Winter Garden 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 decade146 productions across 13 decades

1. 1850s 2
2. 1860s 10
3. 1910s 26
4. 1920s 20
5. 1930s 10
6. 1940s 7
7. 1950s 26
8. 1960s 11
9. 1970s 17
10. 1980s 6
11. 2000s 1
12. 2010s 4
13. 2020s 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 136 runs here that record a performance count. 10 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here146 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 58 Wonderful Town had opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on 25 February 1953, directed by George Abbott. The show had a book and lyrics by Comden and Green, and a score (composed in four weeks) by Bernstein.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• West Side Story opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on 26 September 1957 – and the day after, Bernstein and Felicia flew to Israel for the inaugural concerts of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv. Bernstein wasn't in New York for the cast recording of West Side Story , but Sondheim was, and he sent Bernstein a wonderfully detailed acc…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• First New York performance: 26 September 1957, Winter Garden Theatre, cast as aboveebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• First New York performance: 26 February 1926, Winter Garden Theatre, cast as aboveebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Theatre : Mark Hellinger Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Winter Garden Theatre and then back to the Mark Hellinger Theatre)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 10 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 8 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.