Booth 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 decade248 productions across 12 decades

1. 1910s 16
2. 1920s 34
3. 1930s 44
4. 1940s 36
5. 1950s 22
6. 1960s 21
7. 1970s 10
8. 1980s 11
9. 1990s 13
10. 2000s 16
11. 2010s 17
12. 2020s 8

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 246 runs here that record a performance count. 2 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here248 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 60 During the summer of 1946, Felicia performed in the Broadway production of Swan Song by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht at the Booth Theatre.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Theatre : Booth Theatre (during run, the production transferred to the John Golden Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Red Roses for Me by Sean O’Casey (Booth Theatre, December 28, 1955, 29 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Next door, the dark Booth Theatre would serve as a de facto dressing room, the largest in Broadway history. The original cast would take the actual dressing rooms, while the others would make do here and there throughout the building. To keep everyone occupied when not onstage, a large closed-circuit TV system would broadcast what was hap…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• There's no question but that there is a kind of play that needs an intimate theatre, but that intimacy exists only off-Broadway or in the Booth Theatre and is common to England and the Continent. Excepting the D. H. Lawrence plays at the Royal Court, I know of nothing that could not be transferred painlessly from a six hundred seat house…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.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 2 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 71 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.