Broadway History - The Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The Ethel Barrymore was the last great Broadway house commissioned by the Shuberts. It was also the last theater designed by Herbert J. Krapp and built before the stock market crash. When Ethel Barrymore, of the acting royalty Barrymore family and the “it” girl of her generation, came under Shubert management, Lee Shubert offered to build a theater and name it in her honor if she agreed to star in The Kingdom of God. The theater is Krapp’s most unusual design and also one of his more ornate. It features a unique facade with an enormous terra-cotta grillwork screen, reminiscent of ancient Roman windows. The lower portion of the facade is filled with French-inspired Beaux-Arts ornamentation. Over the years, the Barrymore has housed many important productions including Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, in 1947.

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Why Cynthia Nixon? Why?