The Harkness Theater

A Garish Bordello of a Dance Theater

Following on from my last newsletter…

For Rebekah Harkness, the Harkness Ballet, School, and House were not enough. She wanted a theater too—“the first and only major theater in the U.S. specifically designed for dance.” In early 1972 she purchased the Colonial Theater, an old vaudeville house on 62nd and Broadway, for $1,500,000 (almost $11 million toda…