Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, showing Three Days of Rain, 2006

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, showing Frost/Nixon, and four other Broadway theatres in 45th street, 2007

The Royale Theatre, showing Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 2003

The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 242 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan.

Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it opened as the Royale Theatre on January 11, 1927 with a musical entitled Piggy. Producer John Golden leased the theatre and renamed it for himself from 1932 to 1937 (when he moved to the Theatre Masque next door). The Shubert Organization then assumed ownership and initially leased the theatre to CBS Radio. In 1940 the Royale was restored to use as a legitimate theatre under its original name. On May 9, 2005, it was renamed for longtime Shubert Organization president Bernard B. Jacobs.

Notable productions

• 1928: Diamond Lil
• 1940: Du Barry Was a Lady
• 1941: The Corn is Green
• 1946: The Glass Menagerie
• 1947: Our Lan'
• 1949: The Madwoman of Chaillot
• 1952: New Faces of 1952
• 1954: The Boy Friend
• 1955: The Matchmaker
• 1958: The Entertainer
• 1958: Gigi
• 1960: Becket
• 1961: The Night of the Iguana
• 1964: The Subject Was Roses
• 1965: The Owl and the Pussycat; Cactus Flower
• 1971: The Incomparable Max
• 1972: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; Grease
• 1980: Whose Life is it Anyway?; A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
• 1982: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• 1984: The Human Comedy
• 1985: Pack of Lies; Song and Dance
• 1988: Speed the Plow
• 1989: Lend Me a Tenor
• 1992: Conversations with My Father
• 1997: Triumph of Love
• 1998: 'Art'
• 2000: Copenhagen
• 2003: Anna in the Tropics
• 2004: A Raisin In the Sun"
• 2005: Glengarry Glen Ross
• 2006: Three Days of Rain; Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
• 2007: Frost/Nixon; Rock 'n' Roll*
• 2008: The Country Girl; 13 (musical)
• 2009: God of Carnage
• 2010: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Previews began September 21, 2010. Show's run ended January 2, 2011)
• 2011: That Championship Season (Previews began February 9, 2011, opening March 6, with a limited engagement until May 29, 2011)
• 2011: "The Mountaintop" (Previews began September 22, 2011, opening October 13, will close January, 22 2012)
• 2012: Once (Previews begin February 28, 2012, opening March 18, 2012)

References

Notes

External links

• Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
• Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre | PlaybillVault.com
• New York Theatre Guide