James Earl Jones Theatre

By decade256 productions across 12 decades

1. 1910s 23
2. 1920s 38
3. 1930s 36
4. 1940s 42
5. 1950s 18
6. 1960s 33
7. 1970s 4
8. 1980s 11
9. 1990s 10
10. 2000s 12
11. 2010s 19
12. 2020s 10

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

1974	The Magic Show May 28, 1974 · Grover Dale	1,920 perf.
1955	The Diary of Anne Frank October 5, 1955 · Garson Kanin	717 perf.
1935	Boy Meets Girl November 27, 1935	669 perf.
1953	The Fifth Season January 23, 1953 · Gregory Ratoff	654 perf.
1988	Sarafina! January 28, 1988 · Ndaba Mhlongo	597 perf.
1958	Sunrise at Campobello January 30, 1958 · Vincent J. Donehue	556 perf.
1937	Room Service May 19, 1937	500 perf.
1922	Merton of the Movies November 13, 1922	392 perf.

Ranked among the 251 runs here that carry a performance count. 5 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here256 productions

1914	Happiness March 6, 1914 · Original	5 perf.
1914	Just as Well March 6, 1914 · Original	5 perf.
1914	The Day of Dupes March 6, 1914 · Original	5 perf.
1914	The Forbidden Guests March 6, 1914 · Original	5 perf.
1914	Under Cover August 26, 1914 · Revival	349 perf.
1915	The Princess Pat September 29, 1915 · Original	158 perf.
1916	Beau Brummell April 24, 1916 · Revival	24 perf.
1916	Coat-tales July 31, 1916 · Original	32 perf.
1916	Molly O' May 17, 1916 · Original	45 perf.
1916	Pay-day February 26, 1916 · Original	49 perf.
1916	The Yellow Jacket November 9, 1916 · Revival	172 perf.
1916	Upstairs and Down September 25, 1916 · Original	320 perf.
1917	Flo-Flo December 20, 1917 · Revival	220 perf.
1918	As You Like It February 8, 1918 · Revival	2 perf.
1918	Everyman January 18, 1918 · Revival	2 perf.
1918	Fiddlers Three September 3, 1918 · Original	87 perf.
1918	Julius Caesar March 15, 1918 · Revival	1 perf.
1918	The Merchant of Venice January 25, 1918 · Revival	2 perf.
1919	A Regular Feller September 15, 1919 · Original	31 perf.
1919	Abraham Lincoln December 15, 1919 · Original	193 perf.
1919	Dreams of Three July 14, 1919 · Original	16 perf.
1919	Just a Minute October 27, 1919 · Original	40 perf.
1919	Three’s a Crowd December 4, 1919 · Original	12 perf.
1920	Jim Jam Jems October 4, 1920 · Original	105 perf.
1921	Captain Applejack December 30, 1921 · Original	195 perf.
1921	Her Salary Man November 28, 1921 · Original	32 perf.
1921	Only 38 September 13, 1921 · Original	88 perf.
1921	Peg O' My Heart February 14, 1921 · Revival	88 perf.
1921	Sonny August 16, 1921 · Original	31 perf.
1921	Transplanting Jean January 3, 1921 · Original	40 perf.
1922	Merton of the Movies November 13, 1922 · Original	392 perf.
1923	The Swan October 23, 1923 · Original	255 perf.
1924	Carnival! December 29, 1924 · Revival	32 perf.
1924	The Assumption of Hannele February 15, 1924 · Original	3 perf.
1924	The Far Cry September 30, 1924 · Original	31 perf.
1924	The Locked Door June 19, 1924 · Original	20 perf.
