Westside Theatre


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.
WWW westsidetheatre.com

History

The Romanesque Revival style building, designed by Henry Franklin Kilburn, 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 openedShow title
October 17, 2019Little Shop of Horrors
March 7, 2019Chick Flick the Musical by Suzy Conn
July 20, 2017Curvy Widow
June 22, 2016Cagney
October 12, 2015Clever Little Lies
April 7, 2015Disenchanted! The Hilarious Hit Musical
October 19, 2014The Belle of Amherst
March 4, 2014Satchmo at the Waldorf
October 29, 2013Becoming Dr. Ruth
November 28, 2012My Name Is Asher Lev
August 2, 2012The Last Smoker in America
June 23, 2011The Voca People
May 10, 2010The Screwtape Letters
September 14, 2008The Marvelous Wonderettes
August 1, 1996I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
August 7, 1995The Food Chain
May 28, 1995The Cryptogram
December 8, 1994You Should Be So Lucky by Charles Busch
August 9, 1993Later Life by A. R. Gurney
February 23, 1993The Best of Friends
October 9, 1992Spic-O-Rama by John Leguizamo
June 2, 1992Balancing Act
March 18, 1991And the World Goes 'Round
December 4, 1987Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
May 7, 1987Educating Rita
December 22, 1982Extremities
October 13, 1981March of the Falsettos
October 14, 1980Really Rosie

Downstairs

Date openedShow title
July 21, 2019#DateMe: An OKCupid Experiment
November 12, 2018The Other Josh Cohen
October 5, 2017Stuffed
October 25, 2016Othello: The Remix
March 7, 2016White Rabbit Red Rabbit
July 27, 2015The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
February 10, 2015Application Pending
May 14, 2014Los Monologos de la Vagina
December 15, 2013Handle With Care
May 20, 2012Old Jews Telling Jokes
January 24, 2011Through the Night
October 1, 2009Love, Loss, and What I Wore
November 18, 2008Dust
December 8, 2006My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy
October 21, 2004Jewtopia
March 24, 2004From Door to Door
September 4, 2003Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted
March 5, 2003Barbara's Wedding
October 3, 1999The Vagina Monologues
October 1, 1998The Mystery of Irma Vep
October 24, 1997Marc Salem's Mindgames
October 7, 1996Political Animal
September 24, 1996Full Gallop
September 7, 1995Too Jewish
March 5, 1994Nixon's Nixon
September 28, 1993Family Secrets by Sherry Glaser
April 23, 1993Wild Men!
September 8, 1992Cut the Ribbons
January 3, 1992Finkle's Follies
April 12, 1991Only the Truth is Funny
October 29, 1987A Shayna Maidel
April 18, 1985Penn & Teller
July 3, 1981What the Butler Saw
March 22, 1976Vanities
November 20, 1974The Mother / The Great Train Robbery, performed by San Francisco Mime Troupe