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Ethel Barrymore Theatre

243 W. 47th St., New York, NY
Seats (approximate): 1096

Herbert J. Krapp, architect. Built by the Shuberts and named for actress Ethel Barrymore, who was invited to open the house in the vehicle of her choice. The venue remains a Shubert theatre.

Built: 1928

Theatre NamesNamed 
Ethel Barrymore Theatre1928Named for Ethel Barrymore, actress. Opened December 20, 1928

Ethel Barrymore TheatreOpening Date
Race
Play, Original,
Written by David Mamet
12/06/2009
Exit the King
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Eugene Ionesco
03/26/2009
Speed-the-Plow
Play, Revival,
Written by David Mamet
10/23/2008
November
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by David Mamet
01/17/2008
Duran Duran: Red Carpet Massacre
Special, Original, Concert
Music by Duran Duran; Lyrics by Duran Duran
11/01/2007
Company
Musical, Revival, Drama
Music by Stephen Sondheim; Book by George Furth; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
11/29/2006
Ring of Fire
Musical, Original,
03/12/2006
The Glass Menagerie
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Tennessee Williams
03/22/2005
Sly Fox
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Larry Gelbart
04/01/2004
Salome
Play, Revival, Drama, Staged Reading
Written by Oscar Wilde
04/30/2003
Imaginary Friends
Play, Original, Play with music
Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Written by Nora Ephron; Lyrics by Craig Carnelia
12/12/2002
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Charles Busch
11/02/2000
The Real Thing
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Tom Stoppard
04/17/2000
Putting It Together
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
11/21/1999
Amy's View
Play, Original,
Written by David Hare
04/15/1999
Electra
Play, Revival, Tragedy
Written by Sophocles
12/03/1998
The Life
Musical, Original,
Music by Cy Coleman; Book by Cy Coleman, David Newman, Ira Gasman; Lyrics by Ira Gasman
04/26/1997
An Ideal Husband
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Oscar Wilde
05/01/1996
Indiscretions
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Jean Cocteau
04/27/1995
The Sisters Rosensweig
Play, Original,
Written by Wendy Wasserstein
03/18/1993
A Streetcar Named Desire
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Tennessee Williams
04/12/1992
Mule Bone
Play, Original, All Black Cast
Prologue and Epilogue by George Houston Bass; Written by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
02/14/1991
Lettice and Lovage
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Peter Shaffer
03/25/1990
Rumors
Play, Original, Comedy, Farce
Written by Neil Simon
12/13/1989
The Secret Rapture
Play, Original,
Written by David Hare
10/26/1989
Metamorphosis
Play, Original,
Adapted by Steven Berkoff
03/06/1989
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Play, Original, Drama
Written by August Wilson
03/27/1988
Social Security
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Andrew Bergman
04/17/1986
Lillian
Play, Original, Solo
Written by William Luce
01/16/1986
Hurlyburly
Play, Original,
Written by David Rabe
08/07/1984
Baby
Musical, Original,
Music by David Shire; Book by Sybille Pearson; Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.
12/04/1983
Foxfire
Play, Original, Play with music
Music by Jonathan Holtzman; Written by Hume Cronyn, Susan Cooper; Lyrics by Hume Cronyn, Jonathan Holtzman, Susan Cooper
11/11/1982
Is there life after high school?
Musical, Original,
Music by Craig Carnelia; Book by Jeffrey Kindley; Lyrics by Craig Carnelia
05/07/1982
The West Side Waltz
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Ernest Thompson
11/19/1981
Lunch Hour
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Jean Kerr
11/12/1980
Romantic Comedy
Play, Original, Romantic Comedy
Written by Bernard Slade
11/08/1979
I Love My Wife
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Cy Coleman; Book by Michael Stewart; Lyrics by Michael Stewart
04/17/1977
American Buffalo
Play, Original,
Written by David Mamet
02/16/1977
Poor Murderer
Play, Original,
Written by Pavel Kohout
10/20/1976
Legend
Play, Original, Romantic Comedy
Written by Samuel Taylor
05/13/1976
Travesties
Play, Original,
Written by Tom Stoppard
10/30/1975
The Night That Made America Famous
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Harry Chapin; Lyrics by Harry Chapin
02/26/1975
Dreyfus in Rehearsal
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Jean-Claude Grumberg
10/17/1974
Come Into the Garden Maud
Play, Original, Comedy, One Act
Written by Noël Coward
02/28/1974
A Song at Twilight
Play, Original, Comedy, One Act
Written by Noël Coward
02/28/1974
Holiday
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Philip Barry
12/26/1973
Chemin de Fer
Play, Revival,
Written by Georges Feydeau
11/26/1973
The Visit
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Friedrich Duerrenmatt
11/25/1973
Emperor Henry IV
Play, Revival,
Written by Luigi Pirandello
03/28/1973
Don't Play Us Cheap!
