Industry NewsShubert Organization Scraps Plans for New Broadway TheatrePlanned venue was to be on West 45th Street.
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Logan Culwell-Block
September 12, 2017
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After years of planning, the Shubert Organization has canceled plans for building a new Broadway theatre, as confirmed to Playbill by Shubert Director of Media Relations Bill Evans.
The planned venue would have been part of a residential tower still scheduled to go up next door to the Imperial Theatre—also a Shubert property—between 45th and 46th Streets in midtown. The new theatre would have brought the total number of Shubert-owned Broadway houses to 18.
With the cancellation of these plans, Ambassador Theatre Group's Hudson Theatre remains the "newest" Broadway house; the venue, built in 1903, was in use as a Broadway house off and on through 1968, at which point it became a movie theatre and later lay vacant until undergoing significant renovations and re-opening as a Broadway theatre in 2017.
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Look Inside the Newly Renovated Hudson Theatre
Look Inside the Newly Renovated Hudson Theatre
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The Hudson Theatre
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Photo of the original Hudson Theatre
After Henry B. Harris died on the Titanic, his wife Renée (who survived the tragedy), returned to operate the theatre, becoming New York's first female theatrical producer.
The Hudson Theatre box office has remained largely untouched, highlighting the theatre's original design.
Original Tiffany Glass from the Louis Comfort Tiffany studio.
Hudson Theatre auditorium
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Hudson Theatre auditorium
Balcony of the Hudson Theatre auditorium
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Hudson Theatre auditorium
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The hexagonal pattern from the theatre's proscenium heavily influenced the design of the Hudson Theatre's renovation.
Restored original mosaic from the Louis Comfort Tiffany studio
A photo of the original light board at the Hudson Theatre.
Lounge on the dress circle level.
Lounge on the dress circle level.
Tickets from the NBC television studio at the Hudson Theatre.
Elvis Presley filming at the NBC television studio at the Hudson Theatre.
The Ambassador Lounge
The Hudson Theatre
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The Hudson Theatre is currently the home to Sea Wall/A Life, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. The evening of back-to-back monologue plays, which opened August 8, is scheduled to play a limited engagement through September 29.
