Manhattan Theatre

By decade55 productions across 3 decades

1. 1890s 13
2. 1900s 38
3. 1930s 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 45 runs here that record a performance count. 10 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here55 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Founded in 1972 by 49 off-off-Broadway companies, including Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizon, Classic Stage Company, and Repertorio Español, this trade group was first known as the Off Off Broadway Alliance (OOBA). Today it is made up of 266 professional not-for-profit theaters in New York City and is known as the Alliance of R…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• In New York City enhancement money supported not-for-profit Manhattan Theatre Club's musical The Wild Party and a nonmusical play, Current Events , in 2000. Neither transferred to Broadway. Also in the year 2000, the Jewish Repertory Theatre had enhancement money for Arthur Laurent's play Big Potato: no transfer to a commercial run. The N…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• Remember that three not-for-profit theaters produce on Broadway: the Lincoln Center Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Roundabout Theatre. They are sometimes called the super-nfps. By producing on Broadway, these organizations and the artists whose work appears on their Broadway stages are eligible for Tony Awards. Perhaps because o…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• One of the super-nfps began as an off-off-Broadway showcase producer in 1970. Manhattan Theatre Club is “solely dedicated to producing new plays and musicals.” It has a subscriber base of twenty thousand and produces seven plays a year in Broadway's recently restored Biltmore Theatre on West 47th Street, now named the Samuel J. Friedman T…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• Meanwhile, Ain’t Misbehavin ’ had opened quietly at the eight-year-old Manhattan Theatre Company that was located in a quite out-of-the-way dump on East Seventy-third Street. But when a good show opens, no matter where it is, New Yorkers usually find it—and producers are eager to move it.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.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 10 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 39 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.
• How many seats.