Adelphi Theatre

152 West 54th Street; NYC / Opened: 1934 - Demolished: 1958

The Adelphi Theatre (1934–1940 and 1944–1958), originally named the Craig Theatre, opened on December 24, 1928.
The Adelphi was located at 152 West 54th Street in Manhattan, with 1,434 seats. The theater was taken over by the Federal
Theater Project in 1934 and renamed the Adelphi. The theater was renamed the Radiant Center by The Royal Fraternity of
Master Metaphysicians in 1940. It was then the Yiddish Arts Theater (1943), and renamed the Adelphi Theater on April 20, 1944,
when it was acquired by the Shuberts.

It became a DuMont Television Network studio, known as the Adelphi Tele-Theatre in the 1950s. The "Classic 39" episodes of The Honeymooners
were filmed in this facility by DuMont using their Electronicam system for broadcast on CBS later during the 1955–56 152 West 54th Street
television season. The theater returned to legitimate use in 1957, was renamed the 54th Street Theater in 1958, and finally the
George Abbott Theater in 1965. The building was demolished in 1970 for the New York Hilton Hotel, after hosting several expensive flops.

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