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Theaters in New York
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Info One of Broadway's oldest theaters, the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, originally named The Globe after Shakespeare's famous theater, opened in New York in 1910 as a musical and dramatic performance space. The 1,500-person capacity venue features orchestra and two levels of mezzanine seating. Since its inception, productions at ... more
205 West 46th Street
New York, NY 10036
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Info One of New York's famous Broadway theaters, Foxwoods Theatre is a relative newcomer that was built in 1997, combining its predecessors the Apollo and Lyric theaters. Formerly known as the Hilton Theatre and the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Foxwoods obtained its current name in August of 2010 when it was acquired ... more
213 W. 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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Info The Marquis Theater in Manhattan, New York, is one of the newer theaters to join the Broadway collection. Opened in the Marriot Marquis Hotel in 1986, the 1,600-person venue contains both orchestra and mezzanine seating in a theater designed with intimate performances in mind. Concessions of food, beverage, and a full bar ... more
1535 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
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Info The Minskoff Theatre has been a mainstay on Manhattan’s Broadway since its opening in 1973 and hosts some of the world’s most popular and famous plays. Its location became available in the late 1960s when the famous Hotel Astor closed down and made way for the high-rise One Astor Plaza, of which The Minskoff ... more
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
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Info The Bergen Performing Arts Center located in Englewood, New Jersey is a not-for-profit community theater whose mission is to encourage the performance arts. Originally the John Harms Center for performing arts, the BergenPAC took over the space in 2004, continuing the center's community-oriented approach to exhibiting and ... more
30 North Van Brunt Street
Englewood, NJ 07631
Concert Venue / Theater
Info Formerly known as the Westbury Music Fair, NYCB Theatre at Westbury is located in Westbury, New York about an hour outside of Manhattan. The venue itself grew from an outdoor tented performance venue for eighteen-hundred people in 1956 to a fully enclosed theater in the round for three thousand spectators in 1966 ... more
960 Brush Hollow Road
Westbury, NY 11590
Info Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, opened in 1962 in the Lincoln Square neighborhood and commissioned by John D. Rockefeller III, is a major cultural center in New York City. With its 29 indoor and outdoor performance spaces it is no wonder that the Lincoln Center is a frequented spot for audiences in search of spectacular ... more
70 Lincoln Plaza
New York, NY 10023
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Info The Union Square Theater, located in New York, was originally built in 1926. It was known then as Tammany Hall. The five hundred person venue currently serves as an off-Broadway theater with both orchestra and mezzanine level seating. Shows hosted at the Union Square Theatre include The Laramie Project and Batboy the ... more
100 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003
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Info Best known as the home of Shakespeare in the Park, the Delacorte Theater is an open-air amphitheater located in the heart of Central Park. It opened in 1962 and featured an eighteen hundred person capacity. This horseshoe shaped venue sees over a hundred thousand theater goers over the course of the year. The theater has ... more
Central Park West
(Mid-Park at 80th Street on the southwest corner of the Great Lawn)
New York, NY 10024
Concert Venue / Theater
Info The legendary Carnegie Hall in New York City is one of the world’s most famous and historic music venues for both classic and contemporary music. Built in 1891 by Andrew Carnegie, the hall consists of three distinct performance venues, The Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Zenkel Hall and Weill Recital Hall. The Stern Auditorium ... more
881 Seventh Avenue at 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
NYC Theaters Overview
New York theaters hardly need an introduction. After all, this is the home of Broadway, and even the most uneducated, theatrically challenged dolt knows that Broadway is the veritable Shangri-La of theaterlovers everywhere.
To put it in perspective, the official city theater district, centered mostly along Broadway in Manhattan, offers more than three dozen professional theaters with a capacity of five hundred or more. The sheer number of big venues is matched only by London’s famous West End theater district, which explains why most people consider Broadway home to the highest level of English commercial theater in the entire world.
If that isn’t enough to convince you, then maybe Broadway theaters’ annual returns will: collectively, these incredible New York theaters sell more than a billion dollars in tickets every year. From the biggest musicals at places like the Foxwoods, Gershwin, Helen Hayes, and Eugene O'Neill theaters to classic big productions at the Walter Kerr Theatre and the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, great theater in the Big Apple is as American as, well, apple pie.
Of course, Broadway isn’t the only place to catch great NYC theater. Tons of smaller professional houses manage to serve up equally impressive performances. Often referred to collectively as Off-Broadway, these venues don’t even have to be situated near the big Broadway theaters, as the term Off-Broadway has come to mean any professional venue in New York with a seating capacity between 100 and 499. The venues are sprinkled all over town and into Brooklyn, and often act as a springboard for plays that eventually wind up at bigger theaters.
So you can either catch the biggest thing or the next big thing at theaters in New York, because it’s literally all here.
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