NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The Theater Center, which is home to Off-Broadway plays “The Perfect Crime” and “The Office: A Parody,” was stripped of its copper pipes on Thursday.
Catherine Russell, the theater’s general manager and lead actress of “The Perfect Crime”, went into the theater on Friday morning and realized there was no heat or water. She said water sprayed everywhere when she went to the basement to turn on the water. Russell realized there weren’t any pipes to catch the water and there were bullet casings on the ground.
Performances of the show had to be cancelled over the weekend because of the incident.
The missing pipes also affected the newly opened speakeasy, Nothing Really Matters, next door. Both the theater and the bar had to close due to the theft.
“To all of a sudden have literally the guts of a building ripped out was, you know, a gigantic shock,” owner Adrien Gallo told CBS News.
A vacant restaurant next to the building may be how the thieves got into the theater’s basement. The restaurant has been better secured and the copper pipes replaced.
Just two days after the missing pipes incident, surveillance footage shows someone kicking the doors of the theater while wearing knee pads. The door was also replaced.
There have not been any arrests made and it remains unclear why shell casings were found in the basement.
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