Booth Theatre

By decade248 productions across 12 decades

1. 1910s 16
2. 1920s 34
3. 1930s 44
4. 1940s 36
5. 1950s 22
6. 1960s 21
7. 1970s 10
8. 1980s 11
9. 1990s 13
10. 2000s 16
11. 2010s 17
12. 2020s 8

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

1969	Butterflies Are Free October 21, 1969 · Milton Katselas	1,128 perf.
1979	The Elephant Man April 19, 1979 · Jack Hofsiss	916 perf.
1964	Luv November 11, 1964 · Mike Nichols	901 perf.
1985	I'm Not Rappaport November 19, 1985 · Daniel Sullivan	891 perf.
1936	You Can't Take It With You December 14, 1936	838 perf.
1958	Two for the Seesaw January 16, 1958 · Arthur Penn	750 perf.
1976	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf September 15, 1976 · Oz Scott	742 perf.
2009	Next to Normal April 15, 2009 · Michael Greif	733 perf.

Ranked among the 247 runs here that carry a performance count. 1 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here248 productions

1914	Change January 27, 1914 · Original	11 perf.
1914	Experience October 27, 1914 · Original	255 perf.
1914	Panthea March 23, 1914 · Original	80 perf.
1915	Alice in Wonderland March 23, 1915 · Original	25 perf.
1915	Children of Earth January 12, 1915 · Original	39 perf.
1915	Our American Cousin November 29, 1915 · Revival	40 perf.
1916	Getting Married November 6, 1916 · Original	112 perf.
1916	Pierrot the Prodigal September 6, 1916 · Revival	165 perf.
1916	The Co-respondent April 10, 1916 · Original	48 perf.
1916	The Fear Market January 26, 1916 · Original	118 perf.
1918	Be Calm, Camilla October 31, 1918 · Original	84 perf.
1918	Seventeen January 22, 1918 · Original	225 perf.
1918	Watch Your Neighbor September 2, 1918 · Original	48 perf.
1919	I Love You April 28, 1919 · Original	56 perf.
1919	The Woman in Room 13 January 14, 1919 · Original	175 perf.
1919	Too Many Husbands October 8, 1919 · Original	102 perf.
1920	Happy-Go-Lucky August 24, 1920 · Original	79 perf.
1920	The Prince and the Pauper November 1, 1920 · Original	155 perf.
1920	The Purple Mask January 5, 1920 · Original	139 perf.
1921	The Green Goddess January 18, 1921 · Original	175 perf.
1922	Revue Russe October 5, 1922 · Original	21 perf.
1922	Seventh Heaven October 30, 1922 · Original	704 perf.
1922	The Law Breaker February 1, 1922 · Original	90 perf.
1922	The Plot Thickens September 5, 1922 · Original	15 perf.
1922	The Truth About Blayds March 14, 1922 · Original	108 perf.
1924	Dancing Mothers August 11, 1924 · Original	312 perf.
1924	Minick September 24, 1924 · Original	141 perf.
1924	Paolo and Francesca December 2, 1924 · Revival	8 perf.
1925	Odd Man Out May 25, 1925 · Original	16 perf.
1925	Paid November 25, 1925 · Original	21 perf.
1925	Something To Brag About August 13, 1925 · Original	4 perf.
1925	The Complex March 3, 1925 · Original	38 perf.
1925	The Fall of Eve August 31, 1925 · Original	48 perf.
1925	The Patsy December 22, 1925 · Original	245 perf.
1925	Weak Sisters October 13, 1925 · Original	31 perf.
1926	First Love November 8, 1926 · Original	50 perf.
1926	John Gabriel Borkman January 29, 1926 · Revival	7 perf.
1926	She Couldn't Say No August 31, 1926 · Original	71 perf.
1926	The Honor of the Family December 25, 1926 · Revival	33 perf.
1926	White Wings October 15, 1926 · Original	27 perf.
1927	Escape October 26, 1927 · Original	173 perf.