1924	The Second Mrs. Tanqueray October 27, 1924 · Revival	72 perf.
1924	The Tantrum September 4, 1924 · Original	20 perf.
1925	A Lucky Break August 11, 1925 · Original	23 perf.
1925	Bachelors' Brides May 28, 1925 · Original	22 perf.
1925	Clouds September 2, 1925 · Original	38 perf.
1925	Jane, Our Stranger October 8, 1925 · Original	4 perf.
1925	Made in America October 14, 1925 · Original	71 perf.
1925	The New Gallantry September 24, 1925 · Original	20 perf.
1925	The Stork January 26, 1925 · Original	8 perf.
1925	White Collars February 23, 1925 · Original	104 perf.
1926	Beyond Evil June 7, 1926 · Original	1 perf.
1926	Nic Nax of 1926 August 2, 1926 · Original	13 perf.
1926	The Blonde Sinner July 14, 1926 · Original	173 perf.
1926	The Little Spitfire August 16, 1926 · Original	200 perf.
1927	Arabian Nightmare January 10, 1927 · Original	24 perf.
1927	Behold the Bridegroom December 26, 1927 · Original	88 perf.
1927	Love Is Like That April 18, 1927 · Original	24 perf.
1928	A Most Immoral Lady November 26, 1928 · Original	160 perf.
1928	The Wrecker February 27, 1928 · Original	40 perf.
1928	These Days November 12, 1928 · Original	8 perf.
1929	Dinner is Served August 15, 1929 · Original	4 perf.
1929	Maggie the Magnificent October 21, 1929 · Original	32 perf.
1929	Rockbound April 19, 1929 · Original	19 perf.
1929	The Jade God May 13, 1929 · Original	96 perf.
1929	Your Uncle Dudley November 18, 1929 · Original	96 perf.
1930	Five Star Final December 30, 1930 · Original	175 perf.
1930	It's A Grand Life February 10, 1930 · Original	25 perf.
1930	Made in France November 11, 1930 · Original	5 perf.
1930	Sweet Stranger October 21, 1930 · Original	24 perf.
1930	The Rhapsody September 15, 1930 · Original	16 perf.
1930	Uncle Vanya April 15, 1930 · Revival	96 perf.
1931	A Widow in Green November 20, 1931 · Original	27 perf.
1931	Cold in Sables December 23, 1931 · Original	15 perf.
1931	Ladies of Creation September 8, 1931 · Original	72 perf.
1932	Bridal Wise May 30, 1932 · Original	128 perf.
1932	Red Planet December 17, 1932 · Original	7 perf.
1932	Tell Her the Truth October 28, 1932 · Original	11 perf.
1932	The Blue Bird April 21, 1932 · Revival	20 perf.
1933	Love and Babies August 22, 1933 · Original	7 perf.
1933	The Green Bay Tree October 20, 1933 · Original	166 perf.
1933	The Sellout September 6, 1933 · Original	5 perf.
1933	Three-Cornered Moon March 16, 1933 · Original	76 perf.
1934	Gentlewoman March 22, 1934 · Original	12 perf.
1934	Jayhawker November 5, 1934 · Original	24 perf.
1934	Mother Lode December 22, 1934 · Original	9 perf.
1934	Roll, Sweet Chariot October 2, 1934 · Original	7 perf.
1934	The Milky Way May 8, 1934 · Original	63 perf.
1935	Boy Meets Girl November 27, 1935 · Original	669 perf.
1935	It's You I Want February 5, 1935 · Original	15 perf.
1935	Knock on Wood May 28, 1935 · Original	11 perf.
1935	Most of the Game October 1, 1935 · Original	23 perf.
