The Drama Nerds Database

Shows · 1910s · 1916

1916

129 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1916.

Broadway opened 128 shows in 1916, and most of them stayed: half of those runs lasted 58 performances or more.

Playhouse Theatre, where The Man Who Came Back opened in 1916 · New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index at the Project Gutenberg. Direct link to image

The Man Who Came Back, by Jules Eckert Goodman, opened September 2, 1916 at Playhouse Theatre and ran 457 performances.

Opened in 1916

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Undated: 1 opening

Peg O' My Heart Gielgud TheatreLondon

January: 3 openings

January 10, 1916 Sybil Liberty TheatreBroadway 168 perf.
January 26, 1916 The Fear Market Booth TheatreBroadway 118 perf.
January 31, 1916 Margaret Schiller New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 72 perf.

February: 6 openings

February 9, 1916 The Cohan Revue of 1916 Astor TheatreBroadway 165 perf.
February 15, 1916 The Earth Playhouse TheatreBroadway
February 15, 1916 The Melody of Youth Fulton TheatreBroadway 111 perf.
February 17, 1916 Robinson Crusoe, Jr. Winter Garden TheatreBroadway 139 perf.
February 26, 1916 Pay-day Cort TheatreBroadway 49 perf.
February 28, 1916 Pom-pom George M Cohans TheatreBroadway 128 perf.

March: 5 openings

March 1, 1916 The Road to Mandalay Park TheatreBroadway 21 perf.
March 20, 1916 A King of Nowhere Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway 58 perf.
March 22, 1916 The Great Pursuit Shubert TheatreBroadway 29 perf.
March 28, 1916 See America First Maxine Elliott's TheatreBroadway 15 perf.
March 29, 1916 Captain Brassbound's Conversion Playhouse TheatreBroadway

April: 8 openings

April 3, 1916 Justice Candler TheatreBroadway 104 perf.
April 4, 1916 Rio Grande Empire TheatreBroadway 55 perf.
April 10, 1916 The Co-respondent Booth TheatreBroadway 48 perf.
April 24, 1916 A Woman of No Importance Fulton TheatreBroadway 56 perf.
April 24, 1916 Beau Brummell Cort TheatreBroadway 24 perf.
April 24, 1916 The Tempest Century TheatreBroadway 32 perf.
April 27, 1916 Come to Bohemia Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway 20 perf.
April 29, 1916 If I Were King Shubert TheatreBroadway 33 perf.

May: 8 openings

May 7, 1916 Ghosts Comedy TheatreBroadway
May 8, 1916 The Merchant of Venice New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 20 perf.
May 15, 1916 A Lady's Name Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway 56 perf.
May 17, 1916 Molly O' Cort TheatreBroadway 45 perf.
May 20, 1916 The Seagull Bandbox TheatreBroadway
May 24, 1916 Caliban of the Yellow Sands Lewisohn Stadium Of City College Of New YorkBroadway 10 perf.
May 25, 1916 The Merry Wives of Windsor New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 12 perf.
May 29, 1916 Step This Way Shubert TheatreBroadway 88 perf.

June: 2 openings

June 12, 1916 Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 112 perf.
June 22, 1916 The Passing Show of 1916 Winter Garden TheatreBroadway 140 perf.

July: 1 opening

July 31, 1916 Coat-tales Cort TheatreBroadway 32 perf.

August: 35 openings

August 8, 1916 Seven Chances George M Cohans TheatreBroadway 151 perf.
August 9, 1916 Cheating Cheaters Eltinge 42nd Street TheatreBroadway 286 perf.
August 10, 1916 The Silent Witness Longacre TheatreBroadway 52 perf.
August 10, 1916 Yvette 39th Street TheatreBroadway 4 perf.
August 14, 1916 Please Help Emily Lyceum TheatreBroadway 40 perf.
August 15, 1916 Broadway and Buttermilk Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway 23 perf.
August 16, 1916 His Bridal Night Theatre RepublicBroadway 77 perf.
August 17, 1916 The Guilty Man Astor TheatreBroadway 52 perf.
August 17, 1916 Turn to the Right! Gaiety TheatreBroadway 435 perf.
August 21, 1916 The Happy Ending Shubert TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
August 26, 1916 A Little Bit of Fluff 39th Street TheatreBroadway 17 perf.
August 28, 1916 Somebody's Luggage 48th Street TheatreBroadway 40 perf.
August 29, 1916 A Pair of Queens Longacre TheatreBroadway 15 perf.
August 30, 1916 A Bear Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 A Merry Death Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 A Miracle of St. Anthony Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 A Private Account Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Altruism Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Another Way Out Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Bushido Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Eugenically Speaking Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Literature Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Lover's Luck Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Pariah Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Plots and Playwrights Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Sganarelle Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Sisters of Susanne Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 The Death of Tintagiles Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 The Girl from Brazil 44th Street TheatreBroadway 61 perf.
August 30, 1916 The Hero of Santa Maria Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 The Last Straw Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 The Poor Fool Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 The Sugar House Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 30, 1916 Trifles Comedy TheatreBroadway
August 31, 1916 The Big Show Hippodrome TheatreBroadway 425 perf.

