John Street Theatre

By decade24 productions across 4 decades

1. 1760s 6
2. 1770s 2
3. 1780s 8
4. 1790s 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

1787	The Contrast April 16, 1787	4 perf.
1789	The Father September 7, 1789	4 perf.
1794	Tammany / The Agreeable Surprise March 3, 1794	4 perf.
1796	The Archers April 18, 1796	3 perf.
1787	May Day in Town May 19, 1787	1 perf.
1793	Notoriety / The Agreeable Suprise November 29, 1793	1 perf.
1796	Edwin and Angelina December 19, 1796	1 perf.

Ranked among the 7 runs here that carry a performance count. 17 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here24 productions

1767	Cymbeline December 28, 1767 · Original
1768	King Henry IV, Part I February 25, 1768 · Revival
1768	Macbeth May 3, 1768 · Original
1768	The Merchant of Venice January 28, 1768 · Original
1768	The Taming of the Shrew January 8, 1768 · Original
1769	King John January 9, 1769 · Original
1773	She Stoops to Conquer March 15, 1773 · Original
1778	The Rivals April 21, 1778 · Original
1785	The School for Scandal December 12, 1785 · Original
1786	As You Like It July 14, 1786 · Original
1786	The Critic July 10, 1786 · Original
1787	May Day in Town May 19, 1787 · Original	1 perf.
1787	Much Ado About Nothing March 19, 1787 · Original
1787	The Contrast April 16, 1787 · Original	4 perf.
1789	The Father September 7, 1789 · Original	4 perf.
1789	The Merry Wives of Windsor October 5, 1789 · Original
1793	Needs Must December 26, 1793 · Original
1793	Notoriety / The Agreeable Suprise November 29, 1793 · Original	1 perf.
1794	Julius Caesar March 14, 1794 · Original
1794	Tammany / The Agreeable Surprise March 3, 1794 · Revival	4 perf.
1795	The Winter's Tale June 1, 1795 · Original
1796	Edwin and Angelina December 19, 1796 · Original	1 perf.
1796	The Archers April 18, 1796 · Original	3 perf.
1796	The Sicilian Romance / Roman Father / Devil Upon Two Sticks April 27, 1796 · Original

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 17 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 18 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.