Musical, Original, Fantasy
Music by Melvin Van Peebles; Book by Melvin Van Peebles; Lyrics by Melvin Van Peebles
05/16/1972
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by George Bernard Shaw
04/17/1972
Voices
Play, Original, Play with music
Written by Richard Lortz
04/03/1972
Inner City
Musical, Original,
Music by Helen Miller; Lyrics by Eve Merriam
12/19/1971
Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
Musical, Original,
Music by Melvin Van Peebles; Book by Melvin Van Peebles; Lyrics by Melvin Van Peebles
10/20/1971
The Philanthropist
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Christopher Hampton
03/15/1971
Conduct Unbecoming
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Barry England
10/12/1970
A Place for Polly
Play, Original,
Written by Lonnie Coleman
04/18/1970
The Chinese
Play, Original, Comedy, One Act
Written by Murray Schisgal
03/10/1970
Dr. Fish
Play, Original, Comedy, One Act
Written by Murray Schisgal
03/10/1970
The Front Page
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
10/18/1969
The Front Page
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
05/10/1969
Zelda
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Sylvia Regan
03/05/1969
The Goodbye People
Play, Original,
Written by Herb Gardner
12/03/1968
Rockefeller and the Red Indians
Play, Original,
Written by Alan Simpson, Ray Galton
10/24/1968
Noël Coward's Sweet Potato
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Noël Coward; Book by Noël Coward; Lyrics by Noël Coward
09/29/1968
Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Arthur Alsberg, Robert Fisher
05/11/1968
The Seven Descents of Myrtle
Play, Original,
Written by Tennessee Williams
03/27/1968
Don't Drink the Water
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Woody Allen
01/22/1968
The Little Foxes
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Lillian Hellman
12/19/1967
Black Comedy
Play, Original, Farce, Comedy
Written by Peter Shaffer
02/12/1967
White Lies
Play, Original,
Written by Peter Shaffer
02/12/1967
Les Ballets Africains
Special, Revival, Dance, Ballet
11/16/1966
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Play, Original,
Written by Hugh Wheeler
10/19/1966
Wait Until Dark
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Frederick Knott
02/02/1966
Xmas in Las Vegas
Play, Original,
Written by Heywood Hale Broun, Jack Richardson
11/04/1965
The Amen Corner
Play, Original,
Written by James Baldwin
04/15/1965
Beyond the Fringe '65
Play, Original, Revue
12/15/1964
The Passion of Josef D.
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Paddy Chayefsky
02/11/1964
The Irregular Verb to Love
Play, Original,
Written by Hugh Williams, Margaret Williams
09/18/1963
Tchin-Tchin
Play, Original,
Written by Sidney Michaels
02/11/1963
Moby Dick
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Orson Welles
11/28/1962
Step on a Crack
Play, Original,
Written by Bernard Evslin
10/17/1962
A Gift of Time
Play, Original,
Written by Garson Kanin
02/22/1962
The Complaisant Lover
Play, Original,
Written by Graham Greene
11/01/1961
Critic's Choice
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Ira Levin
12/14/1960
The Hostage
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Brendan Behan
11/14/1960
Laughs and Other Events
Musical, Original, Revue
Book by Stanley Holloway
10/10/1960
A Majority of One
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Leonard Spigelgass
10/19/1959
A Raisin in the Sun
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
03/11/1959
Look Homeward, Angel
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Ketti Frings
11/28/1957
The Egghead
Play, Original,
10/09/1957
The Greatest Man Alive
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Tony Webster
05/08/1957
Hide and Seek
Play, Original,
Written by Roger MacDougall, Stanley Mann
04/02/1957
Waiting for Godot
Play, Revival, Drama, All Black Cast
Written by Samuel Beckett
01/21/1957
Small War on Murray Hill
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Robert E. Sherwood
01/03/1957
New Faces of 1956
Musical, Original, Revue
Music ("Tell Her," "A Doll's House," "Don't Wait...," "Boy Most Likely...," "White Witch") by Arthur Siegel; Music and lyrics for "Girls 'n' Girls 'n' Girls" by Irvin Graham; Music and lyrics for "I Could Love Him" and "Talent" by Paul Nassau; Music by John Rox, Dean Fuller; Music for "The Greatest Invention" by Matt Dubey, Sid Silvers; Music for "The Washingtons Are Doin' Okay" by Michael Brown; Music for "What Does Dream Mean?" and "The Greatest Invention" by Harold Karr; Opening number music and lyrics by Ronny Graham; "A Canful of Trash" sketch by Louis Botto; "Stars in the Rough," "Steady Edna," "Darts" sketches by Paul Lynde; "The Broken Kimona" sketch by Richard Maury; Lyrics ("Tell Her," "A Doll's House," "Don't Wait...," "Boy Most Likely...," "White Witch") by June Carroll; Lyrics by Marshall Barer; Lyrics for "The Greatest Invention" by Harold Karr, Sid Silvers; Lyrics for "The Washingtons Are Doin' Okay" Michael Brown; Lyrics for "What Does Dream Mean?" and "The Greatest Invention" by Matt Dubey; Music for "Hurry," "April in Fairbanks," "Rouge" by Murray Grand
06/14/1956
Wake Up, Darling
Play, Original, Comedy
Music by Jule Styne, Leo Robin; Written by Alex Gottlieb
05/02/1956
Affair of Honor
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Bill Hoffman
04/06/1956
The Chalk Garden
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Enid Bagnold
10/26/1955
Marcel Marceau
Special, Original, Pantomime
10/04/1955
The Desperate Hours
Play, Original, Melodrama
Written by Joseph Hayes
02/10/1955
Tea and Sympathy
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Robert Anderson
09/30/1953
Misalliance
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by George Bernard Shaw
03/06/1953
The Emperor's Clothes
Play, Original, Drama
Written by George Tabori
02/09/1953
I've Got Sixpence
Play, Original,
Written by John Van Druten
12/02/1952
The Fourposter
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Jan De Hartog
10/24/1951
Out West of Eighth
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Kenyon Nicholson
09/20/1951
Bell, Book and Candle
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by John Van Druten
11/14/1950
The Consul
Musical, Original, Drama, Opera
Music by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Book by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Lyrics by Gian-Carlo Menotti
03/15/1950
The Rat Race
Play, Original,
Written by Garson Kanin
12/22/1949
A Streetcar Named Desire
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Tennessee Williams
12/03/1947
This Time Tomorrow
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Jan De Hartog
11/03/1947
The Telephone
Musical, Original,
Music by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Book by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Lyrics by Gian-Carlo Menotti
05/01/1947
The Medium
Musical, Original, Tragedy
Music by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Book by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Lyrics by Gian-Carlo Menotti
05/01/1947
Bathsheba
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Jacques Deval
03/26/1947
Cyrano de Bergerac
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Edmond Rostand
11/18/1946
The Duchess of Malfi
Play, Original, Tragedy
Written by John Webster
10/15/1946
Second Best Bed
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by N. Richard Nash
06/03/1946
Pygmalion
Play, Revival, Comedy
12/26/1945
Marinka
Musical, Original, Drama, Romance
Music by Emmerich Kalman; Book by George Marion, Jr., Karl Farkas; Lyrics by George Marion, Jr.
