Royale Theatre / Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

242 West 45th Street

New York, NY 10036

Opened: 1927

Seats: 1,101

Architect: Herbert J. Krapp

40.758752, -73.987749

Built as the Royale Theatre. Briefly renamed the John Golden Theatre from 1934 - 1937 and dark from 1937 - 1940 before reopening under its original name. Renamed after a Schubert Organization producer in 2004.

Notable productions include Diamond Lil (1928), Du Barry Was a Lady (1940), The Glass Menagerie (1946), Light Up the Sky (1948), The Boy Friend (1954), The Night of the Iguana (1961), Grease (1972), A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (1980), Speed-the-Plow (1988).

01/22/2002 16:19:51
Jacobs Theatre

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