The Broadhurst's facade is made of buff-colored brick and terracotta and is divided into two sections: a stage house to the west and the theater's entrance to the east.

Long-running shows hosted at the Broadhurst have included Hold Everything!, Fiorello!, Cabaret, Grease, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Les Misérables, and Mamma Mia!.

It adjoins six other theaters: the Majestic to the west, the John Golden and Bernard B. Jacobs to the northwest, the Gerald Schoenfeld to the north, the Booth to the northeast, and the Shubert to the east.

[18][19] Krapp designed the Broadhurst and Plymouth theaters with relatively simple brick-and-stone facades, instead relying on the arrangement of the brickwork for decorative purposes.

The Broadhurst and Plymouth contain curved corners at the eastern portions of their respective facades, facing Broadway, since most audience members reached the theaters from that direction.

[41][50] Rachel Crothers's comedy 39 East opened at the Broadhurst in 1919,[41][51][52] and Jane Cowl and Allan Langdon Martin's collaboration Smilin' Through at the end of that year.

[58][65] In early 1924, the Broadhurst staged Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman's play Beggar on Horseback with Roland Young,[66][67] which lasted for 224 performances.

[72][73] Jed Harris's version of the George Abbott and Philip Dunning play Broadway opened that September;[66][74] it continued for 603 performances,[75][76] ultimately relocating at the end of 1927.

[85][86] Aarons and Freedley gave up their lease on the theater that August,[87] and Norman Bel Geddes produced a short-lived revival of Shakespeare's Hamlet that November.

[85][88] This was followed in 1932 by Philip Barry's comedy The Animal Kingdom;[85][89][90] the drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head;[91][92] and Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play Twentieth Century.

[115] These included Boys and Girls Together with Ed Wynn, Jane Pickens, and the DeMarcos in 1940,[116][117] as well as High Kickers with George Jessel and Sophie Tucker the next year.

[124][127] Morgan Lewis and Nancy Hamilton's revue Three to Make Ready transferred to the Broadhurst in 1946,[124][128] and Helen Hayes returned the same year in Anita Loos's Happy Birthday,[122][129] which ran for 564 performances.

[133][132] Douglass Watson and Olivia de Havilland starred in a 49-performance revival of Romeo and Juliet in 1951,[134][135] while the musical Flahooley ran just 40 performances afterward.

[134][138] Next was the revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey in 1952, featuring Vivienne Segal and Harold Lang,[139][140] which at 542 performances ran longer than the original production.

[141][144] This was followed by long runs of Anniversary Waltz (1954) with Macdonald Carey and Kitty Carlisle; Lunatics and Lovers (1954) with Sheila Bond, Buddy Hackett, and Dennis King; and The Desk Set (1955) with Shirley Booth.

[160][161] The Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical 110 in the Shade opened in 1963 with Robert Horton, Will Geer, Lesley Ann Warren, and Inga Swenson.

[171][172] More Stately Mansions, the last play by Eugene O'Neill, opened at the Broadhurst in 1967[173][174] and featured Ingrid Bergman, Arthur Hill, and Colleen Dewhurst.

[176][177] The next year, The Fig Leaves Are Falling flopped after four performances,[178] and Woody Allen, Tony Roberts, and Diane Keaton starred in Play It Again, Sam.

[182][187][188] Herb Gardner's play Thieves was performed at the Broadhurst in 1974,[189][190] and the Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of Sherlock Holmes opened that year, with John Wood.

[191][192][193] Productions shown at the Broadhurst in 1976 included Enid Bagnold's drama A Matter of Gravity, with Katharine Hepburn and Christopher Reeve;[191][194][195] a brief run of the musical Godspell, which had been an off-Broadway hit;[196][197][198] and A Texas Trilogy, a set of plays by Preston Jones.

[191][199][200] At the end of the year, the theater hosted Larry Gelbart's farce Sly Fox, starring George C. Scott,[201][202] which ran for 495 performances.

[209][a] Immediately afterward, the Broadhurst hosted Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, with Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, and Jane Seymour;[210][211] it ran until October 1983.

[223] The Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey into Night opened at the theater in April 1986, with Bethel Leslie and Jack Lemmon,[224][225] followed later that year by the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, with Roger Rees.

[226][227] At the end of 1986, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound opened at the Broadhurst with Jason Alexander, Linda Lavin, and Phyllis Newman;[228][229] it ran for 756 performances over the next two years.

[243] The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Aspects of Love opened at the Broadhurst in April 1990;[244][245] despite running for 377 performances,[246] the show lost its entire investment of $8 million.

[247] Several short-lived shows followed,[248] including André Heller's Wonderhouse in 1991,[249][250] as well as a revival of Private Lives with Joan Collins[251][252] and the play Shimada in 1992.

[253][254] The next hit was Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb's musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, which opened in May 1993 with Anthony Crivello, Brent Carver, and Chita Rivera;[255][256] it ran for 906 performances.

[271] The Broadhurst hosted a revival of the August Strindberg play Dance Of Death in late 2001, featuring Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren.

[278][279] As part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice in 2003, the Shuberts agreed to improve disabled access at their 16 landmarked Broadway theaters, including the Broadhurst.

[315] A revival of A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker occupied the Broadhurst in 2012,[316][317] followed the next year by Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, with Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut.