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Helen Hayes Theatre

210 W. 46th St., New York, NY
Seats (approximate): 895

Herts & Tallant, architects. Built by Henry B. Harris and Jesse Lasky in April, 1911. Intended to be a dinner theatre, complete with tables in the orchestra and boxes, but this policy did not last. By October, the tables were removed and it was renamed the Fulton. Abraham L. Erlanger managed it from 1921 until 1930 (his death). In 1955, it was renamed for the First Lady of the Theatre, Helen Hayes. In 1982, it was torn down (along with five neighboring theatres) to make room for the new Marriott Hotel.

Built: 1911 Demolished: 1982

Theatre NamesNamed 
Helen Hayes Theatre1955Named for Helen Hayes, Reopened November 21, 1955
Fulton Theatre1911Reopened October 20, 1911
Folies-Bergere1911Opened April 27, 1911

Helen Hayes TheatreOpening Date
I Won't Dance
Play, Original,
Written by Oliver Hailey
05/10/1981
The Five O'Clock Girl
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Harry Ruby; Book by Guy Bolton; Lyrics by Bert Kalmar
01/28/1981
Perfectly Frank
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Frank Loesser; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
11/30/1980
Charlie and Algernon
Musical, Original,
Music by Charles Strouse; Book by David Rogers; Lyrics by David Rogers
09/14/1980
Strider
Play, Original, Play with music
Music by S. Vetkin, Mark Rozovsky; Written by Mark Rozovsky; New English lyrics by Steve Brown; Original Russian lyrics by Uri Riashentsev
11/14/1979
Once a Catholic
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Mary O'Malley
10/10/1979
Knockout
Play, Original,
Written by Louis La Russo II
05/06/1979
The Crucifer of Blood
Play, Original,
Written by Paul Giovanni
09/28/1978
A Touch of the Poet
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Eugene O'Neill
12/28/1977
The Night of the Tribades
Play, Original,
Written by Per Olov Enquist
10/13/1977
Equus
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Peter Shaffer
10/05/1976
The Royal Family
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman
12/30/1975
Rodgers & Hart
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
05/13/1975
Don't Call Back
Play, Original, Thriller
Written by Russel O'Neil
03/18/1975
The Member of the Wedding
Play, Revival,
Written by Carson McCullers
01/02/1975
The Rules of the Game
Play, Revival,
Written by Luigi Pirandello
12/12/1974
Love for Love
Play, Revival,
Written by William Congreve
11/11/1974
Will Rogers' USA
Play, Original, Solo
Written by Paul Shyre
05/06/1974
Clarence Darrow
Play, Original, Solo
Written by David W. Rintels
03/26/1974
Crown Matrimonial
Play, Original,
Written by Royce Ryton
10/03/1973
Nash at Nine
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Milton Rosenstock; Book by Ogden Nash; Lyrics by Ogden Nash
05/17/1973
6 Rms Riv Vu
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Bob Randall
10/17/1972
The Little Black Book
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Jean-Claude Carrière
04/25/1972
Wise Child
Play, Original,
Written by Simon Gray
01/27/1972
To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Dov Seltzer; Book by Hayim Hefer; Lyrics by Naomi Shemer, Hayim Hefer
10/21/1971
The Me Nobody Knows
Musical, Original,
Music by Gary William Friedman; Adapted by Herb Schapiro, Robert H. Livingston; Based on the book "The Me Nobody Knows" edited by Stephen M. Joseph; Lyrics by Will Holt
12/18/1970
Hay Fever
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Noël Coward
11/09/1970
The Engagement Baby
Play, Original,
Written by Stanley Shapiro
05/21/1970
Sheep on the Runway
Play, Original,
Written by Art Buchwald
01/31/1970
Hadrian VII
Play, Original,
Written by Peter Luke
01/08/1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Play, Original,
01/16/1968
What Did We Do Wrong?
