Winter Garden Theatre (1850)

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Winter Garden Theatre was the final name of a theatre which had been constructed in New York in 1850. Earlier names of the building included Tripler Hall and the Metropolitan Theatre. Many famous stage actors performed there before the Winter Garden was burnt down in 1867. [1]

Edwin Thomas Booth took control of the Winter Garden in 1863, and there his productions of Hamlet and other Shakespearean plays were famously successful.

Booth's brother-in-law, John Sleeper Clarke, had sold his interest in the building to Booth prior to the fire. [2]

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