1927	Saturday's Children January 26, 1927 · Original	310 perf.
1928	A Play Without a Name November 26, 1928 · Original	48 perf.
1928	Bottled April 10, 1928 · Original	62 perf.
1928	Grand Street Follies [1928] May 28, 1928 · Original	144 perf.
1928	These Few Ashes October 30, 1928 · Original	39 perf.
1929	Bird in Hand April 4, 1929 · Original	500 perf.
1929	Grand Street Follies [1929] May 1, 1929 · Original	93 perf.
1929	Jenny October 8, 1929 · Original	111 perf.
1929	The Marriage Bed January 7, 1929 · Original	72 perf.
1930	Kage-No-Chikara March 4, 1930 · Original	15 perf.
1930	Koi-No-Yozakura March 4, 1930 · Original	15 perf.
1930	Lady Clara April 17, 1930 · Original	28 perf.
1930	Matsuri March 4, 1930 · Original	15 perf.
1930	Out of a Blue Sky February 8, 1930 · Original	17 perf.
1930	The Man in Possession November 1, 1930 · Original	98 perf.
1930	The Royal Virgin March 17, 1930 · Original	8 perf.
1931	A Modern Virgin May 20, 1931 · Original	53 perf.
1931	After All November 3, 1931 · Original	20 perf.
1931	If Love Were All November 13, 1931 · Original	11 perf.
1931	Paging Danger February 26, 1931 · Original	4 perf.
1931	Society Girl December 30, 1931 · Original	13 perf.
1931	The Breadwinner September 22, 1931 · Original	55 perf.
1932	Another Language April 25, 1932 · Original	344 perf.
1932	Girls in Uniform December 30, 1932 · Original	12 perf.
1932	Jewel Robbery January 13, 1932 · Original	54 perf.
1932	Styles in Acting April 3, 1932 · Original	2 perf.
1932	The Fatal Alibi February 8, 1932 · Original	24 perf.
1932	We Are No Longer Children March 31, 1932 · Original	12 perf.
1933	Candide May 15, 1933 · Original	8 perf.
1933	Dorothy Sands January 22, 1933 · Original	2 perf.
1933	For Services Rendered April 12, 1933 · Original	21 perf.
1933	Give Us This Day October 27, 1933 · Original	3 perf.
1933	Heat Lightning September 15, 1933 · Original	44 perf.
1933	I Was Waiting for You November 13, 1933 · Original	8 perf.
1933	Our Wife March 2, 1933 · Original	20 perf.
1933	The First Apple December 27, 1933 · Original	53 perf.
1934	Kill That Story August 29, 1934 · Original	117 perf.
1934	No More Ladies January 23, 1934 · Original	162 perf.
1934	The Distaff Side September 25, 1934 · Original	177 perf.
1934	The Shining Hour February 13, 1934 · Original	121 perf.
1935	Blind Alley September 24, 1935 · Original	119 perf.
1935	De Luxe March 5, 1935 · Original	15 perf.
1935	How Beautiful With Shoes November 28, 1935 · Original	8 perf.
1935	Kind Lady April 23, 1935 · Original	82 perf.
1935	Laburnum Grove January 14, 1935 · Original	131 perf.
1935	Mansion on the Hudson April 2, 1935 · Original	16 perf.
1935	Night In the House November 7, 1935 · Original	12 perf.
1935	The Season Changes December 23, 1935 · Original	8 perf.
1936	Mid-West January 7, 1936 · Original	22 perf.
1936	You Can't Take It With You December 14, 1936 · Original	838 perf.
1938	Here Come the Clowns December 7, 1938 · Original	88 perf.
1939	One For the Money February 4, 1939 · Original	132 perf.
1939	The Time of Your Life October 25, 1939 · Original	185 perf.
1940	Boyd's Daughter October 11, 1940 · Original	3 perf.
1940	Glamour Preferred November 15, 1940 · Original	11 perf.
1940	Ruth Draper December 26, 1940 · Revival	22 perf.
1940	The Time of Your Life September 23, 1940 · Return-Engagement	32 perf.
1940	Two For The Show February 8, 1940 · Original	124 perf.
