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At This Theatre
THE ETHEL BARRYMORE

This beautiful theatre was built by the Messrs. Shubert in honor of the beloved Ethel Barrymore and opened on December 20, 1928, with the actress starring in The Kingdom of God. After that the great star appeared here in The Love Duel, Scarlet Sister Mary, The School for Scandal and An International Incident.

[[image: line drawing of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre]]
[[credit]] STAN STARK [[/credit]]

Still owned by the Shubert Organization, the theatre's most recent tenants have been The Sisters Rosensweig and a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire starring Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin. Before that: Mule Bone; Lettice & Lovage (Maggie Smith, Margaret Tyzack - both Tony Award winners); Neil Simon's Rumors from the Broadhurst Theatre; The Secret Rapture; Mikhail Baryshnikov in Metamorphosis; August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Ron Silver, Marlo Thomas, Joanna Gleason and Olympia Dukakis in Social Security; David Rabe's Hurlyburly; the musical Baby; Zoe Caldwell in Lillian, a one-woman study of Lillian Hellman; Jessica Tandy (Tony Award), Hume Cronyn and Keith Carradine in Foxfire; the musical Is There Life After High School?; Katharine Hepburn and Dorothy Loudon in The West Side Waltz; Gilda Radner in Lunch Hour; Anthony Perkins and Mia Farrow in Romantic Comedy; I Love My Wife, the Cy Coleman/Michael Stewart musical; Robert Duvall in David Mamet's American Buffalo; Tom Stoppard's Travesties; Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Anne Baxter in Noël Coward in Two Keys; a season by the New Phoenix Repertory Company; Rex Harrison in Pirandello's Emperor Henry IV; Ingrid Bergman in Captain Brassbound's Conversion; two Melvin Van Peeble's plays, Ain't Supposed To Die a Natural Death and Don't Play Us Cheap; Alec McCowen in The Philanthropist; and Conduct Unbecoming.

Productions in the 1960's included a hit revival of The Front Page with Robert Ryan and Bert Convy; Geraldine Page, Lynn Redgrave and Michael Crawford in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy; Lee Remick and Robert Duvall in Wait Until Dark; James Baldwin's The Amen Corner; Orson Welles's production of Moby Dick starring Rod Steiger; Henry Fonda in Critic's Choice and again with Olivia de Havilland in A Gift of Time; Michael Redgrave and Sandy Dennis in The Complaisant Lover.

During the 1950's the hits included Menotti's The Consul; Rex Harrison and Lili Palmer in Bell, Book and Candle; Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Fourposter; Deborah Kerr and John Kerr in Tea and Sympathy; The Chalk Garden; A Raisin in the Sun; and The Desperate Hours.

Hits of the 1940's: Rodgers and Hart's sexy Pal Joey with Gene Kelly, Vivienne Segal, June Havoc and Van Johnson; Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon in The Three Sisters; Gertrude Lawrence and Raymond Massey in Pygmalion; and Elia Kazan's production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter.

In the 1930's Fred Astaire made his last Broadway appearance here in Cole Porter's Gay Divorce; Katharine Cornell and Laurence Olivier amused in No Time for Comedy; The Women lasted for 657 performances; Paul Muni scored in Key Largo; and Walter Huston appeared in Knickerbocker Holiday.

Space limitations prevent us from mentioning all the productions which have played this theatre. 

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