People's Theatre
199 Bowery,
New York,
NY
10002
199 Bowery,
New York,
NY
10002
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Architects: William Graul, Louis Maurer, R. Thomas Short
Previous Names: Delancey Street People's Theatre, Hoym's Theatre, Tony Pastor's Opera House,
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The Delancey Street People’s Theatre was opened by the mid-1800’s. It was renamed Hoym’s Theatre in 1858. From 1865 to 1875 it operated as Tony Pastor’s Theatre. Alterations were made to the plans of architect William Graul in 1883 and it reopened as the People’s Theatre on September 3, 1883. Seating was provided for 1,454.
Further alterations were made in 1908 to the plans of architect Louis Maurer and again in September 1916 when architect R. Thomas Short made alterations. It became a Yiddish theatre in the 1920’s.
By 1930 it was a movie theatre and was still operating in 1941. It was demolished in 1945.
Contributed by
William Gabel, Joe Vogel
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The BLVD is part of a newly constructed high-irse, an example of the rampant gentrification of the Bowery and the rest of the Lower East Side.
The Film Daily Yearbook,1930 edition gives a seating capacity of 1,612.
The Peoples operated at least from 1930 to 1941.
This theatre, along with the Eltinge (Empire), Gaiety, and Irving Place, was temporarily shut down during the 1937 crackdown on Burlesque.
This PDF from The Theatre Historical Society contains index cards (possibly from library files, though it doesn’t specify) with information about Manhattan’s theaters. This is the contents of the card for the People’s Theatre on the Bowery:
A far more detailed history of the house, with several illustrations, can be found on this web page from Mapping Yiddish New York, though it doesn’t mention the period when the house ran movies (which it must have been doing when it was listed in The Film Daily Yearbook.)