The Music Box Theatre opened in 1921 with the Music Box Revue, featuring songs by then popular (and now legendary) composer/lyricist Irving Berlin. Theatre Built B...

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...

The St. James Theatre was built by Broadway booking agent Abraham Erlanger in 1927 and was opened as the Erlanger Theatre. Erlanger's finances later collapsed in t...

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...

The Richard Rodgers Theatre originated in 1924 as the Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre. The Chanin Brothers were construction moguls who built six Broadway theaters in...

Theatre With Its Own Drama No Broadway theatre can compare to the Lyric for its off-stage drama. Flamboyant Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky rose to prominence ...

The Hudson Theatre was built in 1903 by the producer Henry B. Harris, The inaugural production at this theatre was Hubert Henry Davies’ Cousin Kate starring Ethel B...

The Sam S. Shubert Theatre is one of the great Broadway landmarks. The theatre holds a prime location on 44th Street, and the old-fashioned lit-up marquee above the...

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....

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...

The Minskoff Theatre, which was designed by architectural firm Kahn and Jacobs, is on the third floor of One Astor Plaza. The fifty-five story office high-rise is n...

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 ...

Prior to it being know as "The Todd Haimes Theatre", this venue was known as the "American Airlines Theatre" and originally known as as "The Selwyn Theatre". At th...

Built in 1926, this theatre began as The Mansfield Theatre, named for British actor Richard Mansfield. It was later renamed to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and then ...

The Winter Garden Theatre stands on the site of what was once the American Horse Exchange. William Vanderbuilt leased this large property to the Shuberts in 1910, ...

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 ...

The James Earl Jones Theatre was originally named The Cort Theatre and was renamed in 2022 The theatre opened in 1912 and went through a number of renovations in 19...

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 ...

In 1912, producer Winthrop Ames built the littlest theater on Broadway and called it, appropriately, the Little Theatre. At first the theatre had a mere 299 seats,...

The John Golden Theatre, built in 1927, was originally called the Theatre Masque. It was one of the theaters built by the Chanin Brothers, the duo responsible for s...

The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre originally opened as the Globe Theatre in 1910. It was built by producer Charles Dillingham and designed by famed architects John Merven C...

Built over 100 years ago, the Lyceum Theatre (originally referred to as the New Lyceum) is the oldest legitimate theater in New York City. In fact, it was a replace...

The Majestic Theatre opened on March 28, 1927, and for many years it was the largest theater in the Times Square area. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, the M...

Five Broadway theaters were demolished in 1986 to create the Marriott Marquis Hotel, which houses the Marquis Theatre on its third floor. Those great theatres were:...