Shubert Theatre (Boston)

Architect Thomas M. James (Hill, James, & Whitaker) designed the building,Susan Wilson. Boston sites & insights: an essential guide to historic landmarks in and around Boston. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004 which seats approximately 1,600 people. Originally conceived as The Lyric Theatre by developer Charles H. Bond, it was taken over by The Shubert Organization in 1908 after Bond's death.{{cite news|title=Beautiful New Theatre to be Named the Shubert|newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe|date=December 12, 1909}} The theater was named in honor of Sam S. Shubert,{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-shubert-theatre/158041237/ |title=Shubert Theatre |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=18 (Calendar supplement) |date=January 28, 1988 |accessdate=October 29, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}} middle brother of the Shubert family, who had died in 1905.

The theater opened on January 24, 1910, with a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew,{{cite web |url=https://www.bochcenter.org/about/theatre-history |title=Theatre History |website=bochcenter.org |accessdate=October 29, 2024}} starring E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places—as the Sam S. Shubert Theatre{{efn|Not to be confused with the liked-name Broadway theatre, which is a designated New York City Landmark.}}—in 1980. In February 1996, the Wang Center for the Performing Arts signed a 40-year lease agreement to operate the theatre with the Shubert Organization, which continues to own the building and property.{{Cite web |last=Center |first=Boch |title=Theatre History {{!}} Boch Center |url=https://www.bochcenter.org/about/theatre-history |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=www.bochcenter.org |language=en}}

The theatre reopened after renovation in November 1996, as the first stop on the first national tour of the musical Rent.{{cite web | last=Gans | first=Andrew | title="Seasons of Love": A Rent Timeline | website=Playbill | date=September 7, 2008 | url=https://playbill.com/article/seasons-of-love-a-rent-timeline-com-153048}} The Boch family became the namesake of the center in 2016, making the full name of the theatre the Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center.{{cite news |last=Leung |first=Shirley |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/09/14/boch-family-purchases-naming-rights-support-wang-and-shubert-theaters/gXzdu5uFiy9FBTskaehvZK/story.html |title=The Boch name spreads to the Theater District |work=The Boston Globe |date=2016-09-15 |accessdate=2016-09-16 }}

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• 1928: Here’s Howe{{cite magazine|title=Musical Comedy: "Here's Howe" for Boston|magazine=Billboard|volume=40|issue=15|date=April 14, 1928|page=8}}
• 1949: South Pacific
• 1950: Arms and the Girl, Call Me Madam, Out of This World
• 1951: The King and I, Paint Your Wagon, A Month of Sundays
• 1952: Three Wishes for Jamie
• 1953: Me and Juliet, John Murray Anderson's Almanac
• 1954: By the Beautiful Sea, The Pajama Game, Fanny, Hit the Trail
• 1955: Ankles Aweigh, Damn Yankees, Reuben, Reuben, Pipe Dream
• 1956: The Amazing Adele, The Most Happy Fella, Ziegfeld Follies of 1956, Shangri-La, Bells Are Ringing, Happy Hunting
• 1957: New Girl in Town, Jamaica
• 1958: Flower Drum Song
• 1959: Juno, Destry Rides Again, Take Me Along, The Sound of Music, Fiorello!, The Pink Jungle
• 1960: Lock Up Your Daughters!, Tenderloin, Camelot
• 1961: Kean
• 1963: 110 in the Shade
• 1964: Funny Girl, Golden Boy, Ben Franklin in Paris, Bajour, Baker Street
• 1965: Kelly, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Hot September
• 1966: Mame, The Apple Tree, Cabaret, Breakfast at Tiffany's
• 1967: Darling of the Day
• 1968: Her First Roman, Zorba
• 1970: Company, Two By Two, No, No, Nanette
• 1971: Prettybelle, Lolita, My Love, On the Town
• 1972: Sugar
• 1973: Molly
• 1974: Gypsy
• 1975: Pacific Overtures
• 1976: Rex, The Baker's Wife
• 1978: The Prince of Grand Street
• 1981: Dreamgirls
• 1983: Private Lives

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• National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts

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• Boston Public Library, Special Collections. [http://www.bpl.org/research/special/collections.htm#j William B. Jackson Theater Collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705115712/http://www.bpl.org/research/special/collections.htm#j |date=2013-07-05 }}. Includes materials related to the Shubert Theatre, 1910-1989
• Library of Congress. [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005676639/ Drawing of New Shubert Theatre], Tremont St. opposite Hollis St., Boston, Massachusetts, 1929.
• New York Public Library:
• [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1809946 Flyer] promoting the pre-Broadway booking (2 weeks beginning Monday November 7, 1938) of The Boys From Syracuse at the Shubert Theatre (Boston, Mass.)
• [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1812438 Flyer advertising Too Many Girls] opening at the Shubert Theatre (Boston, Mass.) (1939)
• [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1807962 Program (May 11-23, 1942) for All's Fair], the pre-Broadway title for By Jupiter, at the Shubert Theatre (Boston, Mass.)
• Bostonian Society:
• [http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003362.jpg Photo of 263-265 Tremont Street], c. 1943
• [http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/002186.jpg Photo of interior of Shubert Theater], c. 1935-50
• [http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/002187.jpg Photo of interior of Shubert Theater], 20th century
• [http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003369.jpg Photo of 263-265 Tremont Street], c. 1957
• [http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003349.jpg Photo of 255-275 Tremont Street], c. 1959
• [http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/224 Boston Athenæum Theater History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414194055/https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/224 |date=2021-04-14 }}. Shubert Theatre (1910- ), 265 Tremont Street

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