1935	Symphony April 25, 1935 · Original	3 perf.
1935	The Bishop Misbehaves February 20, 1935 · Original	121 perf.
1935	The Dominant Sex April 1, 1935 · Original	16 perf.
1935	The Hook-up May 7, 1935 · Original	21 perf.
1935	There's Wisdom in Women October 30, 1935 · Original	46 perf.
1937	Room Service May 19, 1937 · Original	500 perf.
1938	American Landscape December 3, 1938 · Original	43 perf.
1938	Madame Capet October 25, 1938 · Original	7 perf.
1939	Farm of Three Echoes November 28, 1939 · Original	48 perf.
1939	The White Steed January 10, 1939 · Original	136 perf.
1940	Charley's Aunt October 17, 1940 · Revival	233 perf.
1940	The Male Animal January 9, 1940 · Original	243 perf.
1941	Golden Wings December 8, 1941 · Original	6 perf.
1941	Letters to Lucerne December 23, 1941 · Original	23 perf.
1941	Not in Our Stars April 25, 1941 · Original
1941	Steps Leading Up April 8, 1941 · Original
1941	The More the Merrier September 15, 1941 · Original	16 perf.
1941	The Trojan Women April 8, 1941 · Original	1 perf.
1941	The Walrus and the Carpenter November 8, 1941 · Original	9 perf.
1942	I Killed the Count August 31, 1942 · Original	29 perf.
1942	The Eve of St. Mark October 7, 1942 · Original	307 perf.
1943	Get Away Old Man November 24, 1943 · Original	13 perf.
1943	Lady, Behave! November 16, 1943 · Original	23 perf.
1943	Murder Without Crime August 18, 1943 · Original	37 perf.
1943	Slightly Married October 25, 1943 · Original	8 perf.
1943	South Pacific December 29, 1943 · Original	5 perf.
1943	Try and Get It August 2, 1943 · Original	8 perf.
1944	A Bell for Adano December 6, 1944 · Original	296 perf.
1944	No Way Out October 30, 1944 · Original	8 perf.
1944	Sleep No More August 31, 1944 · Original	7 perf.
1944	Suds in Your Eye January 12, 1944 · Original	37 perf.
1944	The Odds on Mrs. Oakley October 2, 1944 · Original	24 perf.
1944	Wallflower January 26, 1944 · Original	192 perf.
1945	Marriage Is for Single People November 21, 1945 · Original	6 perf.
1945	The French Touch December 8, 1945 · Original	33 perf.
1946	Antigone February 18, 1946 · Original	64 perf.
1946	Candida April 3, 1946 · Revival	24 perf.
1946	Lady Windermere's Fan October 14, 1946 · Revival	228 perf.
1946	On Whitman Avenue May 8, 1946 · Original	150 perf.
1946	The Bees and the Flowers September 26, 1946 · Original	28 perf.
1946	The Winter's Tale January 15, 1946 · Revival	39 perf.
1947	I Gotta Get Out September 25, 1947 · Original	4 perf.
1947	Laura June 26, 1947 · Original	44 perf.
1947	Open House June 3, 1947 · Revival	7 perf.
1948	Ghosts February 16, 1948 · Revival	9 perf.
1948	Hedda Gabler February 24, 1948 · Revival	15 perf.
1948	Make Way for Lucia December 22, 1948 · Original	29 perf.
1948	Marie Marchowsky April 26, 1948 · Original
1948	The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden and The Respectful Prostitute March 16, 1948 · Original	318 perf.
