A Walking Tour of the Theater District

  The walking tour focuses on the history and architecture  of the theater district along with interesting pictures and stories that join us with the neighborhood’s past

A four hour walk through Times Square, The Theatre District,  Duffy Square,  to the original ‘Actors’  Studio and into part of the old ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ neighborhood - I will discuss architecture & history and provide information about some of the more famous theater owners,  broadway producers & stars connected to the original broadway theaters. 

Each participant is given an itinerary with 40 stops that includes over two dozen New York City landmarks and some national landmarks. Each stop is fully discussed.

• “George M. Cohan” actor, producer, director and the only song writer awarded the Congressiona Medal of Honor for a song
• “Father Francis P. Duffy” the hero priest portrayed in the movie "The Fighting 69th"
• The Cort Theater, "let them eat cake"
• Church of Mary the Virgin, the first church in the world built on a steel frame
• Statues of: "Ethel Barrymore" -- "Marilyn Miller" -- "Mary Bickford" -- "Rosa Ponselle"
• The first “Fame” High School of Performing Arts
• Originally was: The Lambs Club
• The Town Hall Theater, built by a group of women as a forum to educate men and women on political issues
• The site of the Studebaker Building (a picture of it) and information about automobile manufacturing right here on Longacre Square
• The original Knickerbocker Hotel 
• The original Paramount Building
• Site of Woody Guthie's first New York address where he wrote "This Land is Your Land"
• David Belasco and the Belasco Theatre
• The site where Eugene O’Neil was born
• The oldest functioning Broadway theater, was where "The World's Most Beautiful Woman" appeared on stage
• The Frohman Brothers   and the Theatrical Syndicate and the Lyceum Theatre
• The New Amsterdam Theater,  and more

• The Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church
• The New York Actor's Studio, originally a church from 1858
• New Dramatist, theater, readings, workshops and much more for playwrights
• originally: The Martin Beck Theater from 1924
• "The Unorthodox Masterpiece"
• The Film Center Building
• The Barrymore Theater
• Irving Berlin's "Music Box Theater"
• originally the Globe Theater
• The Shubert Brothers and The Shubert Theater and The Booth Theater
• Hotel Edison and a beautiful Art Noveau mural by Ezra Winter

• The Eugene ON'eil Theater
• Times Square Church originally a movie palace built in 1929, then a Broadway theater
• The site where Bat Materson died
• Jack Dempsey's Corner and the site where "the meeting place of the world" was located
• St. Malachy's Church also known as "the actor's chapel"
• Congregation Ezrath Israel known as: "The Actor's Temple"
• The best known address on Broadway - actually second to the Brill Building
• A theater that started as The American Horse Exchange
• The Brill Building "Tin Pan Alley"
• The site where the third Madison Square Garden was located, where President John F. Kennedy had his 45th birthday party and more
• Ed Sullivan Theater
• A theater that is styled after a 15th Century Tuscan Villa.
• A 19th century Beaux Arts courthouse converter to a cultural center with 4 theatres
• A walk through a part of ‘Hells kitchen’
• Optional: originally The Church of St. Benedict the Moore from 1869, converted to St. Benedict's Church in 1890