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Morosco Theatre
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
Morosco Theatre,
New York, on West 45th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Built by the Shuberts, with a seating capacity of 1,009, it opened in 1917 with Canary Cottage by Elmer Harris and Oliver Morosco, the latter a well-known West Coast play producer after whom the new theatre was named. In 1920 the success of The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood started a fashion for mystery thrillers. George Kelly's Craig's Wife (1925) won a Pulitzer Prize , and the Theatre Guild's production of Call it a Day by Dodie Smith ran for six months in 1935. Later ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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