August Wilson Theatre

May still be running1 open on the record

These opened in the last three years and carry no closing date. That is the strongest claim the data supports — an unrecorded closing looks exactly like a run still going, and the file was last checked in August 2026. A run that closed last week is still sitting in this list.

By decade104 productions across 11 decades

1. 1920s 23
2. 1930s 36
3. 1940s 10
4. 1950s 2
5. 1960s 1
6. 1970s 1
7. 1980s 10
8. 1990s 2
9. 2000s 10
10. 2010s 3
11. 2020s 6

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 100 runs here that record a performance count. 4 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here104 productions

In the literature8 passages

• The most recent revival opened at the Virginia Theatre on May 1, 1994, for 165 performances, and starred Richard Chamberlain (Higgins), Melissa Errico (Eliza), and Julian Holloway (as Doolittle, in the role originally created by his father in 1956). The production annoyed purists, but the surreal décor of Higgins’s study was amusing, and…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.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
• The revised Broadway revival opened at the Virginia Theatre on October 17, 2002, for 169 performances. David Henry Hwang’s adaptation wisely dropped the Helen Chao character (and that ballet), and assigned “Love, Look Away” to Mei-Li. Besides the ballet, the revival also dropped “The Other Generation” but added “My Best Love,” which had b…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Portrait of a Lady by William Archibald (ANTA Theatre, December 21, 1954, 7 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky (ANTA Theatre, February 8, 1956, 477 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 4 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 44 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.