York Playhouse

• The Amorous Flea (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1964)
  March 20, 1964 - May 10, 1964
• Dynamite Tonight (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1964)
  March 15, 1964 - March 15, 1964
• Les Poupees De Paris (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1962)
  December 11, 1962 - May 26, 1963
• The Golden Apple (Off-Broadway Revival, 1962)
  February 12, 1962 - May 20, 1962
• Hi, Paisano! (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1961)
  September 30, 1961 - no date entered yet
• Young Abe Lincoln (Off-Broadway Transfer, 1961)
  May 10, 1961 - June 18, 1962
• Young Abe Lincoln (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1961)
  April 3, 1961 - April 8, 1961
• Valmouth (Off-Broadway Production, 1960)
  October 6, 1960 - October 16, 1960
• The Billy Barnes Revue (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1959)
  June 9, 1959 - no date entered yet
• Come Play With Me (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1959)
  April 30, 1959 - no date entered yet

Built: 1924
Venue Status: Demolished (1995?)
Seating Capacity: 299

Location Info

1187 First Avenue
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• York Cinema (1964)
• Krofft Theatre at the York Playhouse (1962)
• York Playhouse (1957)
• York Playhouse (date not entered yet)

The house was a movie theatre from 1924 till 1957. In 1957, it shut down as a movie theatre in order to be renovated and reopen as a legitimate Off-Broadway theatre called the York Playhouse. The first was the double-bill Garden District by Tennessee Williams, comprised of Something Unspoken and Suddenly, Last Summer, as the first production. It was first announced that the production would open during the second week of December, but it was slightly delayed. Previews started on December 31, 1957, and the production opened on January 7, 1958. During the time the venue operated as an Off-Broadway theatre, the seating capacity was reported in the press as 299 on a number of occasion over the course of this period. 

On July 10, 1964, after another renovation, it returned to showing movie, this time as an art house, starting with a revival of David Lean's film of Great Expectations. The seating may have been increased to 545 at this time.

The theatre closed in 1968.

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During the run of Les Poupees de Paris during the 1962-1963 season, at least some ads for the show listed the venue as the Krofft Theatre at the York Playhouse, but this was just during the run of that show.