Broadway Theatre, Modern theatre in Old Town, Prague, Czech Republic
Broadway Theatre is a performing venue in the Old Town of Prague, located on Na Příkopě, one of the district's main streets, with three levels of seating and side boxes. The auditorium wraps around a trapezoid-shaped stage, which allows for a range of production types.
The building originally opened as a cinema and was thoroughly renovated in the early 2000s to become a theatre. The transformation shifted its purpose from film screenings to live stage performances.
The theatre's programme consists mainly of musicals, from its first production, Kleopatra, in 2002 to later titles such as Troja and Robinson. The title role of Kleopatra was alternated between Bára Basiková, Ilona Csáková, Monika Absolonová and Radka Fišarová.
The theatre is on Na Příkopě, one of the Old Town's most accessible streets, easy to reach on foot or by public transport. Checking the schedule ahead of time is recommended, as productions change throughout the year.
The theatre occupies the former cinema hall of the Sevastopol Palace, a functionalist building from 1938 that links Celetná and Na Příkopě through the Broadway Passage. The cinema closed in 1998, and the hall was rebuilt for the theatre, which opened in December 2001. Jaromír Pizinger designed the auditorium with dark blue seats, dark wood elements and two revolving stages, one with a trapdoor.
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