Astor Theatre

By decade43 productions across 3 decades

1. 1900s 8
2. 1910s 22
3. 1920s 13

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

Everything that played here43 productions

In the literature3 passages

• I’m standing on Broadway in front of the no longer existing Astor Theatre with my father. A huge sign says Home of the Brave in lights, but my father is staring at one at the bottom, much smaller but in lights just as bright. That sign says: Based on a play by Arthur Laurents. The pride in my father’s face outshines all the lights.ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Rest of the Story_ A Life Completed, The - Arthur Laurents.txt
• Fred Niblo and Katherine La Salle in Hit-the-Trail Holiday. New York, Astor Theatre, 1915. [Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
• Lotus Robb, Edmund Breese, and Harold West (1. to r.) in Wlty Marry? New York, Astor Theatre, 1917. [Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 5 (T-Z).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.
• When 21 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.