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115-540: The United Palace (originally Loew's 175th Street Theatre ) is a theater at 4140 Broadway in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City . The theater, occupying a full city block bounded by Broadway, Wadsworth Avenue, and West 175th and 176th Streets, functions both as a spiritual center and as a nonprofit cultural and performing arts center. The architect, Thomas W. Lamb , designed

230-486: A Southeast Asian temple". New York Times reporter Nathaniel Adams called it simply a "kitchen-sink masterpiece", while Vivien Raynor wrote for the same newspaper that the theater was a "preposterous mass" with elaborate terracotta ornamentation. Writing for Newsday in 1999, Diane Werts said the United Palace's "splendor" provided a contrast with "today's shoebox movie houses". A writer for Bulletin said in 2001 that

345-583: A city landmark. This was part of a review of 95 listings that had been calendared by the LPC for several decades but never approved as city landmarks. The LPC agreed to consider the United Palace for landmark designation in February 2016. The exterior was made a New York City designated landmark on December 13, 2016; however, the interior was ineligible for landmark preservation because the LPC does not give interior-landmark designations to houses of worship. The church opposed

460-564: A darkened theater, sound effects, and seating arrangements (lowering the orchestra pit ) which focused the attention of audience on the stage, completely immersing them in the imaginary world of the music drama. These concepts were revolutionary at the time, but they have since come to be taken for granted in the modern operatic environment as well as many other types of theatrical endeavors. Contemporary theaters are often non-traditional, such as very adaptable spaces, or theaters where audience and performers are not separated. A major example of this

575-453: A filming location for several movies, including Café Society (2016) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019). Several TV series have been filmed or set at the theater, such as The Politician , Quantico , Saturday Night Live , Smash , Luke Cage , Pose , and Only Murders in the Building . A 2020 performance of Jefferson Mays 's A Christmas Carol Live was filmed at

690-448: A hanamichi stage with her entourage. The stage is used not only as a walkway or path to get to and from the main stage, but important scenes are also played on the stage. Kabuki stages and theaters have steadily become more technologically sophisticated, and innovations including revolving stages and trap doors were introduced during the 18th century. A driving force has been the desire to manifest one frequent theme of kabuki theater, that of

805-425: A high-ceilinged interior. Within the large temple has a stage inside which is a large platform with its own pyramid roof. The stage area is separate from the audience area with the musician (a drummer on a high seat) behind the stage, and dressing rooms also at the rear with exit doors behind. The audience would be seated on a smooth, polished floor. Several Koothambalams exist within several Indian temples, and follow

920-422: A highly contentious part of the magazine. In 2004, The New York Times Magazine began publishing an entire supplement devoted to style. Titled T , the supplement is edited by Deborah Needleman and appears 14 times a year. In 2009, it launched a Qatari Edition as a standalone magazine. In 2006, the magazine introduced two other supplements: PLAY , a sports magazine published every other month, and KEY ,

1035-451: A men's smoking lounge. When Reverend Ike converted the theater into a church in 1969, the smoking lounge became a personal library before later becoming a meeting area. A similar women's lounge. on the same level, was later used for storage. The auditorium, designed in the Byzantine and Romanesque styles, seated over 4,000 people in its heyday. The seating capacity has been downsized over

1150-535: A naturally occurring site. The auditorium (literally "place for hearing" in Latin) was the area in which people gathered, and was sometimes constructed on a small hill or slope in which stacked seating could be easily made in the tradition of the Greek Theatres. The central part of the auditorium was hollowed out of a hill or slope, while the outer radian seats required structural support and solid retaining walls. This

1265-500: A performance of Leonard Bernstein 's Mass at the theater to celebrate what would have been Bernstein's 90th birthday. The theater has hosted other events, including a narration of the book Icarus at the Edge of Time in 2012 and a single performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the Heights in 2013. To celebrate the centennial of Fox Studios ' founding, the United Palace screened

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1380-417: A production, often called a black box theater , due to the common practice of the walls being painted black and hung with black drapes. Usually in a building used specifically for performance there are offstage spaces used by the performers and crew. This is where props , sets , and scenery are stored, and the performers standby before their entrance. These offstage spaces are called wings on either side of

1495-439: A proscenium stage. A prompter's box may be found backstage. In an amphitheater, an area behind the stage may be designated for such uses while a blackbox theater may have spaces outside of the actual theater designated for such uses. Often a theater will incorporate other spaces intended for the performers and other personnel. A booth facing the stage may be incorporated into the house where lighting and sound personnel may view

1610-577: A real estate magazine published twice a year. In September 2010, as part of a greater effort to reinvigorate the magazine, Times editor Bill Keller hired former staff member and then-editor of Bloomberg Businessweek , Hugo Lindgren , as the editor of The New York Times Magazine . As part of a series of new staff hires upon assuming his new role, Lindgren first hired then–executive editor of O, The Oprah Magazine Lauren Kern to be his deputy editor and then hired then-editor of TNR.com, The New Republic magazine's website, Greg Veis , to edit

1725-424: A rotating basis (including diagramless crossword puzzles and anacrostics ). In January 2012, humorist John Hodgman , who hosts his comedy court show podcast Judge John Hodgman , began writing a regular column "Judge John Hodgman Rules" (formerly "Ask Judge John Hodgman") for "The One-Page Magazine". In 2014, Jake Silverstein , who had been editor-in-chief at Texas Monthly , replaced Lindgren as editor of

1840-423: A series of Fox films in 2015, beginning with A Fool There Was and Bright Eyes . On April 7, 2019, the United Palace of Spiritual Arts celebrated its 50th anniversary in the venue with a special screening of the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey (the last movie shown at Loew's 175th before it closed as a commercial movie house in 1969). On December 13, 2022, it was announced that the United Palace would be

1955-518: A sky-blue ceiling. The lobby is a double-height space with balconies surrounding it. A grand staircase connects the ground level with the mezzanine. At the top of the staircase is a silhouette of a goddess with rays emanating from behind her. There is an Oriental–styled mezzanine promenade behind the auditorium, which is decorated with paintings, sculptures, and other artwork. The wall has balconettes that are designed to resemble brass grilles , though they are made of plaster. The mezzanine level also has

2070-448: A theater. They may range from open-air amphitheaters to ornate, cathedral -like structures to simple, undecorated rooms or black box theaters . A thrust stage as well as an arena stage are just a few more examples of the multitude of stages where plays can occur. A theatre used for opera performances is called an opera house . A theater is not required for performance (as in environmental theater or street theater ), this article

2185-427: A tradition called "stage dooring" that some fans participate in, in which fans wait outside of the stage door after the show in hopes of getting an autograph from the actors. The acting or performance space is the stage. In some theaters, such as proscenium theaters , arena theaters and amphitheaters, this area is permanent part of the structure. In some theaters the stage area can be changed and adapted specifically to

2300-456: A transposition, the recurrence of the pediment with the later solidified stone scene. In front of the skene there may have been a raised acting area called the proskenion , the ancestor of the modern proscenium stage. It is believed that the actors (as opposed to the chorus) acted entirely on the proskenion , but this is not certain. Rising from the circle of the orchestra was the audience. The audience sat on tiers of benches built up on

2415-486: A vertical dimension. The Indian Koothambalam temple is a space used to perform Sanskrit drama . Called the koothambalam or kuttampalam, it is a large high-caste rectangular, temple in Kerala which represented a “visual sacrifice” to any deities or gods of the temple. They were built for kutiyattam or “combined acting” performances, which only two dramas are performed today. The temple has a pyramidal roof, with high walls, and

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2530-554: Is a non-denominational spiritual arts community and is also registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, having held this status since 1986. When the Loew's 175th Street Theatre was in operation, Hollywood stars appeared at the theater to host films, including Joan Crawford , Judy Garland , Eleanor Powell , Roy Rogers , and Dale Evans . In addition, Herman Bing performed there in 1937, as did Ed Sullivan in 1946, Al Jolson in 1949, and Alan Freed and his Rock 'n Roll Stage Show in 1958. After

2645-589: Is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts , and musical concerts are presented. The theater building serves to define the performance and audience spaces. The facility usually is organized to provide support areas for performers, the technical crew and the audience members, as well as the stage where the performance takes place. There are as many types of theaters as there are types of performance. Theaters may be built specifically for certain types of productions, they may serve for more general performance needs or they may be adapted or converted for use as

2760-405: Is about structures used specifically for performance. Some theaters may have a fixed acting area (in most theaters this is known as the stage ), while some theaters, such as black box theaters have movable seating allowing the production to create a performance area suitable for the production. A theater building or structure contains spaces for an event or performance to take place, usually called

2875-469: Is associated with the performers and their actions. The stage is made entirely of unfinished hinoki , a Japanese cypress, with almost no decorative elements. The poet and novelist Toson Shimazaki writes that "on the stage of the Noh theater there are no sets that change with each piece. Neither is there a curtain. There is only a simple panel ( kagami-ita ) with a painting of a green pine tree . This creates

2990-404: Is considered symbolic and treated with reverence both by the performers and the audience. The stage includes a large square platform, devoid of walls or curtains on three sides, and traditionally with a painting of a pine tree at the back. The platform is elevated above the place where the audience sits, which is covered in white gravel soil. The four stage corners are marked by cedar pillars, and

3105-605: Is divided into two sections: the auditorium portion, which occupies much of the block, and the retail and office portion, which occupies the northwestern corner and runs parallel to Broadway. The Loew's 175th Street Theatre was one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area, along with the Loew's Jersey in Jersey City , the Loew's Kings in Brooklyn , the Loew's Paradise in

3220-498: Is generally more challenging than its counterparts featured on the other days of the week. Usually, a second puzzle is included with the crossword puzzle. The variety of the second puzzle varies each week. These have included acrostic puzzles, diagramless crossword puzzles, and other puzzles varying from the traditional crossword puzzle. The puzzles are edited by Will Shortz, the host of the on-air puzzle segment of NPR 's Weekend Edition Sunday , introduced as "the puzzlemaster". In

3335-573: Is otherwise similar in design to the remaining elevations of the facade. The marquee above the main entrance on Broadway wraps around to the southern elevation on 175th Street. The northern portion of the Broadway elevation is part of the retail and office section. At the southern end of this section (just to the left of the main theater entrance) is a recessed double door. The rest of the ground-level facade on Broadway has storefronts with roller shutters . There are window sills with foliate ornament beneath

