The Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theatre. It is located at 111 West 44th Street. Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
The Theatre was constructed in 1907 as the Stuyvesant Theatre and renamed after Belasco in 1910. It was built as a showcase for David Belasco's productions and was designed to his specifications, with Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and murals. It was outfitted with the most advanced stagecraft tools available, including extensive lighting rigs, a hydraulics system and vast wing and fly space. Belasco's business office and private apartment were also housed there. As of 2006 the Belasco is still in operation as a Broadway venue. David Belasco, between 1898 and 1916. ...
The first Belasco Theatre in New York City was located at 229 West 42nd Street in the Times Square district. Belasco took over management of the venue and completely remodeled it in 1902, only two years after it was constructed as the Theatre Republic by Oscar Hammerstein. He gave up the theater in 1910 and it was renamed the Republic. Under various different owners, it went through a tumultuous period as a burlesque venue, hosted second-run and, eventually, pornographic films and fell into a period of neglect before being rehabilitated and reopened as the New Victory Theater in 1995.
Belasco Theatres also existed in several other cities. The Los Angeles Belasco was built in 1926, is located at 1050 S. Hill St downtown and has been used as a church in recent years. The Shubert-Belasco Theatre was located in Washington D.C. This article is about the largest city in California. ...
The original New York Belasco Theatre, now the New Victory, 2006.
"Los Angeles Exuberant" Charles Lockwood, New York Times, November 3, 1985
Broadway Theatres: History and architecture, William Morrison, Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 0486402444
The Shuberts Present: 100 Years of American Theater, Maryann Chach, Reagan Fletcher, Mark Evan Swartz, Sylvia Wang, Harry N. Abrams, 2001, ISBN 0810906147
Belasco rebuilt and redecorated the theatre as a showcase for his increasingly lavish productions, installing elaborate stage machinery and lighting equipment and renaming the house after himself.
In 1906 Belasco realized a long-time dream when ground was broken in 44th Street for a brand-new theatre, the Stuyvesant: a state-of-the-art playhouse built largely to Belasco's own designs.
Belasco's jewelbox 42nd Street house, lovingly restored, also survives today, as the New Victory--cornerstone of the "new" 42nd Street as it once was of the old.
The latter revealed the expertness of Belasco as an adapter far better than his work on Hermann Bahr’s The Concert (3 October, 1910) or on The Lily (23 December, 1909) by Wolff and Leroux.
Had Belasco not been a manager, the effect on his own workmight have been different.
The entire history of the American theatre within the past quarter of a century has been the continued struggle between the dramatist and the manager, resulting in the complete surrender of the former to the dictates of the latter.
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