Al Hirschfeld Theatre

By decade173 productions across 10 decades

1. 1920s 16
2. 1930s 50
3. 1940s 21
4. 1950s 23
5. 1960s 18
6. 1970s 9
7. 1980s 14
8. 1990s 9
9. 2000s 6
10. 2010s 7

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

Ranked among the 165 runs here that record a performance count. 8 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here173 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 61 The Crucible opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on 22 January 1953. In June 1953, Miller made several revisions and recast some of the roles. Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times (2 July 1953) that in this revised version, “The Crucible has acquired a certain human warmth that it lacked amid the shrill excitements of the original…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Theatre : ANTA Theatre (during run, the play with music transferred to the Martin Beck Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh (translated by Christopher Fry) (Martin Beck Theatre, November 23, 1950, 68 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The Grass Harp by Truman Capote (Martin Beck Theatre, March 27, 1952, 36 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The Climate of Eden by Moss Hart (Martin Beck Theatre, November 13, 1952, 20 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

What this page does not know

• What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
• How long 8 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 36 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.