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Henry Denker
10/22/1967
That Summer - That Fall
Play, Original,
Written by Frank D. Gilroy
03/16/1967
The Astrakhan Coat
Play, Original,
Written by Pauline Macauley
01/12/1967
Luv
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Murray Schisgal
10/24/1966
The Loves of Cass McGuire
Play, Original,
Written by Brian Friel
10/06/1966
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Play, Original,
Written by Brian Friel
02/16/1966
UTBU
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by James Kirkwood
01/04/1966
The Subject Was Roses
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Frank D. Gilroy
03/23/1965
Poor Richard
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Jean Kerr
12/02/1964
Mary, Mary
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Jean Kerr
03/08/1961
Period of Adjustment
Play, Original,
Written by Tennessee Williams
11/10/1960
Farewell, Farewell Eugene
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by John Vari, Rodney Ackland
09/27/1960
Duel of Angels
Play, Original,
Written by Jean Giraudoux
04/19/1960
The Tumbler
Play, Original,
Written by Benn W. Levy
02/24/1960
The Warm Peninsula
Play, Original,
Written by Joe Masteroff
10/20/1959
A Touch of the Poet
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Eugene O'Neill
10/02/1958
Love Me Little
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by John G. Fuller
04/15/1958
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Eugene O'Neill
11/07/1956
Goodbye Again
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Allan Scott, George Haight
04/24/1956
Tiger at the Gates
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Jean Giraudoux
11/21/1955
Fulton TheatreOpening Date
Island of Goats
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Ugo Betti
10/04/1955
The Seven Year Itch
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George Axelrod
11/20/1952
Dancers of Bali
Special, Original,
10/27/1952
Dancers of Bali
Special, Original,
09/16/1952
Gigi
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Anita Loos
11/24/1951
Twilight Walk
Play, Original, Melodrama
Written by A. B. Sheffrin
09/24/1951
Twentieth Century
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
01/09/1951
The Golden State
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Sam Spewack
11/25/1950
The Gioconda Smile
Play, Original,
Written by Aldous Huxley
11/06/1950
Legend of Sarah
Play, Original,
Written by Arnaud D'Usseau, James Gow
10/11/1950
Borned in Texas
Play, Original,
Written by Lynn Riggs
08/21/1950
The Lady from the Sea
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Henrik Ibsen
08/07/1950
Parisienne
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Ashley Dukes
07/24/1950
A Phoenix Too Frequent
Play, Original, One Act
Written by Christopher Fry, Kenneth White
04/26/1950
Freight
Play, Original, One Act
Written by Christopher Fry, Kenneth White
04/26/1950
The Man
Play, Original, Melodrama
Written by Mel Dinelli
01/19/1950
Montserrat
Play, Original,
Written by Lillian Hellman
10/29/1949
Goodbye, My Fancy
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Fay Kanin
02/07/1949
The Young and Fair
Play, Original,
Written by N. Richard Nash
11/22/1948
Time for Elizabeth
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Groucho Marx, Norman Krasna
09/27/1948
Command Decision
Play, Original,
Written by William Wister Haines
10/01/1947
Another Part of the Forest
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Lillian Hellman
11/20/1946
Deep Are the Roots
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Arnaud D'Usseau, James Gow
09/26/1945
Kiss Them for Me
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Luther Davis
05/14/1945
Common Ground
Play, Original,
Written by Edward Chodorov
04/25/1945
Hope for the Best
Play, Original,
Written by William McCleery
02/07/1945
The Searching Wind
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Lillian Hellman
04/12/1944
The House in Paris
Play, Original,
Written by Eric Mawby Green, Edward Allen Feilbert
03/20/1944
Peepshow
Play, Original,
Written by Ernest Pascal
02/03/1944
Another Love Story
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frederick Lonsdale
10/12/1943
Arsenic and Old Lace
Play, Original, Comedy
01/10/1941
Beverly Hills
Play, Original,
Written by Howard J. Green, Lynn Starling
11/07/1940
The Scene of the Crime
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Frank Gould
03/28/1940
Oscar Wilde
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Leslie Stokes, Sewell Stokes
10/10/1938
All the Living
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Hardie Albright
03/24/1938
Casey Jones
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Robert Ardrey
02/19/1938
Journeyman
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Alfred Hayes, Leon Alexander
01/29/1938
