The Shubert Theatre
…1913 with the admired British actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson’s repertory company presenting plays such as The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, and others. The Shubert housed a variety of plays and musicals in its early years. Significant plays that were presented in the space include Lionel Barrymore in Copperhead (1918), Katharine Hepburn and Shirley Booth in The Philadelphia Story (1939), and Ingrid Bergman in The Constant Wife (1975). An…