John Golden Theatre
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The John Golden Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street 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 Theater Masque on February 24, 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion. Seventy-six years later it would house 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 operated as a movie house in the 1940s and '50s before it was purchased by the Shuberts, who returned it to legitimate use.
With a seating capacity of only 800, it is one of the smallest houses on Broadway.
- 1933: Tobacco Road
- 1941: Angel Street
- 1956: Waiting for Godot
- 1958: Look Back in Anger
- 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!
- 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
- 1992: Falsettos
- 1995: Master Class
- 1998: Side Man
- 2002: The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
- 2003: Avenue Q
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