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Shows · 1930s · 1935

1935

156 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1935.

Broadway opened 155 shows in 1935: half of those runs were over within 24 performances. Dead End, by Sidney Kingsley, broke that pattern, running 687 performances, 28.6 times the median.

Belasco Theatre, where Dead End opened in 1935 · Emily Mathews from Ann Arbor, MI

Dead End, by Sidney Kingsley, opened October 28, 1935 at Belasco Theatre and ran 687 performances.

Opened in 1935

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Undated: 1 opening

Unknown Call It a Day Gielgud Theatre, London

January: 14 openings

January 7, 1935 The Old Maid Empire Theatre, Broadway 305 perf.
January 7, 1935 The Petrified Forest Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 197 perf.
January 9, 1935 A Lady Detained Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 13 perf.
January 13, 1935 Tamiris and Her Group Civic Repertory Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
January 14, 1935 Laburnum Grove Booth Theatre, Broadway 131 perf.
January 15, 1935 Fly Away Home 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 204 perf.
January 16, 1935 Creeping Fire Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 23 perf.
January 16, 1935 Point Valaine Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 55 perf.
January 17, 1935 Little Shot Playhouse Theatre, Broadway 4 perf.
January 18, 1935 Battleship Gertie Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
January 21, 1935 Escape Me Never Shubert Theatre, Broadway 96 perf.
January 22, 1935 Crime and Punishment Biltmore Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
January 22, 1935 Nowhere Bound Imperial Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
January 28, 1935 Prisoners of War Ritz Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.

February: 17 openings

February 4, 1935 Loose Moments Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
February 4, 1935 On to Fortune Fulton Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
February 5, 1935 It's You I Want Cort Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
February 8, 1935 Field of Ermine Mansfield Theatre, Broadway 11 perf.
February 11, 1935 Bitter Oleander Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
February 11, 1935 The Eldest Ritz Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
February 12, 1935 Rain Music Box Theatre, Broadway 47 perf.
February 13, 1935 Noah Longacre Theatre, Broadway 45 perf.
February 16, 1935 Revisor Majestic Theatre, Broadway
February 18, 1935 The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles Guild Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
February 19, 1935 Awake and Sing! Belasco Theatre, Broadway 184 perf.
February 19, 1935 Cross Ruff Theatre Masque, Broadway 7 perf.
February 20, 1935 The Bishop Misbehaves Cort Theatre, Broadway 121 perf.
February 21, 1935 The Distant Shore Morosco Theatre, Broadway 13 perf.
February 25, 1935 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
February 25, 1935 Times Have Changed National Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.
February 26, 1935 The Green Pastures 44th Street Theatre, Broadway 71 perf.

March: 20 openings

March 1, 1935 Alma Mater Adelphi Theatre, Broadway
March 1, 1935 Reminiscence Adelphi Theatre, Broadway
March 1, 1935 Serenade Adelphi Theatre, Broadway
March 4, 1935 Petticoat Fever Ritz Theatre, Broadway 137 perf.
March 5, 1935 De Luxe Booth Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
March 5, 1935 Dreams Adelphi Theatre, Broadway
March 5, 1935 Transcendence Adelphi Theatre, Broadway
March 14, 1935 Panic Imperial Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
March 20, 1935 Aurora's Wedding Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 20, 1935 Bal Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 20, 1935 Black Pit Civic Repertory Theatre, Broadway 85 perf.
March 20, 1935 Boutique Fantasque Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 20, 1935 Firebird Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 20, 1935 Petrouchka Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 20, 1935 Public Gardens Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 20, 1935 Three Cornered Hat Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 20, 1935 Union Pacific Majestic Theatre, Broadway
March 25, 1935 A Woman of the Soil 49th Street Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
March 26, 1935 Till the Day I Die/Waiting for Lefty Longacre Theatre, Broadway 144 perf.
March 28, 1935 Lady of Letters Mansfield Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.

