Rialto Theatre

• Blues in the Night (Broadway Revival, 1982)
  June 2, 1982 - no date entered yet
• Marlowe (Original Broadway Production, 1981)
  October 12, 1981 - November 15, 1981
• A Reel American Hero (Original Broadway Production, 1981)
  March 25, 1981 - March 29, 1981
• Musical Chairs (Original Broadway Production, 1980)
  May 14, 1980 - May 25, 1980
• Canterbury Tales (Broadway Transfer, 1980)
  February 12, 1980 - February 24, 1980

Built: 1935
Venue Status: Status unknown
Seating Capacity: 1960

Location Info

1481 Broadway
New York, NY Find on Google

• Rialto Theatre (1980)
• Warner Theatre (1979)
• Rialto Theatre (1935)

Built on the site of the Oscar Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre. It was one of the few Art Deco movie houses in New York City. Many of the Universal horror films premiered here.

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In 1959, the theatre was remodelled for use as a television studio. It closed in 1965 but reopened in 1966 for production and filming of the NBC soap opera The Doctors.

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In the 1970s, it became an adult movie house. It was used for legitimate theatre from 1980 to 1982.

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Later, the theatre was again used as a television studio for Geraldo Rivera and Montel Williams.

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For a time in the 1990s, the lobby was used as the Times Square Visitors Center. The Rialto was razed to make way for the Reuters building.