For Booth, escape is all tied up in Three-card Monte, the street con that his brother once mastered for money and renown. With the brothers subsisting on Lincoln’s meager salary and Booth’s shoplifting skills, dreams for a better life come hard. (Too fantastical? New York’s Coney Island had a “Shoot the Freak” attraction as late as 2010.) Heritage and destiny – to say nothing of humor and drama – collide in this bizarre display that works as both metaphor and reality. In perhaps the most audacious and risky example of Parks’ pointed, go-for-broke sense of humor, the playwright has Lincoln working as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator – in whiteface – at a local arcade, where customers pay to portray the historical Booth and reenact a certain pivotal moment at Ford’s Theatre. Topdog/Underdog, Cory Hawkins, Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kenny Leon, Arnulfo Maldonado, Dede Ayite, Allen Lee Hughes, Justin Ellington, Kamra A.Abdul-Mateen II, Hawkins (Photo by Marc J. Restrooms located down 2 flights of steps (down 19 steps to lower level.) Wheelchair accessible restrooms located in the Schoenfeld Theatre.

Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only. Orchestra: Seating is accessible to all parts of the orchestra without steps. Please be advised that where there are steps either into or within the theatre, we are unable to provide assistance. Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible.There are no steps into theatre from the sidewalk. Monday – Saturday 10am – 8.00pm – Sun – Noon – 7pm Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Square It is also shown in the background during the opening scenes of All About Eve as the home of Margot Channing’s Aged In Wood.Ģ52 W 45th St (between 8 Ave & 7 Ave) New York, NY 10036 The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film A Chorus Line. It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and ’50s before it was purchased by the Shubert Organization, who returned it to full-time theatrical use. In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. Seventy-six years later it housed another production known for its puppets, the award-winning Avenue Q. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theatre Masque on Februwith the play Puppets of Passion. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan.

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