One Thing After Another
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Sheldon Noble
12/28/1937
Young Mr. Disraeli
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Elswyth Thane
11/10/1937
Farewell Summer
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by North Bigbee, Walter Holbrook
03/29/1937
A Point of Honor
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Jo Eisinger, Stephen Van Gluck
02/11/1937
Three Men on a Horse
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George Abbott, John Cecil Holm
11/00/1936
Love from a Stranger
Play, Original, Drama, Mystery
Written by Frank Vosper
09/29/1936
The Ragged Edge
Play, Original, Melodrama
Written by Mary Heathfield
11/25/1935
Triumph
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George Austin
10/14/1935
Smile at Me
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Gerald Dolin, Edward J. Lambert; Music for "Is This The End?" by Grace Lambert; "Life Begins at Four" written by Jack Osterman; Sketches by Edward J. Lambert; Lyrics by Edward J. Lambert; Lyrics for "Is This The End?" by Grace Lambert
08/23/1935
On to Fortune
Play, Original,
Written by Armina Marshall, Lawrence Langner
02/04/1935
The Sky's the Limit
Play, Original, Farce
Written by Hendrik Booraem, Pierce Johns
12/17/1934
Yesterday's Orchids
Play, Original,
Written by Henry Rosendahl
10/05/1934
Errant Lady
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Nat N. Dorfman
09/17/1934
New Faces of 1934
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Martha Caples, Warburton Guilbert, Donald Honrath, Morgan Lewis, James Shelton; Book by Leonard Sillman; Lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, Viola Brothers Shore
03/15/1934
Sing and Whistle
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Milton Herbert Gropper
02/10/1934
Halfway to Hell
Play, Original, Melodrama, Mystery
Written by Crane Wilbur
01/02/1934
Keeper of the Keys
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Valentine Davies
10/18/1933
Heigh-Ho, Everybody
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Herbert Polesie
05/25/1932
Child of Manhattan
Play, Original, Romantic Comedy
Written by Preston Sturges
03/01/1932
Maurice Chevalier
Special, Original, Concert
02/09/1932
The Bride the Sun Shines On
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Will Cotton
12/26/1931
The Social Register
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Anita Loos, John Emerson
11/09/1931
Friendship
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George M. Cohan
08/31/1931
Old Man Murphy
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Patrick Kearney
06/00/1931
Devil in the Mind
Play, Original, Drama
Written by William L. Laurence
05/01/1931
Heat Wave
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Roland Pertwee
02/17/1931
Colonel Satan
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Booth Tarkington
01/10/1931
A Kiss of Importance
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
12/01/1930
Canaries Sometimes Sing
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frederick Lonsdale
10/20/1930
That's the Woman
Play, Original,
Written by Bayard Veiller
09/03/1930
Suspense
Play, Original, Melodrama
Written by Patrick MacGill
08/12/1930
The Song and Dance Man
Play, Revival, Comedy, Drama
Written by George M. Cohan
06/16/1930
The Tavern
Play, Revival, Comedy, Satire, Tragedy
Written by Cora Dick Gantt
05/19/1930
Maurice Chevalier
Special, Original, Concert
03/30/1930
Penny Arcade
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Marie Baumer
03/10/1930
Waterloo Bridge
Play, Original, Drama
01/06/1930
Gambling
Play, Original, Drama
Written by George M. Cohan
08/26/1929
Stepping Out
Play, Original, Farce
Written by Elmer Harris
05/20/1929
Marry the Man
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Jean Archibald
04/22/1929
Conflict
Play, Original,
Written by Warren F. Lawrence
03/06/1929
All the King's Men
Play, Original, Comedy, Drama
Written by Fulton Oursler
02/04/1929
The High Road
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frederick Lonsdale
09/10/1928
Dracula
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
10/05/1927
Yellow Sands
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Adelaide Phillpotts, Eden Phillpotts
09/10/1927
Money from Home
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frank Craven
02/28/1927
Oh, Please
Musical, Original, Farce, Revue
Book by Maurice Hennequin, Pierre Veber
12/17/1926
The Donovan Affair
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Owen Davis
08/30/1926
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frederick Lonsdale
11/09/1925
The Jazz Singer
Play, Original, Comedy, Drama
Written by Samson Raphaelson
09/14/1925
Puzzles of 1925
Musical, Original, Revue
Book by Elsie Janis
02/02/1925
New Brooms
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frank Craven
