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Theaters in New York
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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 Best Buy Theater, located in Times Square, is an indoor theater that reopened with a $21 million facelift in 2005 to replace its predecessor, the Nokia Theatre. The 2,100-person venue contains both floor and mezzanine levels and is best known for its signature LED marquee located outside of the theater, which is one of ... more
1515 Broadway at W. 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Info The 92nd Street Y, short for the 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, has long been a cultural institution – including one of the city’s most prestigious primary schools – on the Upper East Side. In 2008, the organization opened 92YTribeca, a downtown performance space ... more
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
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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 The Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a Broadway theater located in Manhattan. The theater was originally named the Mansfield Theatre until 1960 when it was renamed the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after well-known New York Times drama critic, Brooks Atkinson. Built in 1926 the theater fell into disuse after 1933 and remained ... more
256 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036
Concert Venue / Concerts
Info The Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, New Jersey, is a nonprofit performing arts organization that caters to developing the arts in northern New Jersey. Built in 1937, the theater has since undergone several renovations, taking it from a movie theater through the 1980s, when it was closed and ultimately reopened ... more
100 South Street
Morristown, NJ 07960
Concert Venue / Theater
Info Originally designed as a movie theater and art house, the Gramercy Theatre of New York City opened in 1937. Until 1998, the venue served as an art house, a coffee shop, a dollar movie theater, and a theater for the revival of Hollywood classics. It was also the primary shooting location of the Fugees’ music video ... more
127 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
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Info Part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera House has operated on the Upper West Side since 1966, but the company has been around even longer. Its first season was in 1883, and since then it has staged all the classic shows, featuring many of the opera world’s biggest stars. The 3 ... more
88 West End Avenue # 2
New York, NY 10023
Concert Venue / Concerts
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
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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 New York City's Theater District is world renowned for its Broadway shows, and the New Amsterdam Theatre is one of district's oldest venues. When the theater was built in 1902 it was the largest theater in New York, with a seating capacity for just over seventeen hundred people. Performances at the New Amsterdam ... more
214 W 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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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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