The Astor Theatre was located at 1537 Broadway, at the corner with 45th Street, on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

It opened on September 21, 1906, with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream[1] and continued to operate as a Broadway theatre until 1925.

The Astor was first managed by Lincoln A. Wagenhals and Collin Kemper, then by George M. Cohan and Sam Harris, and later by the Shubert Organization.

The Big Parade (1925) was the first film shown at the Astor where it ran for a continuous 96-week engagement.

[3] Other films to make their Times Square debuts at the Astor include The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Broadway Melody (1929), Grand Hotel (1932), The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and Gone With the Wind (1939) for MGM; Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night (1964) for United Artists; and Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).