42nd St. Cinema

422 W. 42nd Street,
New York, NY 10036

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rivest266
rivest266 on October 6, 2020 at 10:02 pm

1st ad: September 15th, 1967. Posted.

Mike (saps)
Mike (saps) on March 13, 2019 at 3:49 am

For what it’s worth, since 2015 the Little Shubert is called Stage 42, although still owned by the Subert Organization…

Ed Solero
Ed Solero on September 21, 2006 at 11:51 am

Never heard of this one, but seems like it closed just a few years before my time frequenting the area – and I doubt I’d have ventured beyond 8th Ave in any event.

That address now corresponds with the Off-Broadway Little Shubert Theater, which opened in 2002 within a new 39 story apartment tower. The Shubert Organization (which runs the theater) claims it is the first Off-Broadway house to be built completely from the ground up – so we can safely update the 42nd Street Cinema’s status to “demolished”. Just about that whole side of the block between 9th Ave and Dyer has been built over with Off-B'way houses, including the Theatre Row and Playwrights Horizon complexes.

This website about the Little Shubert includes several photos of the new building’s exterior.