Park Theatre [New York City, US]
Park Theatre
Theatre building in New York, USA
theater in New York, Verenigde Staten van Amerika
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Built 1795-1798. Opened 29 Jan 1798 with Shakespeare's As You Like It. Destroyed by a fire in 1820. Subsequently rebuilt (interior design by William Strickland). Re-opened 1821. Destroyed by fire on 16 Dec 1848.
Burnt after a performance at night. Firearms had been used in the play.
Burnt just before the public had entered, through careless lighting of the gas.