Theatre Talks &Walking Tours
Walks
Exceptional walking tours of New York’s theatrical and cultural districts.
Mindful of the budgetary constraints facing non-profits, Del Valle is willing to discuss fees.
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Private walks also available:
$35 per person ($25 for three on more)
$15 for seniors and students
Special family rate
The former Savoy Theatre, part of a 2007 walking tour for the Cinema Theatre Association (UK), October 2007.
Bowery Poetry Club at the start of my 2011 walk for the Lower East Side History Project.
Lost in the crowd of 102 tour goers, 2006 Coney Island walk for Open House New York and the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. Photo sent to Theatre Talks by tour goer.
The former Savoy Theatre, part of a 2007 walking tour for the Cinema Theatre Association (UK), October 2007.
Times Square:
Explore the "Crossroads of the World" to discover some of the lesser known sites along the "Great White Way."
Lower East Side:
Four walks explore the former tenement district of the immigrant working class:
Introductory Walks
Two tours offer a basic introduction to the neighborhood's showbiz past from immigrant theatre to off-off-Broadway and early television.
Yiddish Rialto
Stroll Second Avenue as Del Valle relates tales of Adler, Picon, Thomashefsky and other greats of the Yiddish stage.
Bowery
The colorful, salty history of the Bowery, once alive with Yiddish, Italian and Chinese theatres, vaudeville houses, dime museums, concert saloons and early film venues.
Downtown Brooklyn:
A former hub of theatrical activity, downtown Brooklyn is currently enjoying a rebirth with the new BAM Cultural District.
Coney Island:
Del Valle invites you to Brooklyn's "Sodom by the Sea" where Cary Grant walked on stilts, Harpo Marx made his stage debut and where the music halls ran early & late
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