John Golden Theatre (New York). A Broadway house that feels like an Off‐Broadway theatre, this 800‐seat playhouse on West 45th Street has been home to many famous one‐person shows and two‐character plays. It was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Spanish style and was built by the Chanin brothers in 1927 as the Theatre Masque, a venue for small, experimental productions. But such programs rarely made money and the Chanins lost the theatre in the Great Depression to the Shuberts, who leased it to producer John Golden and renamed it after him in 1937. Over the years the theatre has housed several Pulitzer Prize plays and solo star turns. It is still owned by the Shuberts.
John Golden Theatre
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The John Golden Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theater Masque on February 24 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion. Seventy-six years later it housed another production known for its puppets, the award-winning Avenue Q.
In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and '50s before it was purchased by the Shuberts, who returned it to full time legitimate use. The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film A Chorus Line.
With a seating capacity of only 800, it is one of the smallest houses on Broadway.
Notable productions
- 1933: Tobacco Road
- 1941: Angel Street
- 1956: Waiting for Godot
- 1958: Look Back in Anger; A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- 1959: At the Drop of a Hat
- 1960: An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May
- 1961: An Evening with Yves Montand
- 1962: Beyond the Fringe
- 1971: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- 1972: Sticks and Bones
- 1975: P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!
- 1977: The Gin Game
- 1980: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine; Tintypes
- 1981: Crimes of the Heart
- 1983: 'night, Mother
- 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross
- 1988: Eastern Standard
- 1992: Falsettos
- 1995: Master Class
- 1998: Side Man
- 2002: The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
- 2003: Avenue Q
- 2009: Oleanna
External links
- John Golden Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
- The Shubert Organization
- New York Theatre Guide
- Seating chart
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Coordinates: 40°45′31″N 73°59′16″W / 40.75861°N 73.98778°W
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