New Victory Theatre [New York City]
type: Item
label: New Victory Theater @nl
label: New Victory Theatre
description: Theatre building in New York, USA
description: theater in New York, Verenigde Staten van Amerika @nl
EUTA building identifier: 5021
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: USA
City: New York City
opening date: 1900-09-27T00:00:00Z
Wikidata source: Q1467005
GPS: Point(-73.9875 40.7565)
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 136793
Capacity: 500
Address: 209 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
Web: www.newvictory.org
architect: John Bailey McElfatrick
Wikidata instance: Q41253
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q187369
Carthalia ID: 1545
theatricalia id: 1f4/new-victory-theater-42nd-street-new-york
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1900 as Theatre Republic by Albert E. Westover for Oscar Hammerstein. 1902 major interior rebuilding by Bigelow, Wallis & Cotten for David Belasco. Re-opened 29 Sep 1902 as Belasco Theatre. 1910 renamed Republic. Since 1930 operated as a burlesque theatre by Minsky. 1942 converted into a cinema and renamed Victory. In the 1990s reconverted into a theatre proper to the original 1902 plans, as part of the Times Square Redevelopment Project. Re-opened 1995 as New Victory Theatre.