Houses that never held a hit
Five productions or more on the books and nothing that ever passed five hundred performances. 139 buildings. Some were unlucky, some were the wrong size, and some were only ever booked for try-outs.
139 in the catalogue.
| West End Theatre | 26 productions | |
| Dalys 63rd Street Theatre | 25 productions | |
| Harold Pinter Theatre 796 seats | 25 productions | |
| Apollo Theatre 1,194 seats | 1920–1996 | 24 productions |
| Dominion Theatre 2,163 seats | 24 productions | |
| Hackett Theatre | 24 productions | |
| Harris Theatre | 24 productions | |
| John Street Theatre | 24 productions | |
| New Theatre | 22 productions | |
| Victoria Theatre | 22 productions | |
| Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre | 21 productions | |
| Playhouse Theatre 550 seats | 21 productions | |
| Earl Carroll Theatre 3,000 seats | 1922–1990 | 20 productions |
| Palmers Theatre | 20 productions | |
| Prince of Wales Theatre 1,148 seats | 20 productions | |
| Standard Theatre | 1875–1909 | 20 productions |
| Hayes Theater | 19 productions | |
| Laura Keenes Theatre | 19 productions | |
| Booths Theatre | 18 productions | |
| Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 2,196 seats | 1663 | 18 productions |
| Frazee Theatre | 18 productions | |
| Garrick Theatre 718 seats | 18 productions | |
| Venue Name Unknown | 18 productions | |
| Cosmopolitan Theatre | 16 productions | |
| Webers Music Hall | 16 productions | |
| Hampdens Theatre | 15 productions | |
| President Theatre | 15 productions | |
| Berkeley Lyceum Theatre | 14 productions | |
| Charles Hopkins Theatre | 13 productions | |
| Prince Edward Theatre 1,618 seats | 1930 | 13 productions |
| Sondheim Theatre 1,137 seats | 13 productions | |
| Wallacks Lyceum Theatre | 13 productions | |
| Weber And Fields Broadway Music Hall | 13 productions | |
| Chanins 46th Street Theatre | 12 productions | |
| Cherry Lane Theatre 179 seats | 1924 | 12 productions |
| 52nd Street Theatre | 11 productions | |
| Bramhall Playhouse | 11 productions | |
| Central Theatre 922 seats | 1918–1955 | 11 productions |
| International Theatre | 11 productions | |
| New Yorker Theatre | 11 productions | |
| Thalia Theatre | 11 productions | |
| Cohan And Harris | 10 productions | |
| American Laboratory | 9 productions | |
| Barbizon Plaza Theatre | 9 productions | |
| Cambridge Theatre 1,231 seats | 9 productions | |
| Circle Theatre | 9 productions | |
| Craig Theatre | 9 productions | |
| Harlem Opera House | 9 productions | |
| Lafayette Theatre | 9 productions | |
| Lincoln Square Theatre | 9 productions | |
| Abbeys Theatre | 8 productions | |
| Apollo Victoria Theatre 2,328 seats | 8 productions | |
| Bowery Theatre | 8 productions | |
| Carnegie Lyceum | 8 productions | |
| New Bowery Theatre | 8 productions | |
| @sohoplace 602 seats | 8 productions | |
| Worrell Sisters New York Theatre | 8 productions | |
| Burtons Chambers Street Theatre | 7 productions | |
| Century Promenade | 7 productions | |
| Chanin Auditorium | 7 productions |