Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre
Manager / Director:
Mark Smith
Conductor(s):
Edward Mollenhauer [viola-vn]
Event Type:
Play With Music
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
16 February 2019
Public sale of tickets to begin 25 Jan. at Irving Hall.
[first column is missing] “…The theater in itself doesn’t have anything very artistic. On the exterior, it’s a clumsy structure, in a mediocre style, and more remarkable for its mass than for its architectural merit. Inside, it’s comfortable and richly decorated. The hall is much less big than that at Pike’s, now the Grand Opéra; neither does it have [Pile’s} delicate elegance; it’s more glittering and less distinguished. It lacks hallways. Traffic there is strangled: you’re forced to step on [other people’s] coats, and in case of fire, no matter how small the crowd, you’d have to walk over each other.
“In sum, it’s a hall for spectacles that has its price tag, but that’s still far from being the ideal theater that the City of New York wants.”
Details of the auction for the sale of seats at Irving Hall on 25 Jan. and description of Edwin Adams’s forthcoming engagement for Saturday nights.