Broadway Theatre

May still be running1 with no closing date

2024	The Great Gatsby Opened April 25, 2024

These opened in the last three years and carry no closing date. That is the strongest claim the data supports: a closing we don't know about looks exactly like a run still going, and the file was last checked in August 2026. A run that closed last week is still sitting in this list.

By decade184 productions across 19 decades

1. 1840s 2
2. 1850s 14
3. 1860s 2
4. 1870s 2
5. 1880s 3
6. 1890s 14
7. 1900s 33
8. 1910s 16
9. 1920s 1
10. 1930s 4
11. 1940s 16
12. 1950s 33
13. 1960s 11
14. 1970s 6
15. 1980s 6
16. 1990s 2
17. 2000s 7
18. 2010s 8
19. 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

1987	Les Miserables March 12, 1987 · Trevor Nunn & John Caird	6,680 perf.
1991	Miss Saigon April 11, 1991 · Nicholas Hytner	4,092 perf.
1979	Evita September 25, 1979 · Harold Prince	1,567 perf.
2005	The Color Purple December 1, 2005 · Gary Griffin	910 perf.
2013	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella March 3, 2013 · Mark Brokaw	770 perf.
1974	Candide March 10, 1974 · Patricia Birch	740 perf.
1959	Gypsy May 21, 1959 · Jerome Robbins	702 perf.
1970	Purlie March 15, 1970 · Philip Rose	688 perf.

Ranked among the 156 runs here that carry a performance count. 28 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here184 productions

