The Church of the Messiah at 728–30 Broadway, near Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, was dedicated in 1839[1] and operated as a church until 1864. In January 1865 it was sold to department store magnate Alexander Turney Stewart and converted into a theater, which subsequently operated under a series of names,[2] including Globe Theatre, and ending with New Theatre Comique. It burned down in 1884.[3]
Theater names and managers
The following information comes from Brown (page numbers in parentheses):
1865, January 23 – Broadway Athenaeum (A. T. Stewart, owner; James H. Hackett, manager) (376–77)
1865, December 23 – Lucy Rushton's Theatre (Lucy Rushton, proprietor and manager) (377)
1866, September 5 – New York Theatre (Lewis Baker and Mark Smith, managers) (379)
1867, May 6 – The Worrell Sisters' New York Theatre (M. L. Finch, manager) (383)
1868, August 3 – New York Theatre (Alvin Lloyd, manager) (386)
1868, November 4 – The Worrell Sisters' Theatre (387)
1870, October 3 – Globe Theatre (Josh Hart, manager) (388)
1879 – Globe Theatre (Edward Eddy, manager) (389)
1871 – Nixon's Amphitheatre (James M. Nixon, manager) (389)
1872, April 7 – Broadway Theatre (Jean Burnside, manager) (390)