Type Broadway Architect Herbert J. Krapp Phone +1 212-239-6200 | Opened February 24, 1927 Capacity 804 | |
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Owner The Shubert Organization Address 252 W 45th St, New York, NY 10036, USA Similar Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, Booth Theatre, Broadhurst Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Imperial Theatre | ||
Hamish linklater at the john golden theatre
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.
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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 1950s 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.