1941	Claudia February 12, 1941 · Original	722 perf.
1941	The Cream in the Well January 20, 1941 · Original	24 perf.
1942	Autumn Hill April 13, 1942 · Original	8 perf.
1943	The Two Mrs. Carrolls August 3, 1943 · Original	585 perf.
1943	Those Endearing Young Charms June 16, 1943 · Original	53 perf.
1945	Foxhole in the Parlor May 23, 1945 · Original	45 perf.
1945	The Deep Mrs. Sykes March 19, 1945 · Original	72 perf.
1945	The Overtons February 6, 1945 · Original	175 perf.
1945	The Wind Is Ninety June 21, 1945 · Original	108 perf.
1945	You Touched Me September 25, 1945 · Original	109 perf.
1946	He Who Gets Slapped March 20, 1946 · Revival	46 perf.
1946	Swan Song May 15, 1946 · Original	22 perf.
1946	The Playboy of the Western World October 26, 1946 · Revival	81 perf.
1946	The Would-Be Gentleman January 9, 1946 · Revival	77 perf.
1947	An Inspector Calls October 21, 1947 · Original	95 perf.
1947	Duet for Two Hands October 7, 1947 · Original	7 perf.
1947	John Loves Mary February 4, 1947 · Original	423 perf.
1947	Portrait in Black May 14, 1947 · Original	61 perf.
1947	Tenting Tonight April 2, 1947 · Original	46 perf.
1947	The Big Two January 8, 1947 · Original	21 perf.
1948	Doctor Social February 11, 1948 · Original	5 perf.
1948	Don't Listen, Ladies December 28, 1948 · Original	15 perf.
1948	Power Without Glory January 13, 1948 · Original	31 perf.
1948	The Hallams March 4, 1948 · Original	12 perf.
1948	The Play's the Thing April 28, 1948 · Revival	244 perf.
1948	The Rats of Norway April 15, 1948 · Original	4 perf.
1949	At War With the Army March 8, 1949 · Original	151 perf.
1949	King Richard III February 8, 1949 · Revival	23 perf.
1949	The Shop at Sly Corner January 18, 1949 · Original	7 perf.
1949	The Velvet Glove December 26, 1949 · Original	152 perf.
1949	Yes, M'Lord October 4, 1949 · Original	87 perf.
1950	Come Back, Little Sheba February 15, 1950 · Original	191 perf.
1950	Edwina Black November 21, 1950 · Original	15 perf.
1950	The Day After Tomorrow October 26, 1950 · Original	12 perf.
1951	Angel in the Pawnshop January 18, 1951 · Original	85 perf.
1951	Lace on Her Petticoat September 4, 1951 · Original	79 perf.
1951	Lo and Behold! December 12, 1951 · Original	38 perf.
1951	Never Say Never November 20, 1951 · Original	7 perf.
1952	An Evening With Beatrice Lillie October 2, 1952 · Original	276 perf.
1952	Collector's Item February 8, 1952 · Original	3 perf.
1952	Conscience May 15, 1952 · Revival	4 perf.
1952	Paris ’90 March 4, 1952 · Original	87 perf.
1952	To Be Continued April 23, 1952 · Original	13 perf.
1954	Home Is the Hero September 22, 1954 · Original	30 perf.
1954	The Magic and The Loss April 9, 1954 · Original	27 perf.
1955	Red Roses for Me December 28, 1955 · Original	29 perf.
1955	The Heavenly Twins November 4, 1955 · Original	35 perf.
1955	The Wooden Dish October 6, 1955 · Original	12 perf.
1956	Autobiography October 2, 1956 · Original	6 perf.
1956	Time Limit! January 24, 1956 · Original	127 perf.
1957	A Visit to a Small Planet February 7, 1957 · Original	388 perf.
1958	Two for the Seesaw January 16, 1958 · Original	750 perf.
1959	The Tenth Man November 5, 1959 · Original	623 perf.
1961	A Shot in the Dark October 18, 1961 · Original	389 perf.
1961	Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe January 28, 1961 · Original	1 perf.
