Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

By decade163 productions across 11 decades

1. 1920s 12
2. 1930s 20
3. 1940s 28
4. 1950s 27
5. 1960s 16
6. 1970s 7
7. 1980s 13
8. 1990s 9
9. 2000s 18
10. 2010s 9
11. 2020s 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

1965	Cactus Flower December 8, 1965	1,234 perf.
2012	Once March 18, 2012 · John Tiffany	1,168 perf.
1958	La plume de ma tante November 11, 1958 · Robert Dhery (staged by Alec Shanks)	835 perf.
1964	The Subject Was Roses May 25, 1964 · Ulu Grosbard	832 perf.
1982	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat January 27, 1982 · Tony Tanner	824 perf.
1950	Affairs of State September 25, 1950	610 perf.
1998	Art March 1, 1998 · Matthew Warchus	600 perf.
2015	The Color Purple Opening date unknown · John Doyle	493 perf.

Ranked among the 161 runs here that carry a performance count. 2 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here163 productions

1927	Iolanthe November 14, 1927 · Revival	11 perf.
1927	Judy February 7, 1927 · Original	96 perf.
1927	Oh, Ernest! May 9, 1927 · Original	56 perf.
1927	Piggy January 11, 1927 · Original	79 perf.
1927	Rang Tang July 12, 1927 · Original	119 perf.
1927	The Pirates Of Penzance November 24, 1927 · Revival	10 perf.
1928	Diamond Lil April 9, 1928 · Original	323 perf.
1928	Sh, the Octopus February 21, 1928 · Original	47 perf.
1929	Bamboola June 26, 1929 · Original	27 perf.
1929	Kibitzer February 18, 1929 · Original	120 perf.
1929	Precious January 14, 1929 · Original	24 perf.
1929	Woof, Woof December 25, 1929 · Original	46 perf.
1930	Kilpatrick's Old-Time Minstrels April 19, 1930 · Original	9 perf.
1930	Lew Leslie's Blackbirds October 22, 1930 · Original	57 perf.
1930	Mystery Moon June 23, 1930 · Original	1 perf.
1930	Second Little Show September 2, 1930 · Original	63 perf.
1931	Dracula April 13, 1931 · Revival	8 perf.
1931	Fata Morgana December 25, 1931 · Revival	27 perf.
1931	Julius Caesar November 16, 1931 · Revival
1931	Old Man Murphy May 18, 1931 · Original	64 perf.
1931	Rock Me, Julie February 3, 1931 · Original	7 perf.
1931	The Constant Sinner September 14, 1931 · Original	64 perf.
1931	The Merchant of Venice November 16, 1931 · Revival	6 perf.
1932	Christopher Comes Across May 31, 1932 · Original	7 perf.
1932	The Decoy April 1, 1932 · Original	8 perf.
1932	When Ladies Meet October 6, 1932 · Original	173 perf.
1933	A Divine Drudge October 26, 1933 · Original	12 perf.
1933	Both Your Houses March 6, 1933 · Original	72 perf.
1933	When Ladies Meet May 15, 1933 · Return-Engagement	18 perf.
1934	Every Thursday May 10, 1934 · Original	60 perf.
1934	Hotel Alimony January 29, 1934 · Original	16 perf.
1934	They Shall Not Die February 21, 1934 · Original	62 perf.
1940	Cue for Passion December 19, 1940 · Original	12 perf.
1941	Brooklyn Biarritz February 27, 1941 · Original	4 perf.
1942	Counsellor-at-Law November 24, 1942 · Revival	258 perf.
1942	The Flowers of Virtue February 5, 1942 · Original	4 perf.
1942	The Strings, My Lord, Are False May 19, 1942 · Original	15 perf.
1943	A New Life September 15, 1943 · Original	70 perf.
1943	Chauve-Souris [1943] August 12, 1943 · Original	12 perf.
1943	The World's Full of Girls December 6, 1943 · Original	9 perf.
1944	Ramshackle Inn January 5, 1944 · Original	216 perf.
1944	School for Brides August 1, 1944 · Original	375 perf.
1945	A Place of Our Own April 2, 1945 · Original	8 perf.
1945	Devils Galore September 12, 1945 · Original	5 perf.
1945	Good Night, Ladies January 17, 1945 · Original	78 perf.
1945	Oh, Brother! June 19, 1945 · Original	23 perf.
1945	Strange Fruit November 29, 1945 · Original	60 perf.
1945	The Secret Room November 7, 1945 · Original	21 perf.
1946	The Fatal Weakness November 19, 1946 · Original	119 perf.
1946	The Front Page September 4, 1946 · Revival	79 perf.
1946	The Magnificent Yankee January 22, 1946 · Original	159 perf.
1947	Eastward in Eden November 18, 1947 · Original	15 perf.
1947	Love for Love May 26, 1947 · Revival	48 perf.
1947	Our Lan' September 27, 1947 · Original	41 perf.
