44th Street Theatre

By decade87 productions across 4 decades

1. 1910s 41
2. 1920s 14
3. 1930s 17
4. 1940s 15

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

1942	Rosalinda October 28, 1942 · Felix Brentano	611 perf.
1930	Lysistrata June 5, 1930 · Doris Humphrey	252 perf.
1915	Katinka December 23, 1915 · Frank Smithson	220 perf.
1925	Song of the Flame December 30, 1925 · Frank Reicher	219 perf.
1943	Winged Victory November 20, 1943	212 perf.
1928	Animal Crackers October 23, 1928 · Oscar Eagle	191 perf.
1927	A Night in Spain May 3, 1927 · Gertrude Hoffman	174 perf.
1926	Katja October 18, 1926 · J. C. Huffman	112 perf.

Ranked among the 60 runs here that carry a performance count. 27 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here87 productions

1913	A Glimpse of the Great White Way / The Modiste Shop October 27, 1913 · Original	12 perf.
1913	All Aboard June 5, 1913 · Original	108 perf.
1913	The Geisha March 27, 1913 · Revival	52 perf.
1913	The Girl on the Film December 29, 1913 · Original	64 perf.
1914	The Lilac Domino October 28, 1914 · Original	109 perf.
1914	The Midnight Girl February 23, 1914 · Original	104 perf.
1915	Hamlet February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	Hands Up July 22, 1915 · Original	52 perf.
1915	Julius Caesar February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	Katinka December 23, 1915 · Original	220 perf.
1915	King John February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	King Lear February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	King Richard III February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	Louis XI February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	Macbeth February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	Othello February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	Richelieu February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	Romeo and Juliet February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	The Merchant of Venice February 1, 1915 · Revival
1915	The Peasant Girl March 2, 1915 · Original	111 perf.
1916	The Girl from Brazil August 30, 1916 · Original	61 perf.
1917	Hamlet April 16, 1917 · Revival
1917	Julius Caesar April 16, 1917 · Revival
1917	King Lear April 16, 1917 · Revival
1917	King Richard III April 16, 1917 · Revival
1917	Macbeth April 16, 1917 · Revival
1917	Richelieu April 16, 1917 · Revival
1917	The Highwayman May 2, 1917 · Revival	22 perf.
1917	The Merchant of Venice April 16, 1917 · Revival
1918	Hamlet November 4, 1918 · Revival
1918	King Lear November 4, 1918 · Revival
1918	King Richard III November 4, 1918 · Revival
1918	Louis XI November 4, 1918 · Revival
1918	Macbeth November 4, 1918 · Revival
1918	Othello November 4, 1918 · Revival
1918	Richelieu November 4, 1918 · Revival
1918	Romeo and Juliet November 4, 1918 · Revival
1919	Carnival! December 24, 1919 · Original	13 perf.
1919	Hello, Alexander October 7, 1919 · Original	56 perf.
1919	Shubert Gaieties of 1919 July 17, 1919 · Original	87 perf.
1919	Take It From Me March 31, 1919 · Original	96 perf.
1920	Fall and Rise of Susan Lenox June 9, 1920 · Original	29 perf.
1920	Frivolities of 1920 January 8, 1920 · Original	61 perf.
1920	Look Who's Here March 2, 1920 · Original	87 perf.
1924	Betty Lee December 25, 1924 · Original	98 perf.
1924	Six Characters in Search of an Author February 6, 1924 · Revival	17 perf.
1924	The Living Mask January 21, 1924 · Original	28 perf.
1925	Sally, Irene and Mary March 23, 1925 · Revival	16 perf.
1925	Song of the Flame December 30, 1925 · Original	219 perf.
1925	The Mikado April 11, 1925 · Revival	33 perf.
1926	Katja October 18, 1926 · Original	112 perf.
1927	A Night in Spain May 3, 1927 · Revival	174 perf.
1927	Cherry Blossoms March 28, 1927 · Original	56 perf.
1928	Animal Crackers October 23, 1928 · Original	191 perf.
1929	Broadway Nights July 15, 1929 · Original	40 perf.
1930	Lysistrata June 5, 1930 · Revival	252 perf.
1931	Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt May 19, 1931 · Original	79 perf.
1931	Jack and the Beanstalk December 21, 1931 · Original	18 perf.
1932	A Little Racketeer January 18, 1932 · Original	48 perf.
1932	Ballyhoo of 1932 September 6, 1932 · Original	95 perf.
1933	Face the Music January 31, 1933 · Revival	31 perf.
1934	Bitter Sweet May 7, 1934 · Revival	16 perf.
1934	Conversation Piece October 23, 1934 · Original	55 perf.
1934	Four Saints in Three Acts February 20, 1934 · Original	48 perf.
1934	Hamlet December 25, 1934 · Revival	8 perf.
1934	Peace on Earth March 31, 1934 · Return-Engagement	18 perf.
1934	The Only Girl May 21, 1934 · Revival	16 perf.
1935	Achilles Had a Heel October 13, 1935 · Original	8 perf.
1935	The Green Pastures February 26, 1935 · Revival	71 perf.
1936	Johnny Johnson November 19, 1936 · Original	68 perf.
1939	Frank Fay Vaudeville March 2, 1939 · Original	60 perf.
1939	Hamlet December 4, 1939 · Revival	40 perf.
1940	John Henry January 10, 1940 · Original	7 perf.
1940	Liliom March 25, 1940 · Revival	56 perf.
1940	The Gondoliers September 30, 1940 · Revival	7 perf.
1940	The Mikado October 3, 1940 · Revival	7 perf.
1940	The Pirates Of Penzance October 7, 1940 · Revival	6 perf.
1941	Ballet Theatre November 12, 1941 · Original
1941	Crazy With the Heat January 14, 1941 · Original	7 perf.
1941	La Vie Parisienne November 5, 1941 · Original	7 perf.
1942	Keep 'em Laughing April 24, 1942 · Original	77 perf.
1942	Rosalinda October 28, 1942 · Original	611 perf.
1942	The Lady Comes Across January 9, 1942 · Original	3 perf.
1942	Top-Notchers May 29, 1942 · Original	48 perf.
1943	Porgy and Bess September 13, 1943 · Revival	24 perf.
1943	Winged Victory November 20, 1943 · Original	212 perf.
1944	Yellow Jack April 7, 1944 · Revival	1 perf.

In the literature3 passages

• 61 The basement café of the 44th Street Theatre, demolished in 1945 (the last show to run there was On the Town ).Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein
• Johnny Johnson (musical play, Paul Green), New York, 44th Street Theatre, 19 November 1936.Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton
• After five months at the Adelphi Theatre (152 W. 54th Street), On the Town moved on June 4, 1945, to the 44th Street Theatre (216 W. 44th Street). The Adelphi was not “air-cooled,” and Peggy Clark declared the 44th Street Theatre to be “more convenient” in terms of backstage operations. 142 On July 30, the show moved again—this time to th…Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja

What this page does not know

• What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it: concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
• How long 27 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 8 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed. Nobody wrote down the date.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.