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.
Dead End, by Sidney Kingsley, opened October 28, 1935 at Belasco Theatre and ran 687 performances.
Opened in 1935
UndatedJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
Undated: 1 opening
| Call It a Day Gielgud TheatreLondon |
January: 14 openings
| January 7, 1935 | The Old Maid Empire TheatreBroadway | 305 perf. |
| January 7, 1935 | The Petrified Forest Broadhurst TheatreBroadway | 197 perf. |
| January 9, 1935 | A Lady Detained Ambassador TheatreBroadway | 13 perf. |
| January 13, 1935 | Tamiris and Her Group Civic Repertory TheatreBroadway | 1 perf. |
| January 14, 1935 | Laburnum Grove Booth TheatreBroadway | 131 perf. |
| January 15, 1935 | Fly Away Home 48th Street TheatreBroadway | 204 perf. |
| January 16, 1935 | Creeping Fire Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway | 23 perf. |
| January 16, 1935 | Point Valaine Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 55 perf. |
| January 17, 1935 | Little Shot Playhouse TheatreBroadway | 4 perf. |
| January 18, 1935 | Battleship Gertie Lyceum TheatreBroadway | 2 perf. |
| January 21, 1935 | Escape Me Never Shubert TheatreBroadway | 96 perf. |
| January 22, 1935 | Crime and Punishment Biltmore TheatreBroadway | 15 perf. |
| January 22, 1935 | Nowhere Bound Imperial TheatreBroadway | 15 perf. |
| January 28, 1935 | Prisoners of War Ritz TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
February: 17 openings
| February 4, 1935 | Loose Moments Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| February 4, 1935 | On to Fortune Fulton TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| February 5, 1935 | It's You I Want Cort TheatreBroadway | 15 perf. |
| February 8, 1935 | Field of Ermine Mansfield TheatreBroadway | 11 perf. |
| February 11, 1935 | Bitter Oleander Lyceum TheatreBroadway | 24 perf. |
| February 11, 1935 | The Eldest Ritz TheatreBroadway | 24 perf. |
| February 12, 1935 | Rain Music Box TheatreBroadway | 47 perf. |
| February 13, 1935 | Noah Longacre TheatreBroadway | 45 perf. |
| February 16, 1935 | Revisor Majestic TheatreBroadway | |
| February 18, 1935 | The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles Guild TheatreBroadway | 40 perf. |
| February 19, 1935 | Awake and Sing! Belasco TheatreBroadway | 184 perf. |
| February 19, 1935 | Cross Ruff Theatre MasqueBroadway | 7 perf. |
| February 20, 1935 | The Bishop Misbehaves Cort TheatreBroadway | 121 perf. |
| February 21, 1935 | The Distant Shore Morosco TheatreBroadway | 13 perf. |
| February 25, 1935 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street Martin Beck TheatreBroadway | 24 perf. |
| February 25, 1935 | Times Have Changed National TheatreBroadway | 32 perf. |
| February 26, 1935 | The Green Pastures 44th Street TheatreBroadway | 71 perf. |
March: 20 openings
April: 13 openings
| April 1, 1935 | The Dominant Sex Cort TheatreBroadway | 16 perf. |
| April 2, 1935 | Mansion on the Hudson Booth TheatreBroadway | 16 perf. |
| April 5, 1935 | Potash and Perlmutter [1935] Park TheatreBroadway | 19 perf. |
| April 8, 1935 | Flowers of the Forest Martin Beck TheatreBroadway | 40 perf. |
| April 10, 1935 | Ceiling Zero Music Box TheatreBroadway | 104 perf. |
| April 16, 1935 | A Journey By Night Shubert TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| April 18, 1935 | Recruits Artef TheatreBroadway | 132 perf. |
| April 20, 1935 | Jackson White Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway | 17 perf. |
| April 23, 1935 | Kind Lady Booth TheatreBroadway | 82 perf. |
| April 25, 1935 | Symphony Cort TheatreBroadway | 3 perf. |
| April 29, 1935 | Something Gay Morosco TheatreBroadway | 72 perf. |
| April 30, 1935 | If a Body Biltmore TheatreBroadway | 45 perf. |
| April 30, 1935 | To See Ourselves Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 23 perf. |
