New Victory Theatre

• Brundibar (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2006)
  May 7, 2006 - May 21, 2007
• Shockheaded Peter (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1999)
  October 14, 1999 - October 31, 1999
• It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1999)
  March 26, 1999 - April 11, 1999
• The Green Bird (World Premiere, 1996)
  March 1996 - no date entered yet

Built: 1900
Venue Status: Status unknown
Seating Capacity: 489 (originally 982)

Location Info

209 W. 42nd St.
New York, NY Find on Google

• New Victory Theatre (12/11/1995)
• Victory Theatre (1942)
• Minsky's Theatre (1930)
• Theatre Republic (1910)
• Belasco Theatre (1902)
• Theatre Republic (1900)

Built by Oscar Hammerstein I, the theatre boasted a roof garden (Paradise Roof Garden) which adjoined the Victoria Theatre next door. David Belsaco took over in 1902, remodelling the auditorium and renaming it. When he built his own theatre, the name reverted back to the Republic.

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In 1932, Billy Minsky used the house for burlesque. When Mayor LaGuardia banned burlesque in 1942, the building became a cinema, showing second-run movies. In the 1970s, it became Times Square's first adult movie theatre.

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The theatre was restored and re-opened in 1995 as a legitimate off-Broadway house.