A efficiency area with an hooked up restaurant and aperitivo bar hooked up will take middle stage when it opens subsequent month.
The 160-seat Midnight Theatre will likely be positioned nearer to the Hudson River than Broadway.
An Artwork Deco-inspired venue is coming to the West Facet’s 8-acre, city-within-a-city Manhattan West. Set to start entertaining New Yorkers on Sept. 21, the town’s latest efficiency area guarantees to showcase a variety of expertise whereas additionally holding audiences nicely fed and boozed.
Midnight will host “experiences” from “the worlds of Broadway, music, magic, comedy and extra,” the enterprise’s artistic director, Warren Adcock, informed The Submit.
Drinks and sustenance will likely be supplied by the separate, however in-house, bar and restaurant, Hidden Leaf, from Lilia and Saint Vitus restaurateur Josh Cohen. That portion has been open since July.
“When paired with the menu at our pan-Asian restaurant Hidden Leaf, we goal to supply visitors a novel night time in town that excites all of the senses,” added Adcock of showgoers’ potential to eat dim sum and wok dishes whereas watching magic exhibits.
The venue additionally has a street-level aperitivo bar element known as Midnight Cafe, which has been slinging craft cocktails and a “high-energy, enjoyable expertise, soundtracked to ’70s Italian disco” since final month.
“The concept is you come see a present underneath our roof after which go get dinner, or vice versa,” Adcock informed TimeOut. “All of us go to the theater however it’s not the smoothest expertise. There are a ton of different folks and, if there's a eating element to it, it’s a slice of pizza or a meal within the Theater District following the present. Perhaps you’re shopping for costly wine on the concession stand. We got down to deliver the hospitality element to the theater aspect of issues.”
Mastercard is concerned within the area as a sponsor, and has positioned its new, eponymous “modern multisensory studio” — consisting of a “270-degree immersive projection system to digitally change the décor of the room” within the theater’s partitions.
The concept for the venue was born again in 2018, when Manhattan West developer Brookfield confirmed Cohen an unlimited retail area within the luxurious playground of a neighborhood.
“[They] requested him to make a restaurant however the area was big,” Cohen recalled to TimeOut. “It was 11,000 sq. toes with a portion of it that had no columns so it was a perfect leisure area.”
Midnight Theatre is positioned at 75 Manhattan West Plaza.
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