229 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1923.

Broadway opened 225 shows in 1923: half of those runs were over within 40 performances. White Cargo, by Leon Gordon, broke that pattern, running 850 performances, 21.2 times the median.

White Cargo, by Leon Gordon, opened November 5, 1923 at Greenwich Village Theatre and ran 850 performances.

Holiday Theatre opened.

Imperial Theatre opened.

Opened in 1923

Undated: 4 openings

	It Pays to Advertise Aldwych TheatreLondon
	Peer Gynt Garrick TheatreLondon
	Saint Joan Garrick TheatreLondon
	The Adding Machine Garrick TheatreLondon

January: 18 openings

January 1, 1923	Will Shakespeare National TheatreBroadway	80 perf.
January 4, 1923	Chauve-Souris [1922] Century GroveBroadway	139 perf.
January 8, 1923	Mike Angelo Morosco TheatreBroadway	48 perf.
January 8, 1923	Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
January 11, 1923	Polly Preferred Little TheatreBroadway	184 perf.
January 15, 1923	Give and Take 49th Street TheatreBroadway	172 perf.
January 15, 1923	The Humming Bird Ritz TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
January 15, 1923	The Lower Depths Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	20 perf.
January 17, 1923	Jitta's Atonement Comedy TheatreBroadway	37 perf.
January 22, 1923	Dagmar Selwyn TheatreBroadway	56 perf.
January 22, 1923	Lady Butterfly Globe TheatreBroadway	128 perf.
January 22, 1923	The Cherry Orchard Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	18 perf.
January 23, 1923	Extra Longacre TheatreBroadway	21 perf.
January 24, 1923	Romeo and Juliet Henry Millers TheatreBroadway	157 perf.
January 24, 1923	The Dancing Girl Winter Garden TheatreBroadway	142 perf.
January 27, 1923	A Square Peg Punch And Judy TheatreBroadway	41 perf.
January 29, 1923	The Three Sisters Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	10 perf.
January 31, 1923	Caroline Ambassador TheatreBroadway	151 perf.

February: 15 openings

February 5, 1923	Mary the 3D 39th Street TheatreBroadway	152 perf.
February 5, 1923	Peer Gynt Garrick TheatreBroadway	120 perf.
February 5, 1923	Sun Showers Astor TheatreBroadway	48 perf.
February 7, 1923	Wildflower Casino TheatreBroadway	477 perf.
February 10, 1923	Icebound Sam H Harris TheatreBroadway	171 perf.
February 12, 1923	The Laughing Lady Longacre TheatreBroadway	96 perf.
February 19, 1923	Hail and Farewell Morosco TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
February 19, 1923	Rita Coventry Bijou TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
February 19, 1923	The Sporting Thing To Do Ritz TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
February 19, 1923	You and I Belmont TheatreBroadway	136 perf.
February 20, 1923	Anything Might Happen Comedy TheatreBroadway	63 perf.
February 26, 1923	Mister Malatesta Princess TheatreBroadway	96 perf.
February 26, 1923	The Brothers Karamazoff Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	10 perf.
February 26, 1923	The Lady from the Provinces Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	10 perf.
February 27, 1923	Humoresque Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway	32 perf.

March: 16 openings

March 1, 1923	Roger Bloomer 48th Street TheatreBroadway	50 perf.
March 6, 1923	Morphia Eltinge 42nd Street TheatreBroadway	64 perf.
March 9, 1923	King Lear Earl Carroll TheatreBroadway	2 perf.
March 12, 1923	Barnum Was Right Frazee TheatreBroadway	88 perf.
March 12, 1923	Go-Go Dalys 63rd Street TheatreBroadway	138 perf.
March 12, 1923	Pasteur Empire TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
March 12, 1923	The Chastening 48th Street TheatreBroadway	18 perf.
March 13, 1923	The Comedian Lyceum TheatreBroadway	87 perf.
March 14, 1923	The Love Habit Bijou TheatreBroadway	69 perf.
March 19, 1923	The Adding Machine Garrick TheatreBroadway	72 perf.
March 19, 1923	The Love Set Punch And Judy TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
March 20, 1923	The Guilty One Selwyn TheatreBroadway	31 perf.
March 22, 1923	Jack and Jill Globe TheatreBroadway	92 perf.
March 26, 1923	Sandro Botticelli Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway	24 perf.
March 27, 1923	The Wasp Morosco TheatreBroadway	95 perf.
March 31, 1923	The Enchanted Cottage Ritz TheatreBroadway	65 perf.

