Address | 407 West 43rd Street Manhattan, New York City United States |
---|---|
Coordinates | 40°45′34″N73°59′33″W / 40.7595°N 73.9926°W Coordinates: 40°45′34″N73°59′33″W / 40.7595°N 73.9926°W |
Owner | Reno Productions (Peter Askin) |
Type | Off-Broadway |
Capacity | 270 (Upstairs Theatre) 249 (Downstairs Theatre) |
Website | |
www |
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.
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]
Date opened | Show title |
---|---|
October 17, 2019 | Little Shop of Horrors |
March 7, 2019 | Chick 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, 2015 | Disenchanted! The Hilarious Hit Musical |
October 19, 2014 | The Belle of Amherst |
March 4, 2014 | Satchmo at the Waldorf |
October 29, 2013 | Becoming 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 |
Date opened | Show title |
---|---|
July 21, 2019 | #DateMe: An OKCupid Experiment |
November 12, 2018 | The Other Josh Cohen |
October 5, 2017 | Stuffed |
October 25, 2016 | Othello: The Remix |
March 7, 2016 | White Rabbit Red Rabbit [4] [5] [6] |
July 27, 2015 | The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey |
February 10, 2015 | Application Pending |
May 14, 2014 | Los Monologos de la Vagina |
December 15, 2013 | Handle With Care |
May 20, 2012 | Old Jews Telling Jokes |
January 24, 2011 | Through the Night |
October 1, 2009 | Love, Loss, and What I Wore |
November 18, 2008 | Dust |
December 8, 2006 | My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy |
October 21, 2004 | Jewtopia |
March 24, 2004 | From Door to Door |
September 4, 2003 | Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted |
March 5, 2003 | Barbara's Wedding |
October 3, 1999 | The Vagina Monologues |
October 1, 1998 | The Mystery of Irma Vep |
October 24, 1997 | Marc Salem's Mindgames |
October 7, 1996 | Political Animal |
September 24, 1996 | Full Gallop |
September 7, 1995 | Too Jewish |
March 5, 1994 | Nixon's Nixon |
September 28, 1993 | Family Secrets by Sherry Glaser |
April 23, 1993 | Wild Men! |
September 8, 1992 | Cut the Ribbons |
January 3, 1992 | Finkle's Follies |
April 12, 1991 | Only 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 |
Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Broadway runs from State Street at Bowling Green for 13 mi (21 km) through the borough of Manhattan and 2 mi (3.2 km) through the Bronx, exiting north from New York City to run an additional 18 mi (29 km) through the Westchester County municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow.
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100.
Pauline Collins is a British actress who first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1973) and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah (1979). In 1992, she published her autobiography Letter to Louise.
Times Square Church is an interdenominational congregation located at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on 237 West 51st Street in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City. Times Square Church was founded by Pastor David Wilkerson in 1987 and bought the Mark Hellinger Theatre in 1991.
Martin Charnin was an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director. Charnin's best-known work is as conceiver, director, and lyricist of the musical Annie.
Carol Lawrence is an American actress, appearing in musical theatre and on television. She is known for creating the role of Maria on Broadway in the musical West Side Story (1957), receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She appeared at The Muny, St. Louis, in several musicals, including Funny Girl. She also appeared in many television dramas, including Rawhide and Murder She Wrote. She was married to fellow performer Robert Goulet.
David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations.
The Hippodrome Theatre, also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theater in New York City from 1905 to 1939, located on Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and West 44th Streets in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan. It was called the world's largest theatre by its builders and had a seating capacity of 5,300, with a 100x200ft (30x61m) stage. The theatre had state-of-the-art theatrical technology, including a rising glass water tank.
The Bouwerie Lane Theatre is a former bank building which became an Off-Broadway theatre, located at 330 Bowery at Bond Street in Manhattan, New York City. It is located in the NoHo Historic District.
The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.
Second Stage Theater is a theater company founded in 1979 by Robyn Goodman and Carole Rothman and located in Manhattan, New York City. It produces both new plays and revivals of contemporary American plays by new playwrights and established writers. The company has two off-Broadway theaters, their main stage, the Tony Kiser Theater at 305 West 43rd Street on the corner of Eighth Avenue near the Theater District, and the McGinn/Cazale Theater at 2162 Broadway at 76th Street on the Upper West Side. In April 2015, the company bought the Helen Hayes Theater, a Broadway theater.
The Astor Place Theatre is an off-Broadway house located at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan. The theater is located in the historic Colonnade Row, originally constructed in 1831 as a series of nine connected buildings, of which only four remain. Though it bears the same name, it was not the site of the Astor Place Riot of 1849.
Marcia Lewis was an American character actress and singer. She was nominated twice for the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and twice for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.
The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse at 121 Christopher Street in Manhattan's West Village. It was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse. The interior is largely unchanged to this day.
The Laurie Beechman Theatre is an 80-seat dinner theater in the basement of the West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street in the Manhattan Plaza apartment complex in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City.
York Theatre is an off-Broadway theatre company based in East Midtown Manhattan, New York City. In its 50th year, York Theatre is dedicated to the production of new musicals and concert productions of forgotten musicals from the past. Each season consists of three or four mainstage productions, six or more concert presentations and dozens of developmental readings. It has had several transfers of its work to larger off-Broadway theatres and to Broadway. The company was awarded a special Drama Desk Award in 1996 to its artistic director Janet Hayes Walker and in 2006 for its "vital contributions to theater by developing and presenting new musicals". The York also received a Special Achievement Outer Critics Circle Award for 50 years of producing new and classic musicals. After Walker's death in 1997, the company has been run by James Morgan.
The Apollo Theatre was a Broadway theatre whose entrance was located at 223 West 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, while the theatre proper was on 43rd Street. It was demolished in 1996 and provided part of the site for the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts, now known as the Lyric Theatre.
Nassim Soleimanpour (born 10 December 1981, is an Iranian playwright. He is best known for his 2010 play White Rabbit Red Rabbit.
Thomas Joseph Kirdahy is an American Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatrical producer, lawyer, and activist.
Olympic Theatre was the name of five former 19th and early 20th-century theatres on Broadway in Manhattan and in Brooklyn, New York.