Brooks Atkinson Theatre

By decade187 productions across 11 decades

1. 1920s 26
2. 1930s 24
3. 1940s 33
4. 1950s 3
5. 1960s 27
6. 1970s 15
7. 1980s 21
8. 1990s 15
9. 2000s 14
10. 2010s 8
11. 2020s 1

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 185 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 here187 productions

In the literature8 passages

• The play with music premiered at the Mansfield Theatre on February 26, 1930, to raves from all the critics (Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times said it was “the divine comedy of the modern theatre” and Robert Littell in the New York World found it one of the “finest” plays of the generation). The work played for 640 performances, won th…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• New York run: Brooks Atkinson Theatre, October 7, 1993; 294 p. (61 p. previously at the Roundabout Theatre)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• 1960; Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Feb. 22, 1961. 4. Little Me. Musical comedy in 2 acts. Music: Cy Coleman, lyrics: Carolyn Leigh. Adapted from Patrick Dennis's satire, "Little Me" (1961). Produced Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Nov. 17, 1962. 5. Barefoot in the Park. Comedy in 3 acts. Published 1964. Producedtheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S).txt
• BROOKS ATKINSON THEATRE Opened Monday, November 13, 1972* David Black and David Seltzer present:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
• BROOKS ATKINSON THEATRE Opened Sunday, February 18, 1973.* George Keathley and Jack Lenny present:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).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 38 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.