Anta Playhouse

By decade75 productions across 4 decades

1. 1950s 24
2. 1960s 29
3. 1970s 18
4. 1980s 4

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

1976	Bubbling Brown Sugar March 2, 1976 · Billy Wilson	766 perf.
1961	A Man for All Seasons November 22, 1961 · Noel Willman	637 perf.
1956	Middle of the Night February 8, 1956	477 perf.
1964	The Owl and the Pussycat November 18, 1964 · Arthur Storch	427 perf.
1958	J.B. December 11, 1958 · Elia Kazan	364 perf.
1965	The Royal Hunt of the Sun October 26, 1965 · John Dexter	261 perf.
1950	Twentieth Century December 24, 1950 · José Ferrer	233 perf.
1960	A Thurber Carnival February 26, 1960 · Burgess Meredith	223 perf.

Ranked among the 72 runs here that carry a performance count. 3 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here75 productions

1950	The Cellar and the Well December 10, 1950 · Original	9 perf.
1950	The Tower Beyond Tragedy November 26, 1950 · Original	32 perf.
1950	Twentieth Century December 24, 1950 · Revival	233 perf.
1951	Getting Married May 13, 1951 · Revival	16 perf.
1951	L'Ecole Des Femmes March 18, 1951 · Original	22 perf.
1951	Mary Rose March 4, 1951 · Revival	17 perf.
1951	Night Music April 8, 1951 · Revival	8 perf.
1951	Peer Gynt January 28, 1951 · Revival	32 perf.
1951	The House of Bernarda Alba January 7, 1951 · Original	17 perf.
1951	The Little Blue Light April 29, 1951 · Original	16 perf.
1951	The School for Wives March 18, 1951 · Original	22 perf.
1952	Angna Enters March 1, 1952 · Revival
1952	Desire Under the Elms January 16, 1952 · Revival	46 perf.
1952	Golden Boy March 12, 1952 · Revival	55 perf.
1954	Portrait of a Lady December 21, 1954 · Original	7 perf.
1955	A Day By The Sea September 26, 1955 · Original	24 perf.
1955	The Dark Is Light Enough February 23, 1955 · Original	69 perf.
1955	The Skin of Our Teeth August 17, 1955 · Revival	22 perf.
1956	Middle of the Night February 8, 1956 · Original	477 perf.
1956	The Great Sebastians January 4, 1956 · Original	174 perf.
1957	A Shadow of My Enemy December 11, 1957 · Original	5 perf.
1958	Interlock February 6, 1958 · Original	4 perf.
1958	J.B. December 11, 1958 · Original	364 perf.
1959	The Fighting Cock December 8, 1959 · Original	87 perf.
1960	A Thurber Carnival February 26, 1960 · Original	223 perf.
1961	A Man for All Seasons November 22, 1961 · Original	637 perf.
1961	Big Fish, Little Fish March 15, 1961 · Original	101 perf.
1961	Jerome Robbins' Ballet: U.S.A. October 8, 1961 · Revival	24 perf.
1961	The Garden of Sweets October 31, 1961 · Original	1 perf.
1963	Marathon '33 December 22, 1963 · Original	48 perf.
1963	The Advocate October 14, 1963 · Original	8 perf.
1964	Blues for Mister Charlie April 23, 1964 · Original	148 perf.
1964	The Owl and the Pussycat November 18, 1964 · Original	427 perf.
1964	Traveller Without Luggage September 17, 1964 · Original	44 perf.
1965	The Royal Hunt of the Sun October 26, 1965 · Original	261 perf.
1966	Manuela Vargas September 26, 1966 · Original
1966	Those That Play the Clowns November 24, 1966 · Original	4 perf.
1967	A Touch of the Poet May 2, 1967 · Revival	5 perf.
1967	Of Love Remembered February 18, 1967 · Original	9 perf.
1967	Song of the Grasshopper September 28, 1967 · Original	4 perf.
1967	Spofford December 14, 1967 · Original	202 perf.
1967	The Imaginary Invalid May 1, 1967 · Revival	6 perf.
1967	The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald November 5, 1967 · Original	9 perf.
1967	Tonight at 8:30 May 3, 1967 · Revival	5 perf.
1968	Maggie Flynn October 23, 1968 · Original	82 perf.
1969	A Flea in Her Ear October 3, 1969 · Revival	11 perf.
1969	A Teaspoon Every Four Hours June 14, 1969 · Original	1 perf.
1969	A Way of Life February 1, 1969 · Original
1969	King Henry V November 10, 1969 · Revival	16 perf.
1969	No Place to Be Somebody December 30, 1969 · Original	16 perf.
1969	Our Town November 27, 1969 · Revival	36 perf.
1969	The Three Sisters October 9, 1969 · Revival	11 perf.
1969	Tiny Alice September 29, 1969 · Revival	10 perf.
1970	Amahl and the Night Visitors/Help, Help, the Globolinks! December 23, 1970 · Original	20 perf.
1970	Gloria and Esperanza February 4, 1970 · Original	13 perf.
1970	Harvey February 24, 1970 · Revival	79 perf.
1970	Othello September 14, 1970 · Revival	16 perf.
1970	The Cherry Orchard May 6, 1970 · Revival	5 perf.
1970	The National Theater of the Deaf January 12, 1970 · Revival	8 perf.
1970	Watercolor & Criss-Crossing January 21, 1970 · Original	5 perf.
1970	Wilson in the Promise Land May 26, 1970 · Original	7 perf.
1972	Different Times May 1, 1972 · Original	24 perf.
1972	The Last of Mrs. Lincoln December 12, 1972 · Original	63 perf.
1972	The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks February 9, 1972 · Original	5 perf.
1973	Full Circle November 7, 1973 · Revival	21 perf.
1974	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof September 24, 1974 · Revival	160 perf.
1975	A Letter for Queen Victoria March 22, 1975 · Original	18 perf.
1975	Summer Brave October 26, 1975 · Original	18 perf.
1976	Bubbling Brown Sugar March 2, 1976 · Original	766 perf.
1979	Night and Day November 27, 1979 · Original	95 perf.
1979	Whoopee February 14, 1979 · Revival	204 perf.
1980	Heartaches of a Pussycat March 19, 1980 · Original	5 perf.
1980	The Suicide October 9, 1980 · Original	60 perf.
1981	Copperfield April 13, 1981 · Original	13 perf.
1981	Oh, Brother! November 10, 1981 · Revival	3 perf.

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 3 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 1 of these run ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed. Nobody wrote down the date.
• When the building opened.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building.