76 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1976.

Opened in 1976

UndatedJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulySeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember

Undated: 4 openings

Unknown	A season of Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage Gielgud Theatre, London
Unknown	Cilla at the Palace Victoria Palace Theatre, London
Unknown	Lesley Cole The Life of Noel Coward Jonathan Cape London Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Unknown	Very Good Eddie , London

January: 5 openings

January 4, 1976	Home Sweet Homer Palace Theatre, Broadway	1 perf.
January 8, 1976	The Poison Tree Ambassador Theatre, Broadway	5 perf.
January 11, 1976	Pacific Overtures Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway	193 perf.
January 26, 1976	A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton Playhouse Theatre, Broadway	63 perf.
January 27, 1976	They Knew What They Wanted Playhouse Theatre, Broadway	23 perf.

February: 4 openings

February 3, 1976	A Matter of Gravity Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	79 perf.
February 17, 1976	Rockabye Hamlet Minskoff Theatre, Broadway	7 perf.
February 18, 1976	Mrs. Warren's Profession Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway	55 perf.
February 24, 1976	Knock Knock Biltmore Theatre, Broadway	152 perf.

March: 6 openings

March 2, 1976	Bubbling Brown Sugar Anta Playhouse, Broadway	766 perf.
March 7, 1976	Geraldine Fitzgerald in Songs of the Street Circle In The Square Theatre, Broadway	2 perf.
March 14, 1976	Me Jack, You Jill John Golden Theatre, Broadway
March 17, 1976	Zalmen or The Madness of God Lyceum Theatre, Broadway	22 perf.
March 18, 1976	The Lady from the Sea Circle In The Square Theatre, Broadway	77 perf.
March 25, 1976	My Fair Lady St James Theatre, Broadway	377 perf.

April: 8 openings

April 1, 1976	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Music Box Theatre, Broadway	117 perf.
April 12, 1976	Secret Service Playhouse Theatre, Broadway	13 perf.
April 13, 1976	Boy Meets Girl Playhouse Theatre, Broadway	10 perf.
April 19, 1976	Shirley MacLaine Palace Theatre, Broadway	14 perf.
April 20, 1976	The Heiress Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	23 perf.
April 25, 1976	Rex Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway	49 perf.
April 27, 1976	So Long, 174th Street Harkness Theatre, Broadway	16 perf.
April 28, 1976	The Belle of Amherst Longacre Theatre, Broadway	116 perf.

May: 10 openings

May 1, 1976	The Threepenny Opera Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway	307 perf.
May 2, 1976	George Abbott...A Celebration Shubert Theatre, Broadway	1 perf.
May 4, 1976	1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Mark Hellinger, Broadway	7 perf.
May 5, 1976	The Mikado Uris Theatre, Broadway	9 perf.
May 6, 1976	Des Journées Entières Dans les Arbres Ambassador Theatre, Broadway	12 perf.
May 6, 1976	The Pirates Of Penzance Uris Theatre, Broadway	8 perf.
May 13, 1976	Legend Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway	5 perf.
May 16, 1976	H.M.S. Pinafore Uris Theatre, Broadway	4 perf.
May 18, 1976	The Runner Stumbles Little Theatre, Broadway	396 perf.
May 27, 1976	Something's Afoot Lyceum Theatre, Broadway	61 perf.

June: 6 openings

June 3, 1976	Al Green / Ashford & Simpson Uris Theatre, Broadway	7 perf.
June 9, 1976	The Paul Taylor Dance Company Billy Rose Theatre, Broadway
June 10, 1976	California Suite Eugene Oneill Theatre, Broadway	445 perf.
June 14, 1976	An Evening With Diana Ross Palace Theatre, Broadway	16 perf.
June 22, 1976	Godspell Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	527 perf.
June 27, 1976	Pal Joey Circle In The Square Theatre, Broadway	73 perf.

July: 1 opening

July 21, 1976

Guys and Dolls Broadway Theatre, Broadway

239 perf.