April: 15 openings

April 2, 1923	Elsie Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
April 2, 1923	If Winter Comes Gaiety TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
April 2, 1923	Irene Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
April 3, 1923	Cinders Dresden TheatreBroadway	31 perf.
April 3, 1923	Uptown West Bijou TheatreBroadway	73 perf.
April 5, 1923	The Dice of the Gods National TheatreBroadway	20 perf.
April 9, 1923	The Exile George M Cohans TheatreBroadway	32 perf.
April 9, 1923	Zander the Great Empire TheatreBroadway	80 perf.
April 10, 1923	Anathema 48th Street TheatreBroadway	15 perf.
April 16, 1923	How Come? Apollo TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
April 17, 1923	Within Four Walls Selwyn TheatreBroadway	15 perf.
April 23, 1923	As You Like It 48th Street TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
April 23, 1923	The Devil's Disciple Garrick TheatreBroadway	64 perf.
April 25, 1923	Sylvia Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway	13 perf.
April 30, 1923	The Inspector General 48th Street TheatreBroadway	8 perf.

May: 38 openings

May 1, 1923	My Aunt From Ypsilanti Earl Carroll TheatreBroadway	7 perf.
May 2, 1923	Pride Morosco TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
May 7, 1923	Boccaccio's Untold Tale Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 7, 1923	For Value Received Longacre TheatreBroadway	48 perf.
May 7, 1923	Salome Frazee TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
May 7, 1923	The Apache Punch And Judy TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
May 7, 1923	The Chip Woman's Fortune Frazee TheatreBroadway	30 perf.
May 7, 1923	The Mountebank Lyceum TheatreBroadway	32 perf.
May 7, 1923	The Revolt of the Mummies Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 7, 1923	The Rivals 48th Street TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
May 7, 1923	The Rut Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 7, 1923	The Trysting Place Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 8, 1923	A Thousand Generations and One Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 8, 1923	None Are So Blind Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 8, 1923	Thursday Evening Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 8, 1923	Under Conviction Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 9, 1923	Punk, or The Amateur Rehearsal Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 9, 1923	The Clock Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 9, 1923	The Crowsnest Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 9, 1923	The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 10, 1923	The Little Stone House Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 10, 1923	The Pot Boiler Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 10, 1923	The Will O' the Wisp Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 10, 1923	Torches Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 11, 1923	Another Way Out Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 11, 1923	The Mistletoe Bough Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 11, 1923	The Monkey's Paw Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 11, 1923	Three Pills in a Bottle Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 14, 1923	Bombo Winter Garden TheatreBroadway	32 perf.
May 15, 1923	The Comedy of Errors Frazee TheatreBroadway	7 perf.
May 17, 1923	Dew Drop Inn Astor TheatreBroadway	83 perf.
May 18, 1923	Sweet Nell of Old Drury 48th Street TheatreBroadway	35 perf.
May 21, 1923	Aren't We All? Gaiety TheatreBroadway	32 perf.
May 21, 1923	Blossom Time Shubert TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
May 21, 1923	Cold Feet Fulton TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
May 22, 1923	Not So Fast Morosco TheatreBroadway	31 perf.
May 25, 1923	Sun-Up Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway	28 perf.
May 28, 1923	Adrienne George M Cohans TheatreBroadway	235 perf.

