The Broadhurst Theatre
…of its time. Broadhurst on Broadway On September 27, 1917, the Broadhurst opened with George Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance, which was New York’s first performance of the comedy that was written in 1910. Later that year, Eva Le Gallienne began her long stint at the theatre with a revival of Lord and Lady Algy. In 1918, George Broadhurst’s first play, He Didn’t Want To Do It, was presented in his namesake theatre. On September 16, 1926, one of the Bro…