Musical Today New York, United States
Shubert Theatre
1,502 seats
The house the Shubert brothers built in memory of a third brother, and the one the organisation named after itself. Galileo begins previews here on 10 November 2026.
Inside the Shubert Theatre
The theatre is a memorial. Lee and J. J. Shubert opened it in 1913 and named it for Sam S. Shubert, the brother who had died in a railway accident several years earlier; the Italian Renaissance building is by Henry Beaumont Herts, and both its facade and its auditorium are New York City landmarks.
It holds 1,502 seats — 700 in the orchestra, 410 in the mezzanine, 350 in the balcony — which makes it a full-sized musical house without being one of the barns. A Chorus Line ran here for fifteen years and Chicago's revival played it for six years before moving to the Ambassador, where it still is.
Shubert Alley runs down its eastern side: the private lane between this theatre and the Booth that the profession has used as a noticeboard since the 1910s, and the reason the block is the centre of the Theater District rather than merely in it.
Opening dates, capacities and architects on this page come from the theatre's own history pages and from Wikipedia.
Getting there
Times Square–42nd Street on the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W and S; 42nd Street–Port Authority on the A, C and E.