3450-668: Is the modular theater, notably the Walt Disney Modular Theater . This large theater has floors and walls divided into small movable sections, with the floor sections on adjustable pneumatric piston, so that the space may be adjusted into any configuration for each individual play. As new styles of theater performance have evolved, so has the desire to improve or recreate performance venues. This applies equally to artistic and presentation techniques, such as stage lighting . Specific designs of contemporary live theaters include proscenium , thrust , black box theater , theater in

3565-525: The Edinburgh Fringe has seen performances in an taxi . The traditional stage used in Noh theater is based on a Chinese pattern. It is completely open, providing a shared experience between the performers and the audience throughout the play. Without any prosceniums or curtains to obstruct the view, the audience sees each actor at moments even before entering the primary platform of the stage. The theater itself

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3680-518: The Elizabethan era in England , theaters were constructed of wooden framing, infilled with wattle and daub and roofed with thatch . Mostly the theaters were entirely open air. They consisted of several floors of covered galleries surrounding a courtyard which was open to the elements. A large portion of the audience would stand in the yard, directly in front of the stage. This layout is said to derive from

3795-467: The George Washington Bridge to northern New Jersey , which was developed around the same time. Loew's had specifically chosen the site because it was in a growing middle-class neighborhood, close to two New York City Subway stations at 175th Street/Fort Washington Avenue and 181st Street/St. Nicholas Avenue . After the assemblage had been completed, Cohen sold the sites in February 1928 to

3910-765: The Kailasa rock-cut shrine in India, and the Wat Phra Keo temple in Thailand, adding Buddhas , bodhisattvas , elephants, and honeycomb stonework in an Islamic pattern known as muqarnas . " The AIA Guide to New York City called it "Cambodian neo-Classical" and likened it to Lamb's Loew's Pitkin Theatre in Brownsville, Brooklyn . Another New York Times article said that the interior "looks like what might happen if tatted lace exploded inside

4025-572: The Louis XV style , and he paid off the mortgage five years before it was scheduled to come due. The congregation also began restoring the theater's pipe organ, which was dedicated as the Robert Morton Organ. At the time, the United Palace was one of the few movie palaces in New York City that retained their original organs. The structure was also sometimes referred to as the Palace Cathedral and

4140-579: The Robert Morton Organ Company of Van Nuys, California . The organ featured a console with four manuals and 23 ranks of pipes. The United Palace's organ, which is seven stories high, is the only Wonder Theater organ that remains in use. Events featuring "Live Organ" accompaniment used an electronic organ. After World War II, the organ was sealed for 25 years and was not rediscovered until 1970. The piano, chairs, and organ could be moved to make way for scenery. Movie palaces became common in

4255-653: The State Theatre in Syracuse and the Pitkin Theatre in Brooklyn ; the designs of both the 175th Street and Pitkin theaters are derived partially from the State Theatre. The United Palace's design also incorporates elements of Aztec , Classical , Egyptian , Islamic , Mayan , and Mughal architecture. Lamb himself wrote that "Exotic ornaments, colors and scenes are particularly effective in creating an atmosphere in which

4370-408: The chamfer at the theater's southwest corner. Underneath the marquee are two recessed sets of doors made of bronze and glass, as well as a soffit with lights. Between the two sets of doors are a ticket booth with a marble base and bronze frames, topped by cusped arches . There are rusticated blocks with elaborate terracotta ornamentation on either side of the doorways, as well as a signboard above

4485-432: The orchestra was a large rectangular building called the skene (meaning "tent" or "hut"). [1] It was used as a "backstage" area where actors could change their costumes and masks, but also served to represent the location of the plays, which were usually set in front of a palace or house. Typically, there were two or three doors in the skene that led out onto orchestra, and from which actors could enter and exit. At first,

4600-458: The orchestra , the skene , and the audience. The centerpiece of the theater was the orchestra , or "dancing place", a large circular or rectangular area. The orchestra was the site of the choral performances, the religious rites, and, possibly, the acting. An altar was located in the middle of the orchestra; in Athens, the altar was dedicated to Dionysus , the god of wine and the theater. Behind

4715-499: The skene was literally a tent or hut, put up for the religious festival and taken down when it was finished. Later, the skene became a permanent stone structure. These structures were sometimes painted to serve as backdrops, hence the English word scenery . A temple nearby, especially on the right side of the scene, is almost always part of the Greek theater complex, which could justify, as

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4830-400: The stage , and also spaces for the audience, theater staff, performers and crew before and after the event. There are usually two main entrances of a theater building. One is at the front, used by the audience, and leads into a foyer and ticketing. The second is called the stage door, and it is accessible from backstage. This is where the cast and crew enter and exit the theater, and there is

4945-517: The television evangelist Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike , acquired it. The theater became the headquarters of his United Church Science of Living Institute and was renamed the United Palace. Latin American music acts began using the theater in the 1990s, and the United Church began renting the theater out as an event venue in 2007. Various parts of the theater, such as

