Park Theatre (Boston)

The Park Theatre (est.1879) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1879 Henry E. Abbey, proprietor of Abbey's Park Theatre in New York, opened Boston's Park Theatre.

[3] It occupied the building of the former Beethoven Hall, "reconstructed and practically rebuilt;" its 1,184-seat auditorium was "60 feet wide, 63 from the state to the doors, and 50 feet high.

"[7] Managers and proprietors included Henry E. Abbey;[8] Jack A. Crabtree;[9][10] Lotta Crabtree;[11] Charles Frohman, Rich & Harris;[12] Lawrence McCarty;[13] John B. Schoeffel (Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau);[8][9] John Stetson Jr.;[14] and Eugene Tompkins.

[17] In the 20th century the building became "Minsky's Park Burlesque," the "Hub," "Trans-Lux,"[18][19] and then "The State" cinema.