Olympic Theatre

By decade49 productions across 5 decades

1. 1830s 1
2. 1840s 7
3. 1850s 2
4. 1860s 30
5. 1870s 9

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

1868	Humpty Dumpty March 10, 1868	483 perf.
1870	Wee Willie Winkie October 5, 1870	132 perf.
1869	Hiccory Diccory Dock May 18, 1869	110 perf.
1870	Hamlet February 14, 1870 · Asa Cushman	72 perf.
1848	A Glance at New York In 1848 February 15, 1848	50 perf.
1864	Mazulm July 11, 1864	48 perf.
1870	Little Faust! August 22, 1870	48 perf.
1871	Richelieu of the Period! February 6, 1871	48 perf.

Ranked among the 35 runs here that carry a performance count. 14 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here49 productions

1839	The Strange Gentleman/ The Roof Scrambler December 16, 1839 · Original
1840	1940! October 15, 1840 · Original	32 perf.
1840	Buy-It-Dear, 'Tis Made of Cashmere November 2, 1840 · Original	30 perf.
1840	La Musquitoe May 21, 1840 · Original
1840	The Cat's in the Larder December 23, 1840 · Original	27 perf.
1844	Don Caesar de Bazan December 9, 1844 · Original
1845	The Bohea-man's Girl March 11, 1845 · Original	20 perf.
1848	A Glance at New York In 1848 February 15, 1848 · Original	50 perf.
1857	Olympiana June 13, 1857 · Original	21 perf.
1857	The King of Coney Island June 30, 1857 · Original	2 perf.
1863	Brother and Sister October 8, 1863 · Revival	9 perf.
1863	Po-Ca-Hon-Tas October 19, 1863 · Revival	12 perf.
1864	Aladdin June 2, 1864 · Revival	27 perf.
1864	Fra Diavolo July 11, 1864 · Revival	6 perf.
1864	Ill Treated Il Trovadatore! February 8, 1864 · Original	6 perf.
1864	Loyalina April 11, 1864 · Original	18 perf.
1864	Maritana July 4, 1864 · Revival	6 perf.
1864	Mazeppa January 18, 1864 · Revival	18 perf.
1864	Mazulm July 11, 1864 · Revival	48 perf.
1864	The Bohemian Girl July 18, 1864 · Revival	8 perf.
1864	The Rose of Castile July 27, 1864 · Original	4 perf.
1866	Cinderella e la Comare February 26, 1866 · Original	30 perf.
1866	Po-Ca-Hon-Tas June 18, 1866 · Revival	24 perf.
1866	Rip Van Winkle September 3, 1866 · Revival
1867	Columbus Reconstructed July 22, 1867 · Revival	12 perf.
1867	Fra Diavolo January 16, 1867 · Revival	3 perf.
1867	Maritana January 15, 1867 · Revival	2 perf.
1867	The Blind Man's Daughter February 1, 1867 · Original	1 perf.
1867	The Bohemian Girl January 21, 1867 · Revival	4 perf.
1867	The Doctor of Alcantara January 19, 1867 · Revival	2 perf.
1867	The Rose of Castile January 28, 1867 · Revival	2 perf.
1868	Humpty Dumpty March 10, 1868 · Original	483 perf.
1869	A Bull in a China Shop November 8, 1869 · Original
1869	Darius Dutton November 29, 1869 · Original
1869	Hiccory Diccory Dock May 18, 1869 · Original	110 perf.
1869	Poor Humanity November 8, 1869 · Original
1869	The Lottery Ticket November 20, 1869 · Original
1869	The Streets of New York, or Poverty is No Crime October 4, 1869 · Revival
1869	Uncle Tom's Cabin September 6, 1869 · Revival
1869	Under the Gaslight December 6, 1869 · Revival
1870	Hamlet February 14, 1870 · Revival	72 perf.
1870	Little Faust! August 22, 1870 · Original	48 perf.
1870	The Daughter of the Regiment June 13, 1870 · Original	8 perf.
1870	The Fair One With Blonde Wig May 16, 1870 · Original	32 perf.
1870	Wee Willie Winkie October 5, 1870 · Original	132 perf.
1871	Horizon March 21, 1871 · Original
1871	Richelieu of the Period! February 6, 1871 · Original	48 perf.
1879	Assommoir April 30, 1879 · Original
1879	L'Assommoir April 30, 1879 · 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 14 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 12 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.