June: 5 openings

June 4, 1923	The School for Scandal Lyceum TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
June 14, 1923	The Passing Show of 1923 Winter Garden TheatreBroadway	118 perf.
June 18, 1923	George White's Scandals [1923] Globe TheatreBroadway	168 perf.
June 19, 1923	Helen of Troy, New York Selwyn TheatreBroadway	191 perf.
June 25, 1923	Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 [Summer Edition] New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway	96 perf.

July: 3 openings

July 5, 1923	Earl Carroll's Vanities [1923] Earl Carroll TheatreBroadway	204 perf.
July 18, 1923	Fashions of 1924 Lyceum TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
July 19, 1923	Two Fellows and a Girl Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway	132 perf.

August: 20 openings

August 6, 1923	In Love With Love Ritz TheatreBroadway	128 perf.
August 6, 1923	Thumbs Down 49th Street TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
August 7, 1923	The Mad Honeymoon Playhouse TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
August 8, 1923	The Newcomers Ambassador TheatreBroadway	21 perf.
August 13, 1923	Tweedles Frazee TheatreBroadway	96 perf.
August 14, 1923	The Good Old Days Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	71 perf.
August 15, 1923	Little Jessie James Longacre TheatreBroadway	385 perf.
August 15, 1923	The Woman on the Jury Eltinge 42nd Street TheatreBroadway	77 perf.
August 16, 1923	The Breaking Point Klaw TheatreBroadway	68 perf.
August 17, 1923	Children of the Moon Comedy TheatreBroadway	117 perf.
August 20, 1923	Artists and Models [1923] Shubert TheatreBroadway	312 perf.
August 20, 1923	Brook Greenwich Village TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
August 20, 1923	Home Fires 39th Street TheatreBroadway	48 perf.
August 20, 1923	We've Got to Have Money Playhouse TheatreBroadway	56 perf.
August 21, 1923	Red Light Annie Morosco TheatreBroadway	87 perf.
August 25, 1923	Zeno 48th Street TheatreBroadway	89 perf.
August 27, 1923	Magnolia Liberty TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
August 28, 1923	Little Miss Bluebeard Lyceum TheatreBroadway	175 perf.
August 29, 1923	The Whole Town's Talking Bijou TheatreBroadway	173 perf.
August 30, 1923	The Jolly Roger National TheatreBroadway	52 perf.

September: 15 openings

September 3, 1923	Poppy Apollo TheatreBroadway	346 perf.
September 6, 1923	Connie Goes Home 49th Street TheatreBroadway	20 perf.
September 10, 1923	The Crooked Square Hudson TheatreBroadway	88 perf.
September 11, 1923	Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Belasco TheatreBroadway	86 perf.
September 17, 1923	Sally New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
September 17, 1923	The Changelings Henry Millers TheatreBroadway	128 perf.
September 17, 1923	The Lullaby Knickerbocker TheatreBroadway	144 perf.
September 18, 1923	Peter Weston Sam H Harris TheatreBroadway	23 perf.
September 19, 1923	Chains Playhouse TheatreBroadway	125 perf.
September 20, 1923	The Greenwich Village Follies [1923] Winter Garden TheatreBroadway	140 perf.
September 22, 1923	Music Box Revue [1923] Music Box TheatreBroadway	273 perf.
September 24, 1923	A Lesson in Love 39th Street TheatreBroadway	72 perf.
September 24, 1923	Chicken Feed Little TheatreBroadway	144 perf.
September 25, 1923	Nifties of 1923 Fulton TheatreBroadway	47 perf.
September 26, 1923	Casanova Empire TheatreBroadway	77 perf.