5060-425: The "front of the book" section of the magazine. In December 2010, Lindgren hired Joel Lovell, formerly story editor at GQ magazine, as deputy editor. In 2011, Kaminer replaced Cohen as the author of the column, and in 2012 Chuck Klosterman replaced Kaminer. Klosterman left in early 2015 to be replaced by a trio of authors, Kenji Yoshino , Amy Bloom , and Jack Shafer , who used a conversational format; Shafer

5175-439: The 175th Street Theatre open. In 1960, Loew's installed an automatic box office machine called Vendaticket at the theater, which sold tickets to patrons. The chain also hosted other events at the theater; for example, American football games were screened there in 1964. However, the theater struggled financially, particularly since it could no longer rely on getting new films from Loew's production studio. Under Loew's management,

5290-399: The 175th Street Theatre screened its last film, 2001: A Space Odyssey , in 1969. That April, the televangelist Frederick J. "Reverend Ike" Eikerenkoetter II and his wife watched 2001: A Space Odyssey there. Reverend Ike was so enamored with the theater's design that he asked to buy it so he could move in the next day. In April 1969, Reverend Ike paid $ 600,000 for the theater and renamed

5405-539: The 1920s between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Great Depression. In the New York City area, only a small number of operators were involved in the construction of movie palaces. Relatively few architects were responsible for these theaters' designs, including legitimate theater architects Thomas Lamb, C. Howard Crane , and John Eberson . By the late 1920s, numerous movie palaces were being developed in outlying neighborhoods in New York City; previously,

5520-448: The 1990s, and Latin American music acts began performing at the theater in the 1990s. Even so, the church continued to spend several million dollars on the theater's upkeep over the years. The historian Warren G. Harris said that Reverend Ike "always took good care of" the theater, keeping the original decorations intact. The tower at the theater's northeast corner was the only part of the theater that Reverend Ike substantially modified. By

5635-469: The 2000s, the United Palace was nicknamed the "Latin Radio City Music Hall " and hosted salsa concerts, bachata concerts, and some film screenings. It also hosted other events including fashion shows and graduation ceremonies. After Reverend Ike retired in 2007, his son Xavier Eikerenkoetter took over the congregation. The main auditorium was renovated to accommodate events around that time, and

5750-508: The Broadway elevation, except that there is an asymmetrical entrance, and the ground story lacks storefronts on 176th Street. Lamb collaborated on the interior design with Harold Rambusch , who had also designed the interiors of Radio City Music Hall and the Waldorf Astoria New York . Rambusch, who regarded movie palaces as "social safety valves", sought to use the theater's elaborate ornamentation to attract visitors. The interior

5865-659: The Bronx , and the Loew's Valencia in Queens . Along with the Valencia and Paradise, the United Palace is one of three Wonder Theatres that are used as churches in the 21st century. The United Palace was also the last Wonder Theatre to be completed and the only one without a specific architectural style. The United Palace is one of three theaters in New York state that were designed by Lamb with Asian–influenced decorations. The other two theaters are

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5980-472: The Christ Community United Church. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) considered designating the theater as a landmark in 1970. However, United Palace objected to the proposal, and the landmark status was not granted at that time. The mortgage on the United Palace building had been paid off by 1973, five years ahead of schedule. At the congregation's peak in the 1970s,

6095-514: The Eikerenkoetter family began renting out the theater for events. The United Palace rapidly gained popularity as an indie music venue starting in March 2007, hosting ten sold-out indie music performances in six weeks. Despite the theater's popularity, visitors criticized the poor acoustics of the auditorium, which tended to cause echoes. By the 2010s, the congregation met in a small storefront, while

6210-483: The George Washington Bridge opened in 1931, Loew's considered re-adding stage shows as a result of increased patronage from New Jersey residents. These stage shows originally opened on Saturdays and ran for one week. In September 1932, the shows were rescheduled to open on Fridays instead. To attract visitors, and amid a decline in the number of newly released films, Loew's considered hosting vaudeville shows at

6325-566: The Highbridge Realty Corporation, which was controlled by Loew's Inc. president Nicholas Schenck Lamb was hired to design the theater, and he filed plans for the structure with Manhattan's Bureau of Buildings in March 1928. Originally, the theater was supposed to be one story tall and was planned to cost an estimated $ 1.25 million. The Aronberg-Fried Company was hired to construct the theater in May 1929. Loew's initially considered naming

6440-531: The Pitkin Theater, the United Palace's facade is decorated with niches , pilasters , and panels with curving and geometric motifs; the facade also bore similarities to that of the demolished Loew's Triboro Theatre in Queens. The facade is decorated with hexagonal shapes in a pattern known as muqarnas . There is a cupola or prayer tower on the building's northeast corner, topped by a star. The elaborate ornamentation

6555-457: The September 18, 2005, issue of the magazine, an editors' note announced the addition of The Funny Pages , a literary section of the magazine intended to "engage our readers in some ways we haven't yet tried—and to acknowledge that it takes many different types of writing to tell the story of our time". Although The Funny Pages is no longer published in the magazine, it was made up of three parts:

