Shubert Theatre

225 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10019

Shubert Theatre Information, Shows and Tickets

Directions & Box Office

  • Directions: By Subway, take the A/C/E to 42nd Street, walk north on Eight Avenue and then turn right onto 44th Street. Or take the 1/2/3 to 42nd Street, walk north on Seventh Avenue and then make a left onto 44th Street.
  • Entrance: 44th Street, between 7th and 8th Ave. The Shubert Theatre is located on the north side of 44th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue.
  • Box Office Hours:
    Monday - Saturday:
    10am - 8pm
    Sunday:
    Noon - 6pm

Best Seats In The House

  • Seats: 1468

The rear mezzanine and the extreme right and left sides of the front orchestra have a partial view. The rear orchestra offers a good view, but if you are in the very back rows you may occasionally need to duck down a bit to see above the overhang.

The best seats are in the front mezzanine and center orchestra. Be aware that the balcony is on a steep incline, and is not recommended for those with a fear of heights.

Shubert Theatre Seating Chart

Shubert Theatre Seating Chart

Parking for Shubert Theatre

The closest parking garages for Shubert Theatre are located at:

Champion Parking On West 45
251 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
212-819-1866
Icon Parking Systems
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
212-869-3543

The closest parking is not always the best as it often takes longer to park and retrieve your vehicle as fellow theatre goers have the same idea. A better choice of parking may be the second choice or further away by a couple of Avenues.

Additional Notes

Landlord: Shubert Organization

Official Ticketer: Telecharge

Notes:

The Shubert Organization owns many Broadway theaters, but this is the only one that bears their name.

Elevator: No

Escalator: No

Now Playing Hells Kitchen

  • Previews Began: March 28, 2024
  • Opens: April 20, 2024
  • Show Closes: Open ended
Semi-autobiographical stage musical by Alicia Keys that follows 17-year-old Ali’s life in New York's Hells Kitchen as she tries to figure out who she is, and who she will become. …more
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Previous Shows

Some Like It Hot

  • Opened: December 11, 2022
  • Show Closed: December 30, 2023
Two hack musicians witness a mafia murder and then get away from their pursuers by dressing up as women and joining an all-female travelling band. …more

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass

  • Opened: April 27, 2022
  • Show Closed: August 14, 2022
The President is surrounded by seven powerful women who do their best to keep the "dumbass" out of trouble with their talented damage-control, but will they succeed? …more

To Kill a Mockingbird 2018

  • Opened: December 13, 2018
  • Show Closed: January 16, 2022
Based on Harper Lee's novel, the TKAM story focuses on a young girl and her lawyer father who is appointed to defend a black man during the Great Depression. …more

Hello Dolly!

  • Opened: April 20, 2017
  • Show Closed: August 25, 2018
When Hello, Dolly! premiered on Broadway in 1964, it set the record for the longest running Broadway musical at that time, running for a total of 2,844 performances. The show …more

Matilda

  • Opened: April 11, 2013
  • Show Closed: January 1, 2017
Matilda is a story of a precocious 5 year-old girl who is under appreciated by her parents, who regret that she is not a boy and make sure that she …more

Spamalot 2005

  • Opened: March 17, 2005
  • Show Closed: January 11, 2009
Monty Python's Spamalot tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features show girls, cows, killer rabbits and French people. …more

Shubert Theatre History

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 corner entrance makes it unmissable in passing.

Shubert Brothers

Opened in 1913, the theater was named for the man who began the Shubert empire by his brothers Lee and J.J. The notorious Shubert brothers went on to erect performance spaces all over New York City and across the country -- currently, The Shubert Organization owns and/or operates 16 theaters on Broadway alone.

The Sam S. Shubert Theatre was for 15 years the home of A Chorus Line, which transferred there from the Public Theater in 1975 and in 1990 became the longest-running Broadway musical of all time (until Cats beat its record).

For several years, the smash hit revival of Chicago was synonymous with the Shubert Theatre, before the show transferred to the Ambassador in 2003.

Shubert Alley

As well-known as the Shubert Theatre is Shubert Alley, which runs alongside it and the Booth Theatre, providing a convenient route to 45th Street.

Previous Notable Shows

With a seating capacity of approximately 1,500, the Sam S. Shubert Theatre is an obvious choice for big musicals, but it has also presented a number of plays over the years,

These include The Philadelphia Story with Katharine Hepburn, Othello with Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, and Jose Ferrer, and Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Seascape. Past musical productions include Babes in Arms, By Jupiter, Bloomer Girl, High Button Shoes, Paint Your Wagon, Can-Can, Pipe Dream, Bells Are Ringing, I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Barbra Streisand's Broadway debut!), Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, The Apple Tree, Promises, Promises, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, Crazy For You, Big, the revival of Chicago, the Bernadette Peters revival of Gypsy, Monty Python's Spamalot, and Memphis.

Shubert Theatre Design

The Shubert Theatre was designed in the Venetian Renaissance style and the interior, which underwent restoration in 1996, features several murals by J. Mortimer Lichtenauer.

The lobby is long but narrow, so before the show and during intermission the audience tends to spill out into the perfectly accommodating Shubert Alley. There they can peruse the Broadway show posters that decorate the alley and read the plaque which, put there on the occasion of the Sam S. Shubert Theatre's 50th anniversary, reads: "Dedicated to all those who glorify the theatre and use this short thoroughfare."