Neil Simon Theatre
250 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Opened: 1927
Seats: 1,362
Architect: Herbert J. Krapp
Built as the Alvin Theatre, named for ALex A. Aarons and VINton Freedley. Renamed for playwright Neil Simon in 1983. Notable productions include: Funny Face (1927), Spring is Here (1929), Girl Crazy (1930), Music in the Air (1932), Anything Goes (1934), Porgy and Bess (1935), Red Hot and Blue (1936), I'd Rather Be Right (1937), Boys from Syracuse (1938), Very Warm for May (1939), Lady in the Dark (1941), Hollywood Pinafore (1945), Life With Father (1947), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), House of Flowers (1954), Bells are Ringing (1958), Once upon a Mattress (1959), A Funny Thing...Forum (1962), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967), Company (1970), Shenandoah (1975), Annie (1977), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues (1985), Hairspray (2002).
Neil Simon Theatre