Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

May still be running1 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 decade134 productions across 9 decades

1. 1920s 20
2. 1930s 29
3. 1940s 26
4. 1950s 4
5. 1960s 9
6. 1970s 11
7. 1980s 13
8. 2000s 15
9. 2020s 7

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 132 runs here that record a performance count. 2 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here134 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 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
• The Biltmore Theatre, in which Mae West’s Pleasure Man was shut down by the police, forty years later was the same theater to show full frontal nudity onstage.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• Pleasure Man ran two performances. Hair amassed 1,750 and became the longest-running show that the Biltmore Theatre has ever had.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• Bob’s reaction was quieter. He sat in a kind of stunned silence, remembering the time he’d seen Edith Piaf at the Biltmore Theatre in Los Angeles. No elaborate orchestration had supported the great French chanteuse. Piaf had relied only on the force of her voice and personality. Bob had wondered then why America had no Piaf of its own, wh…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
• New York: Public Theatre, 29 October 1967 [94 performances]; Biltmore Theatre, 29 April 1968 [1,742 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 2 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 38 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.