This theatre is big, big, big! Mention the Gershwin Theatre, and the word "Enormous!" is the first thing a theater regular will have to say about it. At 1,900 seat...
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 Hudson Theatre was built in 1903 by the producer Henry B. Harris, and the inaugural production was Hubert Henry Davies’ Cousin Kate starring Ethel Barrymore. In...
Part of the mammoth Madison Square Garden complex, the Theater at Madison Square Garden is an appropriately enormous space, far larger than any Broadway theater. It...
To get a sense of the evolution of the Broadway musical in the 20th century, one need only to look at the list of past tenants at the Imperial Theatre, which first ...
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 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...
2022: Brooks Atkinson Theatre Was Renamed To Lena Horne Theatre The Brooks Atkinson Theatre was renamed to The Lena Horne Theatre in Fall 2022. This is to honor ent...
The Longacre Theatre was built in 1913 and named for Longacre Square, the area now known the world over as Times Square. Despite the long-ago disappearance of its n...
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...
No Broadway theatre can compare to the Lyric for its off-stage drama. Flamboyant Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky rose to prominence by producing such hits as Ph...
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 the making of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, which houses the Marquis Theatre on its third floor. Those great theatres were t...
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...
The Music Box Theatre opened in 1921 with the Music Box Revue, featuring songs by then popular (and now legendary) composer/lyricist Irving Berlin. The theatre was...
