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Shubert Theatre

Shubert Theatre at the Boch Center, Boston, 2018
Address	265 Tremont Street
Location	Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°21′01″N 71°03′55″W / 42.3504°N 71.0654°W / 42.3504; -71.0654
Public transit	Boylston, Tufts Medical Center
Owner	The Shubert Organization
Operator	Boch Center
Type	theatre
Capacity	1,600
Construction
Built	1908
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Architect	Hill, James, & Whitaker; Et al.
MPS	Boston Theatre MRA
NRHP reference No.	80000444
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. 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, 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.

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; the theatre reopened after renovation in November 1996, as the first stop on the First National Tour of RENT. 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.

Pre-Broadway engagements

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts