Joe Allen, whose self-named restaurant on W. 46th Street in Manhattan’s theater district has been a sort of commissary-slash-clubhouse for Broadway folks – and that fans who love them – since opening in 1965, died Sunday at an assisted living facility in Hampton, N.H.
He was 87.His death was confirmed by son Taylor in a New York Times obituary. A cause of death was not stated.With its walls lined with posters of Broadway flops – a longtime tradition – Joe Allen’s was the kind of insider, shared knowledge clubhouse that appeared to both the ecstatic stars of hits and shellshocked soon-to-be seekers of unemployment of the ravaged.So popular was Joe Allen’s that Allen eventually took over the eatery next door – Orso – and, in 2005, added Bar
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