Ambassador Theatre, West 49th Street NYC

The Ambassador Theatre at 219 West 49th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The theater is showing Back to Methuselah, with with Faye Emerson and Tyrone Power, which was run in 1958. Photograph from the Shubert Organization collection.

Ambassador Theatre is a historic playhouse in the Theater District of New York City. It was constructed for the Shubert brothers and opened in February 1921. Today it is operated by the Shubert Organization.

It was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp and it has 1,125 seats across two levels. The musical comedy The Rose Girl was the Ambassador's first production. After 1938, the Ambassador was used as a broadcasting studio by the CBS. In 1956, the Shuberts restored the Ambassador to legitimate-theater use and the comedy The Loud Red Patrick, which opened in October the same year, was the first production at the reopened theater.