Photo: Wendy Goodman When Townes Coates, president of the Players, joined the organization in 2016, the furniture and artifacts in the Edwin Booth Room looked roughly the same as when Booth died ...

It was a popular piece of 19th-century furniture. Photo: Claire Esparros The famed stage actor Edwin Booth had two conditions when he deeded his Gothic Revival mansion in Gramercy Park to the ...

Edwin Booth, the club's founder and one of the most famous actors of his lifetime, purchased the historic townhouse on Gramercy Park in May of that year, with the intention of turning the building ...