Winter Garden Theatre

The Winter Garden Theatre is a 1,567-seat Shubert Organization venue with a particularly notable long-run history: per the Shubert Organization’s page, Cats played here from 1982 until September 2000. It has an orchestra and a single mezzanine. The Shubert Organization’s page says the building it was converted from forced an unusually wide design, which brought the audience closer to the stage.

Shubert’s figures put 1,045 seats in the orchestra and 486 in the mezzanine, two flights up (34 steps), with 36 box seats. In our view, centre orchestra and centre mezzanine are the safe choices, and for a show with aerial or high upstage staging, the side orchestra and the back of the mezzanine are the seats to look at in a seat-view photo before you buy. The Winter Garden hosted Death of a Salesman (2026, closed August 9), a play rather than a spectacle musical; in our view, for a play in a room this size the rear orchestra was a reasonable seat to take.

Address: 1634 Broadway, between West 50th and 51st Streets.