1962	Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright December 22, 1962 · Original	33 perf.
1963	Natural Affection January 31, 1963 · Original	36 perf.
1963	Once for the Asking November 20, 1963 · Original	1 perf.
1963	Rattle of a Simple Man April 17, 1963 · Original	94 perf.
1963	Spoon River Anthology September 29, 1963 · Original	111 perf.
1964	Luv November 11, 1964 · Original	901 perf.
1964	Roar Like a Dove May 21, 1964 · Original	20 perf.
1966	At the Drop of Another Hat December 27, 1966 · Original	105 perf.
1966	Hail Scrawdyke! November 28, 1966 · Original	8 perf.
1966	Help Stamp Out Marriage! September 29, 1966 · Original	20 perf.
1967	The Birthday Party October 3, 1967 · Original	126 perf.
1967	The Girl in the Freudian Slip May 18, 1967 · Original	4 perf.
1968	Avanti! January 31, 1968 · Original	21 perf.
1968	Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968 May 2, 1968 · Original	52 perf.
1968	The Flip Side October 11, 1968 · Original	4 perf.
1969	Butterflies Are Free October 21, 1969 · Original	1,128 perf.
1969	My Daughter, Your Son May 14, 1969 · Original	47 perf.
1969	The Dozens March 13, 1969 · Original	4 perf.
1969	The Mother Lover February 1, 1969 · Original	1 perf.
1972	That Championship Season September 14, 1972 · Original	700 perf.
1974	All Over Town December 29, 1974 · Original	233 perf.
1974	Bad Habits May 5, 1974 · Original	177 perf.
1974	Brief Lives October 16, 1974 · Return-Engagement	53 perf.
1975	The Leaf People October 20, 1975 · Original	8 perf.
1975	Very Good Eddie December 21, 1975 · Revival	304 perf.
1976	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf September 15, 1976 · Original	742 perf.
