryl Streep,Michael Moriarty,Philip Bosco) 1976; Mystery of Edwin Drood 1985; 4.35 million renovation and opened with Taming of the Shrew 1999; Tartuffe 1999; Julius Caesar (David McCallum) 2000; Seagull (Meryl Streep,Kevin Kline,Christopher Walken,John Goodman)2001

Dell Tavern (TORONTO) - demolished - cabaret type entertainment - Hollywood Blues, Noel Coward Revue

Deptford Players(NYC)

Dewey Theatre(NYC) – 14th Street – Wine,Women and Song

Diamond Horseshoe (Billy Rose's) (NYC)- situated under the Paramount Hotel on 46th Street - currently under construction

Dicapo Opera(NYC)

Dimson Theatre(NYC) - 108 East 15th Street (between Union Square E. & Irving Place)

Dixie 5 (TORONTO) – Dundas at Dixie – 383 seats (1972-1984)

*Dixon Place(NYC) - 309 East 26th Street – relocated - was at 258 Bowery

DK Productions (TORONTO) - 30 Gloucester Street, Suite 309

*DNA Theatre (TORONTO) - 133 Bathurst Street

Docks (TORONTO) – see The Docks

Dockstader's Minstrel Hall(NYC) - 1886 - Broadway near 29th St.

Dodger Stages(NYC) - opening 2003 - at Worldwide Plaza - formerly Cineplex Odeon - 50th Street and 8th Avenue - 5 performance spaces and one rehearsal space - two 499 seat theatres, 2 400 seat theatres and one with 299 seats - see Worldwide Plaza

Doo Gooder Productions(NYC)

*Dominion (LONDON) - (Tottenham Court Road) Tottenham Court Road - 1929 - designed for both theatre and film house - 1958 Todd-AO equipment installed - saved from demolition as part of office development in 1990 and restored instead - art deco exterior and interior – Time 1986; Bernadette 1990; Grand Hotel; Grease (3 years); Beauty and the Beast; Notre Dame de Paris

Dominion (TORONTO) – 424 seats (1974-1975) – showed Indian films

Dominion Drama Festival (TORONTO) (1932-1978)- adjudicated festival held in various regions for high school and college productions – 1970 renamed Theatre Canada, but discontinued in 1978

Donlands (TORONTO) – 397 Donlands Ave – 838 seats (1949-1969) – still there but not in operation

*Donmar Warehouse (LONDON) - (Covent Garden) Earlham Street - originally a brewery - became film studio in 1920 and converted to theatre in 1960 – Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood 1985; Noel and Gertie 1986; Load of Old Sequins 1987; renovated in 1992 – Fix 1997; Cabaret; Blue Room 1998

Don Mills (TORONTO) – Don Mills Centre – 857 seats (1963-1988)

Don't Tell Mama(NYC) - 343 West 46th St-intimate bar/cabaret – Hard Time to Be Single 1990; Honky-Tonk Highway 1994; That Time of the Year 1996

Doric (TORONTO) – 1094 Bloor St. West and Gladstone – 527 seats (1919-1955)

Dorset Garden Theatre (LONDON) – also known as Duke’s, or Duke of York’s, fronted Thames to South of Salisbury Count – 1671 – theatre deserted 1682 – 1689 renamed Queen’s Theatre – demolished 1709

*Douglas Fairbanks(NYC) - 432 West 42nd St. (between 9th & 10th Sts)(286 seats)- one of the nicest theatres on Theatre Row - Geniuses; When Pigs Fly 1996 (334); If It Was Easy 2000; Forbidden Broadway 2001; Mr. President 2001

Dovercourt Church in the Great Hall (TORONTO) – Dovercourt

Downstairs at the Upstairs(NYC) - see Upstairs at the Downstairs - Joan Rivers, Julius Monk Revues

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre(NYC)

Downtown Theatre(NYC) - Prodigal 1960 (several months)

Downtown (TORONTO) – 285 Yonge Street – 1059 seats (1948-1972)

