John Golden Theatre
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| Theatre Masque (1927-1937) | |
| Exterior of the John Golden Theatre
The John Golden Theatre, showing Avenue Q, 2006
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| Address | 252 West 45th Street New York City United States |
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| Owner | The Shubert Organization |
| Type | Broadway |
| Capacity | 804 |
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| Opened | February 24, 1927 |
| Architect | Herbert J. Krapp |
The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theatre Masque (also known as the Masque Theater) on February 24, 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion. Seventy-six years later it housed another production known for its puppets, the award-winning Avenue Q.
In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and '50s before it was purchased by the Shubert Organization, who returned it to full-time theatrical use. The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film A Chorus Line. It is also shown in the background during the opening scenes of All About Eve as the home of Margot Channing's Aged In Wood.
With a seating capacity of only 800, it is one of the smallest houses on Broadway.
Notable productions
- 1929: Rope's End
- 1931: Up Pops the Devil
- 1932: The Great Day
- 1933: Tobacco Road
- 1941: Angel Street
- 1953: Comedy in Music
- 1956: Waiting for Godot
- 1957: Uncle Willie
- 1958: Look Back in Anger; A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- 1959: At the Drop of a Hat
- 1960: An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May
- 1961: An Evening with Yves Montand
- 1962: Beyond the Fringe
- 1971: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- 1972: Sticks and Bones
- 1975: P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!
- 1976: Going Up
- 1977: The Gin Game
- 1980: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine; Tintypes
- 1981: Crimes of the Heart
- 1983: 'night, Mother
- 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross
- 1988: Eastern Standard
- 1992: Falsettos
- 1995: Master Class
- 1998: Side Man
- 2002: The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
- 2003: Avenue Q
- 2009: Oleanna
- 2010: Red; Driving Miss Daisy
- 2011: The Normal Heart
- 2011: Seminar
- 2012: The Anarchist
- 2013: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; A Time to Kill
- 2014: Mothers and Sons; A Delicate Balance
- 2015: Skylight; The Gin Game
- 2016: Eclipsed
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- John Golden Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
- John Golden Theatre at Playbill Vault.com
- The Shubert Organization
- New York Theatre Guide
- Seating chart
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