Where to sit
The Outsiders seating chart — Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
A plain-language read of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre for The Outsiders. It gives facts from the sources we could read; any view of our own is labelled as ours.
About the venue
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
- Address
- 242 W 45th St, New York, NY 10036
- Neighborhood
- Theater District
- Capacity
- 1,072 seats
- Operator
- Shubert Organization
Home of The Outsiders since 2024.
The short version
The Bernard B. Jacobs opened in 1927 as the Royale Theatre — one of three Chanin-Krapp houses in a "modern Spanish" style, with a groin-vaulted ceiling and two Willy Pogany murals, "Lovers of Spain". It was renamed in 2005 for Bernard B. Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization from 1972 to 1996. Shubert's figures put 636 of the 1,072 seats in the orchestra and 420 on one mezzanine level, up three short flights of stairs (29 steps), split into a front mezzanine (168) and a rear mezzanine (252), with 16 box seats. In our view, the first rows of the front mezzanine are the seats to price first, centre orchestra is the seat to want for being close, and before buying in the last rows of the orchestra, look at a seat-view photo.
Section by section
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Orchestra
636 seats, reached without steps (Shubert's access notes). In our view, centre orchestra is the seat to want for being close; at the sides and in the last rows, look at a seat-view photo before you buy.
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Front Mezzanine
168 seats on the second level, up three short flights of stairs (29 steps), about two steps per row (Shubert's access notes). In our view, the first rows are the seats to price first for the whole stage picture.
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Rear Mezzanine
252 seats on the same second level as the front mezzanine (Shubert's figures and access notes). In our view, the section to look at when price matters more than closeness.
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