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Shubert Theatre (Boston)

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]

Address

265 Tremont Street

theatre

1,600

1908

Hill, James, & Whitaker; Et al.

Boston Theatre MRA

December 9, 1980

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]

National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Public Library, Special Collections. Archived 2013-07-05 at the Wayback Machine. Includes materials related to the Shubert Theatre, 1910-1989

William B. Jackson Theater Collection

Library of Congress. , Tremont St. opposite Hollis St., Boston, Massachusetts, 1929.

Drawing of New Shubert Theatre

Flyer

Photo of 263-265 Tremont Street

Archived 2021-04-14 at the Wayback Machine. Shubert Theatre (1910- ), 265 Tremont Street

Boston Athenæum Theater History