New York Theatre Marquis Names
by Sylviastel | created - 16 Aug 2014 | updated - 19 Aug 2014 | PublicArts Center
1. Judith Anderson
Actress | Rebecca
Dame Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson on February 10, 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia. She began her acting career in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. There she established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses and was a major star on Broadway ...
422 West 42nd Street
2. Al Hirschfeld
Art_department | Fantasia 2000
Al Hirschfeld was born on June 21, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Fantasia 2000 (1999), Heroes of Comedy (1995) and Rhapsody in Blue (2000). He was married to Louise Kerz, Dolly Haas and Florence Ruth Hobby. He died on January 20, 2003 in New York City, New York, USA.
302 West 45th Street
3. August Wilson
Writer | Fences
August Wilson once dropped out of school, disillusioned after having been unjustly accused of plagiarism by a racist instructor who could not fathom the artistic and intellectual genius of a then young Black male writer. Wilson was not disillusioned forever. Having now completed a decade by decade ...
245 West 52nd Street
4. David Belasco
Soundtrack | The Man Without a Face
David Belasco was born on July 25, 1853 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Man Without a Face (1993), The Return of Peter Grimm (1935) and Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930). He was married to Cecilia Loverich. He died on May 14, 1931 in New York City, New York,...
111 West 44th Street
5. Bernard B. Jacobs
Producer | 'Master Harold'... and the Boys
Bernard B. Jacobs is known for 'Master Harold'... and the Boys (1985), American Playhouse (1980) and The 44th Annual Tony Awards (1990).
242 West 45th Street
6. Brooks Atkinson
Self | Play of the Week
Brooks Atkinson was born on November 28, 1894 in Melrose, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Play of the Week (1959), The Iceman Cometh (1960) and On Stage! (1949). He was married to Oriana MacIlveen. He died on January 14, 1984 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
1681 Broadway (53rd Street)
7. Douglas Fairbanks
Actor | The Thief of Bagdad
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney and native of Pennsylvania, who was a captain for the Union forces during the Civil War. Fairbanks' paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, ...
245 West 44th Street
8. Ethel Barrymore
Actress | The Spiral Staircase
Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of ...
243 West 47th Street
9. Eugene O'Neill
Writer | Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill, the winner of four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature, is widely considered the greatest American playwright. No one, not Maxwell Anderson, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, nor Edward Albee, approaches O'Neill in terms of his artistic achievement or ...
230 West 49th Street
10. George Gershwin
Soundtrack | Manhattan
He was born Jacob Gershowitz, 26 September 1898, in Brooklyn, New York, of Russian-Jewish immigrants. As a boy he could play popular and classical works on his brother Ira's piano by ear. In 1913 he quit school to study music and began composing for Tin Pan Alley; by 1919 he had his first hit "...
222 West 51st Street
11. Ira Gershwin
Music_department | An American in Paris
Legendary, prolific composer, songwriter and author, educated at Townsend Harris Hall, City College of New York, and Columbia University. He began his career as a contributor to newspaper columns, and also worked for a touring carnival. His Broadway stage scores include "Two Little Girls in Blue" (...
222 West 51st Street
12. Helen Hayes
Actress | Airport
Known as "The First lady of the American Theater", Helen Hayes had a legendary career on stage and in films and television that spanned over eighty years. Hayes was born in Washington, D.C., to Catherine Estelle "Essie" Hayes, an actress who worked in touring companies, and Francis van Arnum Brown,...
240 West 44th Street
13. John Houseman
Actor | The Paper Chase
Academy Award-winning actor John Houseman's main contribution to American culture was not his own performances on film but rather, his role as a midwife to one of the greatest actor-directors-cinematic geniuses his adopted country ever produced (Orson Welles) and as a midwife to a whole generation ...
450 West 42nd Street
14. Alfred Lunt
Actor | The Magnificent Yankee
Alfred Lunt was an American actor, particularly known for his professional partnership with his wife Lynn Fontanne (1887-1983). Lunt was one of Broadway's leading male stars.
Lunt was born in 1892 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father Alfred D. Lunt was active in the lumber business, while his mother ...
205 West 46th Street
15. Lynn Fontanne
Actress | The Magnificent Yankee
Lynn Fontanne was a British actress of French and Irish descent. She spend most of her acting career in the United States, and she is considered among the great leading ladies of American theatre. She formed an acting duo with her husband Alfred Lunt (1892-1977). Fontanne had few film roles, but ...
