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Posters and tickets from Union Square theatres and concert halls.

Commemorated, Apr 2, 1864

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Posters and Tickets from theatres and concert halls

The original Broadway theatre district was known as The Rialto and was located just off of Union Square.

Union Square Theatre, located at 58 East 14th Street, was a Broadway theatre that opened in 1870, was converted into a cinema in 1921 and closed in 1936.

Union Square Theater opened in 1870 and played a mixture of plays and operettas. It staged Oscar Wilde's first play, Vera; or, The Nihilists. After 1883, it hosted vaudeville as part of the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit.

In 1921, Union Square Theater was renamed the Acme Theatre and converted into a cinema that eventually showed Soviet films and closed in 1936.

The Academy of Music was a New York City opera house, located on the northeast corner of East 14th Street and Irving Place in Manhattan

The Academy of Music was a 4,000-seat hall opened on October 2, 1854

The Academy's opera season became the center of social life for New York's elite, with the oldest and most prominent families owning seats in the theater's boxes

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