Theater

The Broadway Theatre (formerly Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, Early Carroll's Broadway Theatre, and Ciné Romais) is a Broadway theatre located at 1681 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect Eugene DeRosa for Benjamin S. Moss, it opened as B.S. Moss's Colony Theatre on Christmas Day 1924 as a venue for vaudeville shows and motion pictures. It was re-named Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, and Earl Carroll's Broadway Theatre before...

The George Gershwin Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 222 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan in the Paramount Plaza building. The theatre is named after George Gershwin. Designed in an Art Nouveau style by set designer Ralph Alswang, it is situated on the lower levels of a towering office complex built at an estimated cost of $12.5 million on the site of the historical Capitol Theatre. It opened as the Uris Theatre on November 28 1972 (named for the building developer Uris...

The Neil Simon Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 250 West 52nd Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, the theatre was built by producers Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley, who combined their first names to christen it the Alvin Theatre. It opened on November 22 1927 with George and Ira Gershwin's Funny Face starring Fred and Adele Astaire. Due to the Great Depression, Aarons and Freedley lost control of their venue in 1932. For a period of time it was used...

Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located on the Haymarket, in the City of Westminster. 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 Dramatic Art at the theatre. In the early decades of the 20th century, Tree produced spectacular productions of Shakespeare and other classical works, and the theatre hosted premières by major playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M....

The Mark Hellinger Theatre was a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan until it was converted into the Times Square Church in 1989. Designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, it was built by Warner Bros. as the first New York City movie palace to show talkies. It opened as Warner's Hollywood Theatre on April 22 1930 with Hold Everything. Throughout the next two decades it alternated between a movie house and a legitimate theatre, permanently converting to...

The Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 220 West 48th Street in midtown Manhattan. Designed by architect Henry B. Herts, it was named for Longacre Square, the original name for Times Square. The French neo-classical building was constructed by impresario Harry Frazee, better remembered as the owner of the Boston Red Sox who, needing money for his theatrical ventures, sold Babe Ruth's contract to the New York Yankees. A curse allegedly lingers on the theater as a result, and...

The August Wilson Theatre, located at 245 West 52nd Street in New York City, is a legitimate 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 revival of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1943, the building was leased as a radio station. The American National Theater and Academy purchased it in 1950 and renamed it the ANTA Theatre. In 1981, the theatre was purchased...

The Imperial Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 249 West 45th Street 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 outdated Lyric Theatre. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp specifically to accommodate musical theatre productions, it opened on December 25 1923 with the Oscar Hammerstein II-Vincent Youmans production Mary Jane McKane. Since then, it has hosted...

The Belasco Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 111 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco, the interior featured Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive mural, and a ten-room duplex penthouse apartment that Belasco utilized as combination living quarters/office space. Technically it was outfitted with the most advanced stagecraft tools available, including extensive lighting rigs, a...

The Richard Rodgers Theatre, in New York City, was built by Irwin Chanin in 1925. When it was first opened, it was called Chanin's 46th Street Theatre. Chanin almost immediately leased the theatre to the Shuberts, who eventually bought the building outright in 1931 and rechristened it as simply the 46th Street Theatre. In 1982, it was purchased and renovated by the Nederlander Organization, who in 1990 renamed it the Richard Rodgers Theatre, in memory of composer Richard Rodgers. The building...

The Biltmore Theatre is a legitimate 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 play Easy Come Easy Go. With a seating capacity of 903, it was one of Broadway's smaller venues. The theatre was used by Federal Theatre's Living Newspaper project in the 1930s. CBS leased it for use as a radio and television studio from 1952 until 1961. In 1987, a fire struck the...

The Broadhurst Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 235 West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan. It was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, one of the major theatre designers of the early 1900s. Built back-to-back with the Plymouth, it was meant to resemble the style of the neighboring Henry B. Herts-designed Shubert and Booth theaters, using less expensive brick and terra cotta materials on the facades. Like all of Krapp's work during this period, it features minimal...

The Palace Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 1564 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan. Designed by architect Kirchoff & Rose, the theatre, built by California vaudeville entrepreneur and Broadway impresario Martin Beck, experienced a number of problems before it opened. E. F. Albee, one of the main executives for B. F. Keith and his powerful vaudeville circuit, demanded that Beck turn over three-quarters of the stock in the theatre in order to use acts from the Keith circuit. In...

The Marquis Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 1535 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan. (A theatre with the same name but no relation is also located in Northville, Michigan and is dedicated to more local productions and children's programs). Situated on the third floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, the 1611-seat venue was designed by developer/architect John C. Portman, Jr. Because construction of the hotel involved the demolition of five legitimate theaters - the original Helen...

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 leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights Horizons continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. Writers are supported through every...