Broadway Theatres

The Martin Beck Theatre was renamed to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003. The Beck was originally opened in 1924 by the famous vaudeville impresario Martin Beck. Am...

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...

Prior to receiving its very controversial name, the American Airlines Theatre was known as the Selwyn Theatre, named for the producer brothers Arch and Edgar Selwyn...

Most Broadway houses were built by wealthy impresarios, but the August Wilson Theatre had a different sort of beginning. It was designed to be home to the Theatre G...

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...

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...

Built by the Chanin brothers, the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre opened as the Royale Theatre in 1927. In its early years, the Royale was "invaded" variously by specialt...

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...

In 1917, the Broadhurst Theatre was opened by the Shubert brothers, and named for dramatist (and co-manager) George Broadhurst. It was designed by Herbert J. Krapp,...

It may have the most theatrical name of all the legit theaters, but the Broadway Theatre was actually created as a movie house. Built in 1924 by a movie theater cha...

Long-time New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson had no more retired from his post when, in 1960, he suddenly came back to haunt Broadway again in the form of ...

Like its gargantuan neighbor the Gershwin, the Circle in the Square Theatre was also built into the base of the Uris Building, on the former site of the Capitol The...

The Cort opened in 1912 and was named after the man who built it, Seattle-based actor-turned-producer John Cort. At about 1,000 seats, it has been primarily a playh...

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...

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...

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...