Knickerbocker Theatre

By decade162 productions across 5 decades

1. 1890s 24
2. 1900s 74
3. 1910s 38
4. 1920s 25
5. 1940s 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 107 runs here that record a performance count. 55 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here162 productions

In the literature6 passages

• Let’s look at Act One, pausing, as we enter the Knickerbocker Theatre, on Broadway and Thirty-Eighth (and long since demolished) to admire producer Charles Dillingham’s unique PR manifestation of a windmill with moving arms, outlined in electric light. It was Broadway’s first mobile illumination, and the talk it inspired supposedly contri…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
• The Red Mill was an instant success after its premiere at the Knickerbocker Theatre on 24 September 1906; after 274 performances in New York, it continued to do good business on tour. Blossom’s libretto contained all the requisite features of comic opera, but integrated them into a scenario far better than most. Two penniless American tou…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
• lished 1908? Produced New York, Knickerbocker Theatre, Sept. 30, 1907. 55. The Goal. Play, 1 act. Pubbshed 1915. Produced Chicago, 1907;theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• Unless otherwise noted, the plays were first performed in New York. 1. (With Larry Evans and Walter Percival). Someone in the House. Play. Produced Knickerbocker Theatre, Sept. 9, 1918. 2. (With Marc Connelly). Dulcy. Comedy, 3 acts. Published 1921. Produced Frayzee Theatre, Aug. 13, 1921. 3. (With Connelly). To the Ladies. Comedy, 3 acts…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• While the Coin's Good," "I'm Always Doing Something I Don't Want to Do," and "Because You're You." Produced New York, Knickerbocker Theatre, September 24,theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).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 55 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 80 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.