6670-649: The Strip (a multipart graphic novel that spanned weeks), the Sunday Serial (a genre fiction serial novel that also spanned weeks), and True-Life Tales (a humorous personal essay , by a different author each week). On July 8, 2007, the magazine stopped printing True-Life Tales. The section has been criticized for being unfunny, sometimes nonsensical, and excessively highbrow ; in a 2006 poll conducted by Gawker.com asking, "Do you now find—or have you ever found— The Funny Pages funny?", 92% of 1824 voters answered "No". Of

6785-461: The Sunday Times from the 1920s through the 1950s, encouraged the idea of the magazine as a forum for ideas. During his tenure, writers such as Leo Tolstoy , Thomas Mann , Gertrude Stein , and Tennessee Williams contributed pieces to the magazine. When, in 1970, The New York Times introduced its first op-ed page, the magazine shifted away from publishing as many editorial pieces. In 1979,

6900-454: The Sunday magazine. U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey selects and introduces poems weekly, including from poets Tomas Tranströmer , Carlos Pintado , and Gregory Pardlo . The magazine features the Sunday version of the crossword puzzle along with other puzzles. The puzzles have been very popular features since their introduction. The Sunday crossword puzzle has more clues and squares and

7015-685: The UPCA began hosting a monthly film series called Sundays at the Palace in 2014; the idea for the series had come from Miranda, who wanted the theater to host the series annually. Every year, the theater screens six films. The United Palace's operations also include the United Palace House of Inspiration (later United Palace of Spiritual Arts), which is responsible for the church, and the United Palace Theatre, which oversees theatrical events. The church

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7130-659: The United Palace have included Anuel AA , Bad Bunny , Beck , Björk , Rubén Blades , Tego Calderón , Kenny Lattimore , Annie Lennox , Modest Mouse , Van Morrison , Iggy Pop , Kelly Price , Steve Winwood , and Neil Young . In 2007, Sir Simon Rattle appeared at the theater conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Igor Stravinsky 's ballet The Rite of Spring danced by public school students and choreographed by Royston Maldoom . The following year, Marin Alsop conducted

7245-566: The United Palace, and the venue was also depicted in Billy Joel 's music video for his 2024 single " Turn the Lights Back On ". The theater's history and architecture were detailed in the 1986 documentary American Picture Palaces , and it was featured in a 1991 exhibition of New York City's movie palaces at the City College of New York . Theater (building) A theater , or playhouse ,

7360-494: The arrangement we see most frequently today, with a stage separated from the audience by a proscenium arch. This coincided with a growing interest in scenic elements painted in perspective, such as those created by Inigo Jones , Nicola Sabbatini and the Galli da Bibiena family . The perspective of these elements could only be viewed properly from the center back of the auditorium, in the so-called "duke's chair." The higher one's status,

7475-552: The auditorium "must originally have glowed like the inside of a jewel box", and Owen Moritz of the New York Daily News said in 2005 that the United Palace and the other Wonder Theatres "are generally regarded as among the finest movie houses ever built". According to Warren G. Harris, the United Palace was "the most authentic example of movie-palace grandeur in the Greater New York area". The United Palace has been used as

7590-399: The building the United Palace. Reverend Ike took a $ 300,000 mortgage loan from the Loew's Theatre and Realty Corporation. and he paid Loew's the same amount. He converted the United Palace into a building for his congregation, a non-denominational church called the United Church, Science of Living Institute. Over the next several years, Reverend Ike spent $ 2 million redecorating the theater in

7705-417: The city of London. Around this time, the green room , a place for actors to wait until required on stage, became common terminology in English theaters. The Globe has now been rebuilt as a fully working and producing theater near its original site (largely thanks to the efforts of film director Sam Wanamaker ) to give modern audiences an idea of the environment for which Shakespeare and other playwrights of

7820-466: The city's movie palaces had been concentrated in Midtown Manhattan . In 1924, Len Cohen of Loew's Inc. began acquiring property on the city block between Broadway, 175th Street, Wadsworth Avenue, and 176th Street. Cohen spent three years and hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the rest of the city block through 1927. The theater was one of several structures built around the eastern terminus of

7935-598: The closer they would be seated to this vantage point, and the more the accurately they would be able to see the perspective elements. The first enclosed theaters were court theaters, open only to the sovereigns and the nobility. The first opera house open to the public was the Teatro San Cassiano (1637) in Venice. The Italian opera houses were the model for the subsequent theaters throughout Europe. Richard Wagner placed great importance on "mood setting" elements, such as

8050-524: The designation, allowing the full New York City Council to approve the designation. Miranda donated $ 100,000 to the theater in 2016 for the addition of a projector. At the time, there were plans to raise another $ 300,000 for a new sound system. Miranda launched an Indiegogo fundraiser to raise the necessary funds. The same year, the New York Theater Organ Society began restoring the United Palace's organ, which had sustained water damage over

8165-426: The doorways. Above the marquee is a terracotta panel shaped like a ziggurat . The central panel, in turn, is flanked by two pairs of pilasters with ornate capitals , and there is a niche between each pair of pilasters. A vertical sign is mounted in front of the pilasters to the right (south). The top of the entrance pavilion on Broadway is decorated with an elaborate parapet . There is a smaller two-story pavilion to

8280-482: The festival for which they were erected concluded. This practice was due to a moratorium on permanent theatre structures that lasted until 55 BC when the Theatre of Pompey was built with the addition of a temple to avoid the law. Some Roman theatres show signs of never having been completed in the first place. Inside Rome, few theatres have survived the centuries following their construction, providing little evidence about

