The Drama Nerds Database

Shows · 1910s

1910s

1,323 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in the 1910s.

Broadway opened 1,318 shows in the 1910s, and most of them stayed: half of those runs lasted 53 performances or more.

Lightnin', by Winchell Smith, opened August 26, 1918 at Gaiety Theatre and ran 1,291 performances, the longest run to open in the 1910s.

The years

1910 102 openings · Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford opened, ran 424 performances
1911 137 openings · Bought and Paid For opened, ran 476 performances
1912 115 openings · Within the Law opened, ran 541 performances
1913 115 openings · America opened, ran 360 performances
1914 150 openings · Twin Beds opened, ran 411 performances
1915 129 openings · The Boomerang opened, ran 522 performances
1916 129 openings · The Man Who Came Back opened, ran 457 performances
1917 123 openings · Maytime opened, ran 492 performances
1918 178 openings · Lightnin' opened, ran 1,291 performances
1919 145 openings · The Gold Diggers opened, ran 717 performances

The buildings

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre opened in 1910.

Cohan & Harris Theatre opened in 1911.

Fulton Theatre opened in 1911.

Playhouse Theatre opened in 1911.

Winter Garden Theatre opened in 1911.

44th Street Theatre opened in 1912.

48th Street Theatre opened in 1912.

James Earl Jones Theatre opened in 1912.

Helen Hayes Theater opened in 1912.

Booth Theatre opened in 1913.

Longacre Theatre opened in 1913.

New York Theatre closed in 1913.

Palace Theatre opened in 1913.

Princess Theatre opened in 1913.

Shubert Theatre opened in 1913.

63rd St. Music Hall opened in 1914.

Wallack's Theatre closed in 1915.

Bijou Theatre opened in 1917.

Broadhurst Theatre opened in 1917.

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre opened in 1917.

Greenwich Village Theatre opened in 1917.

Morosco Theatre opened in 1917.

American Airlines Theatre opened in 1918.

Central Theatre opened in 1918.

Henry Miller's Theatre opened in 1918.

Nora Bayes Theatre opened in 1918.

Stephen Sondheim Theatre opened in 1918.

Vanderbilt Theatre opened in 1918.

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