Shubert Theatre (Boston)

Shubert Theatre
Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center, Boston, 2018
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Address265 Tremont Street
LocationBoston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°21′01″N 71°03′55″W / 42.3504°N 71.0654°W / 42.3504; -71.0654
Public transitBoylston, Tufts Medical Center
OwnerThe Shubert Organization
OperatorBoch Center
Typetheatre
Capacity1,600
Construction
Built1908
Website
www.bochcenter.org
Shubert Theatre (Boston) is located in Massachusetts
Shubert Theatre (Boston)
ArchitectHill, James, & Whitaker; Et al.
MPSBoston Theatre MRA
NRHP reference No.80000444[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 9, 1980

The Shubert Theatre is a theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, at 263-265 Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District.[2] It opened on January 24, 1910, with a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew starring E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Architect Thomas M. James (Hill, James, & Whitaker) designed the building,[3] which seats approximately 1,600 people. Originally conceived as The Lyric Theatre by developer Charles H. Bond, it was taken over by The Shubert Organization in 1908 after Bond's death.[4]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In February 1996, the Wang Center signed a 40-year lease agreement to operate the theatre with the Shubert Organization, which continues to own the building and property;[5] the theatre reopened after renovation in November 1996, as the first stop on the First National Tour of RENT.[5][6] The Boch family became the namesake of the center in 2016, making the full name of the theatre the Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center.[7]

Pre-Broadway engagements

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See also

References

Notes
  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Boston register and business directory. 1921". HathiTrust. April 13, 2020. hdl:2027/hvd.hb0l8l. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  3. ^ Susan Wilson. Boston sites & insights: an essential guide to historic landmarks in and around Boston. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004
  4. ^ "Beautiful New Theatre to be Named the Shubert". The Boston Daily Globe. December 12, 1909.
  5. ^ a b Center, Boch. "Theatre History | Boch Center". www.bochcenter.org. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  6. ^ Gans, Andrew (September 7, 2008). ""Seasons of Love": A Rent Timeline". Playbill.
  7. ^ Leung, Shirley (2016-09-15). "The Boch name spreads to the Theater District". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
  8. ^ "Musical Comedy: "Here's Howe" for Boston". Billboard. Vol. 40, no. 15. April 14, 1928. p. 8.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shubert Theatre, Boston.
  • Boston Public Library, Special Collections. William B. Jackson Theater Collection Archived 2013-07-05 at the Wayback Machine. Includes materials related to the Shubert Theatre, 1910-1989
  • Library of Congress. Drawing of New Shubert Theatre, Tremont St. opposite Hollis St., Boston, Massachusetts, 1929.
  • New York Public Library:
    • Flyer promoting the pre-Broadway booking (2 weeks beginning Monday November 7, 1938) of The Boys From Syracuse at the Shubert Theatre (Boston, Mass.)
    • Flyer advertising Too Many Girls opening at the Shubert Theatre (Boston, Mass.) (1939)
    • Program (May 11-23, 1942) for All's Fair, the pre-Broadway title for By Jupiter, at the Shubert Theatre (Boston, Mass.)
  • Bostonian Society:
    • Photo of 263-265 Tremont Street, c. 1943
    • Photo of interior of Shubert Theater, c. 1935-50
    • Photo of interior of Shubert Theater, 20th century
    • Photo of 263-265 Tremont Street, c. 1957
    • Photo of 255-275 Tremont Street, c. 1959
  • Boston Athenæum Theater History Archived 2021-04-14 at the Wayback Machine. Shubert Theatre (1910- ), 265 Tremont Street
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