Shubert 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 decade182 productions across 12 decades

1. 1910s 31
2. 1920s 30
3. 1930s 36
4. 1940s 24
5. 1950s 17
6. 1960s 11
7. 1970s 12
8. 1980s 1
9. 1990s 3
10. 2000s 7
11. 2010s 5
12. 2020s 5

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 156 runs here that record a performance count. 26 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here182 productions

In the literature8 passages

• In December 2004, Eric Idle and John Du Prez premiered a new comedy musical at Chicago’s Shubert Theatre, with a prominent cast that included David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Sara Ramirez and, in the lead role of King Arthur, Tim Curry. Directed by Mike Nichols and sub-headed ‘A new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty…ebooks/Bagnall, Rob/Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden.txt
• 48 “Kanagawa” is a reference to Pacific Overtures . Tryouts for this show started at the Shubert Theatre, Boston (8–29 November 1975), and then the Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, D.C. (4–27 December 1975), before opening on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on 11 January 1976.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Theatres and Performance Dates : The musical opened at the Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1951, and closed at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 26, 1952.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Theatre : St. James Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Shubert Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Theatres and Performance Dates : The musical opened on December 26, 1955, at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and closed on January 21, 1956, at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.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 26 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 41 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.