May: 10 openings
| May 1, 1935 | Reprise Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway | 1 perf. |
| May 3, 1935 | Sailor, Beware! Lafayette TheatreBroadway | 16 perf. |
| May 7, 1935 | The Hook-up Cort TheatreBroadway | 21 perf. |
| May 9, 1935 | The Land of Bells Majestic TheatreBroadway | 5 perf. |
| May 20, 1935 | Parade Guild TheatreBroadway | 40 perf. |
| May 23, 1935 | Weather Permitting Theatre MasqueBroadway | 4 perf. |
| May 27, 1935 | Seven Keys to Baldpate National TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| May 28, 1935 | Knock on Wood Cort TheatreBroadway | 11 perf. |
| May 28, 1935 | The Young Go First Park TheatreBroadway | 39 perf. |
| May 29, 1935 | Them's the Reporters Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 6 perf. |
June: 1 opening
| June 4, 1935 | Earl Carroll's Sketch Book [1935] Winter Garden TheatreBroadway | 207 perf. |
July: 4 openings
| July 11, 1935 | Grand Guignol Horror Plays Chanin AuditoriumBroadway | 12 perf. |
| July 15, 1935 | The Mikado Adelphi TheatreBroadway | 16 perf. |
| July 22, 1935 | The Pirates Of Penzance Adelphi TheatreBroadway | 12 perf. |
| July 29, 1935 | The Yeomen of the Guard Adelphi TheatreBroadway | 12 perf. |
August: 4 openings
| August 5, 1935 | The Gondoliers Adelphi TheatreBroadway | 12 perf. |
| August 5, 1935 | The Great Waltz Center TheatreBroadway | 49 perf. |
| August 12, 1935 | Trial by Jury & H.M.S. Pinafore Adelphi TheatreBroadway | 12 perf. |
| August 23, 1935 | Smile at Me Fulton TheatreBroadway | 27 perf. |
September: 15 openings
| September 4, 1935 | Moon Over Mulberry Street Lyceum TheatreBroadway | 303 perf. |
| September 9, 1935 | Waiting For Lefty Belasco TheatreBroadway | 24 perf. |
| September 11, 1935 | A Slight Case of Murder 48th Street TheatreBroadway | 69 perf. |
| September 16, 1935 | Night of January 16 Ambassador TheatreBroadway | 235 perf. |
| September 17, 1935 | Few Are Chosen Corts 58th Street TheatreBroadway | 15 perf. |
| September 19, 1935 | At Home Abroad Winter GardenBroadway | 198 perf. |
| September 20, 1935 | Life's Too Short Broadhurst TheatreBroadway | 10 perf. |
| September 22, 1935 | A Touch of Brimstone John Golden TheatreBroadway | 98 perf. |
| September 23, 1935 | If This Be Treason Music Box TheatreBroadway | 40 perf. |
| September 24, 1935 | Blind Alley Booth TheatreBroadway | 119 perf. |
| September 25, 1935 | Remember the Day National TheatreBroadway | 122 perf. |
| September 25, 1935 | Winterset Martin Beck TheatreBroadway | 195 perf. |
| September 26, 1935 | Paths of Glory Plymouth TheatreBroadway | 23 perf. |
| September 27, 1935 | Othello Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 11 perf. |
| September 30, 1935 | The Taming of the Shrew Guild TheatreBroadway | 129 perf. |
October: 20 openings
| October 1, 1935 | Most of the Game Cort TheatreBroadway | 23 perf. |
| October 3, 1935 | Squaring the Circle Lyceum TheatreBroadway | 108 perf. |
| October 7, 1935 | Macbeth Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| October 10, 1935 | Porgy and Bess Alvin TheatreBroadway | 124 perf. |
| October 11, 1935 | Sweet Mystery of Life Shubert TheatreBroadway | 11 perf. |
| October 12, 1935 | Jubilee Imperial TheatreBroadway | 169 perf. |
| October 13, 1935 | Achilles Had a Heel 44th Street TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| October 14, 1935 | Triumph Fulton TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| October 15, 1935 | Bright Star Empire TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| October 19, 1935 | Strip Girl Longacre TheatreBroadway | 33 perf. |
| October 21, 1935 | Eden End Theatre MasqueBroadway | 24 perf. |
| October 22, 1935 | Substitute For Murder Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 15 perf. |