Dresden Theatre(NYC) - see New Amsterdam

*Drury Lane, Theatre Royal (LONDON) - (Covent Garden)- London’s most famouse theatre – now the 4th on this site – 1st Opened in 1663 as Theatre Royal, Brydges Street (2188 seats)- 1666 theatre closed re plague and Great Fire – damaged by fire in 1672 - new theatre designed by Sir Christopher Wren opened in 1674 – 2nd Theatre Royal in Drury Lane (2000 seats) – 1674 – closed 1676 and again 1709 – major alterations 1775 – 1780 damaged during Gordon Riots – 3rd - 1791 theatre rebuilt (3611 seats) – opened 1794 – burnt down 1809 – 4th – 2283 seats – opened 1812 – 1921-2 interior reconstructed - School for Scandal; Catherine Street - torn down in 1791 and rebuilt with seating for 3,500 - replaced by present structure in 1812 - making it the oldest theatre in England that is still in use - Cavalcade 1931; Glamorous Night 1935; Careless Rapture 1936; Dancing Years 1939; Pacific 1860 1946; Oklahoma 1947 (1,548); Carousel 1950 (566); South Pacific 1951 (802); King and I 1953 (926); My Fair Lady (over 2000 performances) 1958; Four Musketeers 1967; Mame (Ginger Rogers) 1969; Great Waltz 1970 (2 years); Gone With the Wind 1972; Billy 1974; A Chorus Line 1976 (over 2 ½ years); Evening with Alan Jay Lerner 1987; Miss Saigon 1989; Witches of Eastwick 2000; Forty Second Street 1984; Chorus Line; Miss Saigon (broke My Fair Lady's record);

*Duchess Theatre (LONDON) - (Covent Garden) Catherine Street, off Aldwych - 1929 (476 seats) - Night Must Fall 1935; Corn is Green 1938; The Deep Blue Sea 1952; Caretaker 1960; Isabel’s a Jezebel 1970; Collaborators, Dirtiest Show in Town; Oh Calcutta 1974 to 1980; No Sex Please We're British

Duchess Theatre (TORONTO) – Dundas Street West – see Centre

* Duffy(NYC) - 1553 Broadway @ 46th St. - a former strip club called Paris Burlesque which was shut down in 1991 for harboring prostitution - 165 seats - Perfect Crime has been playing since 1987 (has outgrown 4 theatres including Theatre Four and 47th Street Theatre) - 5900 performances as of July 25, 2001

*Duke of York's Theatre (LONDON) - (Leicester Square) St. Martin's Lane - 1892 (588 seats) - built as Trafalgar Square Theatre 900 seats - changed its name in 1895 to Duke of York’s - Madame Butterfly/Miss Hobbs 1900; Peter Pan 1904; Enchanted Cottage 1922 (64); Shadow and Substance 1943; Moby Dick; House by the Lake 1956 (928); The Killing of Sister George 1965; Seagull 1975; Duet For One 1981; The Man Most Likely To; The Changing Room; Stones in His Pocket

*Duke on 42nd Street(NYC) - 229 West 42nd Street (between 7th & 8th Sts)- part of the redevelopment of 42nd Street - 199 seats - theatre housed in a 10 story building - on 2nd floor - Jewish Repertory Theatre resident company - Spitfire Grill 2001

Duke's Theatre (LONDON) – see Holborn Theatre

*DuMaurier Theatre Centre (TORONTO) - 231 Queens Quay West - see Harbourfront Centre

*DuMaurier World Stage Festival (TORONTO) - founded 1986 - held at Harbourfront and other theatres

Dundas (TORONTO) – see Brock

Duo Theatre(NYC) – Born to Rumba 1991; Chez Garbo 1996

*Duplex Cabaret(NYC) - 61 Christopher Street (at 7th Avenue) - New York's oldest continuing cabaret - Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Dawn Hampton – Bed, Boys and Beyond 2000

Dust Hole (LONDON) – see Scala Theatre

DVXT Theatre (TORONTO) - uses various theatres i.e. Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times, DuMaurier World Stage

D.W. Griffith Theatre(NYC) - see Bijou Theatre

Eagle Theatre(NYC) – see Standard Theatre

Earl Carroll Theatre(NYC) - 753 Seventh Avenue (SE corner of 7th and 50th)- built in 1922 with 1026 seats - Earl Carroll's Sketchbook (400); Jimmy Durante - theatre demolished in 1930 and reopened as a new Earl Carroll Theatre - Manhattan's largest playhouse opened in 1931 - Ziegfeld took over theatre in 1932 and renamed it the Casino Theatre - Showboat revival; Desire Under the Elms - became film house after Ziegfeld's death and a cabaret called the French Casino - 1936 Billy Rose took the reins and it became Casa Manana - 1939 the theatre closed and reopened as Woolworths but in 1990 the businesses were evicted and the remains of the theatre were demolished; 2nd theatre – opened on same site 1931 – 3000 seats – closed and reopened 1932 as Casino – 1934 became French Casino and in 1938 became Casa Manana

