The Drama Nerds Database

Shows · 1930s · 1933

1933

164 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1933.

Broadway's shows didn't last in 1933: half of the year's openings closed within 21 performances, one of the shortest medians of any year in this catalogue. Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell, broke that pattern, running 3,182 performances, 151.5 times the median.

Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell, opened December 4, 1933 at Theatre Masque and ran 3,182 performances.

Liberty Theatre closed.

Times Square Theatre closed.

Opened in 1933

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Undated: 1 opening

J B Priestley's Laburnum Grove Duchess TheatreLondon

January: 18 openings

January 2, 1933 George White's Music Hall Varieties [1932] Casino TheatreBroadway 24 perf.
January 2, 1933 Saint Wench Lyceum TheatreBroadway 12 perf.
January 3, 1933 Fantasia Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway 7 perf.
January 9, 1933 A Good Woman, Poor Thing Avon TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
January 9, 1933 Late One Evening Plymouth TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
January 10, 1933 Two Strange Women Little TheatreBroadway 15 perf.
January 11, 1933 Foolscap Times Square TheatreBroadway 13 perf.
January 16, 1933 Pigeons and People Sam H Harris TheatreBroadway 70 perf.
January 17, 1933 Big Night Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
January 19, 1933 As Husbands Go Forrest TheatreBroadway 148 perf.
January 20, 1933 Pardon My English Majestic TheatreBroadway 43 perf.
January 21, 1933 We, The People Empire TheatreBroadway 49 perf.
January 22, 1933 Dorothy Sands Booth TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
January 24, 1933 Design For Living Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 135 perf.
January 27, 1933 Marathon Mansfield TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
January 30, 1933 Bad Manners Playhouse TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
January 31, 1933 Evensong Selwyn TheatreBroadway 15 perf.
January 31, 1933 Face the Music 44th Street TheatreBroadway 31 perf.

February: 21 openings

February 5, 1933 La Nativite Guild TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
February 5, 1933 Les Trois Maries Guild TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
February 5, 1933 Les Trois Rois Guild TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
February 5, 1933 The Lamentation of the Virgin Mary Guild TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
February 5, 1933 The Magdalen Guild TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
February 5, 1933 The Miraculous Birth and the Midwives Guild TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
February 6, 1933 One Wife or Another Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway 3 perf.
February 9, 1933 Before Morning Ritz TheatreBroadway 28 perf.
February 9, 1933 Low Bridge 57th Street PlayhouseBroadway 3 perf.
February 10, 1933 The Monster Waldorf TheatreBroadway 38 perf.
February 13, 1933 Four O'Clock Biltmore TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
February 13, 1933 The Sophisticrats Bijou TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
February 14, 1933 Melody Casino TheatreBroadway 79 perf.
February 15, 1933 One Sunday Afternoon Little TheatreBroadway 322 perf.
February 18, 1933 Conquest Plymouth TheatreBroadway 10 perf.
February 20, 1933 Alien Corn Belasco TheatreBroadway 98 perf.
February 21, 1933 American Dream Guild TheatreBroadway 39 perf.
February 23, 1933 Black Diamond Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway 16 perf.
February 24, 1933 Hangman's Whip St James TheatreBroadway 11 perf.
February 27, 1933 Louisiana 48th Street TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
February 28, 1933 A Saturday Night Playhouse TheatreBroadway 40 perf.

March: 18 openings

March 1, 1933 Forsaking All Others Times Square TheatreBroadway 110 perf.
March 1, 1933 Run, Little Chillun Lyric TheatreBroadway 126 perf.
March 2, 1933 Our Wife Booth TheatreBroadway 20 perf.
March 4, 1933 Strike Me Pink Majestic TheatreBroadway 122 perf.
March 6, 1933 Both Your Houses Royale TheatreBroadway 72 perf.
March 6, 1933 The Cherry Orchard New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 30 perf.
March 6, 1933 Young Sinners Ambassador TheatreBroadway 72 perf.
March 7, 1933 The Lady Refuses Bijou TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
March 10, 1933 Lone Valley Plymouth TheatreBroadway 3 perf.
March 14, 1933 Riddle Me This Hudson TheatreBroadway 70 perf.
March 15, 1933 Marilyn's Affairs Mansfield TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
March 15, 1933 The Best People Waldorf TheatreBroadway 67 perf.
March 16, 1933 Three-Cornered Moon Cort TheatreBroadway 76 perf.
March 18, 1933 Masks and Faces Liberty TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
March 21, 1933 Far-Away Horses Martin Beck TheatreBroadway 4 perf.
March 22, 1933 Raw Meat Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway 1 perf.
March 22, 1933 The New York Idea Heckscher TheatreBroadway 3 perf.
March 27, 1933 The Party's Over Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway 48 perf.

