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x Booth Theatre Booththeatre2  
The Booth Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 222 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan, New York City. Architect Henry B. Herts designed the Booth and its companion Shubert Theatre as a back-to-back pair sharing a Venetian...
x The Broadway Theatre Broadway Theatre NYC The Three Sisters
The Broadway Theatre (formerly Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, Earl Carroll's Broadway Theatre, and Ciné Romais) is a Broadway theatre located in midtown-Manhattan. It has a large seating capacity of 1,761, and unlike most...
Dude
x Prince of Wales Theatre Prince of Wales Theatre 01  
The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre in Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner....
x George Gershwin Theatre Gershwin Theatre NYC Wicked
The Gershwin Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 222 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan in the Paramount Plaza building. The theatre is named after composer George Gershwin and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It has the highest seating capacity of...
x Shubert Theatre Shuberttheatre Over Here!
The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States. Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S. Shubert, the second oldest of the three brothers of the...
x Neil Simon Theatre Neil Simon Theatre NYC 2003 Catch Me if You Can - Broadway Premiere Production
The Neil Simon Theatre, formerly the Alvin Theatre, is a Broadway venue built in 1927 and located at 250 West 52nd Street in midtown-Manhattan. As of 2011, the record for its longest running show is held by the musical Hairspray, which opened August...
x Winter Garden Theatre New York Winter Garden Mamma Mia 2003  
The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan. The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange. In 1911 the Shuberts leased...
x Her Majesty's Theatre A performance at Opera House, Haymarket, predecessor of Her Majesty's Theatre in circa 1808 Jeeves
Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, in Haymarket, City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of...
x Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in 2006 Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life
The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 236 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan named for Gerald Schoenfeld. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp to resemble the neighboring Shubert and Booth theatres...
The Real Thing
x Mark Hellinger Theatre Times-square-church Coco - 1969 Broadway Production
The Mark Hellinger Theatre is a generally used name of a former legitimate Broadway theater, located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Since 1991, it has been known as the Times Square Church. The former theater, which...
x Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Lunt-Fontanne Globe Theatre Peter Pan
The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 205 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, it was built by producer Charles Dillingham and opened as the Globe Theatre, in honor...
x Longacre Theatre Longacre-theatre  
The Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 220 West 48th Street in midtown Manhattan. Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts in 1912, it was named for Longacre Square, the original name for Times Square. The French neo-classical...
x Al Hirschfeld Theatre Hirschfeldtheatre Dracula
The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 302 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh for vaudeville promoter Martin Beck, the theatre opened as the Martin Beck Theatre with a production of...
The House of Connelly
Kiss Me, Kate (1999 Broadway)
x August Wilson Theatre The August Wilson Theatre on August 30, 2006  
The August Wilson Theatre, located at 245 West 52nd Street in New York City, is a Broadway theatre. Designed by architects C. Howard Crane and Kenneth Franzheim and constructed by the Theatre Guild, it opened as the Guild Theatre in 1925 with a...
x John Golden Theatre The John Golden Theatre, showing Avenue Q, 2006 The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as...
Puppets of Passion
Beyond the Fringe
x Imperial Theatre New York Imperial Theatre Les Miserables 2003 Billy Elliot Broadway Production
The Imperial Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 249 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. The theatre seats up to 1417 people. The Shubert Organization's fiftieth venue in New York City, it was constructed to replace their...
x St. James Theatre Stjamestheatre American Idiot Broadway Production
The St. James Theatre is located at 246 W. 44th St. Broadway, New York City, United States. It was built by Abraham L. Erlanger, theatrical producer and a founding member of the Theatrical Syndicate, on the site of the original Sardi's restaurant....
x Belasco Theatre Belascotheatre  
The Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theatre opened in 1907 at 111 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Originally the Stuyvesant Theatre, it was designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco. The interior featured Tiffany...
x Circle in the Square Theatre CircleSquare Pal Joey
The Circle in the Square Theatre is a Broadway theatre in midtown Manhattan at 235 West 50th Street in the Paramount Plaza building. The original Circle in the Square was founded by Paul Libin, Theodore Mann and Jose Quintero in 1951 and was located...
x Richard Rodgers Theatre Richard Rodgers Theatre NYC 2006 Chicago
The Richard Rodgers Theatre, is a Broadway theater in New York City, built by Irwin Chanin in 1925. When it was first opened, it was called Chanin's 46th Street Theatre. Chanin almost immediately leased it to the Shuberts, who bought the building...