1947	The Importance of Being Earnest March 3, 1947 · Revival	81 perf.
1947	Trial Honeymoon November 3, 1947 · Original	8 perf.
1948	A Story for Strangers September 21, 1948 · Original	7 perf.
1948	Light Up the Sky November 18, 1948 · Original	214 perf.
1948	The Vigil May 21, 1948 · Original	11 perf.
1949	Mr. Adam May 25, 1949 · Original	5 perf.
1950	Affairs of State September 25, 1950 · Original	610 perf.
1950	Dance Me a Song January 20, 1950 · Original	35 perf.
1950	The Devil's Disciple February 21, 1950 · Revival	111 perf.
1950	The Lady's Not For Burning November 8, 1950 · Original	151 perf.
1951	Borscht Capades September 17, 1951 · Original	99 perf.
1951	Nina December 5, 1951 · Original	45 perf.
1952	Dear Barbarians February 21, 1952 · Original	4 perf.
1952	Fancy Meeting You Again January 14, 1952 · Original	8 perf.
1952	Hook n' Ladder April 29, 1952 · Original	1 perf.
1952	Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952 May 16, 1952 · Original	365 perf.
1952	New Faces Of 1952 May 16, 1952 · Original	365 perf.
1952	One Bright Day March 19, 1952 · Original	29 perf.
1953	A Date With April April 15, 1953 · Original	13 perf.
1953	A Girl Can Tell October 29, 1953 · Original	60 perf.
1953	A Red Rainbow September 14, 1953 · Original	16 perf.
1953	Horses in Midstream April 2, 1953 · Original	4 perf.
1953	Sing Till Tomorrow December 28, 1953 · Original	8 perf.
1954	The Boy Friend September 30, 1954 · Revival	485 perf.
1954	The Immoralist February 8, 1954 · Original	96 perf.
1954	The Starcross Story January 13, 1954 · Original	1 perf.
1955	The Matchmaker December 5, 1955 · Original	486 perf.
1956	Child of Fortune November 13, 1956 · Original	23 perf.
1956	Speaking of Murder December 19, 1956 · Original	37 perf.
1957	Miss Isobel December 26, 1957 · Original	53 perf.
1957	The Tunnel of Love February 13, 1957 · Original	417 perf.
1958	La plume de ma tante November 11, 1958 · Original	835 perf.
1958	The Entertainer February 12, 1958 · Original	97 perf.
1961	From the Second City September 26, 1961 · Original	87 perf.
1961	The Billy Barnes People June 13, 1961 · Original	7 perf.
1961	The Night of the Iguana December 28, 1961 · Original	316 perf.
1962	Lord Pengo November 19, 1962 · Original	175 perf.
1963	Karmon Israeli Dancers May 20, 1963 · Original
1963	The Rehearsal September 23, 1963 · Revival	110 perf.
1964	A Severed Head October 28, 1964 · Original	29 perf.
1964	Hughie December 22, 1964 · Original	51 perf.
1964	The Chinese Prime Minister January 2, 1964 · Original	108 perf.
1964	The Subject Was Roses May 25, 1964 · Original	832 perf.
1965	All in Good Time February 18, 1965 · Original	44 perf.
1965	And Things That Go Bump in the Night April 26, 1965 · Original	16 perf.
1965	Cactus Flower December 8, 1965 · Original	1,234 perf.
1968	The Man in the Glass Booth September 26, 1968 · Original	264 perf.
1969	The Mundy Scheme December 11, 1969 · Original	4 perf.
1969	The Penny Wars October 15, 1969 · Original	5 perf.
1970	Child's Play February 17, 1970 · Original	342 perf.
1971	How the Other Half Loves March 29, 1971 · Original	104 perf.
1971	The Incomparable Max October 19, 1971 · Original	23 perf.
1972	Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris September 15, 1972 · Original	51 perf.
1972	Moonchildren February 21, 1972 · Original	16 perf.
1972	There's One in Every Marriage January 3, 1972 · Original	16 perf.
1972	Tough to Get Help May 4, 1972 · Original	1 perf.
1980	Whose Life is it Anyway? February 24, 1980 · Return-Engagement	96 perf.
1981	Duet for One December 17, 1981 · Original	20 perf.
1982	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat January 27, 1982 · Original	824 perf.
1984	Kipling October 10, 1984 · Original	12 perf.
1984	The Human Comedy April 5, 1984 · Original	13 perf.
1985	Home Front January 2, 1985 · Original	13 perf.
1985	Pack of Lies February 11, 1985 · Original	120 perf.
1985	Song and Dance September 18, 1985 · Original	474 perf.
1987	Broadway June 25, 1987 · Revival	4 perf.