April: 11 openings

April 6, 1933 Her Tin Soldier Playhouse TheatreBroadway 2 perf.
April 8, 1933 Hummin' Sam New Yorker TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
April 12, 1933 For Services Rendered Booth TheatreBroadway 21 perf.
April 13, 1933 The Threepenny Opera Empire TheatreBroadway 12 perf.
April 15, 1933 Strange Gods Ritz TheatreBroadway 9 perf.
April 17, 1933 The Mikado St James TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
April 19, 1933 The Comic Artist Morosco TheatreBroadway 21 perf.
April 20, 1933 Unto the Third Bijou TheatreBroadway 4 perf.
April 24, 1933 Little Ol' Boy Playhouse TheatreBroadway 12 perf.
April 25, 1933 Man Bites Dog Lyceum TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
April 27, 1933 Nine Pine Street Longacre TheatreBroadway 28 perf.

May: 15 openings

May 1, 1933 Springtime for Henry Ambassador TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
May 3, 1933 Best Sellers Morosco TheatreBroadway 53 perf.
May 4, 1933 Hilda Cassidy Martin Beck TheatreBroadway 4 perf.
May 5, 1933 It Happened Tomorrow Ritz TheatreBroadway 11 perf.
May 8, 1933 Another Language Waldorf TheatreBroadway 89 perf.
May 8, 1933 The Mask and the Face Guild TheatreBroadway 40 perf.
May 8, 1933 Trial by Jury & H.M.S. Pinafore St James TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
May 10, 1933 Twenty-five Dollars an Hour Theatre MasqueBroadway 22 perf.
May 11, 1933 They All Come to Moscow Lyceum TheatreBroadway 20 perf.
May 15, 1933 Candide Booth TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
May 15, 1933 June Moon Ambassador TheatreBroadway 49 perf.
May 15, 1933 When Ladies Meet Royale TheatreBroadway 18 perf.
May 16, 1933 It's a Wise Child Hudson TheatreBroadway 34 perf.
May 23, 1933 Ghosts Sutton Show ShopBroadway 6 perf.
May 29, 1933 Uncle Tom's Cabin Alvin TheatreBroadway 24 perf.

June: 7 openings

June 2, 1933 Fly By Night Belmont TheatreBroadway
June 12, 1933 Shooting Star Selwyn TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
June 13, 1933 The Climax Bijou TheatreBroadway 15 perf.
June 18, 1933 Man Crazy Cherry Lane TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
June 19, 1933 The Ghost Writer Theatre MasqueBroadway 24 perf.
June 26, 1933 A Church Mouse Mansfield TheatreBroadway 9 perf.
June 28, 1933 Stray Leaves Chanin AuditoriumBroadway 2 perf.

July: 4 openings

July 5, 1933 Shady Lady Shubert TheatreBroadway 30 perf.
July 10, 1933 John Ferguson Belmont TheatreBroadway 54 perf.
July 17, 1933 Dangerous Corner Waldorf TheatreBroadway 90 perf.
July 27, 1933 The Bohemian Girl Majestic TheatreBroadway 11 perf.

August: 8 openings

August 3, 1933 Going Gay Morosco TheatreBroadway 25 perf.
August 7, 1933 The Pirates Of Penzance Majestic TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
August 7, 1933 Tommy Forrest TheatreBroadway 24 perf.
August 14, 1933 The Yeomen of the Guard Majestic TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
August 22, 1933 Love and Babies Cort TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
August 23, 1933 A Party Playhouse TheatreBroadway 45 perf.
August 29, 1933 Come Easy Belasco TheatreBroadway 23 perf.
August 30, 1933 The Blue Widow Morosco TheatreBroadway 29 perf.

September: 12 openings

September 4, 1933 Crucible Forrest TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
September 6, 1933 The Sellout Cort TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
September 11, 1933 The Mountain Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway 4 perf.
September 12, 1933 Murder at the Vanities New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 207 perf.
September 15, 1933 Heat Lightning Booth TheatreBroadway 44 perf.
September 21, 1933 Double Door Ritz TheatreBroadway 143 perf.
September 25, 1933 Hold Your Horses Winter Garden TheatreBroadway 88 perf.
September 26, 1933 Kultur Mansfield TheatreBroadway 10 perf.
September 26, 1933 Men in White Broadhurst TheatreBroadway 351 perf.
September 27, 1933 Amourette Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 22 perf.
September 28, 1933 Sailor, Beware! Lyceum TheatreBroadway 500 perf.
September 30, 1933 As Thousands Cheer Music BoxBroadway 400 perf.

