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Broadway Theaters on West 47th Street

4 Broadway houses with about 4,425 seats between them, listed in address order.

  • 4Broadway houses
  • 4,425seats on the block
  • 1,648at the largest
  • 650at the smallest

West 47th Street has 4 of Broadway's 41 theaters: Palace Theatre, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Lena Horne Theatre and Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. On Manhattan's West Side, odd street numbers are on the north side of the street and even numbers on the south; numbers in the 100s sit between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, the 200s between Seventh and Eighth.

The nearest subway for most of these houses is 49 St (N, Q, R, W trains); for the rest it's 50 St (8 Av). Every house here is within a short walk of Times Square.

  1. Palace Theatre1,648 seats · 3 levels · Nederlander OrganizationAddress1564 Broadway
  2. Ethel Barrymore Theatre1,058 seats · 2 levels · The Shubert OrganizationAddress243 W 47th St
  3. Lena Horne Theatre1,069 seats · 2 levels · Nederlander OrganizationAddress256 W 47th St
  4. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre650 seats · 2 levels · Manhattan Theatre ClubAddress261 W 47th St

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 on West 47th Street?
4: the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway), the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street), the Lena Horne Theatre (256 West 47th Street), the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).
What subway stop is closest to the 47th St theaters?
49 St (N, Q, R, W) is the nearest station for most of them; check each house page for the closest stop — some are nearer 50 St (8 Av).
What is the largest theater on West 47th Street?
The Palace Theatre, with about 1,648 seats.

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.