Broadway Theatre

• The Great Gatsby (Original Broadway Production, 2024)
  April 25, 2024 - no date entered yet
• Here Lies Love (Broadway Production, 2023)
  July 20, 2023 - November 26, 2023
• West Side Story (Broadway Revival, 2020)
  February 20, 2020 - March 11, 2020
• Miss Saigon (Broadway Revival, 2017)
  March 23, 2017 - January 14, 2018
• Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway Revival, 2015)
  December 20, 2015 - December 31, 2016
• Doctor Zhivago (Broadway Production, 2015)
  April 21, 2015 - no date entered yet
• Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Broadway Production, 2013)
  March 3, 2013 - no date entered yet
• Sister Act (Broadway Production, 2011)
  April 20, 2011 - August 26, 2012
• Promises, Promises (Broadway Revival, 2010)
  April 25, 2010 - no date entered yet
• Shrek (Original Broadway Production, 2008)
  December 14, 2008 - January 3, 2010
• The Color Purple (Original Broadway Production, 2005)
  December 1, 2005 - February 24, 2008
• Bombay Dreams (Broadway Production, 2004)
  April 29, 2004 - January 1, 2005
• La Bohème (Broadway Revival, 2002)
  December 8, 2002 - June 29, 2003
• Blast! (Original Broadway Production, 2001)
  April 17, 2001 - September 23, 2001
• Into the Woods (Reunion Concert, 1997)
  November 9, 1997 - November 9, 1997
• Miss Saigon (Broadway Production, 1991)
  April 11, 1991 - January 28, 2001
• Les Misérables (Broadway Production, 1987)
  March 12, 1987 - October 10, 1990
• Big Deal (Original Broadway Production, 1986)
  April 10, 1986 - June 8, 1986
• The King and I (Broadway Revival, 1985)
  January 7, 1985 - June 30, 1985
• The Three Musketeers (Broadway Revival, 1984)
  November 11, 1984 - November 19, 1984
• Zorba (Broadway Revival, 1983)
  October 16, 1983 - September 2, 1984
• Evita (Broadway Production, 1979)
  September 25, 1979 - June 26, 1983
• Saravá (Original Broadway Production, 1979)
  March 1, 1979 - June 17, 1979
• The Wiz (Original Broadway Production, 1975)
  May 25, 1977 - January 28, 1979
• Together On Broadway (Benefit Concert, 1977)
  May 15, 1977 - May 15, 1977
• Guys and Dolls (Broadway Revival, 1976)
  July 21, 1976 - February 13, 1977
• Candide (Broadway Transfer, 1974)
  March 10, 1974 - January 4, 1976
• Dude (Original Broadway Production, 1972)
  October 9, 1972 - October 21, 1972
• Fiddler on the Roof (Original Broadway Production, 1964)
  December 16, 1970 - July 2, 1972
• Purlie (Original Broadway Production, 1970)
  March 15, 1970 - December 13, 1970
• Cabaret (Original Broadway Production, 1966)
  October 7, 1968 - September 6, 1969
• Mame (Original Broadway Production, 1966)
  October 6, 1969 - January 3, 1970
• The Happy Time (Original Broadway Production, 1968)
  January 18, 1968 - September 28, 1968
• Funny Girl (Original Broadway Production, 1964)
  November 29, 1966 - July 1, 1967
• Annie Get Your Gun (Broadway Return Engagement, 1966)
  September 21, 1966 - November 26, 1966
• A Time for Singing (Original Broadway Production, 1966)
  May 21, 1966 - June 25, 1966
• Baker Street (Original Broadway Production, 1965)
  February 16, 1965 - October 30, 1965
• Folies Bergère (Original Broadway Production, 1964)
  June 2, 1964 - November 14, 1964
• The Girl Who Came to Supper (Original Broadway Production, 1963)
  December 8, 1963 - March 14, 1964
• Tovarich (Original Broadway Production, 1963)
  March 18, 1963 - June 8, 1963
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Original Broadway Production, 1962)
  October 1, 1962 - December 8, 1962
• My Fair Lady (Original Broadway Production, 1956)
  April 18, 1962 - September 29, 1962
• Kean (Original Broadway Production, 1961)
  November 2, 1961 - January 20, 1962
• Fiorello! (Original Broadway Production, 1959)
  May 9, 1961 - October 28, 1961
• The Music Man (Original Broadway Production, 1957)
  October 17, 1960 - April 15, 1961
• Gypsy (Original Broadway Production, 1959)