September: 13 openings

September 14, 1976	Checking Out Longacre Theatre, Broadway	15 perf.
September 15, 1976	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Booth Theatre, Broadway	742 perf.
September 16, 1976	Debbie Minskoff Theatre, Broadway	14 perf.
September 19, 1976	Going Up John Golden Theatre, Broadway	49 perf.
September 20, 1976	I Have a Dream Ambassador Theatre, Broadway	88 perf.
September 21, 1976	A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	21 perf.
September 22, 1976	A Texas Trilogy: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	22 perf.
September 23, 1976	A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	20 perf.
September 24, 1976	Oh! Calcutta! Edison Theatre, Broadway	5,959 perf.
September 25, 1976	Porgy and Bess Uris Theatre, Broadway	122 perf.
September 26, 1976	Days in the Trees Circle In The Square Theatre, Broadway	69 perf.
September 27, 1976	Kings Alvin Theatre, Broadway	4 perf.
September 27, 1976	Siamsa Palace Theatre, Broadway	8 perf.

October: 5 openings

October 9, 1976	The Robber Bridegroom Biltmore, Broadway	145 perf.
October 11, 1976	Wheelbarrow Closers Bijou Theatre, Broadway	8 perf.
October 19, 1976	Best Friend Lyceum Theatre, Broadway	8 perf.
October 20, 1976	Poor Murderer Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway	87 perf.
October 21, 1976	The Innocents Morosco Theatre, Broadway	12 perf.

November: 7 openings

November 1, 1976	Don't Step on My Olive Branch Playhouse Theatre, Broadway	16 perf.
November 9, 1976	No Man's Land Longacre Theatre, Broadway	47 perf.
November 23, 1976	Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan Minskoff Theatre, Broadway	16 perf.
November 23, 1976	Natalie Cole Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway	6 perf.
November 23, 1976	The Eccentricities of a Nightingale Morosco Theatre, Broadway	24 perf.
November 28, 1976	Comedians Music Box Theatre, Broadway	145 perf.
November 30, 1976	Herzl Palace Theatre, Broadway	8 perf.

December: 7 openings

December 7, 1976	Bing Crosby on Broadway Uris Theatre, Broadway	12 perf.
December 14, 1976	Sly Fox Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	495 perf.
December 16, 1976	The Night of the Iguana Circle In The Square Theatre, Broadway	77 perf.
December 20, 1976	Music Is St. James Theatre, Broadway	8 perf.
December 21, 1976	Barry Manilow on Broadway Uris Theatre, Broadway	12 perf.
December 22, 1976	Your Arms Too Short to Box With God Lyceum Theatre, Broadway	429 perf.
December 28, 1976	Fiddler on the Roof Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway	167 perf.

Closed in 1976

January 4, 1976	Candide Broadway Theatre, opened 1974	740 run
January 4, 1976	Dance With Me Mayfair Theatre, opened 1975	396 run
January 4, 1976	Kennedy's Children John Golden Theatre, opened 1975	72 run
January 4, 1976	Sherlock Holmes Broadhurst Theatre, opened 1974	471 run
January 4, 1976	The Ritz Longacre Theatre, opened 1975	400 run
January 10, 1976	Murder Among Friends Biltmore Theatre, opened 1975	17 run
January 25, 1976	Hamlet Vivian Beaumont Theater, opened 1975	47 run
February 1, 1976	A Musical Jubilee St James Theatre, opened 1975	92 run
February 1, 1976	American Ballet Theatre Uris Theatre, opened 1975
February 8, 1976	Angel Street Lyceum Theatre, opened 1975	52 run
February 8, 1976	Sweet Bird of Youth Harkness Theatre, opened 1975	48 run
February 15, 1976	Habeas Corpus Martin Beck Theatre, opened 1975	95 run
February 22, 1976	The Glass Menagerie Circle In The Square Theatre, opened 1975	77 run
March 6, 1976	Absurd Person Singular Music Box Theatre, opened 1974	591 run
March 13, 1976	Travesties Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opened 1975	156 run
May 2, 1976	Yentl Eugene Oneill Theatre, opened 1975	223 run
June 18, 1976	The Norman Conquests: Table Manners Morosco Theatre, opened 1975	76 run
June 19, 1976	The Norman Conquests: Living Together Morosco Theatre, opened 1975	76 run
June 19, 1976	The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden Morosco Theatre, opened 1975	76 run
July 18, 1976	The Royal Family Helen Hayes Theatre, opened 1975	233 run
September 5, 1976	Very Good Eddie Booth Theatre, opened 1975	304 run
December 5, 1976	Me and Bessie Ambassador Theatre, opened 1975	453 run