1847	Used Up September 27, 1847 · Original
1848	Monte Cristo December 25, 1848 · Original
1851	Azael, The Prodigal June 2, 1851 · Original	19 perf.
1851	Faustus January 13, 1851 · Revival	41 perf.
1851	Ingomar December 1, 1851 · Original
1851	The Vision of the Sun April 7, 1851 · Revival	30 perf.
1852	Paul Clifford January 19, 1852 · Original	18 perf.
1852	The Peri December 13, 1852 · Original	12 perf.
1853	Camille December 9, 1853 · Original
1854	Faustus May 29, 1854 · Revival	18 perf.
1854	The Beggar's Opera December 20, 1854 · Revival
1854	The Bohemian Girl October 12, 1854 · Revival
1855	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella January 15, 1855 · Original
1855	Francesca da Rimini September 26, 1855 · Original
1855	Guy Mannering January 1, 1855 · Revival
1855	King Charming December 24, 1855 · Original	34 perf.
1867	Caste August 5, 1867 · Original
1868	A Flash of Lightning June 10, 1868 · Original
1878	Helen's Babies February 4, 1878 · Original
1879	The Sorcerer February 21, 1879 · Original	20 perf.
1888	La Tosca March 3, 1888 · Original
1888	Little Lord Fauntleroy December 3, 1888 · Original
1888	Mr. Barnes of New York October 15, 1888 · Original
1891	Wang May 4, 1891 · Original	151 perf.
1894	Dr. Syntax June 23, 1894 · Original	169 perf.
1894	Tabasco May 14, 1894 · Original	48 perf.
1895	Aladdin, Jr. April 8, 1895 · Original	48 perf.
1895	Madame Sans-Gêne January 14, 1895 · Original
1896	El Capitan April 20, 1896 · Original	112 perf.
1897	L'Arlesienne March 22, 1897 · Original
1897	The Highwayman December 13, 1897 · Original	144 perf.
1898	The Sorrows of Satan December 24, 1898 · Original
1899	Ben Hur November 29, 1899 · Original	194 perf.
1899	More Than Queen October 24, 1899 · Original	35 perf.
1899	The Ghetto September 15, 1899 · Original	43 perf.
1899	The Musketeers March 13, 1899 · Original	40 perf.
1899	The Three Dragoons January 30, 1899 · Original	48 perf.
1900	A Royal Rogue December 24, 1900 · Original	30 perf.
1900	Ben Hur September 3, 1900 · Return-Engagement	40 perf.
1900	Marcelle October 8, 1900 · Original	24 perf.
1900	More Than Queen October 30, 1900 · Revival	7 perf.
1901	The Price of Peace March 21, 1901 · Original	60 perf.
1901	The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast November 4, 1901 · Original	241 perf.
1901	Vienna Life January 23, 1901 · Original	35 perf.
1902	Sally in Our Alley August 29, 1902 · Original	100 perf.
1902	The Silver Slipper October 27, 1902 · Original	168 perf.
1903	A Princess of Kensington August 31, 1903 · Original	41 perf.
1903	Babette November 16, 1903 · Original	59 perf.
1903	Louis XI November 9, 1903 · Revival
1903	The Bells November 9, 1903 · Revival
1903	The Prince of Pilsen March 17, 1903 · Original	143 perf.
1903	Waterloo November 9, 1903 · Revival
1904	Love's Lottery October 3, 1904 · Original	57 perf.
1904	The Medal and the Maid January 11, 1904 · Original	57 perf.
1904	The Two Roses November 21, 1904 · Original	29 perf.
1904	The Yankee Consul February 22, 1904 · Original	115 perf.
1905	Boccaccio February 27, 1905 · Revival
1905	The Pearl and the Pumpkin August 21, 1905 · Original	80 perf.
1905	Veronique October 30, 1905 · Original	81 perf.
1906	A Parisian Model November 27, 1906 · Original	179 perf.
1906	The Prince of India September 24, 1906 · Original	73 perf.
1906	The Vanderbilt Cup January 16, 1906 · Original	143 perf.
1907	The Rogers Brothers in Panama September 2, 1907 · Original	71 perf.
1908	A Parisian Model January 6, 1908 · Return-Engagement	21 perf.
1908	A Waltz Dream January 27, 1908 · Original	111 perf.
1908	Algeria August 31, 1908 · Original	48 perf.
1908	Peggy Machree December 21, 1908 · Original	40 perf.
1908	The Golden Butterfly October 12, 1908 · Revival	48 perf.
1909	Stubborn Cinderella January 25, 1909 · Original	88 perf.
1909	The Midnight Sons May 22, 1909 · Original	257 perf.
1910	Judy Forgot October 6, 1910 · Original	44 perf.
1910	The Jolly Bachelors January 6, 1910 · Revival	165 perf.
1910	The Summer Widowers June 4, 1910 · Original	140 perf.
