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Theaters in New York
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 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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Concert Venue / Theater
Info Radio City Music Hall, located in Rockefeller Center and opened in 1932, is a live entertainment venue and a top tourist destination. Countless shows have taken place in the 6,000-seat hall and New York City landmark. Annual events at the Radio City Music Hall include the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which features ... more
1260 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
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Info Home since 1927 to dozens of New York City's iconic Broadway shows, the Neil Simon Theatre, formerly known as The Alvin, was renamed in 1983 in honor of the famous American playwright. Following the success of Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, the theater went on to host the second and third parts of Simon's autobiographical ... more
250 W 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
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
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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
Live Music Venue / Theater
Info The legendary Apollo Theater, located in the heart of Harlem, New York, opened in 1934 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. The iconic two-level theater is heralded as one of the most important venues in the development of live theatrical entertainment within the African American community. Events at the Apollo ... more
253 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027-4408
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 Notorious for being “the most famous club of all time,” Studio 54 located in Manhattan, New York, has a history as infamous as the city itself. Opened by Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, as a club during the peak of the disco days in 1977, Studio 54 revolutionized nightlife with its multidimensional entertainment including ... more
254 West 54th Street
New York, NY, 10019
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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
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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