8395-419: The impression that anything that could provide any shading has been banished. To break such monotony and make something happen is no easy thing." Another unique feature of the stage is the hashigakari , a narrow bridge at upstage right used by actors to enter the stage. Hashigakari means "suspension bridge", signifying something aerial that connects two separate worlds on a same level. The bridge symbolizes

8510-444: The landmark designation, citing the added cost and time to do any work on the building, use restrictions, and their fifty-year history of preserving the theater entirely with private funds. The church attempted to have the designation overturned but later withdrew its objections. City councilman Ydanis Rodríguez also considered voting against the landmark designation after discussing it the theater's owners, though he ultimately endorsed

8625-452: The left (north) of the main entrance, which has display cases at ground level and a pointed arch with a niche on the second story. The auditorium has a seven-story-high facade on 176th Street to the north, which occupies the eastern portion of the block. At ground level are four doorways, some display cases, and recessed panels surrounded by terracotta frames. The westernmost portion of the auditorium facade on 176th Street contains windows on

8740-407: The magazine began publishing Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist William Safire 's " On Language ", a column discussing issues of English grammar, use and etymology . Safire's column steadily gained popularity and by 1990 was generating "more mail than anything else" in the magazine. In 1999, the magazine debuted "The Ethicist", an advice column written by humorist Randy Cohen that quickly became

8855-399: The main auditorium was used as a performance venue. At the time, Xavier estimated that about 100 congregants met there every Sunday. Xavier Eikerenkoetter founded the United Palace of Cultural Arts (UPCA) in 2012 to present events and shows at the theater. The next year, UPCA executive director Mike Fitelson launched a campaign to raise money for a 50-foot screen and digital projection system in

8970-560: The mind is free to frolic and becomes receptive to entertainment." At the time of the United Palace's construction, the American public was increasingly becoming interested in Asian culture. A writer for The New York Times Magazine stated that the design may have been inspired by both the Alhambra palace and the Kailasa Temple . The United Palace has an ornate terracotta facade. Similarly to

9085-480: The movie screen and sound system, have been upgraded gradually during the 2010s and 2020s. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building as a city landmark in 2016. The church is called the United Palace of Spiritual Arts , and it offers performing arts events through the United Palace of Cultural Arts . When the Loew's 175th Street Theatre was in operation, Hollywood stars appeared at

9200-531: The mythic nature of Noh plays in which otherworldly ghosts and spirits frequently appear. In contrast, hanamichi in Kabuki theaters is literally a path ( michi ) that connects two spaces in a single world, thus has a completely different significance. The Japanese kabuki stage features a projection called a hanamichi (花道; literally, flower path), a walkway which extends into the audience and via which dramatic entrances and exits are made. Okuni also performed on

9315-431: The next year, while the production division was spun off into Loew's Inc. The theater screened many films in the years after World War II, including musicals, dramas, epics, and comedies. Meanwhile, by the 1960s, Loew's Theaters Inc. had begun to struggle financially, and the chain closed some of its larger theaters due to high expenses. Despite these difficulties, Loew's Theaters Inc. initially tried various tactics to keep

9430-518: The observance of Washington's birthday . The opening was marked by a Boy Scouts parade through Washington Heights. Initially, the Loew's 175th Street screened films and live stage shows; the first program included the MGM film Their Own Desire and the musical revue Pearls . The theater's first month was less profitable than expected, and the Loew's 175th Street stopped presenting stage shows in April 1930. When

9545-605: The paper, and is generally credited with saving The New York Times from financial ruin. In 1897, the magazine published a 16-page spread of photographs documenting Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee , a "costly feat" that resulted in a wildly popular issue and helped boost the magazine to success. In its early years, The New York Times Magazine began a tradition of publishing the writing of well-known contributors, from W. E. B. Du Bois and Albert Einstein to numerous sitting and future U.S. Presidents . Editor Lester Markel , an "intense and autocratic " journalist who oversaw

9660-777: The period were writing. During the Renaissance , the first modern enclosed theaters were constructed in Italy. Their structure was similar to that of ancient theaters, with a cavea and an architectural scenery, representing a city street. The oldest surviving examples of this style are the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (1580) and the Teatro all'antica in Sabbioneta (1590). At the beginning of 17th century theaters had moved indoors and began to resemble

9775-507: The practice of holding plays in the yard of an inn. Archaeological excavations of The Rose theater at London's Bankside , built 1587, have shown that it had en external diameter of 72 feet (22 metres). The nearby Globe Theatre (1599) was larger, at 100 feet (30 metres). Other evidence for the round shape is a line in Shakespeare's Henry V which calls the building "this wooden O ", and several rough woodcut illustrations of

9890-459: The round , amphitheater , and arena . In the classical Indian dance , Natya Shastra defines three stage types. In Australia and New Zealand a small and simple theater, particularly one contained within a larger venue, is called a theatrette . The word originated in 1920s London, for a small-scale music venue. Theatrical performances can also take place in venues adapted from other purposes, such as train carriages. For instance, in recent years