Seussical
Tarzan
x Minskoff Theatre Minskoff Theatre NYC 2007 Dance of the Vampires
The Minskoff Theatre is a Broadway theatre, located at 1515 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan. It is now showing the musical The Lion King, based on the Disney animated film of the same name. The 1,621-seat venue, designed by architects Kahn and Jacobs,...
x Biltmore Theatre Biltmore Theatre NYC 2007 Hair
The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (formerly the Biltmore Theatre) is a Broadway theatre located at 261 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp for impresario Irwin Chanin, it opened on December 7, 1925 with the...
x Broadhurst Theatre Broadhursttheatre Grease
The Broadhurst Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 235 West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan. It was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, a well-known theatre designer who had been working directly with the Shubert brothers; the Broadhurst...
x Hilton Theatre Hilton Theatre's 42nd street entrance (left) and the New Victory Theater (right) in 2007 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Foxwoods Theatre (formerly the "Hilton Theatre" and "Ford Center for the Performing Arts") is a Broadway theatre located at 213 West 42nd Street in Manhattan. The theatre was built in 1996-98 on the site of the former Apollo and Lyric Theatres....
x Palace Theatre, New York The Palace Theatre, circa 1920. The Palace is in the tall building on the right side of the photograph Aida
The Palace Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1564 Broadway (at 47th) in midtown-Manhattan. From 1913 through about 1929, the Palace attained legendary status among vaudeville performers as the flagship of the monopolistic Keith-Albee...
x Eugene O'Neill Theatre Eugene O'Neill Theatre, showing a revival of Sweeney Todd Nine
The Eugene O'Neill Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 230 West 49th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it was built for the Shuberts as part of a theatre-hotel complex named for 19th century tragedian Edwin...
x Marquis Theatre Treble clef overlaid with a bluish ellipse bearing the tragedy and comedy masks of the theater  
The Marquis Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1535 Broadway (at 45th St.) in midtown-Manhattan. Situated on the third floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, the 1611-seat venue was designed by developer/architect John C. Portman, Jr. Because...
x Majestic Theatre Majestic Theatre NYC 2007 Camelot (Original Broadway Production)
The Majestic Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 245 West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan. The Majestic, one of the largest Broadway theatres with 1,607 seats, traditionally has been used as a venue for major musical theatre productions. Among...
x Playwrights Horizons Playwrights-horizons  
Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. Under the...
x Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater   Boy's Life  
x Uris Theatre      
x 46th Street Theatre      
x The Cheetah      
x ANTA Playhouse      
x Broadway Theatre      
x Shubert Theatre      
x Central Theatre      
x Sage Theatre      
x Harris Theatre      
x Broadway Theater      
x 54th Street Theatre      
x American Conservatory Theater   Hedda Gabler  
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
The Taming of the Shrew
x Raimund Theater WienRaimundtheater Rebecca
The Raimund Theater is a theatre in the Mariahilf district of Vienna, Austria. Named after the Austrian dramatist Ferdinand Raimund, the theatre was built by an association of Viennese citizens and opened on 28 November 1893 with Raimund's play Die...
Dance of the Vampires
x Ulmer Theatre   Spiel (world premiere)  
x Old Vic Old Vic theatre London Waterloo Play (English language premiere)
The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, it was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 when it was known formally as the...
The Lady's Not for Burning
Hamlet
x Cerrito Speakeasy Theater Cerrito Marquee    
x La MaMa, E.T.C. La Mama Theater by David Shankbone  
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (La MaMa E.T.C.) is an off-off Broadway theatre founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, and named in reference to her. Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the theatre grew out of Stewart's tiny basement boutique for...
x EXIT Theatre on Taylor   The Red Priest of Venice  
x Evidence Room   The Strip  
x Globe Theatre, London Southwark reconstructed globe  
This article is about the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare. For the modern reconstruction in London, see Shakespeare's Globe. For other uses, see Globe Theatre (disambiguation). The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William...
x American Theater Company    
American Theater Company is an ensemble of artists committed to producing new and classic American stories that ask the question: "What does it mean to be an American?"SM We provide a truly intimate home for the community to experience meaningful...
x Arena Stage    
Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest Washington, D.C. Its declared mission "is to produce huge plays of all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit. Arena has broad shoulders...
x Pier 39 Theater   Insignificant Others  
x Chichester Festival Theatre The theatre in May 2007.  
Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in...
x The UCL Bloomsbury UCL Bloomsbury Theatre  
The Bloomsbury Theatre is a theatre on Gordon Street, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, owned by University College London. The Theatre has a seating capacity of 535 and offers a professional programme of innovative music, drama, comedy...
x Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux GrandTheatreBordeaux  
Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, is a Theatre in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April 1780. It was in this theatre that the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée premiered in 1789, and where a young Marius Petipa staged some of his first ballets. The...
x Nouvel Opéra L'opéra de Lyon  
The Opéra Nouvel (Nouvel Opera House) in Lyon, France is the home of the Opéra National de Lyon. The original opera house was re-designed by the distinguished French architect, Jean Nouvel between 1985 and 1993 and is named after him. In 1756, one...
x Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Metz Theatre 2003  
The Opéra-Théatre de Metz Métropole is an 750-seat opera house and theatre located on the Petit-Saulcy island in Metz, capital of the Lorraine region, France. It is the oldest opera house working in France and one of the oldest in Europe. It is also...
x Théâtre Graslin Theatre-gralin  
The Théâtre Graslin is a theatre and opera house in the city of Nantes in France. Created in a new district of the city in the late 18th Century by the local architect Mathurin Crucy and named after the owner of the land, Jean-Louis Graslin. Built...
x Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe IMGP2104  
The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is a theatre and opera house in Karlsruhe, Germany. It has existed in its present form and place at Ettlinger Tor since 1975. Achim Thorwald became the “Intendant” (Artistic director) in the summer of 2002,...
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