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National Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
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The National Theatre is located in Washington, D.C. and is a venue for a variety of live stage productions with seating for 1,676.
Founded in 1835, the theater has always been at the same Pennsylvania Avenue location, a few blocks from the White House. The building has been rebuilt several times, including after being destroyed by fire five times in the 19th century.
Like many theaters in the U.S. prior to the civil rights movement, the National Theatre was racially segregated. Instead of desegregating, the National Theatre closed in 1948. It didn't reopen as an integrated theater until 1952.[1]
Today the National Theatre mostly hosts traveling Broadway musicals. It is managed by the non-profit Shubert Organization which also runs 16 Broadway theatres.
- ^ "It's Show Time", Washingtonian, September 1998.
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