Vivian Beaumont Theater

By decade122 productions across 7 decades

1. 1960s 22
2. 1970s 31
3. 1980s 12
4. 1990s 23
5. 2000s 18
6. 2010s 8
7. 2020s 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

2000	Contact March 30, 2000	1,010 perf.
2011	War Horse April 14, 2011 · Marianne Elliott	718 perf.
2018	My Fair Lady April 19, 2018 · Bartlett Sher	553 perf.
2005	The Light in the Piazza April 18, 2005 · Bartlett Sher	504 perf.
1990	Six Degrees of Separation November 8, 1990 · Jerry Zaks	485 perf.
1986	The House of Blue Leaves April 29, 1986 · Jerry Zaks	360 perf.
1994	Carousel March 24, 1994 · Nicholas Hytner	337 perf.
1976	The Threepenny Opera May 1, 1976 · Richard Foreman	307 perf.

Ranked among the 121 runs here that carry a performance count. 1 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here122 productions

1965	Danton's Death October 21, 1965 · Revival	46 perf.
1965	The Country Wife December 9, 1965 · Revival	52 perf.
1966	The Alchemist October 13, 1966 · Revival	52 perf.
1966	The Caucasian Chalk Circle March 24, 1966 · Original	100 perf.
1966	The Condemned of Altona February 3, 1966 · Original	46 perf.
1966	Yerma December 8, 1966 · Original	60 perf.
1967	Galileo April 13, 1967 · Revival	76 perf.
1967	The East Wind February 9, 1967 · Original	60 perf.
1967	The Little Foxes October 26, 1967 · Revival	100 perf.
1967	The Unknown Soldier and His Wife July 6, 1967 · Original	148 perf.
1968	A Cry of Players November 14, 1968 · Original	72 perf.
1968	Cyrano de Bergerac April 25, 1968 · Revival	52 perf.
1968	George Dandin June 27, 1968 · Revival	4 perf.
1968	King Lear November 7, 1968 · Revival	72 perf.
1968	Lovers July 25, 1968 · Original	148 perf.
1968	Saint Joan January 4, 1968 · Revival	44 perf.
1968	Tartuffe July 2, 1968 · Revival	6 perf.
1968	The Three Musketeers June 25, 1968 · Revival	9 perf.
1968	Tiger at the Gates February 29, 1968 · Revival	44 perf.
1969	In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer March 6, 1969 · Original	54 perf.
1969	The Miser May 8, 1969 · Revival	52 perf.
1969	The Time of Your Life November 6, 1969 · Revival	52 perf.
1970	Beggar on Horseback May 14, 1970 · Revival	52 perf.
1970	Camino Real January 8, 1970 · Revival	52 perf.
1970	Operation Sidewinder March 12, 1970 · Original	52 perf.
1970	The Good Woman of Setzuan November 5, 1970 · Revival	44 perf.
1971	An Enemy of the People March 11, 1971 · Revival	53 perf.
1971	Antigone May 13, 1971 · Revival	46 perf.
1971	Mary Stuart November 12, 1971 · Revival	44 perf.
1971	The Playboy of the Western World January 7, 1971 · Revival	52 perf.
1972	Enemies November 9, 1972 · Original	44 perf.
1972	Man of La Mancha June 22, 1972 · Revival	140 perf.
1972	Narrow Road to the Deep North January 6, 1972 · Original	44 perf.
1972	The Crucible April 27, 1972 · Revival	44 perf.
1972	Twelfth Night March 2, 1972 · Revival	44 perf.
1973	A Streetcar Named Desire April 26, 1973 · Revival	110 perf.
1973	Boom Boom Room November 8, 1973 · Original	37 perf.
1973	The au Pair Man December 27, 1973 · Original	37 perf.
1973	The Merchant of Venice March 1, 1973 · Revival	44 perf.
1973	The Plough and the Stars January 4, 1973 · Revival	44 perf.
1974	Dance of Death April 4, 1974 · Revival	37 perf.
1974	Mert & Phil October 30, 1974 · Original	41 perf.
1974	Short Eyes May 23, 1974 · Original	102 perf.
1974	What the Wine-Sellers Buy February 14, 1974 · Original	37 perf.
1975	A Doll's House March 5, 1975 · Revival	54 perf.
1975	Black Picture Show January 6, 1975 · Original	41 perf.
1975	Hamlet December 17, 1975 · Revival	47 perf.
1975	Little Black Sheep May 7, 1975 · Original	33 perf.
1975	Trelawny of the "Wells" October 15, 1975 · Revival	47 perf.
1976	Mrs. Warren's Profession February 18, 1976 · Revival	55 perf.
1976	The Threepenny Opera May 1, 1976 · Revival	307 perf.
1977	Agamemnon May 18, 1977 · Revival	39 perf.
1977	The Cherry Orchard February 17, 1977 · Revival	62 perf.
1980	The Philadelphia Story November 14, 1980 · Revival	60 perf.
1981	Macbeth January 22, 1981 · Revival	61 perf.
1981	The Floating Light Bulb April 27, 1981 · Original	65 perf.
1983	La Tragedie de Carmen November 17, 1983 · Original	187 perf.
1984	Oedipus Rex July 17, 1984 · Revival	8 perf.
1986	The Flying Karamazov Brothers "Juggling and Cheap Theatrics" April 1, 1986 · Original	24 perf.
1986	The Front Page November 23, 1986 · Revival	57 perf.
1986	The House of Blue Leaves April 29, 1986 · Original	360 perf.
1987	Death and the King's Horseman March 1, 1987 · Original	33 perf.
1987	The Comedy of Errors May 31, 1987 · Revival	65 perf.
1987	The Regard of Flight April 12, 1987 · Original	17 perf.
1989	The Tenth Man December 10, 1989 · Revival	41 perf.
1990	Six Degrees of Separation November 8, 1990 · Original	485 perf.
1990	Some Americans Abroad May 2, 1990 · Original	55 perf.
1991	Monster in a Box January 21, 1991 · Original	13 perf.
