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The Broadway House Guide

Broadway’s Nonprofit Theaters

Nonprofit companies operate 6 of Broadway's 41 houses — about 5,128 seats, or 10% of every seat on Broadway.

  • 6Broadway houses
  • 5,128seats in total
  • 10%of all Broadway seats
  • 1,080at the largest (Vivian Beaumont)

Four nonprofit companies run Broadway houses: Roundabout Theatre Company (Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Studio 54 and Todd Haimes Theatre); Manhattan Theatre Club (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre); Second Stage Theater (Hayes Theater); Lincoln Center Theater (Vivian Beaumont Theater). Unlike the commercial landlords, they produce their own seasons in their houses, sold partly by subscription.

Their rooms run small: the largest is the Vivian Beaumont Theater at about 1,080 seats, the smallest the Hayes Theater at about 597. The Vivian Beaumont Theater is the only Broadway house outside the Theater District, at Lincoln Center.

  1. Vivian Beaumont Theater2 levels · Lincoln Center TheaterSeats1,080
  2. Stephen Sondheim Theatre2 levels · Roundabout Theatre CompanySeats1,055
  3. Studio 542 levels · Roundabout Theatre CompanySeats1,006
  4. Todd Haimes Theatre2 levels · Roundabout Theatre CompanySeats740
  5. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre2 levels · Manhattan Theatre ClubSeats650
  6. Hayes Theater2 levels · Second Stage TheaterSeats597

Gold bars show each house’s seat count against the largest on Broadway (1,933).

On the Map

Highlighted: the houses on this list. Tap any dot for its guide.

Schematic map of Broadway theaters, 41st to 54th StreetEach dot is a Broadway house placed by its street address, almost all between Sixth and Eighth Avenues. North is up.54535251504948474645444342418th Ave7th Ave6th AveBroadwayTimes SqAl Hirschfeld Theatre — 1,404 seatsAmbassador Theatre — 1,125 seatsAugust Wilson Theatre — 1,225 seatsBelasco Theatre — 1,016 seatsBernard B. Jacobs Theatre — 1,100 seatsBooth Theatre — 800 seatsBroadhurst Theatre — 1,218 seatsBroadway Theatre — 1,763 seatsCircle in the Square Theatre — 776 seatsEthel Barrymore Theatre — 1,058 seatsEugene O'Neill Theatre — 1,108 seatsGerald Schoenfeld Theatre — 1,079 seatsGershwin Theatre — 1,933 seatsHayes Theater — 597 seatsHudson Theatre — 970 seatsImperial Theatre — 1,457 seatsJames Earl Jones Theatre — 1,092 seatsJohn Golden Theatre — 800 seatsLena Horne Theatre — 1,069 seatsLongacre Theatre — 1,077 seatsLunt-Fontanne Theatre — 1,505 seatsLyceum Theatre — 922 seatsLyric Theatre — 1,622 seatsMajestic Theatre — 1,681 seatsMarquis Theatre — 1,612 seatsMinskoff Theatre — 1,710 seatsMusic Box Theatre — 1,025 seatsNederlander Theatre — 1,235 seatsNeil Simon Theatre — 1,467 seatsNew Amsterdam Theatre — 1,702 seatsPalace Theatre — 1,648 seatsRichard Rodgers Theatre — 1,400 seatsSamuel J. Friedman Theatre — 650 seatsShubert Theatre — 1,502 seatsSt. James Theatre — 1,709 seatsStephen Sondheim Theatre — 1,055 seatsStudio 54 — 1,006 seatsTodd Haimes Theatre — 740 seatsWalter Kerr Theatre — 975 seatsWinter Garden Theatre — 1,600 seatsN ↑ · Vivian Beaumont: Lincoln Center, W 65th St (off map)
Schematic, not to scale: every house placed by its street address. Tap a dot for the house; on a phone, swipe the map sideways.

Questions, Answered

Which Broadway theaters are run by nonprofits?
6 houses: Hayes Theater, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Studio 54, Todd Haimes Theatre and Vivian Beaumont Theater.
What is the largest nonprofit Broadway theater?
The Vivian Beaumont Theater at 150 West 65th Street, with about 1,080 seats.
How many Broadway seats do nonprofits control?
About 5,128 across 6 houses — 10% of the roughly 50,513 seats in all 41 Broadway theaters.

Every figure here is derived from the house-by-house facts in our guide, each cited to the theater’s Wikipedia article and checked 2026-10-09. Seat counts are approximate — capacity shifts a little with each production. Spot an error?Tell us.