10005-513: The same rectangular plan and structure. The New York Times Magazine Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first photographs ever printed in the newspaper. In the early decades, it was a section of the broadsheet paper and not an insert as it is today. The creation of a "serious" Sunday magazine was part of a massive overhaul of the newspaper instigated that year by its new owner, Adolph Ochs , who also banned fiction , comic strips , and gossip columns from

10120-407: The screen's installation by August 2013. The theater had started screening films again by October 2013; to reward donors, the UPCA screened the film Casablanca at the theater that November. It continued to host other events such as film shoots, concerts, meetings, recording sessions, and graduation ceremonies. In late 2015, the LPC hosted a public hearing on whether to designate the United Palace as

10235-465: The second through seventh stories. The rest of the facade has no windows. Terracotta pilasters divide the upper stories vertically into several wide bays , and the theater's cupola rises above the eastern bay. The eastern elevation on Wadsworth Avenue has rusticated facade at ground level, with doorways and blind window openings. The upper section of the Wadsworth Avenue facade has a fire escape but

10350-417: The second-story windows. The windows on that story are separated by pilasters. There are ornamental bands atop the second-story windows, with foliate ornament, geometric motifs, and rosettes . A pitched roof runs above the second story. The northwestern corner of the building has a chamfered corner. The western section of the 176th Street elevation, to the north, is similar in design to the northern portion of

10465-418: The show and run their respective instruments. Other rooms in the building may be used for dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, spaces for constructing sets, props and costumes , as well as storage. All theaters provide a space for an audience. In a fixed seating theatre the audience is often separated from the performers by the proscenium arch. In proscenium theaters and amphitheaters , the proscenium arch, like

10580-473: The side of a hill. Greek theaters, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A typical theater was enormous, able to seat around 15,000 viewers. Greek theaters were not enclosed; the audience could see each other and the surrounding countryside as well as the actors and chorus. The Romans copied the Greek style of building, but tended not to be so concerned about the location, being prepared to build walls and terraces instead of looking for

10695-435: The specific theatres. Arausio , the theatre in modern-day Orange, France , is a good example of a classic Roman theatre, with an indented scaenae frons , reminiscent of Western Roman theatre designs, however missing the more ornamental structure. The Arausio is still standing today and, with its amazing structural acoustics and having had its seating reconstructed, can be seen to be a marvel of Roman architecture. During

10810-425: The split, Loew's Theatres was compelled to sell either the 175th Street Theatre or the nearby Rio Theatre; however, the sale was allowed to be deferred based on whether there was another theater in the neighborhood that screened first-run films. In 1953, a stereophonic sound system was installed behind the screen. The Loew's 175th Street Theatre and all of Loew's other theaters were taken over by Loew's Theatres Inc.

10925-529: The stage, is a permanent feature of the structure. This area is known as the auditorium or the house. The seating areas can include some or all of the following: Greek theater buildings were called a theatron ('seeing place'). The theaters were large, open-air structures constructed on the slopes of hills. The most famous open-air greek theater was the Globe Theater where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed. They consisted of three principal elements:

11040-459: The sudden, dramatic revelation or transformation. A number of stage tricks, including actors' rapid appearance and disappearance, employ these innovations. The term keren (外連), often translated playing to the gallery , is sometimes used as a catch-all for these tricks. Hanamichi and several innovations including revolving stage, seri and chunori have all contributed to kabuki play. Hanamichi creates depth and both seri and chunori provide

11155-451: The theater as a movie palace , which opened on February 22, 1930, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. The theater's interior decor, incorporating elements of numerous architectural styles, was supervised by Lamb and Harold Rambusch . The theater was built specifically to present films and live shows, although the live shows were discontinued shortly after the theater opened. The theater operated until 1969, when

11270-430: The theater attracted up to 5,000 congregants per service, and the church had millions more followers around the world. The majority of congregants were black. Reverend Ike gave sermons from the theater's stage every weekend, and he also hosted annual prayer meetings at the United Palace. The theater hosted other church activities as well, including seminars, counseling, and yoga lessons. The congregation started to shrink in

11385-583: The theater in 1936. Starting in 1939, Loew's reduced ticket prices for films at the 175th Street Theatre during weekends. Loew's implemented a new schedule of film screenings in 1942, in which the theater displayed three double features every two weeks, rather than two double features every week. Following a 1948 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States , Loew's Theaters was forced to split up its film-production and film-exhibition divisions. As part of

11500-475: The theater to host films. In addition to concerts, the theater hosts other events such as graduation ceremonies, film shoots, meetings, recording sessions, and graduation ceremonies. Critics have written about the mixture of architectural styles used in the building's design. The theater was designed by Thomas W. Lamb and occupies a full city block in Washington Heights, Manhattan , between Broadway , 175th Street, Wadsworth Avenue, and 176th Street. The structure

11615-631: The theater was converted into a church, it hosted events such as recitals by the American Theatre Organ Society , as well as a 2003 performance of the Christmas pageant Nativity: A Life Story . Musical performers since the 2000s have included bands such as the Allman Brothers Band , Arcade Fire , Aventura , Fleet Foxes , Lady A , Monsters of Folk , Return to Forever , The Stooges , and Vampire Weekend . Individual performers at