1992	Four Baboons Adoring the Sun March 18, 1992 · Original	38 perf.
1992	My Favorite Year December 10, 1992 · Original	36 perf.
1993	Abe Lincoln in Illinois November 29, 1993 · Revival	40 perf.
1993	Company April 11, 1993 · Revival	2 perf.
1993	Gray's Anatomy November 28, 1993 · Original	12 perf.
1993	In the Summer House August 1, 1993 · Revival	25 perf.
1994	Carousel March 24, 1994 · Revival	337 perf.
1994	Gray's Anatomy June 5, 1994 · Return-Engagement	8 perf.
1995	Arcadia March 30, 1995 · Original	173 perf.
1995	Racing Demon November 20, 1995 · Original	48 perf.
1996	It's a Slippery Slope November 10, 1996 · Original	17 perf.
1996	Juan Darien November 24, 1996 · Original	49 perf.
1997	Ivanov November 20, 1997 · Revival	51 perf.
1997	The Little Foxes April 27, 1997 · Revival	57 perf.
1998	Ah, Wilderness! March 18, 1998 · Revival	54 perf.
1998	Parade December 17, 1998 · Revival	84 perf.
1998	Twelfth Night July 16, 1998 · Revival	53 perf.
1999	It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues April 26, 1999 · Original	284 perf.
1999	Marie Christine December 2, 1999 · Original	42 perf.
1999	Morning, Noon and Night November 22, 1999 · Revival	12 perf.
2000	Contact March 30, 2000 · Original	1,010 perf.
2000	Matters of the Heart November 13, 2000 · Original	11 perf.
2001	QED November 18, 2001 · Original	40 perf.
2002	Anything Goes April 1, 2002 · Revival	1 perf.
2002	Back From Broadway June 17, 2002 · Original	1 perf.
2002	Dinner at Eight December 19, 2002 · Revival	45 perf.
2002	Mostly Sondheim January 14, 2002 · Original	26 perf.
2003	Henry IV November 20, 2003 · Revival	58 perf.
2004	Barbara Cook's Broadway! March 28, 2004 · Original	7 perf.
2004	King Lear March 4, 2004 · Revival	33 perf.
2004	The Frogs July 22, 2004 · Original	92 perf.
2004	The Rivals December 16, 2004 · Revival	45 perf.
2005	Love Life May 1, 2005 · Revival	8 perf.
2005	The Light in the Piazza April 18, 2005 · Original	504 perf.
2006	The Coast of Utopia [Part 1 - Voyage] November 27, 2006 · Original	44 perf.
2006	The Coast of Utopia [Part 2 - Shipwreck] December 21, 2006 · Original	43 perf.
2007	Cymbeline December 2, 2007 · Revival	40 perf.
2007	The Coast of Utopia [Part 3 - Salvage] February 18, 2007 · Original	34 perf.
2010	A Free Man of Color November 18, 2010 · Original	61 perf.
2011	War Horse April 14, 2011 · Original	718 perf.
2013	Ann March 7, 2013 · Original	132 perf.
2014	Act One April 17, 2014 · Original	67 perf.
2017	Junk November 2, 2017 · Revival	77 perf.
2017	Oslo April 13, 2017 · Original	109 perf.
2018	My Fair Lady April 19, 2018 · Revival	553 perf.
2019	The Great Society October 1, 2019 · Original	72 perf.
2021	Flying Over Sunset December 6, 2021 · Original	37 perf.
2022	Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool November 13, 2022 · Original	67 perf.
2022	The Skin of Our Teeth April 25, 2022 · Revival	35 perf.
2023	Camelot April 13, 2023 · Revival	116 perf.
2024	McNeal September 30, 2024 · Original	53 perf.
2024	Uncle Vanya April 24, 2024 · Revival	62 perf.
2025	Floyd Collins April 21, 2025 · Original	72 perf.
2025	Ragtime October 16, 2025 · Revival

In the literature8 passages

• B efore the curtain rose on the 1987 revival of Anything Goes at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, audiences heard the strains of Cole Porter’s own rendition of the title song recorded in 1934. At the conclusion of this critically well-received and popularly successful show a large silkscreen photograph of Porter (1891–1964) appea…Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block
• We rehearsed in the bowels of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. As I wandered the hallways, peering into every room and exposed crevice that made up the rehearsal spaces, scenic shop, wardrobe room, and offices, I felt as though my moment had finally arrived. It validated all the time and money my mother had invested in me for those Long Islan…Patti LuPone - Patti Lupone
• Lincoln Center Theater's primary space, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, had upward of 1,000 seats. Now it was Bishop's responsibility (in tandem with Lincoln Center's hold-over executive producer, Bernard Gersten) to fill them.Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer
• 39 "The worst aspect of Michael John LaChiusa's new musical, Marie Christine, at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, is Michael John LaChiusa's new music," wrote Clive Barnes in his N. Y. Post review on December 3, 1999.Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer
• VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER Opened Thursday, November 1, 1971* Tne Reperton Theater of Lincoln Center (Jules Irving, Director) presents:Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis)

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 1 of these run lasted. We don't have a performance count.