Broadway 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 decade185 productions across 19 decades

1. 1840s 2
2. 1850s 14
3. 1860s 2
4. 1870s 2
5. 1880s 3
6. 1890s 14
7. 1900s 33
8. 1910s 16
9. 1920s 1
10. 1930s 4
11. 1940s 16
12. 1950s 33
13. 1960s 11
14. 1970s 6
15. 1980s 7
16. 1990s 2
17. 2000s 7
18. 2010s 8
19. 2020s 4

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 157 runs here that record a performance count. 28 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here185 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 62 The new Bernstein-Robbins ballet Facsimile was first performed on 24 October 1946 at the Broadway Theatre, New York, by Ballet Theatre, with Bernstein conducting.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 37 The 1974 Broadway revival of Candide opened at the Broadway Theatre on 10 March and ran for 740 performances.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• First performance: New York, Broadway Theatre, Ballet Theatre, Jerome Robbins (choreo.), Leonard Bernstein (cond.)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Pardon Our French was perhaps a bit more sedate than their earlier ventures. True, an avalanche of feathers was dropped from the ceiling of the Broadway Theatre, to the consternation of many unlucky ticketholders (who, according to Robert Coleman in the Daily Mirror , “fled under the balcony for protection”), and an acrobat leaped around…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• After the three institutional revivals came three commercial ones. The first was an all-black version that opened at the Broadway Theatre on July 21, 1976, for 239 performances (James Randolph, Ernestine Jackson, Norma Donaldson, and Robert Guillaume). Jackson’s “If I Were a Bell” was nearly definitive, and Guillaume was a memorable Natha…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 28 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 28 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.
• Who built it.