Musical Today New York, United States
Palace Theatre
1,648 seats
The house where “playing the Palace” meant you had arrived, and the only Broadway theatre that has been lifted thirty feet off its own foundations. The Lost Boys has played it since March 2026.
Inside the Palace Theatre
For the first fifteen years of its life the Palace was the top of the profession. It opened in 1913 as the flagship of the Keith–Albee vaudeville circuit, and an engagement here was the proof that a performer had made it: Ethel Barrymore, Harry Houdini, Will Rogers, Ethel Merman, Judy Garland, Harry Belafonte, Shirley MacLaine and Diana Ross all played it. “Playing the Palace” entered the language and stayed there long after vaudeville did not.
James M. Nederlander turned it into a legitimate Broadway house in 1965, reopening it the following year with Sweet Charity. It has 1,648 seats and is one of the Nederlander Organization’s nine Broadway theatres, co-owned with Stewart F. Lane.
Then the building moved. Between 2018 and 2024 the Palace was rebuilt into the base of the TSX Broadway tower, and in 2022 the entire auditorium — walls, ceiling, plasterwork — was cut free and raised thirty feet so that retail space could be built beneath it. The room that reopened in 2024 is the room of 1913, one storey higher than it used to be.
Opening dates, capacities and architects on this page come from the theatre's own history pages and from Wikipedia.
Getting there
47–50 Streets–Rockefeller Center on the B, D, F and M; 49th Street on the N, R and W; 50th Street on the 1.
