August Wilson Theatre

Wikipedia says the August Wilson Theatre opened in 1925 as the Guild Theatre, built for the Theatre Guild, and that C. Howard Crane and Kenneth Franzheim designed it. It was later the ANTA and the Virginia, and its exterior is a New York City landmark, designated in 1985. Wikipedia says it was renamed for the playwright August Wilson on October 16, 2005, two weeks after his death, and that Wilson was the first Black theatrical personality to have a Broadway theatre named after him. Paranormal Activity is in residence.

The Broadway League’s Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) gives it about 1,228 seats. Ambassador Theatre Group’s access page describes two levels, an orchestra and a mezzanine: it puts the orchestra 6 steps up from the accessible entrance, or reached by a stair lift, and the mezzanine on the second level, 15 steps up from the orchestra (ATG’s seating page says 22), with no elevator. In our view, centre orchestra is the seat to want, and the front of the mezzanine is worth pricing against it.

Operated by Ambassador Theatre Group (formerly a Jujamcyn Theaters house). Address: 245 W 52nd St.