11/17/1924
In His Arms
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Lynn Starling
10/13/1924
Top-Hole
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Robert Braine, Jay Gorney; Book by Eugene Conrad; Lyrics by Eugene Conrad, Owen Murphy
09/01/1924
Sitting Pretty
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Jerome Kern; Book by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse; Lyrics by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse
04/08/1924
M. Maurice de Feraudy
Special, Original,
03/10/1924
New Toys
Play, Original, Comedy, Tragedy
Written by Milton Herbert Gropper, Oscar Hammerstein II
02/18/1924
One Kiss
Play, Original, Comedy, Play with music
Music by Maurice Yvain; Book by Clare Kummer; Lyrics by Clare Kummer
11/27/1923
The Cup
Play, Original,
Written by William J. Hurlbut
11/12/1923
George White's Scandals [1923]
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by George Gershwin; Book by George White, William K. Wells; Lyrics by B.G. DeSylva
11/05/1923
Nifties of 1923
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Frank Crumit, Bert Kalmar, Raymond Hubbell; Sketches by: Sam Bernard, William Collier; Lyrics by Frank Crumit, Harry Ruby
09/25/1923
Cold Feet
Play, Original, Farce
Written by Pierre Gendron
05/21/1923
Secrets
Play, Original, Comedy, Drama
Written by May Eddington, Rudolf Besier
12/25/1922
Orange Blossoms
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Victor Herbert; Book by Fred De Gresac; Lyrics by B.G. DeSylva
09/19/1922
Abie's Irish Rose
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Anne Nichols
05/23/1922
Scrambled Wives
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Adelaide Matthews, Martha M. Stanley
08/05/1920
An Innocent Idea
Play, Original, Farce
Written by Martin Brown
05/25/1920
Oh, Henry
Play, Original, Comedy, Farce
Written by Bide Dudley
05/05/1920
The Bonehead
Play, Original, Comedy, Satire
Written by Frederic Arnold Krummer
04/12/1920
The Piper
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Josephine Preston Peabody
03/19/1920
Big Game
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Kilbourn Gordon, Willard Robertson
01/20/1920
Linger Longer Letty
Musical, Original, Comedy
Book by Anne Nichols; Lyrics by Bernard Grosman
11/20/1919
Five O'Clock
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Frank Bacon, Freeman Tilden
10/13/1919
John Ferguson
Play, Original,
Written by St. John Ervine
07/07/1919
Please Get Married
Play, Original,
Written by James Cullen, Lewis Allen Browne
03/17/1919
A Stitch in Time
Play, Original,
Written by Lottie Meaney, Oliver D. Bailey
10/15/1918
Over Here
Play, Original,
Written by Oliver D. Bailey
09/10/1918
Muggins
Play, Original,
06/10/1918
Art's Rejuvenation
Play, Original,
Written by Kenneth Webb, Roy Webb
06/10/1918
Nocturne
Play, Original,
Written by Anthony P. Wharton
06/10/1918
The Best Sellers
Play, Original,
Written by Kenneth Webb, Roy Webb
06/10/1918
Marriages Are Made
Play, Original,
Written by Bess Lipschultz
06/10/1918
The Good Men Do
Play, Original,
Written by Hubert Osborne
05/20/1918
Her Honor, the Mayor
Play, Original,
Written by Arline Van Ness Hines
05/20/1918
Once Upon a Time
Play, Original,
Written by Rachel Crothers
04/15/1918
Let's Go
Musical, Original, Revue
03/09/1918
Billeted
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by F. Tennyson Jesse, H. M. Harwood
01/14/1918
Words and Music
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by E. Ray Goetz; Book by Raymond Hitchcock; Lyrics by E. Ray Goetz
12/24/1917
Broken Threads
Play, Original,
Written by Ernest Wilkes
10/29/1917
The Claim
Play, Original,
Written by Charles Kenyon, Frank Dare
10/09/1917
Branded
Play, Original,
Written by Oliver D. Bailey
09/24/1917
The Pawn
Play, Original,
Written by Azelle M. Aldrich, Joseph Noll
09/08/1917
The Thirteenth Chair
Play, Original,
Written by Bayard Veiller
08/20/1917
Pals First
Play, Original,
Written by Lee Wilson Dodd
02/26/1917
'Ception Shoals
Play, Original,
Written by H. Austin Adams
02/19/1917
If
Play, Original,
02/07/1917
In for the Night
Play, Original,
Written by James Savery
01/11/1917
The Master
Play, Original,
Written by Benjamin F. Glazer
12/05/1916
Arms and the Girl
Play, Original,
Written by Grant Stewart, Robert Baker
09/27/1916
The Silent Witness
Play, Original,
08/28/1916
A Woman of No Importance
Play, Revival,
Written by Oscar Wilde
04/24/1916
The Melody of Youth
Play, Original,
Written by Brandon Tynan
02/15/1916
Moonlight Mary
Play, Original,
Written by George V. Hobart
01/27/1916
Ruggles of Red Gap
Play, Original, Comedy, Play with music
Music by Sigmund Romberg; Written by Harrison Rhodes; Lyrics by Harold Atteridge
12/25/1915
The Angel in the House
Play, Original,
Written by Basil MacDonald Hastings, Eden Phillpotts
11/08/1915
Sherman Was Right
Play, Original,
Written by Frank Mandel
10/26/1915
Some Baby!
