Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (Broadway)

On May 9, 2005, the former Royale Theatre was officially renamed the Bernard B. Jacobs in honor of the late Mr. Jacobs, who was president of the Shubert Organization from 1972 until 1996. The Shubert board took this action to recognize Mr. Jacobs’s outstanding contributions to the company. The Shubert’s Royale Theatre opened in 1927, was rechristened the Golden in 1934 and was a radio theatre from 1936 until 1940, when the Shuberts again acquired it and restored it to the Royale.

The theatre's most recent productions have been "Three Days of Rain;" "Glengarry Glen Ross;" "’night", "Mother;" "A Raisin in the Sun;" "Anna in the Tropics;" "'MASTER HAROLD'…and the boys;" "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom;" "Jackie Mason: Prune Danish;" "The Elephant Man;" "John Leguizamo’s Sexaholix: A Love Story;" "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest;" "Copenhagen;" "The Price;" "Art;" "Triumph of Love;" "Skylight;" "Inherit the Wind;" "An Inspector Calls;" "The Kentucky Cycle;" Herb Gardner's popular play "Conversations with My Father," with a Tony Award-winning performance by Judd Hirsch; the uproarious British hit "Lend Me a Tenor" with Philip Bosco giving a Tony Award-winning performance; David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" with Ron Silver (Tony Award), Joe Mantegna and Madonna making her Broadway debut; Caryl Churchill's British satire "Serious Money;" "Roza," a musical directed by Harold Prince; "Broadway," a revival of George Abbott and Philip Dunning's famed 1926 play on the occasion of Abbott's 100th birthday; Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Song & Dance" with a dazzling, Tony Award-winning turn by Bernadette Peters and the dancing virtuosity of Christopher and Charlotte D'Amboise; the British hit "Pack of Lies" starring Rosemary Harris; "Home Front," starring Carroll O'- Connor and Frances Sternhagen; "Kipling," a one-man show starring Alec McCowen; a musical version of Saroyan's "The Human Comedy;" Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's biblical rock musical ^Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat~; Anne Bancroft and Max von Sydow in "Duet for One;" and Mary Tyler Moore in a revised version of the hit British play "Whose Life Is It Anyway?," in which she played the role originally acted by Tom Conti.

From 1972 to April 13, 1980, the mega-hit "Grease" played here and became the longest-running Broadway musical up to that time with 3,388 performances. Other hits of the 1970's included Robert Marasco's chiller "Child's Play" with Ken Howard (Tony), Pat Hingle, Fritz Weaver (Tony) and David Rounds; and Michael Weller's topical play "Moonchildren"

Highlights of the 1960's included Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn in "Becket," which moved here from the St. James; "From the Second City," a hit revue from Chicago with deft improvisations by Alan Arkin, Barbara Harris, Paul Sand and others; Tennessee Williams's "The Night of the Iguana," starring Margaret Leighton (who won a Tony Award for her luminous performance), Bette Davis, Alan Webb and Patrick O'Neill; S.N. Behrman's "Lord Pengo," a high comedy about an art dealer, starring Charles Boyer, Agnes Moorehead, Brian Bedford and Henry Daniell; Coral Browne and Keith Mitchell in Anouilh's "The Rehearsal;" Margaret Leighton, John Williams, Alan Webb, Peter Donat and Douglas Watson in Enid Bagnold's "The Chinese Prime Minister;" Frank Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize play, "The Subject Was Roses," starring Jack Albertson (who won a Tony Award for his performance), Irene Dailey and Martin Sheen; Jason Robards in O'Neill's "Hughie;" Lauren Bacall, Barry Nelson, Brenda Vaccaro and Robert Moore in the hit comedy "Cactus Flower;" and Robert Shaw's play "The Man in the Glass Booth," starring Donald Pleasence and directed by Harold Pinter.

Past hits: "La Plume de Ma Tante" (1958); Laurence Olivier in "The Entertainer" (1958); "The Matchmaker" (1955); "The Boy Friend" (1954); Geraldine Page, Louis Jordan and James Dean in Gide's "The Immoralist" (1954).

Theatre Information:
242 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
US

Box Office: Tele-charge: (212) 239-6200
Outside New York: (800) 432-7250

Public Transportation:
SUBWAY: Take the N,Q,R,W or 1,2,3,9 to 42nd Street, walk North on Broadway to 45th Street and walk West on 45th Street to the theatre; Take the A,C,E to 42nd Street, walk North on Eighth Avenue to 45th Street and walk East on 45th Street to the theatre.

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