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National Theater (Manhattan)
Defunct Yiddish theater / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Theater was a Yiddish theater at the southwest corner of Chrystie Street and Houston Street in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan, New York City, United States.[1] When first built it was leased to Boris Thomashefsky and Julius Adler.[2] Its grand opening as the Adler-Thomashefsky National Theatre was on September 24, 1912.[3][4]
For the 1833–41 theater at Leonard and Church Streets in Manhattan, see Lorenzo Da Ponte § American career.
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The theater was one of the many designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, and seated 1,900 when it opened. It was built as one of a pair of theaters, with the Crown Theater, seating 963, in the rooftop theater.[5] Both theaters closed in 1941, re-opened in 1951 as a pair of cinemas (the National Theater and the Roosevelt Theater), and were demolished in 1959.[2]