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Hudson Theatre
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
Hudson Theatre,
New York, on West 44th Street, between Broadway and the Avenue of the Americas. This handsome and elegant playhouse opened in 1903 with Ethel Barrymore in H. H. Davies's Cousin Kate . Among its early successes were the first productions in New York of Shaw's Man and Superman (1905), Henry Arthur Jones's The Hypocrites (1906), and Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick (1908). Later productions included the sharply contrasted Pollyanna (1916), from the children's book by Eleanor Porter, and Maugham's Our Betters (1917). In 1919 Booth Tarkington's comedy Clarence , ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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