September: 17 openings

September 1, 1916 Fast and Grow Fat Globe TheatreBroadway 11 perf.
September 2, 1916 The Man Who Came Back Playhouse TheatreBroadway 457 perf.
September 4, 1916 The Flame Lyric TheatreBroadway 96 perf.
September 5, 1916 Mr. Lazarus Shubert TheatreBroadway 39 perf.
September 6, 1916 Pierrot the Prodigal Booth TheatreBroadway 165 perf.
September 11, 1916 Flora Bella Casino TheatreBroadway 112 perf.
September 11, 1916 Paganini Criterion TheatreBroadway 48 perf.
September 14, 1916 Nothing But the Truth Longacre TheatreBroadway 332 perf.
September 18, 1916 Mister Antonio Lyceum TheatreBroadway 48 perf.
September 18, 1916 Pollyanna Hudson TheatreBroadway 112 perf.
September 19, 1916 The Amber Empress Globe TheatreBroadway 15 perf.
September 20, 1916 Caroline Empire TheatreBroadway 45 perf.
September 25, 1916 Miss Springtime New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 224 perf.
September 25, 1916 Upstairs and Down Cort TheatreBroadway 320 perf.
September 26, 1916 The Intruder Cohan And HarrisBroadway 31 perf.
September 27, 1916 Arms and the Girl Fulton TheatreBroadway 77 perf.
September 28, 1916 The Example Bandbox TheatreBroadway

October: 17 openings

October 2, 1916 Back Fire 39th Street TheatreBroadway 64 perf.
October 2, 1916 His Majesty Bunker Bean Astor TheatreBroadway 72 perf.
October 3, 1916 Betty Globe TheatreBroadway 63 perf.
October 3, 1916 Hush! Little TheatreBroadway 39 perf.
October 3, 1916 Under Sentence Harris TheatreBroadway 55 perf.
October 4, 1916 Fixing Sister Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway 85 perf.
October 5, 1916 Rich Man, Poor Man 48th Street TheatreBroadway 44 perf.
October 10, 1916 The Music Master Knickerbocker TheatreBroadway 159 perf.
October 23, 1916 Come Out of the Kitchen George M Cohans TheatreBroadway 224 perf.
October 23, 1916 So Long Letty Shubert TheatreBroadway 96 perf.
October 24, 1916 Go to It Princess TheatreBroadway 23 perf.
October 25, 1916 Object - Matrimony Cohan And HarrisBroadway 30 perf.
October 26, 1916 Major Pendennis Criterion TheatreBroadway 75 perf.
October 26, 1916 The Show of Wonders Winter Garden TheatreBroadway 209 perf.
October 30, 1916 Old Lady 31 39th Street TheatreBroadway 160 perf.
October 30, 1916 The Basker Empire TheatreBroadway 40 perf.
October 31, 1916 Good Gracious Annabelle Theatre RepublicBroadway 111 perf.

November: 20 openings

November 6, 1916 Getting Married Booth TheatreBroadway 112 perf.
November 6, 1916 The Century Girl Century TheatreBroadway 200 perf.
November 9, 1916 The Yellow Jacket Cort TheatreBroadway 172 perf.
November 14, 1916 Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company Neighborhood PlayhouseBroadway 42 perf.
November 20, 1916 The Thirteenth Chair 48th Street TheatreBroadway 328 perf.
November 25, 1916 Such Is Life Princess TheatreBroadway 9 perf.
November 27, 1916 Gammer Gurton's Needle 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 Nevertheless 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 The Birthday of the Infanta 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 The Crier by Night 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 The Gods of the Mountain 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 The Golden Doom 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 The Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 The Trimplet 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 The Very Naked Boy 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 27, 1916 Voices 39th Street TheatreBroadway
November 28, 1916 Mile-a-minute Kendall Lyceum TheatreBroadway 47 perf.
November 29, 1916 Follow Me Casino TheatreBroadway 78 perf.

December: 6 openings

December 4, 1916 Mme. Sarah Bernhardt Empire TheatreBroadway
December 6, 1916 Her Soldier Boy Astor TheatreBroadway 198 perf.
December 16, 1916 The Married Woman Neighborhood PlayhouseBroadway
December 18, 1916 How He Lied to Her Husband Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway
December 18, 1916 Overruled Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway
December 26, 1916 Merry Christmas, Daddy! Cohan And HarrisBroadway 2 perf.

Closed in 1916

January 22, 1916 A World of Pleasure Winter Garden Theatre, opened 1915 116 run
January 22, 1916 Ruggles of Red Gap Fulton Theatre, opened 1915 33 run
January 29, 1916 Around the Map New Amsterdam Theatre, opened 1915 104 run
February 12, 1916 The Princess Pat Cort Theatre, opened 1915 158 run
March 18, 1916 Alone at Last Shubert Theatre, opened 1915 180 run
March 25, 1916 Stop! Look! Listen! , opened 1915 105 run
May 20, 1916 Children Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 Fire and Water Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 Helena's Husband Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 Literature Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 Night of Snow Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 Overtones Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 Pierre Patelin Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 The Age of Reason Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 The Antick Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 The Clod Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 The Honorable Lover Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 The Red Cloak Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 The Roadhouse in Arden, 1616-1916 Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 The Tenor Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
May 20, 1916 Whims Bandbox Theatre, opened 1915
June 3, 1916 Hip! Hip! Hooray! [1915] Hippodrome Theatre, opened 1915 425 run
July 1, 1916 Katinka 44th Street Theatre, opened 1915 220 run
October 14, 1916 Very Good Eddie Princess Theatre, opened 1915 341 run

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