Entermedia Theatre

181-189 Second Avenue at 12th Street
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BUILT: year unknown
CLOSED:

SEATING CAPACITY: 1143

• Yiddish Folks Theatre (date unknown)
• Century Theatre (date unknown)
• Stuyvesant Theatre (date unknown)
• Jaffe Art Theatre (date unknown)
• Gayety Theatre (date unknown)
• 12th Street Cinemas (date unknown)
• Village East Cinemas (date unknown)
• Phoenix Theatre (1953)
• Casino East (1961)
• Eden Theatre (1969)
• Yiddish Art Theatre (unknown)
• Second Avenue Theatre (unknown)

Originally a cinema, it later became the Yiddish Art Theatre with 1100 seats. In the late 1930s, it reverted to showing films.

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In 1953, it became an off-Broadway theatre. In 1965, it was a burlesque house. In 1969, it returned to use as a theatre.

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There was a second Phoenix Theatre (also known as the Phoenix 74th Street Theatre). It was originally the East 74th Street Theatre. It had 400 seats. It was renamed Eastside Playhouse in 1968.

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It is currently a cineplex housing 7 screens. In addition to the original main auditorium, there are 4 screening rooms in the basement and 2 stacked on top of each other on the former stage.

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The lobby and main auditorium were restored in 2010.

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In 1980, the interior of this theatre was used for scenes in the film The Fan, which starred Lauren Bacall and was released in 1981.