Westside Theatre

The Westside Theatre

Address	407 West 43rd Street Manhattan, New York City United States
Owner	Reno Productions
Type	Off-Broadway
Capacity	270 (Upstairs Theatre) 249 (Downstairs Theatre)
Website
www.westsidetheatre.com

The Westside Theatre is an off-Broadway performance space at 407 West 43rd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The building houses two auditoriums: the Upstairs theatre, which seats 270, and the Downstairs theatre, which features a thrust stage and has a seating capacity of 249. Formerly known as the Chelsea Theatre Center and the Westside Arts Theatre, the building was renovated in 1991.

The Romanesque Revival style building was constructed in 1890 for the Second German Baptist Church, which it housed until the 1960s. The site was then occupied by various nightclubs until its establishment as a theatre in 1976

Selected past productions

Upstairs

Date Opened	Show Title
11/28/2012	My Name Is Asher Lev
08/2/2012	The Last Smoker in America
06/23/2011	The Voca People
05/2010	The Screwtape Letters
09/14/2008	The Marvelous Wonderettes
08/01/1996	I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
08/07/1995	The Food Chain
05/28/1995	The Cryptogram
12/08/1994	You Should Be So Lucky
08/30/1994	First Night
08/09/1993	Later Life
02/23/1993	Best of Friends
10/09/1992	Spic-O-Rama
06/02/1992	Balancing Act
03/18/1991	And The World Goes 'Round
12/04/1987	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
05/07/1987	Educating Rita
12/22/1982	Extremities
10/13/1981	March of the Falsettos
10/14/1980	Really Rosie

Downstairs

The theatre at dusk

Date Opened	Show Title
10/01/2009	Love, Loss, and What I Wore
11/18/2008	Dust
05/04/2007	My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy
10/21/2004	Jewtopia
03/16/2004	From Door to Door
09/04/2003	Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted
02/11/2003	Barbara's Wedding
10/03/1999	The Vagina Monologues
09/11/1998	The Mystery of Irma Vep
10/24/1997	Marc Salem's Mindgames
09/24/1996	Full Gallop
03/05/1996	Nixon's Nixon
09/05/1995	Too Jewish
02/10/1995	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
09/28/1993	Family Secrets
04/23/1993	Wild Men
09/08/1992	Cut the Ribbons
01/28/1992	Finkle's Follies
04/09/1991	Only the Truth is Funny
04/18/1985	Penn & Teller
07/03/1981	What the Butler Saw
03/22/1976	Vanities

References

Notes

External links

• Official website
• Upstairs Theatre at Lortel Archive
• Downstairs Theatre at Lortel Archive