Times Square Theatre

By decade39 productions across 2 decades

1. 1920s 26
2. 1930s 13

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

Everything that played here39 productions

In the literature8 passages

• It was originally announced that the National would be called the Times Square Theatre, but the Selwyns, theater owners one block over, claimed they had a previous right to use this name. The Selwyns opened their Times Square Theatre on 42nd Street in 1920. It was a Broadway house for only 13 years, before it was seized by the bank during…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
• Osgood Perkins, Frances Fuller, and Lee Tracy in The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. New York, Times Square Theatre, 1928. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
• Got a Crush on You," "How About a Boy Like Me?" "Ring a Ding a Ding-Dong Bell," and "The Man I Love." Produced New York, Times Square Theatre, January 14, 1930.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• January 14 Strike Up the Band opens at the Times Square Theatre, New York City; 191 performances. SEPTEMBER 29 First performance of Girl Crazy at the Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia.theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
• York run: Times Square Theatre, opened January 14, 1930. 191 performances. Music by George Gershwin. Produced by Edgar Selwyn. Book by Morrie Ryskind, based on the 1927 Strike Up the Band libretto by George S. Kaufman. Book staged by Alexander Leftwich. Dances staged by George Hale. Orchestra under the direction of Hilding Anderson. Cast,…theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.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.
• When 24 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.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building. 83 of 135 venues have one.