John Golden Theatre (Broadway) - Theater Information
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| Address: 252 West 45th St. New York, NY BUILT: 1927 SEATING CAPACITY: 805 |
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John Golden Theatre (Broadway) History
The John Golden Theatre was originally built in 1927 as the Theatre Masque by real-estate magnates, the Chanin Brothers, as part of a three-theatre complex that also included the Royale (a mid-sized house) and the Majestic (a large house). The Theatre Masque, the most intimate of the three, was designed for serious dramas. In 1930, the Chanins transferred ownership of all three venues to the Shuberts. In 1937, when John Golden assumed its management, he renamed it after himself, the third playhouse to bear his name. The Shuberts took back control of the theatre in 1946, turning it into a film house for two years before restoring it to legitimacy in the late 1940s. The Chanins hired the Shuberts' favorite architect, Herbert J. Krapp, to design their three-theatre complex. The Golden's interior has a Spanish influence, an example of the Mission Revival style popular on the West Coast. Interior features include rough plaster walls, wrought iron fixtures, spiraled columns, and ceiling arches.
Shows to have lived at the John Golden Theatre include Waiting for Godot (1956), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1971), Falsettos (1992), Avenue Q (2003), Eclipsed (2016), A Doll's House, Part 2 (2017), and Slave Play (2019).
Frequently Asked Questions
Accessible seating is available for this performance as indicated on the seating map.
The theatre is not completely wheelchair-accessible. There are no steps into the theatre (where there are steps we are unable to provide assistance).
Orchestra location: Seating is accessible to all parts of the Orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is located in the Orchestra only.
Mezzanine location: Located on the second level, up three flights of stairs (28 steps). Once on the Mezzanine level, there are approximately two steps per row. Entrance to the Mezzanine is behind row D.
Handrails: Available at the end of every stepped seat row in the Mezzanine.
Restrooms are not wheelchair-accessible. Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are located in the Schoenfeld Theatre, on the same block.
The theatre provides infrared assistive listening devices for every performance at the theatre. In addition, beginning four weeks after a show’s official opening night performance, hand-held audio description devices and hand-held captioning devices are available, and there is unlimited access to downloadable audio description and/or captioning for personal mobile devices free of charge. (Hand-held devices are limited, although additional devices can be obtained with at least twenty-four hours’ notice.)
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