New hotels in Theater District, New York

Broadway, as a category, means 41 professional theaters of 500 seats or more. Forty of them stand in a grid of side streets in Midtown West, bounded by 40th Street to the south, 54th Street to the north, Sixth Avenue to the east and Eighth Avenue to the west, with the city's zoning map adding a strip west of Eighth between 42nd and 45th. The forty-first, the Vivian Beaumont, is up at Lincoln Center.

The district grew north from 39th Street, where the Metropolitan Opera House opened on Broadway in 1883, and from 42nd Street, where Oscar Hammerstein opened his Victoria Theatre in 1899. Most of the houses still in use were built in the following three decades, which is why a walk here is a walk past brick and terracotta facades of the 1910s and 1920s, each with its marquee pushed out over the sidewalk.

The plaza at the southern end, with its screens and the TKTS steps, has its own Times Square guide. This one follows the theaters street by street, then places the seven hotels we track among them. The wider city is in our New York guide.

The theaters, street by street

41st to 43rd Street

The southern edge is thin. The Nederlander sits alone on 41st Street. On 42nd, the New Amsterdam (Aladdin) and the Todd Haimes face each other across the street rebuilt in the 1990s, and the Lyric, home to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, runs through the block to its address on 43rd. A little east, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, the Stephen Sondheim Theatre occupies 124 West 43rd Street.

44th and 45th Street: the core

Here the density is at its highest. On a single block of West 44th between Broadway and Eighth Avenue stand the Shubert (225), the Broadhurst (235), the Majestic (245) and, facing it, the St. James (246) and the Hayes (240). Sardi's, the restaurant whose walls are covered in caricatures of performers, has been at 234 West 44th since 1927.

Shubert Alley cuts through the middle of that block to 45th Street. It was laid out in 1913 with the Shubert and Booth theaters on either side, doubled to 30 feet in 1949, and is still private land kept open to the public. Twelve theaters surround it, eight on the same block. One Shubert Alley, a shop of cast recordings and show merchandise, has occupied three former Booth Theatre dressing rooms since 1979, and the alley hosts the annual Stars in the Alley concert and the Broadway Cares flea market.

West 45th Street adds the Booth (222), the Gerald Schoenfeld (236), the Bernard B. Jacobs (242), the Music Box (239), the Imperial (249) and the John Golden (252). The Minskoff, at number 200, has housed The Lion King since 2006, set inside the One Astor Plaza office tower. Past Eighth Avenue, the Al Hirschfeld at 302 West 45th marks the district's western spill into Hell's Kitchen.

East of Broadway the pattern continues on a smaller scale: the Belasco (111) and the Hudson (141) on 44th, the Lyceum (149) on 45th.

46th to 49th Street

Hamilton has run at the Richard Rodgers, 226 West 46th Street, since 2015. The Lunt-Fontanne (205) and the Marquis (210) share the same street, and between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, West 46th becomes Restaurant Row, a block of pre-theater dining rooms where Joe Allen, open since 1965, hangs posters of famous flops on its walls.

On 47th Street, the Ethel Barrymore (243), the Samuel J. Friedman (261) and the Lena Horne (256), where Six plays, stand west of Broadway; the Palace, at 160 West 47th, now sits inside the TSX Broadway tower on Duffy Square. West 48th Street has the Longacre (220) and the Walter Kerr (219), home to Hadestown, with the James Earl Jones Theatre (138) east of Seventh Avenue. On 49th, the Ambassador (219) runs the Chicago revival that opened in 1996, and the Eugene O'Neill (230) has played The Book of Mormon since 2011.

50th to 54th Street

The northern blocks spread out. The Winter Garden occupies 1634 Broadway at 50th Street, the Circle in the Square sits below street level at 235 West 50th, and the Gershwin, the largest house on Broadway with 1,933 seats, has played Wicked on West 51st since 2003. On 52nd Street, the August Wilson (245) and the Neil Simon (250) face each other. The Broadway Theatre, at 1681 Broadway near 53rd, and Studio 54, at 254 West 54th, close the district at its top edge.

Where the seven hotels fall among the theaters

Two side-street conversions east of Broadway

The most theatrical address in this list belongs to The Wolseley Hotel New York, due in early 2027 at 130 West 44th Street. The 1905 building, by McKim, Mead & White, was the clubhouse of The Lambs, America's first professional theatrical club, and today houses The Chatwal, a 76-room hotel that Minor Hotels is turning into the first property of The Wolseley Hotels. It shares its block with the Belasco and the Hudson; the plan includes an all-day brasserie on the model of the London original and a speakeasy bar in the cellar.

On 45th Street, a few doors from the Lyceum, Only YOU Hotel New York is turning a 1928 office building at number 125 into 138 rooms for Q4 2026, the first US address of Only YOU, the lifestyle label of Spain's Palladium Hotel Group. Lázaro Rosa-Violán designs the interiors; a restaurant and a rooftop bar open to non-guests are planned. Shubert Alley is a five-minute walk west along the same street.