Play, Original,
Written by Jules Simonson, Zellah Covington
08/12/1915
Twin Beds
Play, Original,
Written by Margaret Mayo, Salisbury Field
08/14/1914
The Misleading Lady
Play, Original,
Written by Charles W. Goddard, Paul Dickey
11/25/1913
Indian Summer
Play, Original,
Written by Augustus Thomas
11/10/1913
After Five
Play, Original,
Written by Cecil B. De Mille
10/29/1913
Shadowed
Play, Original,
Written by Cosmo Gordon-Lennox, Dion Clayton Calthrop
09/24/1913
What Happened to Mary
Play, Original,
Written by Owen Davis
03/24/1913
Damaged Goods
Play, Revival,
Written by Eugene Brieux, James Warbasse
03/14/1913
The Unwritten Law
Play, Original,
Written by Edwin Milton Royle
02/07/1913
The Yellow Jacket
Play, Original, Drama
Written by George C. Hazelton, J. Harry Benrimo
11/04/1912
The Fight
Play, Original,
Written by Bayard Veiller
10/31/1912
June Madness
Play, Original,
Written by Henry Kitchell Webster
09/25/1912
The Typhoon
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Byron Ongley, Emil Nyitray
03/11/1912
Making Good
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Owen Davis
02/05/1912
Take My Advice
Play, Original,
Written by James Montgomery, William Collier
11/27/1911
The Cave Man
Play, Original,
Written by Gelett Burgess
10/20/1911
Folies-BergereOpening Date
Hello, Paris
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by J. Rosamond Johnson; Book by William Le Baron; Lyrics by J. Leubrie Hill
09/22/1911
A La Broadway
Musical, Original, Burlesque, Revue, Satire
Music by Harold Orlob; Book by William Le Baron; Lyrics by M. H. Collins, William Le Baron
09/22/1911
Hello, Paris
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by J. Rosamond Johnson; Book by William Le Baron; Lyrics by J. Leubrie Hill
08/19/1911
Gaby
Musical, Original, Revue, Satire
Music by Edmond Diet, Maurice Levi, Ted Snyder, Irving Berlin, Robert Hood Bowers, Vincent Bryan; Book by Harry B. Smith, Rennold Wolf, Robert B. Smith; Written by Alfredo Curti; Lyrics by Harry B. Smith, Rennold Wolf, Robert B. Smith
04/27/1911
Hell
Musical, Original, Burlesque
Music by Edmond Diet, Maurice Levi, Ted Snyder, Irving Berlin, Robert Hood Bowers, Vincent Bryan; Book by Harry B. Smith, Rennold Wolf, Robert B. Smith; Written by Alfredo Curti; Lyrics by Harry B. Smith, Rennold Wolf, Robert B. Smith
04/27/1911
Temptations
Special, Original, Ballet
Music by Edmond Diet, Maurice Levi, Ted Snyder, Irving Berlin, Robert Hood Bowers, Vincent Bryan; Book by Harry B. Smith, Rennold Wolf, Robert B. Smith; Written by Alfredo Curti; Lyrics by Harry B. Smith, Rennold Wolf, Robert B. Smith
04/27/1911