James Earl Jones 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 decade256 productions across 12 decades

1. 1910s 23
2. 1920s 38
3. 1930s 36
4. 1940s 42
5. 1950s 18
6. 1960s 33
7. 1970s 4
8. 1980s 11
9. 1990s 10
10. 2000s 12
11. 2010s 19
12. 2020s 10

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 250 runs here that record a performance count. 6 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here256 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Then in February 1988, it moved to Broadway’s Cort Theatre , where it settled in for the next two years and was nominated for five Tony Awards. It then toured North America, and came to London’s Hackney Empire in 1991. In 1992, white South African director Daryl James Roodt turned it into a film starring Whoopi Goldberg , and produced by…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Theatre : Alvin Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Winter Garden Theatre, the Cort Theatre, and the St. James Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (Cort Theatre, October 4, 1951, 142 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• See the Jaguar by N. Richard Nash (Cort Theatre, December 3, 1952, 5 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Once Upon a Tailor by Baruch Lumet, as adapted by Henry Sherman (Cort Theatre, May 23, 1955, 8 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 6 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 74 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.