Manhattan Opera House

By decade40 productions across 4 decades

1. 1900s 1
2. 1910s 26
3. 1920s 12
4. 1930s 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 17 runs here that record a performance count. 23 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here40 productions

In the literature3 passages

• Der Weg der Verheissung (biblical drama, Franz Werfel), 1934–35 [incomplete]; revised by Weill and Ludwig Lewisohn as The Eternal Road, New York, Manhattan Opera House, 7 January 1937.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
• 92 . Meyer Weisgal, . . . So Far, 116–17. The Eternal Road ended up being one of the last major theatrical productions at the Manhattan Opera House before it became a meeting hall in 1940. Having built the venue in 1906 in direct competition with the Metropolitan Opera House, Oscar Hammerstein ended up selling it to the head of the Met, O…ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
• Argentine in her native language at the Manhattan Opera House, from which playhouse Angelo Musco has just pulled up stakes after a long run of Italian comedy in Italian. And the Irish Players are pleasantly housed at the Hudson, where, without any sign of a riot (happily or unhappily) they have brought The Plough and the Stars beautifully…theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1928-01_12_1.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 23 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 16 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.
• Who built it.