1911	The Hen-Pecks February 4, 1911 · Original	187 perf.
1911	The Never Homes October 5, 1911 · Original	92 perf.
1911	The Squaw Man January 9, 1911 · Revival	8 perf.
1911	The Taming of the Shrew July 3, 1911 · Revival
1911	The Wedding Trip December 25, 1911 · Original	48 perf.
1911	Twelfth Night July 3, 1911 · Revival
1912	Hanky Panky August 5, 1912 · Original	104 perf.
1912	Hokey-pokey / Bunty, Bulls and Strings February 8, 1912 · Original	108 perf.
1912	Mama's Baby Boy May 25, 1912 · Original	9 perf.
1912	The Dove of Peace November 4, 1912 · Original	16 perf.
1912	The Sun Dodgers November 30, 1912 · Original	18 perf.
1913	Somewhere Else January 20, 1913 · Original	8 perf.
1913	The American Maid March 3, 1913 · Original	16 perf.
1929	Broadway Fever January 2, 1929 · Original
1930	The New Yorkers December 8, 1930 · Revival	168 perf.
1934	The O'Flynn December 27, 1934 · Original	11 perf.
1936	Broadway Sho-Window April 12, 1936 · Original	28 perf.
1939	Folies Bergère [1939] December 25, 1939 · Original	121 perf.
1940	Mamba's Daughters March 23, 1940 · Return-Engagement	17 perf.
1942	La Vie Parisienne November 10, 1942 · Return-Engagement	17 perf.
1942	New Opera Co.: Ballet Imperial / The Fair at Sorochinsk November 3, 1942 · Original
1942	This Is the Army July 4, 1942 · Original	113 perf.
1943	Artists and Models [1943] November 5, 1943 · Original	27 perf.
1943	Carmen Jones December 2, 1943 · Original	502 perf.
1943	Lady in the Dark February 27, 1943 · Revival	83 perf.
1943	The Student Prince June 8, 1943 · Revival	153 perf.
1945	Memphis Bound! May 24, 1945 · Original	36 perf.
1946	Ballet Theatre September 30, 1946 · Revival
1946	Beggar's Holiday December 26, 1946 · Original	111 perf.
1948	David's Crown May 8, 1948 · Original	8 perf.
1948	Oedipus Rex May 22, 1948 · Revival	8 perf.
1948	The Dybbuk May 1, 1948 · Revival	16 perf.
1948	The Golem May 15, 1948 · Original	16 perf.
1949	Cabalgata July 7, 1949 · Original	76 perf.
1950	Katherine Dunham and Her Company April 19, 1950 · Original	37 perf.
1950	Pardon Our French October 5, 1950 · Original	100 perf.
1951	Diamond Lil September 14, 1951 · Revival	67 perf.
1951	Oklahoma! May 29, 1951 · Revival	100 perf.
1951	The Green Pastures March 15, 1951 · Revival	44 perf.
1951	Where’s Charley? January 29, 1951 · Return-Engagement	48 perf.
1952	Four Saints in Three Acts April 16, 1952 · Revival	15 perf.
1952	Kiss Me, Kate January 8, 1952 · Revival	8 perf.
1952	Shuffle Along May 8, 1952 · Revival	4 perf.
1954	Jose Greco April 26, 1954 · Revival	16 perf.
1954	Roland Petit's Les Ballets de Paris January 19, 1954 · Revival	48 perf.
1954	The Saint of Bleecker Street “A New Music Drama” December 27, 1954 · Original	92 perf.
1955	Antonio October 2, 1955 · Original	37 perf.
1955	Carmen Amaya and Her Company November 22, 1955 · Original	18 perf.
1955	Comédie Française Program 1 October 25, 1955 · Revival	16 perf.
1955	Comédie Française Program 2 November 8, 1955 · Original	8 perf.
1955	Comédie Française Program 3 November 15, 1955 · Original	8 perf.
1955	Katherine Dunham and Her Company November 22, 1955 · Revival	32 perf.
1956	Mr. Wonderful March 22, 1956 · Original	383 perf.
1957	Shinbone Alley April 13, 1957 · Original	49 perf.
1958	Ballet Español October 7, 1958 · Original	12 perf.
1958	Beryozka Russian Dance Company November 4, 1958 · Original	34 perf.
1958	Don Juan October 28, 1958 · Revival	4 perf.
1958	Hamlet December 16, 1958 · Revival	14 perf.
1958	King Henry V December 25, 1958 · Revival	11 perf.
1958	Le Cid October 30, 1958 · Original	3 perf.
1958	Le Triomphe de l'Amour October 16, 1958 · Original	4 perf.
1958	Les Ballets de Paris April 7, 1958 · Original	32 perf.
1958	Lorenzaccio October 14, 1958 · Original	7 perf.
1958	Marie Tudor October 21, 1958 · Original	5 perf.
1958	The Body Beautiful January 23, 1958 · Revival	60 perf.
1958	Twelfth Night December 9, 1958 · Revival	14 perf.
1959	Gypsy May 21, 1959 · Revival	702 perf.
1961	Kean November 2, 1961 · Original	92 perf.