Seventh Avenue and West 48th

Two open hotels stand near this corner, a few steps from the Longacre and the Walter Kerr. voco Times Square: Broadway, a 419-room new-build of 32 floors, opened in February 2026 and is IHG's largest voco in the Americas; its Velvet Fox rooftop bar serves cocktails, small plates and live music to guests and locals alike, which makes it a practical post-show stop for anyone seeing something on 48th or 49th.

Just east of the avenue, Hard Rock Hotel New York stands at 159 West 48th Street, almost opposite the James Earl Jones Theatre. Opened in April 2022, it has 446 rooms in a 36-story Extell tower, interiors by Jeffrey Beers International, and a 34th-floor bar, RT60. Its two event rooms, Audacy Live and The Venue on Music Row, give it a stage of its own, fitting for a block once known for its instrument shops.

Southern boundary: Seventh Avenue at 40th

Margaritaville Resort Times Square sits on the district's first street, a block below the Nederlander. Opened in July 2021, its 32-story tower holds five places to eat and drink and a year-round heated rooftop pool. It is the one hotel here built for groups as much as for couples, with event space for up to 1,000 guests, and the walk to the 44th Street theaters takes about six minutes.

Eighth Avenue, on the Hell's Kitchen side

At 740 Eighth Avenue, between 45th and 46th Streets, Extell's The Torch will put an 825-room hotel within a block of the Al Hirschfeld and the eastern end of Restaurant Row. The ODA-designed tower is planned at 52 stories, with a public observation deck and a drop ride under its glass spire. Construction resumed in June 2025 after a stall and reached the halfway point in August 2026; no operator has been named and no date set. Once open, it will be the closest hotel in this group to the 44th and 45th Street core.

The top edge: Broadway at 54th

RIU Plaza New York, the 54-story, 673-room tower going up on the northeast corner of Broadway and West 54th Street, is aimed at 2027. Studio 54 and the Broadway Theatre are a block away, the Gershwin three, and the 44th Street houses ten minutes south on foot. With two 300-seat restaurants planned, it is the largest project in the district after The Torch, and RIU's third hotel in Manhattan.

Hell's Kitchen, the western neighbor

West of Eighth Avenue the district gives way to Hell's Kitchen, also called Clinton, a residential neighborhood of walk-up tenements that fought the theater zoning's expansion westward. Ninth Avenue is its main street for eating, lined from 42nd to 57th with small restaurants of every origin, cheaper than anything on Broadway and usually less rushed before a curtain. Restaurant Row is the bridge between the two.

Curtain logistics

Most evening performances start between 7 and 8pm, and theaters ask audiences to be seated before the curtain; a restaurant on 46th Street or Ninth Avenue needs a reservation for 5:30 or 6pm on show nights. Matinees fall mainly on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, which shifts the crowds on those days to the early afternoon.

After the show, the nearest stations depend on the block. The 49th Street station on Seventh Avenue serves the N, R and W; the 50th Street stations serve the 1 on Broadway and the C and E on Eighth Avenue; Times Square–42nd Street, a few minutes south, has almost everything else. From the northern theaters, the 57th Street–Seventh Avenue station is closer. For the hotels around Fifth Avenue and Rockefeller Center, ten minutes east, see our Midtown Manhattan guide.

Which hotel for which theater trip

For one show and one night, the two open hotels at Seventh and 48th are the most direct: the voco for its rooftop, the Hard Rock for a music-themed stay. Families who will spend the day outside the theaters may prefer Margaritaville and its pool.

A theater lover planning ahead should note the two conversions east of Broadway, Only YOU from late 2026 and The Wolseley in a former theatrical club from 2027, both with under 140 rooms. Further out, The Torch and RIU Plaza will add about 1,500 rooms at the western and northern edges of the district.

Frequently asked questions

How many Broadway theaters are in the Theater District?

Forty of the 41. Only the Vivian Beaumont, at Lincoln Center on West 65th Street, lies outside it.

Which new hotel will be closest to Shubert Alley?

The Torch, at Eighth Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets, about three minutes away, but it has no opening date. Among hotels with a date, Only YOU Hotel New York (Q4 2026) and The Wolseley Hotel New York (early 2027) are about five minutes east; among open ones, the voco and the Hard Rock at Seventh Avenue and 48th Street are a similar walk.

Where should I eat before a Broadway show?

Restaurant Row, West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, is set up for it, and Ninth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen has more choice at lower prices. Book for 5:30 or 6pm to make a 7 or 8pm curtain.

Is the Theater District the same as Times Square?

No. Times Square is the plaza where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 47th Streets; the Theater District is the larger grid around it, from 40th to 54th Street and from Sixth to Eighth Avenue.