Vivian Beaumont Theater

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 decade122 productions across 7 decades

1. 1960s 22
2. 1970s 31
3. 1980s 12
4. 1990s 23
5. 2000s 18
6. 2010s 8
7. 2020s 8

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 121 runs here that record a performance count. 1 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here122 productions

In the literature8 passages

• B efore the curtain rose on the 1987 revival of Anything Goes at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, audiences heard the strains of Cole Porter’s own rendition of the title song recorded in 1934. At the conclusion of this critically well-received and popularly successful show a large silkscreen photograph of Porter (1891–1964) appea…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• We rehearsed in the bowels of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. As I wandered the hallways, peering into every room and exposed crevice that made up the rehearsal spaces, scenic shop, wardrobe room, and offices, I felt as though my moment had finally arrived. It validated all the time and money my mother had invested in me for those Long Islan…ebooks/Lupone, Patti/Patti LuPone - Patti Lupone.txt
• Lincoln Center Theater's primary space, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, had upward of 1,000 seats. Now it was Bishop's responsibility (in tandem with Lincoln Center's hold-over executive producer, Bernard Gersten) to fill them.ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
• 39 "The worst aspect of Michael John LaChiusa's new musical, Marie Christine, at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, is Michael John LaChiusa's new music," wrote Clive Barnes in his N. Y. Post review on December 3, 1999.ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
• VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER Opened Thursday, November 1, 1971* Tne Reperton Theater of Lincoln Center (Jules Irving, Director) presents:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).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 1 of these run lasted. No performance count on the record.