Broadway Theatres Seating Plans & 3D Seat Views

See the view from your seat in every Broadway house

A Broadway ticket buys you one fixed window on the stage, and on this street the window varies more than almost anywhere else: these are rooms built between 1903 and 2009, most of them squeezed onto irregular midtown plots, several of them stacked inside office towers and hotels. The Hayes seats 597. The Gershwin, four blocks north, seats more than three times that. The Ambassador is laid out on a diagonal. The Winter Garden was a horse market. A flat seating chart cannot tell you what any of that looks like from row K of the rear mezzanine. This site gives you an interactive 3D map of each house — click a section and a real panoramic view from that part of the theatre opens instantly.

All 36 rooms above have 3D views live today, so there is nothing here that promises a view it cannot show. Judge the overhang in the rear orchestra at the Al Hirschfeld for yourself, see how close the hundred-and-ten-seat front mezzanine really is at the John Golden, compare the stadium-raked floor at the Majestic against the flat-fronted houses of the same decade, or look at what a thrust stage does to the sightlines at the Mitzi E. Newhouse. 10 of these houses were dark when this page was last verified, which is normal for late July and is exactly when a seating map is more useful than a ticket link.

Frequently asked questions

How can I see the view from my seat at a Broadway theatre?

Open the theatre's page, click any section of the interactive seating map and a real panoramic 3D view from that part of the house opens instantly — so you know whether you are behind an overhang, off to one side or looking straight down the middle before you buy.

Which Broadway theatres have 3D seat views?

35 Broadway houses, plus the Mitzi E. Newhouse at Lincoln Center, which is Lincoln Center Theater's Off-Broadway theatre and is included here because it has the same interactive map. Alphabetically: Al Hirschfeld, Ambassador, August Wilson, Belasco, Bernard B. Jacobs, Booth, Broadhurst, Broadway Theatre, Ethel Barrymore, Eugene O'Neill, Gerald Schoenfeld, Gershwin, Hayes, Hudson, Imperial, James Earl Jones, John Golden, Lena Horne, Longacre, Lunt-Fontanne, Lyceum, Lyric, Majestic, Marquis, Minskoff, Mitzi E. Newhouse, Music Box, Nederlander, Neil Simon, New Amsterdam, Richard Rodgers, Shubert, St. James, Stephen Sondheim, Walter Kerr, Winter Garden.

Which is the biggest and which the smallest Broadway theatre?

The Gershwin is the largest at about 1,933 seats and the Hayes the smallest at 597 — barely a third of the size. Both are on this site. The Mitzi E. Newhouse is smaller still at 299 seats, but it is an Off-Broadway house.

Why do published seat counts for Broadway theatres disagree?

Because they are measuring different things. A production removes seats to build its set, so the number a theatre can hold and the number a show can sell are rarely the same, and the operator, The Broadway League and Playbill often publish three different figures for the same room. On this site a capacity is given as an exact number only where a traceable source certifies it; where it does not, the figure is shown with a ~ and the page says which sources disagree and by how much.

Who owns the Broadway theatres?

Three organisations run most of them. The Shubert Organization has 17 of the houses on this site, the Nederlander Organization 8 and ATG Entertainment 7, with single houses run by Disney Theatrical Group, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theater and Lincoln Center Theater. The By owner index above groups them.

Are these official theatre seating plans?

No. These are independent interactive 3D seating maps built with 3D Digital Venue technology. This site is not affiliated with The Broadway League, any theatre owner or any production.