Henry Miller's Theater

Completed 1918 | Rebuilt 2009

Architect Allen, Ingalls & Hoffman

The Henry Miller's Theater is the first new Broadway house built in the new millenium to exacting standards and the first carbon-neutral theater.  Read te New York Times article on the re-opening of teh theater for more information.

Here's teh history of the original theater:

This is one of a number of theaters built post-World War I for specific impresarios. Henry Miller, actor-director-producer, operated the theater until his death in 1926. In contrast to the one-balcony practice in new theater construction of the day, Miller made sure to include the second balcony; those were the seats he was able to afford as a young man

Louis Evan Shipman's drama The Fountain of Youth opened the theater on April 1, 1918. The show was directed by Henry Miller, choreographed by Henry Miller, produced by Henry Miller and starred Henry Miller. In case you've forgotten, it was staged at Henry Miller's theater

With few exceptions the theater has not operated as a legitimate Broadway venue since its conversion to a cinema theater in 1969. Through much of the 90s, Henry Miller's had been home to the Kit Kat Club, the latest in a string of discos and dance clubs. The impresarios name still appears on the marquee and one of the original Broadway theaters above 42nd Street was again host to a legitimate production when the revival of Cabaret moved to the theater in 1998 in search of Tony eligibility. The Miller cachet worked

1919 George and Ira Gershwin's now forgotten musical La Lucille plays 104 performances

1919 Henry Miller produces and stars with Blanche Bates in James Forbes' drama The Famous Mrs. Fair

1922 The Awful Truth, an Arthur Richman comedy, stars Ina Claire

1923 Are you one of thousands standing outside Henry Miller's to see Jane Cowl after her performance in Romeo and Juliet. You might if you love Broadway in 1923. Her Romeo is Rollo Peters

1925 Noel Coward authored and stars in The Vortex. Sharing the stage are Lillian Braithwaite and Leo G Carroll

1934 Eugene O'Neill's Days Without End ends after 57 performances

1934 It isn't only because our buddy Charlie likes Gladys George, her starring role in Lawrence Riley's comedy Personal Appearance runs 501 times

1939 Produced and directed by Jed Harris, Thornton Wilder's Our Town is an instant classic. Wilder wins a Pulitzer Prize

1942 642 performances strong, Gwen Anderson, Frank Amy and Herbert Evans star in the Josephine Bentham-Herschel Williams comedy Janie

1943 Helen Hayes is on the boards in Harriet, a drama by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements

1944 Lenore Lonergan. Say it 3 times fast. She appears with Virginia Gilmore and John Dall in the long-running comedy Dear Ruth

1950 TS Eliot. The Cocktail Party. Alec Guiness. Irene Worth. Magic

1951 Barbara Bel Geddes takes to the Henry Miller's stage with Barry Nelson and Donald Cook for 924 performances of F Hugh Herbert's The Moon is Blue

1953 Why does it have to be a limited run? Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful has nary a bump with Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet guiding a young Eva Marie Saint. Van Fleet wins a Tony

1954 Crime drama can't get any better than Agatha Christie. Her Witness for the Prosecution stars Francis L Sullivan, Gene Lyons and Patricia Jessel. Sullivan and Jessel earn Tonys for their performances

1957 A young actress makes her debut in the Georges Feydeau-MauriceDesvallieres comedy Hotel Paradiso. She goes on to win 4 best musical actress awards. Would Angela Lansbury have won 5 Tonys if her debut show had music?

1963 Alan Arkin Enters Laughing with Alan Mowbray and Vivian Blaine in the Joseph Stein comedy. Arkin earns a Tony

1998 This revival of Cabaret is deemed Tony-eligible by the committee. It's a good thing: Alan Cumming, Natasha Richardson and Ron Rifkin all win the little doodads