Dates: 1913 – present
Official website: http://palacetheatreonbroadway.com
Capacity: 1740 seats
Co-owned by the Nederlander Organisation and Stewart F. Lane
Selected Past Productions
- September 2018 – ?
Palace Theatre closed for major renovations, involving lifting the entire venue up to create new retail space under it.
Article about the project in Forbes - Spongebob Squarepants – The Broadway Musical (December 4 2017 – September 16 2018)
- Sunset Boulevard (February 9 – June 25 2017)
- An American In Paris (April 12 2015 – October 9 2016)
- Annie (November 8 2012 – January 5 2014)
- Priscilla Queen of the Desert (March 20 2011 – June 24 2012)
- West Side Story (March 19 2009 – January 2 2011)
- Legally Blonde (April 29 2007 – October 19 2008)
- Disney’s Aida (March 23 2000 – September 5 2004)
- Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (April 18 1994 – September 5 1999)
- Renovations to prepare the theatre for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
- The Will Rogers Follies (May 1 1991 – September 5 1993) starring Keith Carradine
- La Cage Aux Folles (August 21 1983 – November 15 1987) starring George Hearn
- Man of La Mancha () starring Richard Kiley
- Woman of the Year (March 29 1981 – March 13 1983) starring Lauren Bacall
- Frankenstein (January 4 1981) opened and closed on the same night [New York Times article]
- Oklahoma! (December 13 1979 – August 24 1980)
- Applause (March 30 1970 – July 27 1972) starring Lauren Bacall
- Sweet Charity (January 29 1966 – July 15 1967) starring Gwen Verdon
- The Palace Theatre was a famous vaudeville theatre. Acts that played there include: Ethel Barrymore, Harry Houdini, Will Rogers, Ethel Merman, Judy Garland, Jerry Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Bette Midler, Shirley MacLaine, and Diana Ross. Like many venues it suffered during the Depression, and became a movie theatre. The Nederlanders bought it in July 1965 and set it up to be a legitimate theatre for the opening of Sweet Charity.