| October 23, 1935 | Crime Marches On Morosco TheatreBroadway | 45 perf. |
| October 24, 1935 | Mulatto Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway | 373 perf. |
| October 25, 1935 | Good Men and True Biltmore TheatreBroadway | 11 perf. |
| October 28, 1935 | Dead End Belasco TheatreBroadway | 687 perf. |
| October 29, 1935 | On Stage Mansfield TheatreBroadway | 48 perf. |
| October 30, 1935 | Play, Genius, Play! St James TheatreBroadway | 5 perf. |
| October 30, 1935 | There's Wisdom in Women Cort TheatreBroadway | 46 perf. |
| October 31, 1935 | The Body Beautiful Plymouth TheatreBroadway | 4 perf. |
November: 20 openings
| November 3, 1935 | Provincetown Follies Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway | 63 perf. |
| November 5, 1935 | Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl Fifth Avenue TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| November 5, 1935 | Pride and Prejudice Music Box TheatreBroadway | 219 perf. |
| November 6, 1935 | Let Freedom Ring Broadhurst TheatreBroadway | 108 perf. |
| November 7, 1935 | Night In the House Booth TheatreBroadway | 12 perf. |
| November 11, 1935 | Parnell Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 99 perf. |
| November 12, 1935 | Mother Sings Corts 58th Street TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| November 16, 1935 | Jumbo HippodromeBroadway | 233 perf. |
| November 18, 1935 | For Valor Empire TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| November 19, 1935 | Mother Civic Repertory TheatreBroadway | 36 perf. |
| November 20, 1935 | Satellite Bijou TheatreBroadway | 1 perf. |
| November 21, 1935 | Abide With Me Ritz TheatreBroadway | 36 perf. |
| November 25, 1935 | The Ragged Edge Fulton TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| November 25, 1935 | Whatever Goes Up Biltmore TheatreBroadway | 24 perf. |
| November 26, 1935 | First Lady Music Box TheatreBroadway | 246 perf. |
| November 26, 1935 | Stick-in-the-Mud 48th Street TheatreBroadway | 9 perf. |
| November 27, 1935 | Boy Meets Girl Cort TheatreBroadway | 669 perf. |
| November 27, 1935 | One Good Year Lyceum TheatreBroadway | 215 perf. |
| November 28, 1935 | How Beautiful With Shoes Booth TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| November 30, 1935 | Weep for the Virgins 46th Street TheatreBroadway | 9 perf. |
December: 17 openings
| December 2, 1935 | Rosmersholm Shubert TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| December 4, 1935 | Camille Shubert TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| December 5, 1935 | May Wine St James TheatreBroadway | 213 perf. |
| December 7, 1935 | A Sunny Morning Shubert TheatreBroadway | 1 perf. |
| December 9, 1935 | Paradise Lost Longacre TheatreBroadway | 73 perf. |
| December 10, 1935 | This Our House Corts 58th Street TheatreBroadway | 2 perf. |
| December 12, 1935 | Ghosts Empire TheatreBroadway | 45 perf. |
| December 20, 1935 | Libel Henry Millers TheatreBroadway | 159 perf. |
| December 22, 1935 | Mister Noah and March of Rhyme Nora Bayes TheatreBroadway | |
| December 23, 1935 | Romeo and Juliet Martin Beck TheatreBroadway | 15 perf. |
| December 23, 1935 | The Season Changes Booth TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
| December 25, 1935 | George White's Scandals [1936] New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway | 110 perf. |
| December 26, 1935 | Continental Varieties Theatre MasqueBroadway | 9 perf. |
| December 26, 1935 | Victoria Regina Broadhurst TheatreBroadway | 203 perf. |
| December 27, 1935 | Tapestry in Gray Shubert TheatreBroadway | 24 perf. |
| December 28, 1935 | Hell Freezes Over Ritz TheatreBroadway | 25 perf. |
| December 30, 1935 | Tomorrow's a Holiday John Golden TheatreBroadway | 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 |