New (Old) Broadway Theater

[RussJohnson]

ATG announced they are buying the old Hudson Theatre and converting it back into a playhouse bring the grand total of theatres to 41 and loosening the crunch ever so slightly...

 

One traffic jam in Times Square is about to get a little less dire. Broadway is getting a new theater! Or rather—and better—Broadway is getting a beautiful old theater back. Built in 1903, the Hudson Theatre has not housed a full stage production since 1968. But yesterday, Ambassador Theatre Group, which took over the lease of the enormous Lyric Theatre in 2013, announced that it will be renovating the Hudson and reopening it in the 2016-17 season.

 

This is thrilling news. Broadway has been terribly congested of late. Every single one of its current 40 theaters is currently occupied, many of them with long-running shows. The scarcity of available theaters makes it hard for new productions to find homes, and the addition of the Hudson—which will have an estimated 950 seats when renovations are complete, an excellent size for plays or smaller musicals—will help ease that problem.

 

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/what-you-should-know-about-broadways-new-hudson-theatre-121715