On Broadway, many theatres see several shows load in and load out again over the course of a single season. But there are some shows that stand the test of time, lasting in a theatre for years, even decades.
Can you guess the longest running show in each Broadway house? Test your theatre knowledge and learn more about each production at Playbill.com/Broadway-Theatres.
Al Hirschfeld Theatre Marquee
Cast of Kinky Boots
Ambassador Theatre Marquee
Ann Reinking and Bebe Neuwirth
Dan Chavkin
American Airlines Theatre
The Royal Family Playbill - December 1927
August Wilson Theatre
Jersey Boys
Joan Marcus
Belasco Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
Dead End Playbill - Dec 1935
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Grease Playbill - July 1972
Booth Theatre
Butterflies are Free
Broadhurst Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
Amadeus Playbill - Opening Night, Dec 1980
Broadway Theatre
Miss Saigon
Michael Le Poer Trench
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Keala Settle, Jessie Mueller and Kimiko Glenn in the original Broadway production of Waitress
Joan Marcus
Circle in the Square Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Joan Marcus
Cort Theatre
The Magic Show
Courtesy of Gifford/Wallace Inc.
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Joanna Gleason, James Naughton, and Ilene Graff in I Love My Wife
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Nikki M. James, Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad, and the cast of The Book of Mormon
Joan Marcus
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
Jekyll and Hyde
Gershwin Theatre Marquee
Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in Wicked
Joan Marcus
Helen Hayes Theatre
Gemini
The Hudson Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
State of the Union
Imperial Theatre
Les Misérables
Michael Le Power Trench
John Golden Theatre
Avenue Q
Carol Rosegg
Longacre Theatre
Phyllis Frelich, John Rubinstein, and Julianne Gold in Children of a Lesser God
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Susan Egan and Terrence Mann in Beauty and the Beast.
Joan Marcus
Lyceum Theatre
Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday
Lyric Theatre
42nd Street
Majestic Theatre
The Phantom of the Opera
Marquis Theatre
Me and My Girl Playbill - Opening Night, Aug 1986
Minskoff Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
The Lion King
Music Box Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
Deathtrap
Nederlander Theatre
The original Broadway cast of Rent.
Joan Marcus
Neil Simon Theatre marquee
Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur
Paul Kolnik
New Amsterdam Theatre
The Lion King
Palace Theatre
Beauty and the Beast
Joan Marcus/Walt Disney Theatrical Productions
Richard Rodgers Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast of Hamilton
Joan Marcus
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Marquee
Cast
Friedman-Abeles/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
Sam S. Shubert Theatre
A Chorus Line
St. James Theatre
Hello, Dolly!
Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Jessie Mueller in Beautiful
Joan Marcus
Studio 54 Marquee
Alan Cumming and The Kit Kat Girls in Cabaret.
Joan Marcus
Vivian Beaumont Theater
Karen Ziemba (center) and the company of Contact.
Walter Kerr Theatre
Marc J. Franklin
Proof
Joan Marcus
Winter Garden Theatre
Terrence Mann (center) in the original Broadway production of Cats.
Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
