People's Theatre

199 Bowery,
New York, NY 10002

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on March 7, 2018 at 12:33 am

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:

“199-201 BOWERY e/s n of DELANCEY ST PEOPLE’S THEATRE, Was HOYM’s (1858), then TONY PASTOR’S OPERA HOUSE (1865-75), Became PEOPLE’S Sep 3, 1883, ALTS 692/1883, $12,000, acht Wm Graul, Owner: Henry Miner, Seats: 1454 (PHOTO: Lin Center MWEZ 7229), ALTS 1908, archt: Louis Maurer, ALTS, Sep 1916, $5000 archt: R. Thomas Short Yiddish plays presented 20’s, opera GABEL, Demolished 1945.”
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.)

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on January 23, 2010 at 1:37 am

This theatre, along with the Eltinge (Empire), Gaiety, and Irving Place, was temporarily shut down during the 1937 crackdown on Burlesque.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on January 16, 2010 at 12:49 am

The Peoples operated at least from 1930 to 1941.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on April 30, 2005 at 1:42 am

The Film Daily Yearbook,1930 edition gives a seating capacity of 1,612.

Astyanax
Astyanax on April 30, 2005 at 1:34 am

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.