1978	Gorey Stories October 30, 1978 · Original	1 perf.
1979	Monteith & Rand January 2, 1979 · Original	79 perf.
1979	The Elephant Man April 19, 1979 · Original	916 perf.
1981	An Evening With Dave Allen September 20, 1981 · Original	29 perf.
1981	Mass Appeal November 12, 1981 · Original	212 perf.
1982	Good October 13, 1982 · Original	141 perf.
1983	American Buffalo October 27, 1983 · Revival	93 perf.
1983	Total Abandon April 28, 1983 · Original	1 perf.
1984	Sunday in the Park with George May 2, 1984 · Original	604 perf.
1985	I'm Not Rappaport November 19, 1985 · Original	891 perf.
1988	A Walk in the Woods February 28, 1988 · Original	137 perf.
1988	Michael Feinstein in Concert: "Isn't It Romantic" October 5, 1988 · Original	39 perf.
1989	Shirley Valentine February 16, 1989 · Original	324 perf.
1989	Tru December 14, 1989 · Original	297 perf.
1990	Once on This Island October 18, 1990 · Original	469 perf.
1992	Someone Who'll Watch Over Me November 23, 1992 · Original	232 perf.
1992	The Most Happy Fella February 13, 1992 · Revival	229 perf.
1993	The Twilight of the Golds October 21, 1993 · Original	29 perf.
1994	A Tuna Christmas December 15, 1994 · Original	20 perf.
1994	Broken Glass April 24, 1994 · Original	73 perf.
1995	Having Our Say April 6, 1995 · Original	317 perf.
1996	Love Thy Neighbor March 24, 1996 · Original	234 perf.
1997	The Old Neighborhood November 19, 1997 · Original	197 perf.
1998	An Evening with Jerry Herman July 28, 1998 · Original	28 perf.
1998	I'm Still Here...Damn It! November 5, 1998 · Original	51 perf.
1999	Dame Edna: The Royal Tour October 17, 1999 · Original	297 perf.
1999	Via Dolorosa March 18, 1999 · Original	99 perf.
2000	The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe November 16, 2000 · Revival	184 perf.
2002	Bea Arthur on Broadway February 17, 2002 · Original	65 perf.
2002	I'm Not Rappaport July 25, 2002 · Revival	53 perf.
2002	Our Town December 4, 2002 · Revival	59 perf.
2003	The Retreat From Moscow October 23, 2003 · Original	148 perf.
2004	The Good Body November 15, 2004 · Original	40 perf.
2005	Seascape November 21, 2005 · Revival	55 perf.
2005	The Pillowman April 10, 2005 · Original	185 perf.
2006	Butley October 25, 2006 · Revival	94 perf.
2006	Faith Healer May 4, 2006 · Revival	117 perf.
2007	The Seafarer December 6, 2007 · Original	133 perf.
2007	The Year of Magical Thinking March 29, 2007 · Original	144 perf.
2008	Dividing the Estate November 20, 2008 · Original	50 perf.
2008	Thurgood April 30, 2008 · Original	126 perf.
2009	Next to Normal April 15, 2009 · Original	733 perf.
2009	The Story of My Life February 19, 2009 · Original	5 perf.
2011	High April 19, 2011 · Original	7 perf.
2011	Other Desert Cities November 3, 2011 · Original	261 perf.
2012	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? October 13, 2012 · Revival	142 perf.
2013	I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers April 24, 2013 · Original	71 perf.
2013	The Glass Menagerie September 26, 2013 · Revival	173 perf.
2014	The Elephant Man December 7, 2014 · Revival	83 perf.
2014	The Velocity of Autumn April 21, 2014 · Original	16 perf.
2015	Hand to God April 7, 2015 · Original	311 perf.
2016	An Act of God June 6, 2016 · Return-Engagement	98 perf.
2016	Hughie February 25, 2016 · Revival	37 perf.
2016	Les Liaisons Dangereuses October 30, 2016 · Revival	81 perf.
2017	Meteor Shower November 29, 2017 · Original	61 perf.
2017	Significant Other March 2, 2017 · Original	61 perf.
2018	American Son November 4, 2018 · Original	97 perf.
2018	The Boys in the Band May 31, 2018 · Revival	84 perf.
2019	Freestyle Love Supreme October 2, 2019 · Original	188 perf.
2019	Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus April 21, 2019 · Original	65 perf.
2020	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? March 11, 2020 · Revival
2021	Freestyle Love Supreme October 19, 2021 · Return-Engagement	84 perf.
2022	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf April 20, 2022 · Revival	51 perf.
2022	Kimberly Akimbo Opening date unknown · Original	453 perf.
2024	The Roommate September 12, 2024 · Original	99 perf.
2025	John Proctor is the Villain April 14, 2025 · Original	168 perf.
2025	Little Bear Ridge Road October 30, 2025 · Original	62 perf.
2026	Proof April 16, 2026 · Revival	109 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• 60 During the summer of 1946, Felicia performed in the Broadway production of Swan Song by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht at the Booth Theatre.Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein
• Theatre : Booth Theatre (during run, the production transferred to the John Golden Theatre)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Red Roses for Me by Sean O’Casey (Booth Theatre, December 28, 1955, 29 performances)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Next door, the dark Booth Theatre would serve as a de facto dressing room, the largest in Broadway history. The original cast would take the actual dressing rooms, while the others would make do here and there throughout the building. To keep everyone occupied when not onstage, a large closed-circuit TV system would broadcast what was hap…B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia
• There's no question but that there is a kind of play that needs an intimate theatre, but that intimacy exists only off-Broadway or in the Booth Theatre and is common to England and the Continent. Excepting the D. H. Lawrence plays at the Royal Court, I know of nothing that could not be transferred painlessly from a six hundred seat house…Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson

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 1 of these run lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 71 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.