The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Entertainment venue in Manhattan, United States.
This venue sits on the lower level of the Madison Square Garden complex in Manhattan and offers a large auditorium with sloped seating for several thousand guests. All seats lie relatively close to the stage, giving the room a certain proximity despite its size.
The hall opened in February 1968 as the Felt Forum and was named after Irving Mitchell Felt, then president of Madison Square Garden. Later it received new names through different sponsorship agreements before arriving at its current designation.
The hall's name tracks its owners: Felt Forum from 1968, Paramount Theater in the early 1990s, WaMu Theater in 2007, Hulu Theater in 2018, and Infosys Theater from 2026. Its stage hosted an annual A Christmas Carol from 1994 to 2003 and The Wizard of Oz from 1997 to 1999, with Eartha Kitt, Mickey Rooney and Roseanne Barr in the cast.
The theater's street-front entrance is on the Madison Square Garden frontage, marked by a flat dark canopy with an illuminated "MADISON SQUARE GARDEN" sign and the number 33 in red; a metal fence stands in front. From there, stairs and elevators lead down to the lower level beneath the main arena.
The stage measures 30 by 64 feet (9.1 by 19.5 m), and no seat is farther than 177 feet (54 m) from it. Because the main arena sits directly overhead, the ceiling at stage level is only 20 feet (6.1 m) high, and all seating except the boxes on the two side walls is on a single level slanted back from the stage.
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