Earl Grey Players (TORONTO) – formed 1946

East London Theatre (LONDON) – see Royalty

Eastminster United Church (TORONTO) - 310 Danforth Avenue

East 74th Street Theatre/Eastside Playhouse(NYC) – see also Phoenix - Crystal Heart 1960; Last Sweet Days of Isaac 1970; In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel – demolished

East Side Players (TORONTO) - Pottery Road

Eastwood (TORONTO) – 1430 Gerrard St. East, West of Coxwell – Beaux Art design – 850 seats – (1927-1966) – now retail store

Eaton Auditorium (TORONTO) - Eaton's 7th Floor Art Moderne Auditorium and Round Room with domed ceiling, two bars and space for up to 300 persons) designed by Jacques Carlu (Yonge and College Streets) - Art Deco style 1400 seat Art Deco concert hall and restaurant, 1928-31 recital hall in the old Eatons College Street store - Yonge and College Streets - top floor - closed in 1977 when the store closed - Portia White (Nov. 7, 1941); National Ballet of Canada started season here 1951; then transferred to the Royal Alexandra Theatre (they are now in their 50th year); Billie Holiday; Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens; Joyce Grenfell; Elsa Lanchester; Glenn Gould made his stage debut here in 1945 and did all his recordings here from 1970 to 1981 - even after it closed in 1977 - site is being restored and will reopen with 2 new bars at the rear of the theatre, a new VIP room, vintage phone booths - hopefully reopening in the Fall of 2002 under the working name of the "Carlu" (named after the architect)

Eaton Centre Cineplex (TORONTO) – Dundas St. West of Yonge St – 18 cinemas (1979-2001)

Eclipse (TORONTO) – 387 Parliament St, South of Dundas – 561 seats (1947-1951) – now Regent Park

Eden (TORONTO) – see Madison, Bloor Cinema and Midtown – 947 seats (1973-1979)

Eden Palace of Varieties (LONDON) – see Kingsway

Eden Theatre(NYC) – see Phoenix - Oh Calcutta 1969 (1314)(revived 1969 with record of one of longest running musicals (5,969 performances), Grease 1972 (3388 with move to Broadway),

* Edison(NYC) - (Vegas Room ) 240 West 47th St. - Oh Calcutta 1971 (5959); Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope (Micki Grant) 1972 (1,065); Hard Job Being Good 1972

Ed Sullivan Theatre(NYC) - see Hammerstein's Theatre

*Educational Alliance(NYC) - Mazer Theatre - 197 East Broadway

Edyth Totten Theatre(NYC) - 247 West 48th Street - 1926 - 299 seats - renamed the President - changed names many times - showed German films 1932 as the Hindenburg - 1933 became the Caruso Cinema showing Italian films - then Midget Theatre for plays - back to the President in 1934, then the Artef, Acme Theatre for films in 1937, American Show Shop in 1937 for stage performances and then Show Shop in 1938 for films - then became 48th Street Theatre when that theatre was renamed the Windsor but gave it up in 1943 when 48th Street theatre went back to original name, it became the President once again - then Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop before being purchased by Mamma Leone's and extending their restaurant - the entire structure was demolished in 1988

Effingham Theatre (LONDON), Stepney (changed to East London Theatre)-built in 1834 and closed in 1897

Eglinton Theatre (TORONTO) - 402 Eglinton Avenue West at Avenue Road West - built 1936 Art Deco, with 1,080 seats - A vintage, single screen theatre, the Eglinton is possibly the finest movie house left in Toronto, with THX sound, and a recently renovated, classic decor make this Famous Players theatre a perennial favorite of discerning movie goers, and a frequent location for festivals and special screenings. Located west of the upscale "Yonge and Eglinton" neighborhood, the theatre is a short walk from countless shops, pubs and restaurants - still running but slated to be closed April 1, 2002 due to nonincorporation of handicapped facilities to the theatre

Eglinton Town Square (TORONTO) – Warden and Eglinton – (2000) – 16 screens

8th Street Playhouse(NYC)- 52 West 8th Street - was home of the 8th Street Players - The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1981 - now a video shop - see the Village Barn

Eighty-Eights(NYC) - intimate cabaret – Pictures in the Hall 1990; Cast of Thousands 1995 - closed May 1999

81st Street Theatre(NYC) - The Kitchen (Rip Torn,Sylvia Miles) 1966 (136)

86th Street Theatre(NYC) - 86th Street - Ethel Merman in vaudeville show 1930

Elane (TORONTO) – Eglinton and Danforth Ave – 711 seats (1963-1985) – in 1998 reopened as a Tamil cinema

Electra (TORONTO) – College and Spadina – see Bellevue (1968-1969)