October: 23 openings

October 2, 1933 Ah, Wilderness! Guild TheatreBroadway 289 perf.
October 9, 1933 An Undesirable Lady National TheatreBroadway 24 perf.
October 9, 1933 The Pursuit of Happiness Avon TheatreBroadway 252 perf.
October 11, 1933 Her Man of Wax Shubert TheatreBroadway 14 perf.
October 14, 1933 Champagne, Sec Morosco TheatreBroadway 113 perf.
October 16, 1933 The School for Husbands Empire TheatreBroadway 116 perf.
October 17, 1933 Ten Minute Alibi Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 89 perf.
October 18, 1933 Keeper of the Keys Fulton TheatreBroadway 23 perf.
October 19, 1933 The Curtain Rises Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway 61 perf.
October 20, 1933 The Green Bay Tree Cort TheatreBroadway 166 perf.
October 21, 1933 Let ‘Em Eat Cake Imperial TheatreBroadway 90 perf.
October 23, 1933 Her Master's Voice Plymouth TheatreBroadway 224 perf.
October 24, 1933 Move On, Sister Playhouse TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
October 24, 1933 Spring in Autumn Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 41 perf.
October 25, 1933 The World Waits Little TheatreBroadway 30 perf.
October 25, 1933 Three and One Longacre TheatreBroadway 77 perf.
October 26, 1933 A Divine Drudge Royale TheatreBroadway 12 perf.
October 27, 1933 Give Us This Day Booth TheatreBroadway 3 perf.
October 27, 1933 The Family Upstairs Biltmore TheatreBroadway 3 perf.
October 28, 1933 Eight Bells Hudson TheatreBroadway 17 perf.
October 30, 1933 Under Glass Ambassador TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
October 31, 1933 The Jooss Ballet Forrest TheatreBroadway 48 perf.
October 31, 1933 Thunder on the Left Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway 31 perf.

November: 16 openings

November 3, 1933 It Pays to Sin Morosco TheatreBroadway 3 perf.
November 6, 1933 Doctor Monica Playhouse TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
November 6, 1933 Thoroughbred Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway 25 perf.
November 9, 1933 Is Life Worth Living? Theatre MasqueBroadway 12 perf.
November 11, 1933 Our Stage and Stars Little TheatreBroadway 6 perf.
November 13, 1933 I Was Waiting for You Booth TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
November 18, 1933 Roberta New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway 295 perf.
November 20, 1933 She Loves Me Not 46th Street TheatreBroadway 360 perf.
November 21, 1933 Birthright 49th Street TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
November 23, 1933 Growing Pains Ambassador TheatreBroadway 29 perf.
November 24, 1933 The Drums Begin Shubert TheatreBroadway 11 perf.
November 25, 1933 The Dark Tower Morosco TheatreBroadway 57 perf.
November 27, 1933 Mary of Scotland Alvin TheatreBroadway 248 perf.
November 27, 1933 The Scorpion Biltmore TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
November 28, 1933 Strange Orchestra Playhouse TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
November 29, 1933 Peace on Earth Civic Repertory TheatreBroadway 126 perf.

December: 10 openings

December 2, 1933 Blackbirds of 1933 Apollo TheatreBroadway 25 perf.
December 4, 1933 Tobacco Road Theatre MasqueBroadway 3,182 perf.
December 5, 1933 All Good Americans Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 40 perf.
December 19, 1933 Jezebel Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 32 perf.
December 22, 1933 Teatro Dei Piccoli Lyric TheatreBroadway 129 perf.
December 25, 1933 The Locked Room Ambassador TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
December 26, 1933 The Lake Martin Beck TheatreBroadway 55 perf.
December 27, 1933 The First Apple Booth TheatreBroadway 53 perf.
December 27, 1933 The Loves of Charles II 48th Street TheatreBroadway 23 perf.
December 28, 1933 Yoshe Kalb National TheatreBroadway 4 perf.

Closed in 1933

January 7, 1933 Girls in Uniform Booth Theatre, opened 1932 12 run
January 15, 1933 Shuffle Along Mansfield Theatre, opened 1932 17 run
January 25, 1933 Flying Colors Imperial Theatre, opened 1932 188 run
February 4, 1933 The Dubarry George M Cohans Theatre, opened 1932 87 run
February 25, 1933 Honeymoon Little Theatre, opened 1932 76 run
March 4, 1933 When Ladies Meet Royale Theatre, opened 1932 173 run
March 18, 1933 Walk a Little Faster St James Theatre, opened 1932 116 run
May 6, 1933 Autumn Crocus Morosco Theatre, opened 1932 210 run
May 20, 1933 Twentieth Century Broadhurst Theatre, opened 1932 152 run
May 27, 1933 Counsellor-at-Law Plymouth Theatre, opened 1932 120 run
July 1, 1933 Gay Divorce Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opened 1932 248 run
July 1, 1933 Goodbye Again Theatre Masque, opened 1932 216 run
July 1, 1933 Take A Chance Apollo Theatre, opened 1932 243 run
September 16, 1933 Music in the Air Alvin Theatre, opened 1932 342 run

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