  May 21, 1959 - July 9, 1960
• West Side Story (Original Broadway Production, 1957)
  March 2, 1959 - May 9, 1959
• The Body Beautiful (Original Broadway Production, 1958)
  January 23, 1958 - March 15, 1958
• The Most Happy Fella (Original Broadway Production, 1956)
  October 21, 1957 - December 14, 1957
• Shinbone Alley (Original Broadway Production, 1957)
  April 13, 1957 - May 25, 1957
• Mr. Wonderful (Original Broadway Production, 1956)
  March 22, 1956 - February 23, 1957
• The Saint of Bleecker Street (Original Broadway Production, 1954)
  December 27, 1954 - April 2, 1955
• South Pacific (Original Broadway Production, 1949)
  June 29, 1953 - January 16, 1954
• Shuffle Along (Original Broadway Production, 1952)
  May 8, 1952 - May 10, 1952
• Four Saints in Three Acts (Broadway Revival, 1952)
  April 16, 1952 - April 27, 1952
• Kiss Me, Kate (Return Engagement (Broadway), 1952)
  January 8, 1952 - January 12, 1952
• Oklahoma! (Broadway Return Engagement, 1951)
  May 29, 1951 - July 29, 1951
• The Green Pastures (Broadway Revival, 1951)
  March 15, 1951 - April 21, 1951
• Where's Charley? (Broadway Return Engagement, 1951)
  January 29, 1951 - March 10, 1951
• Pardon Our French (Original Broadway Production, 1950)
  October 5, 1950 - no date entered yet
• Pardon Our French (Original Broadway Production, 1950)
  October 5, 1950 - January 6, 1951
• Touch and Go (Original Broadway Production, 1949)
  February 27, 1950 - March 18, 1950
• As the Girls Go (Original Broadway Production, 1948)
  September 14, 1949 - January 14, 1950
• High Button Shoes (Original Broadway Production, 1947)
  October 18, 1948 - July 2, 1949
• The Cradle Will Rock (Broadway Revival, 1947)
  January 28, 1948 - February 7, 1948
• Beggar's Holiday (Original Broadway Production, 1946)
  December 26, 1946 - March 29, 1947
• Song of Norway (Original Broadway Production, 1944)
  April 15, 1946 - September 7, 1946
• Up in Central Park (Original Broadway Production, 1945)
  June 12, 1945 - April 13, 1946
• Memphis Bound (Original Broadway Production, 1945)
  May 24, 1945 - June 9, 1945
• Carmen Jones (Original Broadway Production, 1943)
  December 2, 1943 - February 10, 1945
• Artists and Models (1943 Edition, 1943)
  November 5, 1943 - November 27, 1943
• The Student Prince (Broadway Revival, 1943)
  June 8, 1943 - October 2, 1943
• Lady in the Dark (Broadway Return Engagement, 1943)
  February 27, 1943 - May 15, 1943
• This Is the Army (Original Broadway Production, 1942)
  July 4, 1942 - September 26, 1942
• Too Many Girls (Original Broadway Production, 1939)
  April 22, 1940 - May 18, 1940
• Mamba's Daughters (Broadway Return Engagement, 1940)
  March 23, 1940 - April 6, 1940
• Folies Bergère (Original Broadway Production, 1939)
  December 25, 1939 - February 11, 1940
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1932 (Original Broadway Production, 1932)
  September 27, 1932 - no date entered yet
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1932 (1932 Edition, 1932)
  September 27, 1932 - December 10, 1932
• The New Yorkers (Original Broadway Production, 1930)
  December 8, 1930 - May 2, 1931
• Dracula (Original Broadway Production, 2002; This production was cancelled. It never opened and plans have been shelved.)
  no date entered yet - no date entered yet

Built: 1924
Venue Status: Status unknown
Seating Capacity: 1765

Location Info

1681 Broadway at 53rd
New York, NY Find on Google

• Broadway Theatre (1939)
• Cine Roma (1937)
• B.S. Moss's Broadway Theatre (1935)
• Broadway Theatre (1933)
• Earl Carroll's Broadway Theatre (1932)
• B.S. Moss's Broadway Theatre (1930)
• Universal's Colony Theatre (1926)
• B.S. Moss's Colony Theatre (1924)

It was built as a cinema but converted to legitimate use in 1930. Became a vaudeville house in 1933 then a movie house in 1935. It showed Italian films in 1937 and reverted to legitimate use after the premiere of Disney's Fantasia.