Bandbox Theatre
East 57th Street near Third Avenue, New York, NY
Seats (approximate)
1736
Built
1912
Closed
1926
Demolished
1969
ABOUT THIS THEATRE
Adolf Philipp's Fifty-Seventh Street Theatre
Description
The venue opened under the direction of Adolf Phillip who dedicated the playhouse to the production of "light German and Viennese operettas." In December 1914, the New York Play Actors, Inc. announced they would remodel and take over the venue; it would reopen as the Bandbox.