New Century Theatre

By decade94 productions across 6 decades

1. 1910s 12
2. 1920s 27
3. 1940s 31
4. 1950s 12
5. 1970s 6
6. 1980s 6

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 91 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 here94 productions

In the literature8 passages

• After four weeks to “rehearse and rehearse,” Kiss Me, Kate opened at the New Century Theatre on December 30, 1948, with nearly unequivocal endorsements from New York City reviewers.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Porter’s masterpiece first opened at the New Century Theatre on December 30, 1948, for 1,077 performances; the cast included Alfred Drake (Fred Graham/Petruchio), Patricia Morison (Lilli Vanessi/Kate), Lisa Kirk (Lois Lane/Bianca), and Harold Lang (Bill Calhoun/Lucentio). After the 1952 return engagement, the musical was seen in New York…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benet, as adapted by Charles Laughton (New Century Theatre, February 14, 1953, 65 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• His collaborators have been the most creative artists of the late twentieth-century theatre. Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Michael Bennett, Boris Aronson, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb and other giants of Broadway were his confreres.ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
• New York: produced as Gypsy Lady at the New Century Theatre, 17 September 1946 [79 performances]ebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.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 20 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.