Studio 54 Theatre

254 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019

Studio 54 Theatre Information, Shows and Tickets

Directions & Box Office

  • Directions: By Subway, take the C/E to 50th Street, walk north on Eight Avenue and then turn right onto 54th Street. Or take the 1 to 50th Street, walk north on Broadway and then make a left onto 54th Street.
  • Entrance: 54th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues The Studio 54 Theatre is located on the south side of 54th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.
  • Box Office Hours:
    Tuesday - Saturday:
    10am - 8pm
    Sunday & Monday:
    10am - 6pm

Best Seats In The House

  • Seats: 922

There are some partially obstructed views in the rear orchestra and on the extreme sides. Also beware of the rear mezzanine, which is very cramped and uncomfortable. The center orchestra and front mezzanine are ideal.

Studio 54 Theatre Seating Chart

Studio 54 Theatre Seating Chart

Parking for Studio 54 Theatre

The closest parking garages for Studio 54 Theatre are located at:

ICON Reality Parking
281 West 53th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-956-2856
ICON Matinee 52
215 W 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
212-247-4372

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: Roundabout Theatre Company

Official Ticketer: Roundabout

Notes:

Famed as a disco in the '70s, Studio 54 became a Broadway theater in 1998.

Elevator: No

Escalator: No

Now Playing A Wonderful World

  • Previews Began: October 16, 2024
  • Opens: November 11, 2024
  • Show Closes: Open ended
A Wonderful World is a bio-musical that tells the story of Louis Armstrong’s blazing musical career from the perspective of his four wives, who each had a unique axe to …more
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Previous Shows

Days of Wine and Roses

  • Opened: January 28, 2024
  • Show Closed: March 31, 2024
A married couple are falling in love in the 1950s New York and they struggling to build their family while they face challenges with substance abuse that upends their relationship. …more

Pictures From Home

  • Opened: February 9, 2023
  • Show Closed: April 30, 2023
The show tracks a mother, father, and son who photograph their lives as they journey from Brooklyn to the San Fernando Valley and become an allegory of America’s frustrated, hollow …more

The Minutes

  • Opened: April 7, 2022
  • Show Closed: July 24, 2022
A politically-charged comedic play about a quarrelsome municipal town government meeting which questions social hierarchy and the purpose of government. …more

Caroline, or Change

  • Opened: October 27, 2021
  • Show Closed: January 9, 2022
A black laundry maid in the Deep South in the 1960's faces a tough decision to leave her current employ in the hopes for a better life for her own …more

The Sound Inside

  • Opened: October 17, 2019
  • Show Closed: January 12, 2020
A play about an isolated Ivy League professor and how her unexpected friendship with a mysterious student blossoms into a deeply moving relationship. …more

Kiss Me, Kate

  • Opened: March 14, 2019
  • Show Closed: June 30, 2019
This classic comedy tells the story of a theatre company putting on a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew …more

The Lifespan of a Fact

  • Opened: October 18, 2018
  • Show Closed: January 13, 2019
The true of story of the seven year collaboration of non-fiction writer John D'Agata and fact checker Jim Fingal. …more

Children of a Lesser God

  • Opened: April 11, 2018
  • Show Closed: May 27, 2018
Children of a Lesser God is a play written by Mark Medoff, originally published in 1979. The story concerns the relationship between a new teacher named James Leeds, and a …more

Latin History for Morons

  • Opened: November 15, 2017
  • Show Closed: February 25, 2018
Latin History for Morons is a hilarious and entertaining time in the theatre, as well as an edifying experience. Set in a satirical history classroom, Leguizamo stars as a teacher …more

Sweat

  • Opened: March 26, 2017
  • Show Closed: June 25, 2017
Sweat is a vastly important work for American society today. Taking place at the turn of the 21st century, this play is set in Pennsylvania and explores the themes of …more

Holiday Inn

  • Opened: October 6, 2016
  • Show Closed: January 15, 2017
Holiday Inn centers around a young man named Jim, who is doing quite well in show business but decides to settle down in a farmhouse in Connecticut. However, he soon …more

She Loves Me

  • Opened: March 17, 2016
  • Show Closed: July 10, 2016
She Loves Me is based on a Hungarian play from 1937 called Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. She Loves Me is a touching and lovely musical that tells the story of …more

Therese Raquin

  • Opened: October 29, 2015
  • Show Closed: January 3, 2016
Thérèse Raquin is a new theatrical adaptation of the novel of the same name by Émile Zola. The novel was first released in 1867, and is considered Zola’s first major …more

An Act of God (2015, Jim Parsons)

  • Opened: May 28, 2015
  • Show Closed: August 2, 2015
An Act of God is a new comedic play by David Javerbaum, who formerly served as head writer and executive producer of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. The play is …more

Cabaret (2014)

  • Opened: March 21, 2014
  • Show Closed: March 29, 2015
Cabaret involves a cabaret performer named Sally Bowles, who meets an American writer named Cliff Bradshaw at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, presided over by the impressively risque emcee. Meanwhile, …more

Studio 54 Theatre History

The Studio 54 Theatre, which originated as the Gallo Opera House, has perhaps the most unusual history of any of the current Broadway theaters. After being built in 1927, it pretty much changed its name with the weather, being dubbed the New Yorker Theatre in 1930, becoming the nightclub/restaurant the Casino de Paris in 1933, spending a brief spell as the Palladium Theatre in 1936, leased a year later by the Federal Theatre Project and called the Federal Music Theatre, and then going back to its old name the New Yorker in 1939. In the '40s, CBS began using it as a radio studio and later a television studio.

But it was in 1977, when Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager bought the old opera house-turned-TV studio, that it became the infamous nightclub Studio 54. A mecca for New York City's hottest and hippest, Studio 54 was all about sex, drugs, and disco and attracted performers like Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor to its stage, and pretty much every other celebrity imaginable to the dance floor.

The club was shut down in 1979, but after re-opening in 1982 it attracted a whole new generation of pop stars like Madonna, Boy George, and Janet Jackson. However, the party eventually ended and the space was restored to its former legitimate glory when it opened as the Studio 54 Theatre in 1998.

Studio 54 Theatre Design

Reflective of its unique history, Studio 54 has the look of a handsome, old-fashioned theater mixed with the crumbling glitz of the decadent nightclub it once was. Especially impressive is the long mirror-lined hall, bedecked with chandeliers, that leads into the actual theater.

When it re-opened in 1998 with the musical Cabaret, the Studio 54 Theatre was designed with table seating in the orchestra in order to give audience members the feeling of being in a club setting. But what the conceit provided in ambiance it lacked in comfort, and with the opening of the A Streetcar Named Desire revival, the tables were removed in favor of nice, roomy seats.