205 West 46th Street
208 West 41st Street
17. Neil Simon
Writer | The Odd Couple
Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Odd Couple (1968), Murder by Death (1976) and The Goodbye Girl (1977). He was married to Elaine Joyce, Diane Lander, Marsha Mason and Joan Baim. He died on August 26, 2018 in ...
250 West 52nd Street
18. Peter Horton
Producer | New Amsterdam
Peter Horton was born in Bellevue, Washington, USA. He is an award winning director, writer, and producer, known for New Amsterdam (2018), American Odyssey (2015), Thirtysomething (1987) and Grey's Anatomy (2005). He has been married to Nicole De Putron since 1995. They have two children and a dog ...
555 West 42nd Street
19. Richard Rodgers
Soundtrack | The Talented Mr. Ripley
He met Lorenz Hart in 1918 who was to write lyrics for Richard for the next 25 years. The produced many successful songs and musicals such as 'Pal Joey' and 'The Boys From Syracuse'. In 1943 Richard teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein to make a musical version of the play 'How Green Was Your Valley' ...
226 West 46th Street
20. Samuel Beckett
Writer | Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett is an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.
A resident of Paris for most of his life, he wrote in both French and English.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragi-comic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy ...
410 West 42nd Street
21. Samuel J. Friedman
Samuel J. Friedman is known for Keaton's Cop (1990) and Hardly Working (1980).
261 West 47th Street
22. Stephen Sondheim
Soundtrack | Dick Tracy
He did his pre college training at George School, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, then was in a class of 50 at Williams College majoring in music as an undergraduate distinguishing himself by writing a book, lyrics and music for two college shows based on the adaption of 'Beggar on Horseback'....
124 West 43rd Street
219 West 48th Street
24. Billy Rose
Soundtrack | Bicentennial Man
Broadway impresario Billy Rose was born William Samuel Rosenberg on September 9, 1899, in The Bronx, New York. Known as "The Little Napoleon of Showmanship," the diminutive Rose made his name and his legend as a producer, writer, lyricist, composer, director and theatre owner/operator, as well as ...
Now the Nederlander Theatre at 208 West 41st street
25. Jerry Orbach
Actor | Law & Order
Jerry Orbach was born in the Bronx, New York, the only child of Leon Orbach, a former vaudevillian actor, was a German Jewish immigrant, who was born in Hamburg, Germany, and Emily (nee Olexy), a radio singer, was born in Pennsylvania to immigrant Polish-Lithuanian Roman Catholic parents, Alexander...
210 West 50th Street, 3rd floor
26. Lucille Lortel
Producer | Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
Lucille Lortel is known for Gertrude Stein and a Companion! (1987).
121 Christopher Street
27. Laurie Beechman
Soundtrack | Hair
Laurie Beechman was born on April 4, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Hair (1979), The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) and The Fourth King (1977). She was married to Neil Mazzella. She died on March 8, 1998 in White Plains, New York, USA.
407 West 42nd Street
28. Aaron Davis
Composer | Rude
Aaron Davis is known for Rude (1995), Hostile Takeover (1988) and Poison Ivy (1992).
CCNY: 115 Convent Avenue: Aaron Davis Hall theater.
29. B.B. King
Actor | Blues Brothers 2000
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many ...
B.B. King Blues Club
30. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Actor | The Turning Point
Boyishly cute, diminutive and strong as a bull, but as graceful as any gazelle or swan, Mikhail Baryshnikov is a household name even to non-balletomanes. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and biggest names in dance.
Mikhail began his ballet studies in his native Riga, Latvia. He was ...
31. Andrew Carnegie
Self | Our Mutual Girl
Andrew Carnegie is a Scottish-American industrialist, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During ...
Carnegie Hall
32. Claire Tow
33. Harold Clurman
Director | Deadline at Dawn
Harold Clurman was born on September 18, 1901 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director, known for Deadline at Dawn (1946), Play of the Week (1959) and All My Sons (1948). He was married to Juleen Compton and Stella Adler. He died on September 9, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA.
34. Daryl Roth
Producer | Dinner with Friends
Daryl Roth was born on December 21, 1944. She is a producer and actress, known for Dinner with Friends (2001), Albert Nobbs (2011) and Ramona at Midlife. She is married to Steven Roth. They have one child.