1949	Leaf and Bough January 21, 1949 · Original	3 perf.
1949	The Father November 16, 1949 · Revival	69 perf.
1949	Two Blind Mice March 2, 1949 · Original	157 perf.
1950	As You Like It January 26, 1950 · Revival	145 perf.
1950	Season in the Sun September 28, 1950 · Original	367 perf.
1951	Saint Joan October 4, 1951 · Revival	140 perf.
1952	In Any Language October 7, 1952 · Original	45 perf.
1952	See the Jaguar December 3, 1952 · Original	5 perf.
1952	The Shrike January 15, 1952 · Original	161 perf.
1953	The Fifth Season January 23, 1953 · Original	654 perf.
1954	The Rainmaker October 28, 1954 · Original	125 perf.
1955	Champagne Complex April 12, 1955 · Original	23 perf.
1955	Once Upon A Tailor May 23, 1955 · Original	8 perf.
1955	The Diary of Anne Frank October 5, 1955 · Original	717 perf.
1955	The Wayward Saint February 17, 1955 · Original	21 perf.
1957	Four Winds September 25, 1957 · Original	21 perf.
1957	The Rope Dancers November 20, 1957 · Original	189 perf.
1957	The Sin of Pat Muldoon March 13, 1957 · Original	5 perf.
1958	Sunrise at Campobello January 30, 1958 · Original	556 perf.
1959	Moonbirds October 9, 1959 · Original	3 perf.
1959	Only in America November 19, 1959 · Original	28 perf.
1960	A Mighty Man Is He January 6, 1960 · Original	5 perf.
1960	Advise and Consent November 17, 1960 · Original	212 perf.
1960	Roman Candle February 3, 1960 · Original	5 perf.
1960	The Hostage September 20, 1960 · Original	127 perf.
1960	There Was a Little Girl February 29, 1960 · Original	16 perf.
1961	Purlie Victorious September 28, 1961 · Original	261 perf.
1961	Sunday in New York November 29, 1961 · Original	188 perf.
1962	Harold November 29, 1962 · Original	20 perf.
1962	Isle of Children March 16, 1962 · Original	11 perf.
1962	Long Day's Journey Into Night May 15, 1962 · Revival	2 perf.
1962	Miss Julie May 16, 1962 · Revival	3 perf.
1962	The Egg January 8, 1962 · Original	8 perf.
1962	The Father May 14, 1962 · Revival	3 perf.
1962	The Perfect Setup October 24, 1962 · Original	5 perf.
1963	Bicycle Ride to Nevada September 24, 1963 · Original	1 perf.
1963	On an Open Roof January 28, 1963 · Original	1 perf.
1963	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest November 13, 1963 · Original	82 perf.
1963	The Riot Act March 7, 1963 · Original	44 perf.
1964	A Girl Could Get Lucky September 20, 1964 · Original	8 perf.
1964	Fair Game for Lovers February 10, 1964 · Original	8 perf.
1964	Poor Bitos November 14, 1964 · Original	17 perf.
1964	Sponono April 2, 1964 · Original	20 perf.
1965	Boeing-Boeing February 2, 1965 · Original	23 perf.
1965	The Zulu and the Zayda November 10, 1965 · Original	179 perf.
1966	The Apparition Theatre of Prague November 16, 1966 · Original	21 perf.
1966	Under the Weather October 27, 1966 · Original	12 perf.
1967	A Warm Body April 15, 1967 · Original	1 perf.
1967	Johnny No-Trump October 8, 1967 · Original	1 perf.
1967	Something Different November 28, 1967 · Original	111 perf.
1968	Gilbert Becaud Sings Love October 6, 1968 · Original	17 perf.
1968	Leda Had a Little Swan April 10, 1968 · Original
1969	Cop-Out April 7, 1969 · Original	8 perf.
1969	Red, White and Maddox January 26, 1969 · Original	41 perf.
1972	All the Girls Came Out to Play April 20, 1972 · Original	4 perf.
1973	The Jockey Club Stakes January 24, 1973 · Original	69 perf.
1974	The Magic Show May 28, 1974 · Original	1,920 perf.
1979	King Richard III June 14, 1979 · Revival	31 perf.
1980	Clothes for a Summer Hotel March 26, 1980 · Original	15 perf.
1980	Home May 7, 1980 · Revival	278 perf.
1981	Einstein and the Polar Bear October 29, 1981 · Original	4 perf.
1981	Kingdoms December 13, 1981 · Original	17 perf.
1981	Rose March 26, 1981 · Original	68 perf.
1982	Medea May 2, 1982 · Revival	65 perf.
1982	Twice Around the Park November 4, 1982 · Original	124 perf.
1984	A Moon for the Misbegotten May 1, 1984 · Revival	40 perf.
1984	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom October 11, 1984 · Original	276 perf.
1987	Sleight of Hand May 3, 1987 · Original	9 perf.
1988	Sarafina! January 28, 1988 · Original	597 perf.
1990	The Grapes of Wrath March 22, 1990 · Original	188 perf.
1992	Two Shakespearean Actors January 16, 1992 · Original	29 perf.
1994	Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 April 17, 1994 · Original	72 perf.