10/01/1945
Make Yourself at Home
Play, Original,
Written by Vera Mathews
09/13/1945
Foxhole in the Parlor
Play, Original,
Written by Elsa Shelley
06/16/1945
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Rudolf Besier
03/26/1945
One-Man Show
Play, Original,
Written by Augustus Goetz
02/08/1945
Rebecca
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Daphne Du Maurier
01/18/1945
The Perfect Marriage
Play, Original,
Written by Samson Raphaelson
10/26/1944
Last Stop
Play, Original,
Written by Irving Kaye Davis
09/05/1944
Tomorrow the World
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Arnaud D'Usseau, James Gow
04/14/1943
The Three Sisters
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Anton Chekhov
12/21/1942
R. U. R.
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Karel Capek
12/03/1942
Count Me In
Musical, Original, Revue, Comedy
Choreographic music by Will Irwin; Music by Ann Ronell; Book by Leo Brady, Walter Kerr; Lyrics by Ann Ronell
10/08/1942
Best Foot Forward
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin; Book by John Cecil Holm; Lyrics by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin
10/01/1941
Pal Joey
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by John O'Hara; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
12/25/1940
Walk With Music
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Hoagy Carmichael; Book by Alan Lipscott, Guy Bolton, Parke Levy; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
06/04/1940
An International Incident
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Vincent Sheean
04/02/1940
A Passenger to Bali
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Ellis St. Joseph
03/14/1940
Key Largo
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Maxwell Anderson
11/27/1939
No Time for Comedy
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by S. N. Behrman
04/17/1939
Off to Buffalo
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Allen Boretz, Max Liebman
02/21/1939
Knickerbocker Holiday
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Kurt Weill; Book by Maxwell Anderson; Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson
10/19/1938
The Women
Play, Original, Comedy
12/26/1936
Night Must Fall
Play, Original, Mystery
Written by Emlyn Williams
09/28/1936
Bury the Dead
Play, Original, Drama
Dialogue arranged by John O'Shaughnessy, J. Edward Shugrue; Written by Irwin Shaw
04/18/1936
Prelude
Play, Original, Drama
Dialogue arranged by John O'Shaughnessy, J. Edward Shugrue; Written by Irwin Shaw
04/18/1936
Case of Clyde Griffiths
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Erwin Piscator, Lena Goldschmidt
03/13/1936
Parnell
Play, Original,
Written by Elsie Schauffler
11/11/1935
Substitute For Murder
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Leonardo Bercovici, William Jourdan Rapp
10/22/1935
Macbeth
Play, Revival, Tragedy
Written by William Shakespeare
10/07/1935
Othello
Play, Revival, Drama, Tragedy
Written by William Shakespeare
09/27/1935
Them's the Reporters
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Phil Kanter
05/29/1935
To See Ourselves
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by E.M. Delafield
04/30/1935
Point Valaine
Play, Original, Melodrama
Written by Noël Coward
01/16/1935
Ruth Draper
Special, Original, Sketches
12/26/1934
Ladies' Money
Play, Original, Drama
Written by George Abbott
11/01/1934
Divided By Three
Play, Original,
Written by Beatrice Kaufman, Margaret Leech
10/02/1934
Jigsaw
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Dawn Powell
04/30/1934
Wife Insurance
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frederick Jackson
04/12/1934
John Brown
Play, Original, Drama, History
Written by Ronald Gow
01/22/1934
Jezebel
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Owen Davis
12/19/1933
Ten Minute Alibi
Play, Original, Mystery
Written by Anthony Armstrong
10/17/1933
Both Your Houses
Play, Original, Drama
05/21/1933
Design For Living
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Noël Coward
01/24/1933
Gay Divorce
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Cole Porter; Book by Dwight Taylor; Lyrics by Cole Porter
11/29/1932
There's Always Juliet
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by John Van Druten
10/27/1932
Here Today
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George Oppenheimer
09/06/1932
Whistling in the Dark
Play, Original, Farce, Melodrama
Written by Edward Childs Carpenter, Laurence Gross
01/19/1932
The Passing Present
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Gretchen Damrosch
12/07/1931
The School for Scandal
Play, Revival, Comedy
Minuet in Tableau I composed by Maurice Nitke; Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
11/10/1931
Melo
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Arthur Pollock
04/16/1931
The Truth Game
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Ivor Novello
12/27/1930
Scarlet Sister Mary
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Daniel Reed
11/25/1930
His Majesty's Car
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Fanny Hatton, Frederic Hatton
10/23/1930
Topaze
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Marcel Pagnol
08/18/1930
Death Takes a Holiday
Play, Original, Drama, Fantasy
Written by Alberto Casella
12/26/1929
The Love Duel
Play, Original, Comedy
Music by Maurice Nitke Quartette ; Written by Lili Hatvany
04/15/1929
The Kingdom of God
Play, Original,
Written by Gregorio Martinez Sierra
12/20/1928