 Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center, Boston, 2018 | |
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| Address | 265 Tremont Street |
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| Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates | 42°21′01″N 71°03′55″W / 42.3504°N 71.0654°W |
| Public transit | Boylston, Tufts Medical Center |
| Owner | The Shubert Organization |
| Operator | Boch Center |
| Type | theatre |
| Capacity | 1,600 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1908 |
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| Architect | Hill, James, & Whitaker; Et al. |
| MPS | Boston Theatre MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 80000444[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 9, 1980 |
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]
