Broadway Theatres
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
The Martin Beck theatre was originally opened in 1924 by the famous vaudeville impresario Martin Beck. The theatre was renamed to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003....
Ambassador Theatre
The Ambassador Theatre opened in 1921 and has retained its name since that time, though records seem to indicate that for a very brief period following a 1980 renov...
August Wilson Theatre
Most Broadway houses were built by wealthy impresarios, but the August Wilson Theatre had a different sort of beginning. The theatre was originally designed to be ...
Beacon Theatre
The Beacon Theatre first opened in 1929 as a movie palace for vaudeville and motion pictures on Broadway and West 74th Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I...
Belasco Theatre
In 1907, Broadway mogul David Belasco opened a theater on 44th Street and called it the Stuyvesant. He might have named it for himself, except that he already had o...
Bernard B Jacobs Theatre
This theatre opened as the Royale Theatre in 1927 and was built by the Chanin brothersRoyale Named To Golden For One Year In its early years, the Royale was "invade...
Booth Theatre
The Booth Theatre was named in honor of 19th century actor Edwin Booth, better known today as the brother of John Wilkes-Booth, but in his time he was one of the mo...
Broadhurst Theatre
In 1917, the Broadhurst Theatre was opened by the Shubert brothers, and named for beloved dramatist (and theatre co-manager) George Broadhurst. The Theatre was des...
Broadway Theatre
It may have the most theatrical name of all the legit theaters, but the Broadway Theatre was actually originally created as a movie house. Converted From A Movie Ho...
Circle In The Square Theatre
Like its gargantuan next-door-neighbor the Gershwin Theatre, the Circle in the Square Theatre was also built into the base of the Uris Building, on the former site ...
Damrosch Park
Damrosch Park is the outdoor performance area of the Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts campus. First developed in the 1950s, Lincoln Center gradually became Ne...
David H Koch Theatre
Philip Johnson, an American architect who designed some of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century, designed the David H Koch theater in 1960, which was built...
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Not many actors are approached to star in the debut production of their very own theater, but that is the enticing offer the Shuberts made to acclaimed stage perfor...
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
The Eugene O'Neill Theatre is named for one of America's most cherished playwrights, Eugene O'Neill who wrote such classics as Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh, Des...
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, originally called the Plymouth Theatre, was built in 1917 thanks to the Shubert Family and producer/director Arthur Hopkins. By the ...
Gershwin Theatre
The Gershwin Theatre opened as the Uris Theatre in 1972 and, on account of its colossal size, has been used almost exclusively for musicals since that time. For a ...