11730-492: The theater. The fundraiser was organized in response to the 2011 closure of the Coliseum, the only multiplex theater in the area. Local resident and librettist Lin-Manuel Miranda , who first visited the theater that year while staging a special performance of his musical In the Heights , helped with the fundraising effort. The UPCA solicited donations through the crowdfunding website Indiegogo , and they had raised $ 50,000 toward

11845-622: The venue for the 76th Tony Awards , which took place on June 11, 2023. There has been commentary on the theater's architectural style. When the Loew's 175th Street opened, New York Herald Tribune described the theater as "combining the splendor of ancient Oriental beauty with the utmost in modern construction". The architectural style of the theater has been described as "Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco" by David W. Dunlap of The New York Times . Dunlap wrote later that Lamb borrowed from "the Alhambra in Spain,

11960-495: The venue the Marcus Loew Memorial Theatre but ultimately decided against it. After ten thousand people suggested names for Loew's theater on 175th Street in early 1930, Loew's decided to name it the Loew's 175th Street Theatre . A week before the Loew's 175th Street was to be dedicated, the opera singer Tito Schipa was invited to test out the acoustics, and a large American flag (dubbed the theater's official flag)

12075-442: The whole is topped by a roof, even when the Noh stage is erected indoors. A ceramic jar system under the stage amplifies the sounds of dancing during the performance. There is a small door to permit entry of the musicians and vocalists. The independent roof is one of the most recognizable characteristic of the Noh stage. Supported by four columns, the roof symbolizes the sanctity of the stage, with its architectural design derived from

12190-447: The worship pavilion ( haiden ) or sacred dance pavilion ( kaguraden ) of Shinto shrines. The roof also unifies the theater space and defines the stage as an architectural entity. The pillars supporting the roof are named shitebashira (principal character's pillar), metsukebashira (gazing pillar), wakibashira (secondary character's pillar), and fuebashira (flute pillar), clockwise from upstage right respectively. Each pillar

12305-448: The years to about 3,400 seats by the 21st century. The seats are spread across a parterre -level orchestra and a balcony level. The balcony itself is split into three sections: a main balcony, an upper loge , and a lower loge. There are niches decorated with bodhisattvas . The auditorium also has rosettes, acanthus leaves , and tendril motifs that depict birds, cherubs, lions, centaurs, griffins, and buraqs . The auditorium originally

12420-575: The years; the restoration of the organ was completed in 2019. The United Palace was temporarily shuttered in early 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City . During the closure, workers renovated the theater's interior and added a new sound system. Audio Spectrum Inc. installed speakers behind the balcony, which previously had poor acoustics. Following these renovations, the United Palace reopened in December 2021. The United Palace of Cultural Arts (UPCA)

12535-438: Was a single-screen theater, with a wide screen similar to those in the other Wonder Theaters. It had a double stage and three lifts in the orchestra pit . The orchestra lifts could be raised to create an extension of the theater's stage. There were also large openings below the stage to allow scenery to be moved. Like the other Wonder Theaters, the Loew's 175th Street featured a "Wonder Morton" theater pipe organ manufactured by

12650-477: Was draped over the building. The Loew's 175th Street cost $ 3 million in total to construct. It had numerous ground-level storefronts, many of which had been leased out prior to the theater's opening. The theater was one of several large movie palaces in Upper Manhattan, which, in 1930, had 5% of the borough's population but nearly 20% of its movie palaces. The theater opened on February 22, 1930, to coincide with

12765-448: Was founded in 2012 and has been designated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization since 2013. In fiscal year 2022, it recorded revenue of $ 92,800, expenses of $ 149,000, assets of $ 74,600, and liabilities of $ 38,300. The UPCA functions as a community arts center, producing performances for youth arts organizations through grants and fundraisers. The UPCA gives music lessons to local children as part of its Harmony Program. In addition,

12880-412: Was intended to entice patrons inside. The historian Ben M. Hall wrote that the theater was "built to be viewed—and admired—from all sides" because there were decorations on all four elevations of the facade. The entrance protrudes from the western, or Broadway, elevation of the facade. The theater's entrance is at the southern end of the facade's Broadway elevation. There is a marquee wrapping around

12995-407: Was of course not always the case as Romans tended to build their theatres regardless of the availability of hillsides. All theatres built within the city of Rome were completely man-made without the use of earthworks. The auditorium was not roofed; rather, awnings ( vela ) could be pulled overhead to provide shelter from rain or sunlight. Some Roman theatres, constructed of wood, were torn down after

13110-457: Was originally described as being designed in the "Indo-China" style, with Asian–inspired decorations. There are hand-carved and filigreed walls and ceilings, along with Louis XV and XVI furnishings. The spaces are illuminated by indirect, recessed lighting from within and behind the walls, in addition to large Baroque –style chandeliers. The building retains its original elevator, which is accessible upon special request and has red-and-gold walls and

13225-467: Was replaced three months later by Kwame Anthony Appiah , who assumed sole authorship of the column in September 2015. "Consumed", Rob Walker 's regular column on consumer culture, debuted in 2004. The Sunday Magazine also features a puzzle page , edited by Will Shortz , that features a crossword puzzle with a larger grid than those featured in the Times during the week, along with other types of puzzles on

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