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.
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
Little Shop of Horrors
Chick Flick the Musical
Curvy Widow
Cagney
Clever Little Lies
Disenchanted! The Hilarious Hit Musical
The Belle of Amherst
Satchmo at the Waldorf
Becoming Dr. Ruth
My Name Is Asher Lev
The Last Smoker in America
The Voca People
The Screwtape Letters
The Marvelous Wonderettes
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
The Food Chain
The Cryptogram
You Should Be So Lucky
First Night
Later Life
Best of Friends
Spic-O-Rama
Balancing Act
And the World Goes 'Round
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Educating Rita
Extremities
March of the Falsettos
Really Rosie

Downstairs

Date openedShow title
#DateMe: An OKCupid Experiment
The Other Josh Cohen
Stuffed
Othello: The Remix
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
Application Pending
Los Monologos de la Vagina
Handle With Care
Old Jews Telling Jokes
Through the Night
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Dust
My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy
Jewtopia
From Door to Door
Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted
Barbara's Wedding
The Vagina Monologues
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Marc Salem's Mindgames
Political Animal
Full Gallop
Too Jewish
Nixon's Nixon
Family Secrets
Wild Men!
Cut the Ribbons
Finkle's Follies
Only the Truth is Funny
A Shayna Maidel
Penn & Teller
What the Butler Saw
Vanities