John Golden Theatre

May still be running2 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 decade169 productions across 11 decades

1. 1920s 6
2. 1930s 32
3. 1940s 16
4. 1950s 26
5. 1960s 14
6. 1970s 21
7. 1980s 16
8. 1990s 7
9. 2000s 5
10. 2010s 18
11. 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 166 runs here that record a performance count. 3 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here169 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 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
• The revue reopened at the John Golden Theatre on April 16, 1959, and closed there on May 23, 1959, after a run of forty-four performances (eighty-two total performances for both runs).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Theatre : John Golden Theatre (during run, the revue moved to the Lyceum Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The revue and its original cast opened Off-Broadway at the York Playhouse on June 9, 1959, transferred to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on August 4, then moved to the Lyceum Theatre on September 28, and finally returned to Off Broadway at the Carnegie Hall Playhouse on October 29. In all, the revue played 199 performances at the fou…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Uncle Willie by Julie Berns and Irving Elman (John Golden Theatre, December 20, 1956, 141 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 3 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 24 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.