Lost Broadway theatres
By: Nicholas van Hoogstraten ; with additional photography by Jock Pottle and Maggie Hopp.
Edition: Rev. ed., fully updated and expanded.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Theaters -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Description: Lost Broadway Theatres is the definitive history of the great New York playhouses of the past. Fully updated and expanded to include the pioneering restoration work of the 1990s, this volume traces the histories of nearly sixty Broadway theatres constructed between 1882 and 1932.

From Moorish masterpieces to Art Deco delights, the theatres that once lined Broadway were magnificent showplaces, with histories as flamboyant as their architecture. But with the collapse of the theatre industry during the Great Depression, Broadway's once-great theatres were reinvented as cabarets, movie houses, and radio and television studios. Less fortunate theatres eventually became office buildings, hotels, and parking lots.

Today, the movement to revitalize the Times Square area has led to the restoration of numerous theatres and a renewed interest in creatively incorporating them into the modern city. Illustrated with over 300 period and contemporary photographs, drawings, and plans, Lost Broadway Theatres documents this entire history, reliving the fantastic stories of New York's "Great White Way."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-285) and index.