Colonel William A. Phillips

The Shubert Theatre is a theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, at 263-265 Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District.[2] It opened on January 24, 1910, with a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew starring E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Architect Thomas M. James (Hill, James, & Whitaker) designed the building,[3] which seats approximately 1,600 people. Originally conceived as The Lyric Theatre by developer Charles H. Bond, it was taken over by The Shubert Organization in 1908 after Bond's death.[4]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In February 1996, the Wang Center signed a 40-year lease agreement to operate the theatre with the Shubert Organization, which continues to own the building and property;[5] the theatre reopened after renovation in November 1996, as the first stop on the First National Tour of RENT.[5][6] The Boch family became the namesake of the center in 2016, making the full name of the theatre the Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center.[7]

Pre-Broadway engagements

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Boston register and business directory. 1921". HathiTrust. April 13, 2020. hdl:2027/hvd.hb0l8l. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  3. ^ Susan Wilson. Boston sites & insights: an essential guide to historic landmarks in and around Boston. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004
  4. ^ "Beautiful New Theatre to be Named the Shubert". The Boston Daily Globe. December 12, 1909.
  5. ^ a b Center, Boch. "Theatre History | Boch Center". www.bochcenter.org. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  6. ^ Gans, Andrew (September 7, 2008). ""Seasons of Love": A Rent Timeline". Playbill.
  7. ^ Leung, Shirley (2016-09-15). "The Boch name spreads to the Theater District". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
  8. ^ "Musical Comedy: "Here's Howe" for Boston". Billboard. Vol. 40, no. 15. April 14, 1928. p. 8.

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