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Knickerbocker Theatre

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, on Broadway, at the north-east corner of 38th Street. As Abbey's Theatre, named after its first manager, it opened in 1893 with Irving and Ellen Terry in Tennyson's Becket , and later saw the New York débuts of such overseas stars as Mounet-Sully , Réjane , and John Hare . In 1896 it was renamed the Knickerbocker, but continued its policy of housing famous visitors, among them Wilson Barrett in his own melodrama The Sign of the Cross and Beerbohm Tree in Gilbert Parker's The Seats of the Mighty. Among the American stars who appeared there ...

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