April: 13 openings

April 1, 1935 The Dominant Sex Cort Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
April 2, 1935 Mansion on the Hudson Booth Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
April 5, 1935 Potash and Perlmutter [1935] Park Theatre, Broadway 19 perf.
April 8, 1935 Flowers of the Forest Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
April 10, 1935 Ceiling Zero Music Box Theatre, Broadway 104 perf.
April 16, 1935 A Journey By Night Shubert Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
April 18, 1935 Recruits Artef Theatre, Broadway 132 perf.
April 20, 1935 Jackson White Provincetown Playhouse, Broadway 17 perf.
April 23, 1935 Kind Lady Booth Theatre, Broadway 82 perf.
April 25, 1935 Symphony Cort Theatre, Broadway 3 perf.
April 29, 1935 Something Gay Morosco Theatre, Broadway 72 perf.
April 30, 1935 If a Body Biltmore Theatre, Broadway 45 perf.
April 30, 1935 To See Ourselves Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 23 perf.

May: 10 openings

May 1, 1935 Reprise Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 3, 1935 Sailor, Beware! Lafayette Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
May 7, 1935 The Hook-up Cort Theatre, Broadway 21 perf.
May 9, 1935 The Land of Bells Majestic Theatre, Broadway 5 perf.
May 20, 1935 Parade Guild Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
May 23, 1935 Weather Permitting Theatre Masque, Broadway 4 perf.
May 27, 1935 Seven Keys to Baldpate National Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
May 28, 1935 Knock on Wood Cort Theatre, Broadway 11 perf.
May 28, 1935 The Young Go First Park Theatre, Broadway 39 perf.
May 29, 1935 Them's the Reporters Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 6 perf.

June: 1 opening

June 4, 1935 Earl Carroll's Sketch Book [1935] Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway 207 perf.

July: 4 openings

July 11, 1935 Grand Guignol Horror Plays Chanin Auditorium, Broadway 12 perf.
July 15, 1935 The Mikado Adelphi Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
July 22, 1935 The Pirates Of Penzance Adelphi Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.
July 29, 1935 The Yeomen of the Guard Adelphi Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.

August: 4 openings

August 5, 1935 The Gondoliers Adelphi Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.
August 5, 1935 The Great Waltz Center Theatre, Broadway 49 perf.
August 12, 1935 Trial by Jury & H.M.S. Pinafore Adelphi Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.
August 23, 1935 Smile at Me Fulton Theatre, Broadway 27 perf.

September: 15 openings

September 4, 1935 Moon Over Mulberry Street Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 303 perf.
September 9, 1935 Waiting For Lefty Belasco Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
September 11, 1935 A Slight Case of Murder 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 69 perf.
September 16, 1935 Night of January 16 Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 235 perf.
September 17, 1935 Few Are Chosen Corts 58th Street Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
September 19, 1935 At Home Abroad Winter Garden, Broadway 198 perf.
September 20, 1935 Life's Too Short Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 10 perf.
September 22, 1935 A Touch of Brimstone John Golden Theatre, Broadway 98 perf.
September 23, 1935 If This Be Treason Music Box Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
September 24, 1935 Blind Alley Booth Theatre, Broadway 119 perf.
September 25, 1935 Remember the Day National Theatre, Broadway 122 perf.
September 25, 1935 Winterset Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway 195 perf.
September 26, 1935 Paths of Glory Plymouth Theatre, Broadway 23 perf.
September 27, 1935 Othello Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 11 perf.
September 30, 1935 The Taming of the Shrew Guild Theatre, Broadway 129 perf.

October: 20 openings

October 1, 1935 Most of the Game Cort Theatre, Broadway 23 perf.
October 3, 1935 Squaring the Circle Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 108 perf.
October 7, 1935 Macbeth Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
October 10, 1935 Porgy and Bess Alvin Theatre, Broadway 124 perf.
October 11, 1935 Sweet Mystery of Life Shubert Theatre, Broadway 11 perf.
October 12, 1935 Jubilee Imperial Theatre, Broadway 169 perf.
October 13, 1935 Achilles Had a Heel 44th Street Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
October 14, 1935 Triumph Fulton Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
October 15, 1935 Bright Star Empire Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
October 19, 1935 Strip Girl Longacre Theatre, Broadway 33 perf.
October 21, 1935 Eden End Theatre Masque, Broadway 24 perf.
October 22, 1935 Substitute For Murder Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
October 23, 1935 Crime Marches On Morosco Theatre, Broadway 45 perf.
October 24, 1935 Mulatto Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 373 perf.
October 25, 1935 Good Men and True Biltmore Theatre, Broadway 11 perf.
October 28, 1935 Dead End Belasco Theatre, Broadway 687 perf.
October 29, 1935 On Stage Mansfield Theatre, Broadway 48 perf.
October 30, 1935 Play, Genius, Play! St James Theatre, Broadway 5 perf.
October 30, 1935 There's Wisdom in Women Cort Theatre, Broadway 46 perf.
October 31, 1935 The Body Beautiful Plymouth Theatre, Broadway 4 perf.