October: 26 openings

October 1, 1923	Tarnish Belmont TheatreBroadway	248 perf.
October 1, 1923	The Magic Ring Liberty TheatreBroadway	96 perf.
October 1, 1923	Virginia Runs Away Dalys 63rd Street TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
October 1, 1923	What's Your Wife Doing? 49th Street TheatreBroadway	72 perf.
October 2, 1923	Cymbeline Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	15 perf.
October 4, 1923	Hammerstein's 9 O'Clock Revue Century PromenadeBroadway	12 perf.
October 8, 1923	Battling Buttler Selwyn TheatreBroadway	313 perf.
October 8, 1923	Windows Garrick TheatreBroadway	48 perf.
October 9, 1923	The Nervous Wreck Sam H Harris TheatreBroadway	279 perf.
October 10, 1923	Launzi Plymouth TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
October 13, 1923	Floriani's Wife Greenwich Village TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
October 15, 1923	For All of Us 49th Street TheatreBroadway	216 perf.
October 15, 1923	The Grand Guignol Players Frolic TheatreBroadway	56 perf.
October 16, 1923	Ginger Dalys 63rd Street TheatreBroadway	30 perf.
October 16, 1923	The Player Queen Neighborhood PlayhouseBroadway	49 perf.
October 16, 1923	The Shame Woman Greenwich Village TheatreBroadway	278 perf.
October 16, 1923	The Showing-up of Blanco Posnet Neighborhood PlayhouseBroadway	49 perf.
October 17, 1923	The Dancers Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	133 perf.
October 18, 1923	White Desert Princess TheatreBroadway	12 perf.
October 20, 1923	Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway	233 perf.
October 22, 1923	Nobody's Business Klaw TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
October 23, 1923	The Swan Cort TheatreBroadway	255 perf.
October 24, 1923	Scaramouche Morosco TheatreBroadway	61 perf.
October 25, 1923	Oedipus Rex Century TheatreBroadway	20 perf.
October 29, 1923	Runnin' Wild New Colonial TheatreBroadway	228 perf.
October 29, 1923	Steadfast Ambassador TheatreBroadway	8 perf.

November: 31 openings

November 1, 1923	Cyrano de Bergerac National TheatreBroadway	232 perf.
November 5, 1923	The Deep Tangled Wildwood Frazee TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
November 5, 1923	White Cargo Greenwich Village TheatreBroadway	850 perf.
November 6, 1923	Stepping Stones Globe TheatreBroadway	281 perf.
November 9, 1923	Spring Cleaning Eltinge 42nd Street TheatreBroadway	251 perf.
November 12, 1923	A Royal Fandango Plymouth TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
November 12, 1923	Go West, Young Man Punch And Judy TheatreBroadway	48 perf.
November 12, 1923	The Cup Fulton TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
November 13, 1923	The Camel's Back Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway	15 perf.
November 15, 1923	Queen Victoria 48th Street TheatreBroadway	44 perf.
November 17, 1923	A Love Scandal Ambassador TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
November 19, 1923	Out of the Seven Seas Frazee TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
November 19, 1923	The Failures Garrick TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
November 20, 1923	An Enemy of the People Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway
November 20, 1923	Robert E. Lee Ritz TheatreBroadway	15 perf.
November 20, 1923	The Death of Pazukhin Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway
November 20, 1923	Topics of 1923 Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	154 perf.
November 20, 1923	Uncle Vanya Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway
November 21, 1923	Mistress of the Inn Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	7 perf.
November 22, 1923	Sharlee Dalys 63rd Street TheatreBroadway	36 perf.
November 26, 1923	Dumb-bell Belmont TheatreBroadway	2 perf.
November 26, 1923	Hamlet Manhattan Opera HouseBroadway	24 perf.
November 26, 1923	Ivanov Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	5 perf.
November 26, 1923	Meet the Wife Klaw TheatreBroadway	232 perf.
November 26, 1923	Sancho Panza Hudson TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
November 26, 1923	Time 39th Street TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
November 27, 1923	In the Next Room Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway	159 perf.
November 27, 1923	One Kiss Fulton TheatreBroadway	95 perf.
November 28, 1923	Laugh, Clown, Laugh! Belasco TheatreBroadway	133 perf.
November 29, 1923	In the Claws of Life Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	3 perf.
November 29, 1923	The Lady from the Sea Metropolitan Opera HouseBroadway	10 perf.