35. David H. Koch
David H. Koch was born on May 3, 1940 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is known for Nova (1974), Citizen Koch (2013) and The Billionaires' Tea Party (2011). He was married to Julia Margaret Flesher. He died on August 23, 2019 in Southampton, New York, USA.
36. Ed Sullivan
Actor | Bye Bye Birdie
The beloved Impresario of TV variety from 1948 to 1971, Ed Sullivan originally made his name as a newspaper sportswriter, radio broadcaster and theater columnist for the New York Daily News. His column focused primarily on Broadway shows and juicy items about its stars. On the new medium of TV, ...
37. Gene Frankel
Director | Play of the Week
Gene Frankel is known for Play of the Week (1959), Camera Three (1955) and Guilty Bystander (1950).
38. Gerald Schoenfeld
Actor | Broadway Danny Rose
Gerald Schoenfeld was born on September 22, 1924 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Broadway Danny Rose (1984), 'Master Harold'... and the Boys (1985) and American Playhouse (1980). He was married to Patricia Miller. He died on November 25, 2008 in Manhattan, ...
40. Grace Rogers
Soundtrack | Metro Movietone Revue
41. Oscar Hammerstein II
Soundtrack | State Fair
Oscar Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and musical theatre director from New York City. He won a total of 8 Tony Awards for his best known works, "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951), and "The Sound of Music" (1959). He twice won the Academy Award...
42. Harvey Lichtenstein
Producer | Peter Brook's the Mahabharata
Harvey Lichtenstein was born on April 9, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Peter Brook's the Mahabharata (1989), Folio (1955) and Absolute Wilson (2006). He was married to Phyllis Holbrook and Eve Johnson. He died on February 11, 2017 in Manhattan, New York ...
43. Henry Miller
Actor | Reds
Henry Miller was born on December 26, 1891 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Reds (1981), Quiet Days in Clichy (1970) and Quiet Days in Clichy (1990). He was married to Hoki Tokuda, Evelyn Byrd (Keven) McClure, Janina Martha Lepska, June Edith Smith and Beatrice ...
44. Irene Lee Diamond
Self | You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
At the time of her death, Irene Lee Diamond was president of the Irene Diamond fund, a foundation she set up in 1994 to support the performing arts and to fight the scourge of AIDS. This fund followed the Aaron Diamond fund which she and her husband established in the 1950s. Shortly before Aaron's ...
45. Isaac Stern
Soundtrack | Fiddler on the Roof
Isaac Stern was born on July 21, 1920 in Kremenets/Krzemieniec, Ukrainian People's Republic [now Kremenets, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Humoresque (1946). He was married to Linda Reynolds, Vera Lindenblit and ...
46. Jacob Javits
Self | The Sam Levenson Show
Jacob Javits was born on May 18, 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Marion Javits and Marjorie Ringling. He died on March 7, 1986 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
47. Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill is known for Great Performances (1971) and Bild Live (2021).
48. John Golden
Soundtrack | Metro
Founder of the Stage Door Canteen and the Stage Relief Fund, songwriter ("Poor Butterfly"), composer, author, stage actor and producer, educated at New York University. He was an ASCAP charter member and director (1914-1915) and its first treasurer. He worked as a reporter before becoming a ...
49. Julia Miles
Producer | Four Friends
Julia Miles was born on January 24, 1930 in Pelham, Georgia, USA. She was a producer, known for Four Friends (1981). She was married to Sam Cohn and William Miles. She died on March 18, 2020 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA.
50. Lynn Redgrave
Actress | Gods and Monsters
Actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, England, into one of the world's most famous acting dynasties. As the daughter of Rachel Kempson and Sir Michael Redgrave, sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, and granddaughter of Roy...
51. Peter Sharpe
Self | Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild
Peter Sharpe is known for Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild (2023), Countryfile (1988) and Untamed & Uncut (2008).
52. Susan Batson
Actress | Summer of Sam
Actor, writer, director, producer, teacher, and coach Susan Batson has been called a "technician of the spirit" by the New Yorker. In private consultation on film sets all over the world, and in her New York- and Hollywood- based Black Nexxus acting studios, Susan Batson has enjoyed the privilege ...
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