Royale Theatre, West 45th Street NYC

The historic Royale Theatre, now Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, located at 242 West 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan NYC. The theater was showing the musical comedy Judy by Mark Swan with Queenie Smith and Charles Purcell in 1927, the year this theater opened. The Royale Theatre's stage house is on the left.

Royale Theatre was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp and built for the Chanin brothers, Irwin Salmon and Henry, real-estate developers in New York. Both the façade and the auditorium interior were designated New York City landmarks in 1987. Today it is operated by The Shubert Organization.

In 1930, the Chanin brothers transferred ownership of all three houses to the Shubert brothers. Few years later, control of the Jacobs passed to John Golden, who renamed the theatre after himself and ran it from 1934 to 1936. The Shuberts regained control in 1936, restored its name to Royale, and leased it to CBS as a radio studio until 1940. It was renamed the Bernard B. Jacobs in 2005 to honor the president of the Shubert Organization from 1972 to 1996.