1995	The Heiress March 9, 1995 · Revival	340 perf.
1996	Sex and Longing October 10, 1996 · Original	46 perf.
1997	An American Daughter April 13, 1997 · Original	89 perf.
1998	Freak February 12, 1998 · Original	144 perf.
1998	The Blue Room December 13, 1998 · Original	81 perf.
1999	Kat and the Kings August 19, 1999 · Original	157 perf.
1999	Marlene April 11, 1999 · Original	25 perf.
2000	The Green Bird April 18, 2000 · Original	56 perf.
2001	If you ever leave me...I'm going with you! August 6, 2001 · Original	53 perf.
2001	The Gathering April 24, 2001 · Original	24 perf.
2002	Hollywood Arms October 31, 2002 · Original	76 perf.
2003	A Year With Frog and Toad April 13, 2003 · Original	73 perf.
2004	Laugh Whore October 24, 2004 · Original	66 perf.
2005	On Golden Pond April 7, 2005 · Revival	93 perf.
2006	Barefoot in the Park February 16, 2006 · Revival	109 perf.
2006	The Little Dog Laughed November 13, 2006 · Original	112 perf.
2007	Radio Golf May 8, 2007 · Original	64 perf.
2007	The Homecoming December 16, 2007 · Revival	137 perf.
2009	You're Welcome America February 5, 2009 · Original	46 perf.
2010	A View From the Bridge January 24, 2010 · Revival	81 perf.
2010	Fences April 26, 2010 · Revival	88 perf.
2011	Born Yesterday April 24, 2011 · Revival	73 perf.
2011	Stick Fly December 8, 2011 · Original	93 perf.
2012	Grace October 4, 2012 · Original	108 perf.
2012	The Lyons April 23, 2012 · Original	80 perf.
2013	Breakfast At Tiffany’s March 20, 2013 · Revival	38 perf.
2013	No Man's Land November 24, 2013 · Revival	68 perf.
2013	Waiting for Godot November 24, 2013 · Revival	77 perf.
2014	The Cripple of Inishmaan April 20, 2014 · Original	105 perf.
2014	This Is Our Youth September 11, 2014 · Original	133 perf.
2015	Fish in the Dark March 5, 2015 · Original	173 perf.
2015	Sylvia October 27, 2015 · Revival	79 perf.
2016	Bright Star March 24, 2016 · Revival	114 perf.
2017	Indecent April 18, 2017 · Original	128 perf.
2017	M. Butterfly October 26, 2017 · Revival	61 perf.
2018	The New One November 11, 2018 · Original	81 perf.
2019	Derren Brown: Secret September 15, 2019 · Original	113 perf.
2019	King Lear April 4, 2019 · Revival	76 perf.
2022	Ohio State Murders December 8, 2022 · Original	44 perf.
2023	Gutenberg! The Musical! October 12, 2023 · Original	125 perf.
2023	The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window April 27, 2023 · Revival	77 perf.
2024	Left on Tenth October 23, 2024 · Original	118 perf.
2024	The Heart of Rock and Roll April 22, 2024 · Original	72 perf.
2025	Liberation October 28, 2025 · Original	112 perf.
2025	Real Women Have Curves April 27, 2025 · Original	73 perf.
2025	Real Women Have Curves: The Musical April 27, 2025 · Original	73 perf.
2026	The Fear of 13 April 15, 2026 · Original	87 perf.
2026	WANTED November 8, 2026 · Revival

In the literature8 passages

• Then in February 1988, it moved to Broadway’s Cort Theatre , where it settled in for the next two years and was nominated for five Tony Awards. It then toured North America, and came to London’s Hackney Empire in 1991. In 1992, white South African director Daryl James Roodt turned it into a film starring Whoopi Goldberg , and produced by…Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
• Theatre : Alvin Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Winter Garden Theatre, the Cort Theatre, and the St. James Theatre)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (Cort Theatre, October 4, 1951, 142 performances)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• See the Jaguar by N. Richard Nash (Cort Theatre, December 3, 1952, 5 performances)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Once Upon a Tailor by Baruch Lumet, as adapted by Henry Sherman (Cort Theatre, May 23, 1955, 8 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 5 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 74 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.