American Airlines Theatre

By decade116 productions across 8 decades

1. 1910s 4
2. 1920s 28
3. 1930s 14
4. 1940s 1
5. 1950s 1
6. 2000s 36
7. 2010s 26
8. 2020s 6

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

2008	The 39 Steps January 15, 2008 · Maria Aitken	771 perf.
1927	The Royal Family December 28, 1927 · David Burton	345 perf.
1923	Battling Buttler October 8, 1923 · Guy F. Bragdon	313 perf.
1930	Three’s a Crowd October 15, 1930 · Hassard Short	272 perf.
1949	The Respectful Prostitute December 23, 1949 · Loy Nilson	272 perf.
1919	Buddies October 27, 1919	259 perf.
1922	Partners Again May 1, 1922 · Bertram Harrison	250 perf.
2004	Twelve Angry Men October 28, 2004 · Scott Ellis	228 perf.

Ranked among the 112 runs here that carry a performance count. 4 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here116 productions

1918	Information Please October 2, 1918 · Original	46 perf.
1919	Buddies October 27, 1919 · Original	259 perf.
1919	The Challenge August 5, 1919 · Original	72 perf.
1919	Tumble In March 24, 1919 · Original	128 perf.
1920	Tickle Me August 17, 1920 · Original	207 perf.
1921	Snapshots of 1921 June 2, 1921 · Original	60 perf.
1921	The Circle September 12, 1921 · Original	175 perf.
1922	Partners Again May 1, 1922 · Original	250 perf.
1922	The Blue Kitten January 13, 1922 · Original	140 perf.
1923	Battling Buttler October 8, 1923 · Original	313 perf.
1923	Dagmar January 22, 1923 · Original	56 perf.
1923	Helen of Troy, New York June 19, 1923 · Original	191 perf.
1923	The Guilty One March 20, 1923 · Original	31 perf.
1923	Within Four Walls April 17, 1923 · Original	15 perf.
1925	Charlot Revue November 10, 1925 · Original	138 perf.
1925	Puppets March 9, 1925 · Original	54 perf.
1925	The Sapphire Ring April 15, 1925 · Original	13 perf.
1925	Two By Two February 23, 1925 · Original	16 perf.
1926	Castles in the Air September 6, 1926 · Original	160 perf.
1926	Fakir Rahman Bey May 25, 1926 · Original	24 perf.
1926	The Constant Nymph December 9, 1926 · Original	148 perf.
1926	The Man from Toronto June 17, 1926 · Original	28 perf.
1927	Namiko-San June 6, 1927 · Original	16 perf.
1927	Nightstick November 10, 1927 · Original	84 perf.
1927	One Glorious Hour April 14, 1927 · Original	20 perf.
1927	The Garden of Eden September 27, 1927 · Original	23 perf.
1927	The Lady Screams May 2, 1927 · Original	8 perf.
1927	The Manhatters August 3, 1927 · Original	68 perf.
1927	The Mating Season July 18, 1927 · Original	24 perf.
1927	The Royal Family December 28, 1927 · Original	345 perf.
1928	This Year of Grace November 7, 1928 · Original	157 perf.
1929	Wake Up and Dream December 30, 1929 · Original	136 perf.
1930	Lost Sheep May 5, 1930 · Original	96 perf.
1930	Three’s a Crowd October 15, 1930 · Revival	272 perf.
1931	Fast Service November 17, 1931 · Original	7 perf.
1931	The Singing Rabbi September 10, 1931 · Original	3 perf.
1932	A Thousand Summers May 24, 1932 · Original	51 perf.
1932	Electra January 8, 1932 · Revival	6 perf.
1932	Life Begins March 28, 1932 · Original	8 perf.
1932	The Devil Passes January 4, 1932 · Original	96 perf.
1932	The Great Magoo December 2, 1932 · Original	11 perf.
1932	The Little Black Book December 26, 1932 · Original	8 perf.
1933	Evensong January 31, 1933 · Original	15 perf.
1933	Shooting Star June 12, 1933 · Original	16 perf.
1934	A Hat, a Coat, a Glove January 31, 1934 · Original	13 perf.
1934	Ragged Army February 26, 1934 · Original	2 perf.
1949	The Respectful Prostitute December 23, 1949 · Revival	272 perf.
1950	Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath February 17, 1950 · Revival	105 perf.
2000	Betrayal November 14, 2000 · Revival	89 perf.
2000	The Man Who Came to Dinner July 27, 2000 · Revival	85 perf.
2001	Design For Living March 15, 2001 · Revival	69 perf.
2001	Major Barbara July 12, 2001 · Revival	74 perf.
2001	The Women November 8, 2001 · Revival	77 perf.
2002	An Almost Holy Picture February 7, 2002 · Original	69 perf.
2002	An Evening With Mario Cantone May 19, 2002 · Original	4 perf.
2002	The Boys from Syracuse August 18, 2002 · Revival	73 perf.
2002	The Man Who Had All the Luck May 1, 2002 · Revival	62 perf.
2003	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg April 3, 2003 · Revival	69 perf.
2003	As Long As We Both Shall Laugh April 7, 2003 · Original	15 perf.
2003	Tartuffe January 9, 2003 · Revival	53 perf.
2003	The 24 Hour Plays 2003 September 15, 2003 · Original	1 perf.
2003	The Caretaker November 9, 2003 · Revival	63 perf.
2004	After The Fall July 29, 2004 · Revival	53 perf.
2004	The 24 Hour Plays 2004 September 13, 2004 · Original	1 perf.
2004	Twelve Angry Men October 28, 2004 · Original	228 perf.
2004	Twentieth Century March 25, 2004 · Revival	84 perf.
