Fifth Avenue Theatre

By decade53 productions across 7 decades

1. 1870s 3
2. 1880s 4
3. 1890s 25
4. 1900s 16
5. 1910s 2
6. 1920s 2
7. 1930s 1

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

1885	The Mikado August 19, 1885	250 perf.
1926	The House of Ussher January 13, 1926 · Edward Elsner	198 perf.
1899	Becky Sharp September 12, 1899 · Fred Williams	116 perf.
1897	The Devil's Disciple October 4, 1897	56 perf.
1899	Three Little Lambs December 25, 1899	49 perf.
1884	Princess Ida February 11, 1884	48 perf.
1900	Oliver Goldsmith March 19, 1900 · Daniel V. Arthur	33 perf.
1887	The Begum September 21, 1887	22 perf.

Ranked among the 15 runs here that carry a performance count. 38 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here53 productions

1877	The Chimes of Normandy October 22, 1877 · Original	16 perf.
1879	Fatinitza April 14, 1879 · Original
1879	The Pirates Of Penzance December 31, 1879 · Original
1881	Salviati, or the Silent Man January 10, 1881 · Original
1884	Princess Ida February 11, 1884 · Original	48 perf.
1885	The Mikado August 19, 1885 · Original	250 perf.
1887	The Begum September 21, 1887 · Original	22 perf.
1890	Joan of Arc December 8, 1890 · Original
1893	The Moth and the Flame January 26, 1893 · Original
1894	Gismonda December 11, 1894 · Original
1894	Hannele May 1, 1894 · Original
1895	Ambition October 22, 1895 · Original
1895	His Wife's Father February 25, 1895 · Original
1896	A House of Cards March 23, 1896 · Original
1896	Pamela Nubile March 19, 1896 · Original	1 perf.
1896	The Governor of Kentucky January 21, 1896 · Original
1896	The Speculator April 18, 1896 · Original
1897	A Southern Romance September 4, 1897 · Original
1897	A Superfluous Husband January 4, 1897 · Original
1897	Alexandra November 29, 1897 · Original
1897	Divorçons May 7, 1897 · Revival
1897	Dr. Claudius February 1, 1897 · Original
1897	The Devil's Disciple October 4, 1897 · Original	56 perf.
1897	The Royal Box December 21, 1897 · Original
1898	A Bit of Old Chelsea April 11, 1898 · Original
1898	Hedda Gabler March 30, 1898 · Original	1 perf.
1898	Joan January 29, 1898 · Original
1898	Love Finds the Way April 11, 1898 · Original
1898	The Royal Box October 3, 1898 · Return-Engagement
1899	Becky Sharp September 12, 1899 · Original	116 perf.
1899	Citizen Pierre April 11, 1899 · Original
1899	Three Little Lambs December 25, 1899 · Original	49 perf.
1900	Macbeth February 26, 1900 · Revival
1900	Marie Antoinette February 26, 1900 · Original
1900	Mary Stuart February 26, 1900 · Original
1900	Much Ado About Nothing February 26, 1900 · Revival
1900	Oliver Goldsmith March 19, 1900 · Original	33 perf.
1900	The Countess Chiffon February 6, 1900 · Original	8 perf.
1900	The Ladies' Battle February 26, 1900 · Original
1900	Twelfth Night February 26, 1900 · Revival
1903	Who Is Brown? May 11, 1903 · Original
1904	Fighting Bob June 13, 1904 · Original
1904	Hush-a-Bye Baby March 7, 1904 · Original
1905	Anna Karenina March 27, 1905 · Original
1905	Oliver Twist November 13, 1905 · Revival
1905	The Holy City January 30, 1905 · Original
1905	Zorah August 14, 1905 · Original
1906	Jeanne D'arc April 23, 1906 · Original
1910	The King of Cadonia January 10, 1910 · Original	16 perf.
1912	The Great Game May 16, 1912 · Original
1925	The Wisecrackers December 16, 1925 · Original	13 perf.
1926	The House of Ussher January 13, 1926 · Original	198 perf.
1935	Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl November 5, 1935 · Revival	7 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 38 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 44 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.
• When the building opened.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building.