1987	Roza October 1, 1987 · Original	12 perf.
1988	Serious Money February 9, 1988 · Original	15 perf.
1988	Speed-the-Plow May 3, 1988 · Original	279 perf.
1989	Lend Me a Tenor March 2, 1989 · Original	476 perf.
1992	Conversations With My Father March 22, 1992 · Original	402 perf.
1993	The Kentucky Cycle November 14, 1993 · Original	33 perf.
1994	An Inspector Calls April 27, 1994 · Revival	454 perf.
1996	Inherit the Wind April 4, 1996 · Revival	45 perf.
1996	Skylight September 19, 1996 · Original	116 perf.
1997	Dream April 3, 1997 · Original	109 perf.
1997	Triumph of Love October 23, 1997 · Original	85 perf.
1998	Art March 1, 1998 · Original	600 perf.
1999	The Price November 15, 1999 · Revival	128 perf.
2000	Copenhagen April 11, 2000 · Original	326 perf.
2001	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest April 8, 2001 · Revival	121 perf.
2001	Sexaholix December 2, 2001 · Original	67 perf.
2002	Prune Danish October 22, 2002 · Original	39 perf.
2002	The Elephant Man April 14, 2002 · Revival	57 perf.
2003	Anna in the Tropics November 16, 2003 · Original	113 perf.
2003	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom February 6, 2003 · Revival	68 perf.
2003	"MASTER HAROLD"…and the boys June 1, 2003 · Revival	49 perf.
2004	A Raisin in the Sun April 26, 2004 · Revival	88 perf.
2004	'night, Mother November 14, 2004 · Revival	65 perf.
2005	Glengarry Glen Ross May 1, 2005 · Revival	137 perf.
2006	Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me August 17, 2006 · Original	165 perf.
2006	Three Days of Rain April 19, 2006 · Original	70 perf.
2007	Frost/Nixon April 22, 2007 · Original	137 perf.
2007	Rock 'n' Roll November 4, 2007 · Original	123 perf.
2008	13 October 5, 2008 · Original	105 perf.
2008	The Country Girl April 27, 2008 · Revival	97 perf.
2009	God of Carnage March 22, 2009 · Original	452 perf.
2010	Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson October 13, 2010 · Original	120 perf.
2011	That Championship Season March 6, 2011 · Revival	97 perf.
2011	The Mountaintop October 13, 2011 · Original	117 perf.
2012	Once March 18, 2012 · Original	1,168 perf.
2015	The Color Purple Opening date unknown · Revival	493 perf.
2017	Bandstand April 26, 2017 · Original	167 perf.
2018	The Ferryman October 21, 2018 · Original	296 perf.
2018	The Iceman Cometh April 26, 2018 · Revival	67 perf.
2019	Betrayal September 5, 2019 · Revival	109 perf.
2021	Company December 9, 2021 · Revival	300 perf.
2022	Almost Famous November 3, 2022 · Original	149 perf.
2023	Parade March 16, 2023 · Revival	169 perf.
2024	The Outsiders Opening date unknown · Original	300 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• Theatre : National Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Royale Theatre)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Outside the Royale Theatre, a huge sign proclaimed “English Spoken Here,” but at the beginning of the revue Dhery warned the audience it might occasionally hear some “strange” words, such as “oui,” “non,” “bonjour,” and maybe even “amour.” He also helpfully translated the show’s title by explaining to the audience it meant My Aunt’s Pen .Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Billy Barnes made one more trip to Broadway. The Billy Barnes People opened at the Royale Theatre on June 13, 1961, for seven performances, and the cast included four graduates of The Billy Barnes Revue (Jameson, Regan, Joseph, and Ken Berry) as well as newcomer Jo Anne Worley. Decca was to have recorded the cast album, which was cancelle…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Dear Barbarians by Lexford Richards (Royale Theatre, February 21, 1952, 4 performances)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• The Entertainer by John Osborne (Royale Theatre, February 12, 1958, 97 performances)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz

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 2 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 17 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.