John Golden Theatre

The John Golden Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street 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 Theater Masque 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. With a seating capacity of only 800, it is one of the smallest houses on Broadway.

In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. It operated as a movie house in the 1940s and '50s before it was purchased by the Shuberts, who returned it to legitimate use. The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film, A Chorus Line. Notable productions 1933: Tobacco Road 1941: Angel Street 1956: Waiting for Godot 1958: Look Back in Anger; A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green 1959: At the Drop of a Hat 1960: An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May 1961: An Evening with Yves Montand 1962: Beyond the Fringe 1971: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 1972: Sticks and Bones 1975: P. S. Your Cat Is Dead! 1977: The Gin Game 1980: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine; Tintypes 1981: Crimes of the Heart 1983: 'night, Mother 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross 1992: Falsettos 1995: Master Class 1998: Side Man 2002: The Goat or Who is Sylvia? 2003: Avenue Q

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