November: 20 openings

November 3, 1935 Provincetown Follies Provincetown Playhouse, Broadway 63 perf.
November 5, 1935 Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl Fifth Avenue Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
November 5, 1935 Pride and Prejudice Music Box Theatre, Broadway 219 perf.
November 6, 1935 Let Freedom Ring Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 108 perf.
November 7, 1935 Night In the House Booth Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.
November 11, 1935 Parnell Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 99 perf.
November 12, 1935 Mother Sings Corts 58th Street Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
November 16, 1935 Jumbo Hippodrome, Broadway 233 perf.
November 18, 1935 For Valor Empire Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
November 19, 1935 Mother Civic Repertory Theatre, Broadway 36 perf.
November 20, 1935 Satellite Bijou Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
November 21, 1935 Abide With Me Ritz Theatre, Broadway 36 perf.
November 25, 1935 The Ragged Edge Fulton Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
November 25, 1935 Whatever Goes Up Biltmore Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
November 26, 1935 First Lady Music Box Theatre, Broadway 246 perf.
November 26, 1935 Stick-in-the-Mud 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 9 perf.
November 27, 1935 Boy Meets Girl Cort Theatre, Broadway 669 perf.
November 27, 1935 One Good Year Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 215 perf.
November 28, 1935 How Beautiful With Shoes Booth Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
November 30, 1935 Weep for the Virgins 46th Street Theatre, Broadway 9 perf.

December: 17 openings

December 2, 1935 Rosmersholm Shubert Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
December 4, 1935 Camille Shubert Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
December 5, 1935 May Wine St James Theatre, Broadway 213 perf.
December 7, 1935 A Sunny Morning Shubert Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
December 9, 1935 Paradise Lost Longacre Theatre, Broadway 73 perf.
December 10, 1935 This Our House Corts 58th Street Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
December 12, 1935 Ghosts Empire Theatre, Broadway 45 perf.
December 20, 1935 Libel Henry Millers Theatre, Broadway 159 perf.
December 22, 1935 Mister Noah and March of Rhyme Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway
December 23, 1935 Romeo and Juliet Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
December 23, 1935 The Season Changes Booth Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
December 25, 1935 George White's Scandals [1936] New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway 110 perf.
December 26, 1935 Continental Varieties Theatre Masque, Broadway 9 perf.
December 26, 1935 Victoria Regina Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 203 perf.
December 27, 1935 Tapestry in Gray Shubert Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
December 28, 1935 Hell Freezes Over Ritz Theatre, Broadway 25 perf.
December 30, 1935 Tomorrow's a Holiday John Golden Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.

Closed in 1935

January 4, 1935 Fools Rush In Playhouse Theatre, opened 1934 14 run
January 4, 1935 The O'Flynn Broadway Theatre, opened 1934 11 run
January 5, 1935 The First Legion 46th Street Theatre, opened 1934 112 run
January 12, 1935 Calling All Stars Hollywood Theatre, opened 1934 36 run
January 12, 1935 Say When Imperial Theatre, opened 1934 76 run
January 16, 1935 Birthday 49th Street Theatre, opened 1934 13 run
January 19, 1935 Music Hath Charms Majestic Theatre, opened 1934 25 run
January 19, 1935 Page Miss Glory Mansfield Theatre, opened 1934 63 run
January 26, 1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife 46th Street Theatre, opened 1934 104 run
March 2, 1935 Sailors of Cattaro Civic Repertory Theatre, opened 1934 96 run
March 16, 1935 Life Begins at 8:40 Winter Garden Theatre, opened 1934 237 run
April 27, 1935 Revenge With Music New Amsterdam Theatre, opened 1934 158 run
May 11, 1935 Thumbs Up! St James Theatre, opened 1934 156 run
June 1, 1935 Post Road Theatre Masque, opened 1934 212 run
June 8, 1935 The Great Waltz Center Theatre, opened 1934 298 run
July 6, 1935 Accent on Youth Plymouth Theatre, opened 1934 229 run
November 16, 1935 Anything Goes Alvin Theatre, opened 1934 420 run

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