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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was built in Bankside, London.
•Able to hold 3,000 spectators
•Approximately 100 feet in diameter
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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre – A Sad End
The Globe Theatre burnt down in 1613 when a stage special effect went wrong. A cannon used for a performance of Henry VIII set fire & quickly spread. It took less than two hours for the building to completely burn to the ground. -
Birth of the musical and post-Civil War
in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850 -
Broadway Theatre
The plays of William Shakespeare were frequently performed on the Broadway stage during the period, most notably by American actor Edwin Booth who was internationally known for his performance as Hamlet -
Broadway 1980s
In December 1983, Save the Theatres prepared "The Broadway Theater District, a Preservation Development and Management Plan", and demanded that each theater in the district receive landmark designation -
Rebuilding Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
It was not until 1989 that Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was discovered in Bankside.The new theater seats 1,500 people (half the original capacity), fire-retardant materials and uses modern backstage machinery. -
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,[n 1] commonly called simply Broadway, is theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. -
American theatre today
theatre acts have disappeared from the landscape, but theatre remains a popular American art form. Broadway productions still entertain millions of theatregoers as productions have become more elaborate and expensive. -
Theatre in 1990s -200s
Some theaters built between about 1900 and 1920 managed to survive as well, many went through periods of alternate use, most often as movie theaters until the second half of the century saw many urban populations decline and multiplexes built in the suburbs. Since that time, a number have been restored to original or nearly-original condition and attract new audiences nearly one hundred years later. -
Broadway today
generally shows with open-ended runs have evening performances Tuesday through Saturday with a 7:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. "curtain". The afternoon "matinée" performances are at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays and at 3:00 p.m. on Sundays. This makes it an eight-performance week
