Winter Garden Theatre (1850)
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The first theatre in New York City to bear the name The Winter Garden Theatre had a brief but important seventeen-year history as one of New York's premier showcases for a wide range of theatrical far
Interior of Tripler Hall, 1850. In 1854 it burned down and was replaced by The New York Theatre, which was renamed The Winter Garden Theatre by the impresario Dion Boucicault after extensive remodeling in 1859.
The so-called "Jenny Lind Hall", detail from a poster of 1850 before the concert hall was finished.
On Mercer Street. The theatre burned to the ground on January 8, 1854 and was replaced by a new theatre structure that same year.
Laura Keene's Variety Theatre, 1856
Edwin Booth
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Edwin Thomas Booth was an American stage actor and theatrical manager who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Boot
Winter Garden Theatre (1850)
…of the 19th century worked at The Winter Garden Theatre, from Jenny Lind (1820–1887), and Laura Keene (1826–1873), to Dion Boucicault (1820–1890), and Edwin Booth (1833–1893). One of the most significant and politically influential productions in American theatre history took place at The Winter Garden Theatre…
Booth, c. 1886
Booth with his daughter Edwina, c. 1864
Portrait of Booth by John Singer Sargent, 1890
Booth's Theatre Playbill of his Richard III circa 1872