2005	A Naked Girl on the Appian Way October 6, 2005 · Original	69 perf.
2005	The 24 Hour Plays 2005 October 24, 2005 · Original
2005	The Constant Wife June 16, 2005 · Revival	77 perf.
2006	Heartbreak House October 11, 2006 · Revival	79 perf.
2006	The 24 Hour Plays 2006 October 23, 2006 · Original
2006	The Pajama Game February 23, 2006 · Revival	129 perf.
2007	Old Acquaintance June 28, 2007 · Revival	61 perf.
2007	Prelude to a Kiss March 8, 2007 · Revival	61 perf.
2007	Pygmalion October 18, 2007 · Revival	69 perf.
2007	The 24 Hour Plays 2007 October 22, 2007 · Original	1 perf.
2008	A Man for All Seasons October 7, 2008 · Revival	73 perf.
2008	Les Liaisons Dangereuses May 1, 2008 · Revival	77 perf.
2008	The 24 Hour Plays 2008 November 17, 2008 · Original
2008	The 39 Steps January 15, 2008 · Original	771 perf.
2009	After Miss Julie October 22, 2009 · Original	53 perf.
2009	Hedda Gabler January 25, 2009 · Revival	74 perf.
2009	The 24 Hour Plays 2009 November 9, 2009 · Original
2009	The Philanthropist April 26, 2009 · Revival	73 perf.
2010	Everyday Rapture April 29, 2010 · Original	85 perf.
2010	Mrs. Warren's Profession October 3, 2010 · Revival	65 perf.
2010	Present Laughter January 21, 2010 · Revival	69 perf.
2011	Man and Boy October 9, 2011 · Revival	57 perf.
2011	The Importance of Being Earnest January 13, 2011 · Revival	189 perf.
2012	Cyrano de Bergerac October 11, 2012 · Revival	52 perf.
2012	Don't Dress for Dinner April 26, 2012 · Original	61 perf.
2012	The Road to Mecca January 17, 2012 · Original	56 perf.
2013	Picnic January 13, 2013 · Revival	49 perf.
2013	The Big Knife April 16, 2013 · Revival	56 perf.
2013	The Winslow Boy October 17, 2013 · Revival	53 perf.
2014	Machinal January 16, 2014 · Revival	52 perf.
2014	The Real Thing October 30, 2014 · Revival	76 perf.
2015	Old Times October 6, 2015 · Revival	64 perf.
2016	Long Day's Journey Into Night April 27, 2016 · Revival	61 perf.
2016	Noises Off January 14, 2016 · Revival	67 perf.
2016	The Cherry Orchard October 16, 2016 · Revival	57 perf.
2017	Marvin's Room June 29, 2017 · Original	68 perf.
2017	The Price March 16, 2017 · Revival	69 perf.
2017	Time and the Conways October 10, 2017 · Revival	56 perf.
2018	Bernhardt/Hamlet September 25, 2018 · Original	63 perf.
2018	John Lithgow: Stories By Heart January 11, 2018 · Original	61 perf.
2018	Travesties April 24, 2018 · Revival	63 perf.
2019	All My Sons April 22, 2019 · Revival	80 perf.
2019	The Rose Tattoo October 15, 2019 · Revival	63 perf.
2019	True West January 24, 2019 · Revival	61 perf.
2020	A Soldier's Play January 21, 2020 · Original	58 perf.
2021	Trouble in Mind November 18, 2021 · Original	58 perf.
2022	1776 October 6, 2022 · Revival	105 perf.
2022	Birthday Candles April 10, 2022 · Original	57 perf.
2023	Fat Ham April 12, 2023 · Original	95 perf.
2023	I Need That November 2, 2023 · Original	68 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• The revue opened at the Selwyn Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on October 16, 1954, and permanently closed there on October 24.Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Josephine by Sally Benson (opened on January 8, 1953, at the Playhouse, Wilmington, Delaware, and closed on February 7, 1953, at the Selwyn Theatre, Chicago, Illinois)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Bock’s memorial was held at the American Airlines Theatre the following January, where friends and colleagues recounted many of their shows with Bock. Performers sang, writers spoke, friends wept. “When I direct a show with a traditional score, I tell the casting director to ask actors to sing a Bock and Harnick song,” director Lonny Pric…Tradition!_ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical - Barbara Isenberg
• Broadway did. He was a comic leading man. Lane had the privilege of inaugurating the refurbished American Airlines Theatre (nee the Selwyn) on the reborn Forty-second Street with a summer 2000 revival of Kaufman and Hart's comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, playing tart-tongued critic Sheridan Whiteside, who finds himself stranded in the…I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas
• Times Square next door to the larger Selwyn Theatre and played there right setting a through to the end of August, thereby making Broadway history and to follow. It pattern which the other really big hit shows were, eventually, this first was Robert Baral who finally summarized the importance ofGertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley

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 4 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 26 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.