1963	Obratsov Russian Puppet Theatre October 2, 1963 · Original	76 perf.
1963	The Girl Who Came to Supper December 8, 1963 · Original	112 perf.
1963	Tovarich March 18, 1963 · Original	264 perf.
1964	Folies Bergère [1964] June 2, 1964 · Original	191 perf.
1964	Zizi November 21, 1964 · Original	49 perf.
1965	Baker Street February 16, 1965 · Original	313 perf.
1965	The Devils November 16, 1965 · Original	63 perf.
1966	A Time for Singing May 21, 1966 · Original	41 perf.
1966	Annie Get Your Gun September 21, 1966 · Revival	78 perf.
1968	The Happy Time January 18, 1968 · Revival	286 perf.
1970	Purlie March 15, 1970 · Original	688 perf.
1972	Dude October 9, 1972 · Original	16 perf.
1974	Candide March 10, 1974 · Revival	740 perf.
1976	Guys and Dolls July 21, 1976 · Revival	239 perf.
1977	Nana Mouskouri on Broadway April 26, 1977 · Original	7 perf.
1979	Evita September 25, 1979 · Original	1,567 perf.
1983	Zorba October 16, 1983 · Revival	344 perf.
1984	The Three Musketeers November 11, 1984 · Revival	9 perf.
1985	The King and I January 7, 1985 · Revival	191 perf.
1986	Big Deal April 10, 1986 · Original	69 perf.
1986	Costello Sings Again October 21, 1986 · Original	5 perf.
1987	Les Miserables March 12, 1987 · Original	6,680 perf.
1991	Miss Saigon April 11, 1991 · Original	4,092 perf.
1997	Into the Woods November 9, 1997 · Revival	2 perf.
2001	Blast! April 17, 2001 · Original	180 perf.
2002	La Bohème December 8, 2002 · Revival	228 perf.
2002	Robin Williams: Live on Broadway July 11, 2002 · Original	3 perf.
2003	Sexaholix November 11, 2003 · Return-Engagement	28 perf.
2004	Bombay Dreams April 29, 2004 · Original	284 perf.
2005	The Color Purple December 1, 2005 · Original	910 perf.
2008	Cirque Dreams June 26, 2008 · Original	70 perf.
2010	Promises, Promises April 25, 2010 · Revival	289 perf.
2012	Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway October 19, 2012 · Original	7 perf.
2013	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella March 3, 2013 · Original	770 perf.
2015	Doctor Zhivago April 21, 2015 · Original	23 perf.
2015	Fiddler on the Roof December 20, 2015 · Revival	472 perf.
2017	Miss Saigon March 23, 2017 · Revival	547 perf.
2018	King Kong November 8, 2018 · Original	322 perf.
2018	Rocktopia March 27, 2018 · Original	40 perf.
2020	West Side Story Opening date unknown · Revival	24 perf.
2022	The Little Prince April 11, 2022 · Original	32 perf.
2023	Here Lies Love July 20, 2023 · Original	148 perf.
2024	The Great Gatsby April 25, 2024 · Revival

In the literature8 passages

• 62 The new Bernstein-Robbins ballet Facsimile was first performed on 24 October 1946 at the Broadway Theatre, New York, by Ballet Theatre, with Bernstein conducting.Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein
• 37 The 1974 Broadway revival of Candide opened at the Broadway Theatre on 10 March and ran for 740 performances.Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein
• First performance: New York, Broadway Theatre, Ballet Theatre, Jerome Robbins (choreo.), Leonard Bernstein (cond.)Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein
• Pardon Our French was perhaps a bit more sedate than their earlier ventures. True, an avalanche of feathers was dropped from the ceiling of the Broadway Theatre, to the consternation of many unlucky ticketholders (who, according to Robert Coleman in the Daily Mirror , “fled under the balcony for protection”), and an acrobat leaped around…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• After the three institutional revivals came three commercial ones. The first was an all-black version that opened at the Broadway Theatre on July 21, 1976, for 239 performances (James Randolph, Ernestine Jackson, Norma Donaldson, and Robert Guillaume). Jackson’s “If I Were a Bell” was nearly definitive, and Guillaume was a memorable Natha…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 28 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 28 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.
• Who built it.