Elektra (TORONTO) – 698 seats – (1964-1970) – showed Greek films

Elephant & Castle Theatre (LONDON), Southwark - opened 1872 – Newington Butts - closed 1928 - 1932 became a cinema

El Flamingo(NYC) - 547 West 21st Street - Donkey Show 1999 (still running Aug 18/02 - 3 years)

*Elgin Theatre (TORONTO) - built as Loew's Vaudeville, Yonge Street in 1913-14 - 189 Yonge St. - designed by Thomas Lamb, at a cost of $500,000 (1600 seats) part of the vaudeville circuit - from 1913 to 1928 vaudeville acts and silent films - Webber and Fields, Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle and Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy - fire 1928 - 30,000.00 damage – showed movies from 1930 - the Elgin later became a cinema renamed Yonge in 1978 and ran until 1982 - in 1985 the both theatres were renovated - opened with Cats (1985 to 1987); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1992); Napoleon 1994 - cost 40 million dollars, in 1989 - the last remaining operating double decker theatre complex in the world - Winter Garden is 7 stories above the Elgin (see also Winter Garden); The Full Monty 2001 (run cut short re reviews)

Elgin Mills (TORONTO) – Richmond Hill – 10 cinemas – 1995

Ellen Stewart Theatre(NYC) – House of Leather 1970; Colette 1970

El Mocambo (TORONTO) - 464 Spadina Avenue (at College) - October 2001 ends the gritty and bristling character of the El Mocambo - which perhaps embodied the spirit of rock 'n' roll. The music of the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed (late 1970s), Elvis Costello (1978); Steve Ray Vaughan (1983); Alex Chilton (1995); Galactic Cowboys (1999); Pepper (2001); Donnas - still echos through this legendary club - although the second floor was not used as often recently, it still showcased a few fine performers, while the downstairs stage operated seven days a week ; reopening New Year's Eve 2001 at 549 College Street West

Elmore's Hall (TORONTO) - 188 1/2 Lowther Avenue - converted chapel of Walmer Road Baptist Church

Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre(NYC) - 236 West 42nd St - opened 1912 as the Empire Theatre (900 seats) - premiere production was Within the Law 1912 (541); First Night 1912 (541), Yellow Ticket (John Barrymore) 1914 (183); Fair and Warmer 1915 (377); Business Before Pleasure 1917 (357); Up in Mabel's Room 1919 (229), Fall Guy 1925 (177); Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath 1920 (375); Her Cardboard Lover (Jeanne Eagels) 1927 (13 weeks); - became burlesque house 1930 - Barretts of Wimpole Street 1931 (372); Old Maid 1935 (305); Life With Father 1939 (3224); closed 1942 and in 1943 became cinema - Member of the Wedding (Julie Harris,Ethel Waters,Brandon DeWilde) 1950 (501); I Am a Camera 1951 (262); Long Days 1951 (3); Time of the Cuckoo 1952 (263); Song of Songs, Girl in the Limousine - 1931 became a burlesque house - in 1942 mayor shut down theatre for moral reasons and became movie theatre - renamed "Laff Movie Theatre" - dedicated to filmed comedy - 1954 became the Empire - closed mid 1980s - exterior and will be restored as theatre was moved 200 feet to east to create entrance to AMC movie center complex

Eltinge Theatre(NYC) - Girl I Left Behind Me 1893 (208), Masquerade 1894; Bohemia 1895; Peter Pan (Maude Adams) 1905; Within the Law 1914 (541);

Elysee(NYC) - see John Golden Theatre

Embassy (TORONTO) – 651 Yonge Street – 1934 see New Yorker

Embassy Five(NYC) - see Gaiety Theatre

Embassy 49th Theatre(NYC) - see Punch & Judy Theatre

Embassy Theatre (LONDON) – Hampstead – 1928 – dmaged by bombing Second World War – closed 1957 and taken over by Central School of Speech and Drama

Emerging Artists Theatre Company(NYC)

Empire (LONDON) – Wood Green – Leicester Square – famous music hall – originally theatre 1884-1886 housed burlesque – on site of Saville House, home of George II when Prince of Wales – 1887 became Empire Theatre of Varieties – 1927 closed – demolished and replaced by cinema – closed and gutted 1961 – interior reconstructed as cinema and dance hall; 2nd – Empire – Islington – see Grand Theatre

Empire (LONDON) - now site of Empire Cinema - stands on site of Saville House - burned down 1865; the Alcazar opened 1883 Empire dates from the 1890s

Empire Theatre(NYC) - 1430 Broadway and 40th St - bui