December: 23 openings

December 3, 1923	The Talking Parrot Frazee TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
December 4, 1923	Pelleas and Melisande Times Square TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
December 4, 1923	The Lady Empire TheatreBroadway	85 perf.
December 5, 1923	Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway
December 8, 1923	Cosi Sia Century TheatreBroadway	2 perf.
December 8, 1923	La Citta Morta Century TheatreBroadway	2 perf.
December 8, 1923	La Porta Chiusa Century TheatreBroadway	2 perf.
December 8, 1923	The Potters Plymouth TheatreBroadway	208 perf.
December 18, 1923	The Shadow 39th Street TheatreBroadway	14 perf.
December 20, 1923	The Business Widow Ritz TheatreBroadway	32 perf.
December 20, 1923	The Other Rose Morosco TheatreBroadway	84 perf.
December 23, 1923	The Blue Bird Jolsons 59th Street TheatreBroadway	33 perf.
December 24, 1923	The Alarm Clock 39th Street TheatreBroadway	32 perf.
December 24, 1923	The Wild Westcotts Frazee TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
December 25, 1923	Hurricane Frolic TheatreBroadway	125 perf.
December 25, 1923	Mary Jane McKane Imperial TheatreBroadway	151 perf.
December 25, 1923	The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly Liberty TheatreBroadway	87 perf.
December 26, 1923	Neighbors 48th Street TheatreBroadway	37 perf.
December 26, 1923	This Fine-Pretty World Neighborhood PlayhouseBroadway	33 perf.
December 28, 1923	Saint Joan Garrick TheatreBroadway	195 perf.
December 29, 1923	Roseanne Greenwich Village TheatreBroadway	41 perf.
December 31, 1923	Kid Boots Earl Carroll TheatreBroadway	489 perf.
December 31, 1923	The Song and Dance Man Hudson TheatreBroadway	96 perf.

Closed in 1923

January 6, 1923	Our Nell Nora Bayes Theatre, opened 1922	40 run
January 20, 1923	The Awful Truth Henry Millers Theatre, opened 1922	144 run
January 20, 1923	The Bunch and Judy Globe Theatre, opened 1922	63 run
January 27, 1923	Blossom Time Ambassador Theatre, opened 1921	516 run
February 3, 1923	The World We Live In Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, opened 1922	111 run
February 24, 1923	Glory Vanderbilt Theatre, opened 1922	74 run
March 6, 1923	The Merchant of Venice Lyceum Theatre, opened 1922	92 run
March 10, 1923	R. U. R. Garrick Theatre, opened 1922	184 run
March 10, 1923	The Greenwich Village Follies [1922] Shubert Theatre, opened 1922	209 run
April 14, 1923	The God of Vengeance Provincetown Playhouse, opened 1922	133 run
April 21, 1923	Liza Dalys 63rd Street Theatre, opened 1922	172 run
April 21, 1923	The Lady in Ermine Ambassador Theatre, opened 1922	238 run
April 28, 1923	Better Times Hippodrome Theatre, opened 1922	405 run
May 5, 1923	Kiki Belasco Theatre, opened 1921	600 run
June 2, 1923	Sally, Irene and Mary Casino Theatre, opened 1922	313 run
June 2, 1923	The Clinging Vine Knickerbocker Theatre, opened 1922	188 run
June 2, 1923	The Gingham Girl Earl Carroll Theatre, opened 1922	322 run
June 16, 1923	Up She Goes Playhouse Theatre, opened 1922	256 run
June 23, 1923	Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 New Amsterdam Theatre, opened 1922	424 run
July 7, 1923	Little Nellie Kelly Liberty Theatre, opened 1922	276 run
August 4, 1923	Music Box Revue [1922-23] Music Box Theatre, opened 1922	330 run
October 20, 1923	Merton of the Movies Cort Theatre, opened 1922	392 run

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