Westside Theatre

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Westside Theatre
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Westside Theatre
Address407 West 43rd Street
Manhattan, New York City
United States
Coordinates 40°45′34″N73°59′33″W / 40.7595°N 73.9926°W / 40.7595; -73.9926 Coordinates: 40°45′34″N73°59′33″W / 40.7595°N 73.9926°W / 40.7595; -73.9926
OwnerReno Productions (Peter Askin)
Type Off-Broadway
Capacity 270 (Upstairs Theatre)
249 (Downstairs Theatre)
Website
www.westsidetheatre.com

The Westside Theatre is an off-Broadway performance space at 407 West 43rd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The building houses two auditoriums: the Upstairs Theatre, which seats 270, and the Downstairs Theatre, which features a thrust stage and has a seating capacity of 249. Formerly known as the Chelsea Theatre Center and the Westside Arts Theatre, the building was renovated in 1991.

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History

The Romanesque Revival style building, designed by Henry Franklin Kilburn, was constructed in 1890 for the Second German Baptist Church, which it housed until the 1960s. The site was then occupied by various nightclubs until its establishment as a theatre in 1976. [1]

Selected past productions

Upstairs

Date openedShow title
October 17, 2019 Little Shop of Horrors
March 7, 2019Chick Flick the Musical by Suzy Conn [2]
July 20, 2017 Curvy Widow
June 22, 2016 Cagney (502 performances) [3]
October 12, 2015 Clever Little Lies
April 7, 2015Disenchanted! The Hilarious Hit Musical
October 19, 2014 The Belle of Amherst
March 4, 2014 Satchmo at the Waldorf
October 29, 2013Becoming Dr. Ruth
November 28, 2012 My Name Is Asher Lev
August 2, 2012 The Last Smoker in America
June 23, 2011 The Voca People
May 10, 2010 The Screwtape Letters
September 14, 2008 The Marvelous Wonderettes
August 1, 1996 I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
August 7, 1995 The Food Chain
May 28, 1995 The Cryptogram
December 8, 1994 You Should Be So Lucky
August 9, 1993 Later Life by A. R. Gurney
February 23, 1993 The Best of Friends
October 9, 1992 Spic-O-Rama by John Leguizamo
June 2, 1992 Balancing Act
March 18, 1991 And the World Goes 'Round
December 4, 1987 Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
May 7, 1987 Educating Rita
December 22, 1982 Extremities
October 13, 1981 March of the Falsettos
October 14, 1980 Really Rosie

Downstairs

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Theatre at dusk
Date openedShow title
July 21, 2019#DateMe: An OKCupid Experiment
November 12, 2018The Other Josh Cohen
October 5, 2017Stuffed
October 25, 2016Othello: The Remix
March 7, 2016 White Rabbit Red Rabbit [4] [5] [6]
July 27, 2015The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
February 10, 2015Application Pending
May 14, 2014Los Monologos de la Vagina
December 15, 2013Handle With Care
May 20, 2012Old Jews Telling Jokes
January 24, 2011Through the Night
October 1, 2009 Love, Loss, and What I Wore
November 18, 2008Dust
December 8, 2006My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy
October 21, 2004 Jewtopia
March 24, 2004From Door to Door
September 4, 2003 Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted
March 5, 2003Barbara's Wedding
October 3, 1999 The Vagina Monologues
October 1, 1998 The Mystery of Irma Vep
October 24, 1997Marc Salem's Mindgames
October 7, 1996Political Animal
September 24, 1996 Full Gallop
September 7, 1995Too Jewish
March 5, 1994Nixon's Nixon
September 28, 1993Family Secrets by Sherry Glaser
April 23, 1993Wild Men!
September 8, 1992Cut the Ribbons
January 3, 1992Finkle's Follies
April 12, 1991Only the Truth is Funny
October 29, 1987 A Shayna Maidel
April 18, 1985 Penn & Teller
July 3, 1981 What the Butler Saw
March 22, 1976 Vanities
November 20, 1974 The Mother / The Great Train Robbery, performed by San Francisco Mime Troupe

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