Walter Kerr Theatre
| Walter Kerr Theatre | |
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 The marquee of the Walter Kerr Theatre in 2006 |
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| Address | 219 West 48th Street |
| City | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Owned by | Jujamcyn Theaters |
| Capacity | 975 |
| Type | Broadway theatre |
| Opened | 1929 |
| Reopened | 1990 |
| Previous names | Ritz Theatre |
The Walter Kerr Theatre is a Broadway theatre. Located at 219 West 48th Street, it is owned and operated by Jujamcyn Theaters. One of the smaller auditoriums in the Theater District, it seats 975.
The theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and built as the Ritz Theatre in 1921 by the Shubert family. It was operated by ABC as a radio and then television studio between 1943 and 1965, and remained vacant from 1965 to 1971, when it reopened with the musical Soon, book by Martin Duberman, which closed after three performances. Although it housed a number of productions in the next two years, it remained dark from 1973 to 1983. The last production to staged at the Ritz was Chu Chem. After it closed, Jujamcyn hired EverGreene Architectural Arts to renovate the interior. In 1990 it reopened, now renamed for theater critic Walter Kerr, with August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Since then it has housed seven winners of the Tony Award for Best Play: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Proof, Take Me Out, Doubt, and Clybourne Park.
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Other notable productions
- 1938: Murder in the Cathedral
- 1942: My Sister Eileen
- 1971: Dance of Death
- 1973: No Sex Please, We're British
- 1991: I Hate Hamlet
- 1992: Two Trains Running
- 1996: Seven Guitars
- 1998: The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- 1999: The Weir
- 2000: A Moon for the Misbegotten
- 2004: Gem of the Ocean
- 2006: Grey Gardens
- 2008: A Catered Affair
- 2008: The Seagull
- 2009: Irena's Vow (Mar-Jun)
- 2009: A Little Night Music
- 2011: The House of Blue Leaves
- 2011: Lysistrata Jones
- 2012: Clybourne Park
- 2012: The Heiress
- 2013: The Testament of Mary
- 2013: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder; Forever Tango
Box Office Record
The Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, achieved the box office record for the Walter Kerr Theatre. The production grossed $1,031,543 over eight performances, for the week ending January 03, 2010.1
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External links
- Walter Kerr Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jujamcyn Theaters
- Telecharge.com - Official Ticket Website
- NYC Theatre - Unofficial Ticket Website
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