Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorA new hotel is popping up in the heart of New York’s Theater District that’s inspired by and hopes to amplify Broadway.
Civilian, from Sixty Collective hotelier Jason Pomeranc and designed by Tony-winning David Rockwell, has 27 stories and 203 rooms and is chock-full of theatrical memorabilia.
More than 250 pieces of theater-centric art, including sketches, still photos, costumes and custom furnishings, are incorporated in the public spaces.
Forty-one sconces feature sketches of Broadway houses by set designers such as Derek McLane, Es Devlin, Scott Pask, Tony Walton and Mimi Lien.“This hotel links my two greatest passions, which is theater and hospitality,” Rockwell tells Variety..
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