The Schoenfeld'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.

It adjoins six other theaters: the Majestic to the southwest, the John Golden and Bernard B. Jacobs to the west, the Booth to the east, the Shubert to the southeast, and the Broadhurst directly to the south.

[19][20] 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 Schoenfeld contain curved corners at the eastern portions of their respective facades, facing Broadway, since most audience members reached the theaters from that direction.

On the south (left) and east (rear) walls, the exit doors are placed within deep reveals and are flanked by paneled pilasters, which are topped by brackets.

Running around the ceiling's perimeter is an Adam-style band with cameo panels depicting fauns and the god Pan; arabesque vines; and urn-and-sphinx motifs.

[53][56] Later the same year, Hopkins presented the Tolstoy drama Redemption with John Barrymore,[57][58][59] and the Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet was revived with Walter Hampden.

[60][61] The Plymouth hosted another Hopkins production in 1919: Sem Benelli's drama The Jest, featuring John Barrymore and his brother Lionel,[57][62] which ran for 179 performances.

[90] The same year, Hopkins and George Manker Watters's play Burlesque opened with Hal Skelly and Barbara Stanwyck;[91][92] it lasted for 372 performances.

[121] Among those was Robert E. Sherwood's version of Jacques Deval's Tovarich, featuring Marta Abba and John Halliday,[122] which opened in October 1936 and ran until the next August.

[133][134] In 1940, the theater hosted William Saroyan's comedy Love's Old Sweet Song, with Jessie Royce Landis and Walter Huston,[135][136] but it closed after a month.

[137] The comedy Separate Rooms, with Alan Dinehart, Glenda Farrell, and Lyle Talbot, moved to the Plymouth the same year[138][139] to complete its 612-performance Broadway run.

[151][152] In 1946, the theater hosted the musical Lute Song with Mary Martin, Yul Brynner, and Nancy Davis,[153][154][155] as well as a revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter featuring Clifton Webb.

[13] Samuel Taylor's play Happy Time, produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein, opened the same year with Claude Dauphin, Eva Gabor, and Kurt Kasznar;[165][166] it lasted 614 performances.

[167][169][170] Later that year, the Frederick Knott drama Dial "M" for Murder opened with Maurice Evans and Gusti Huber,[165][171] staying for 552 performances.

[167][172] Next was Herman Wouk's play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, with Henry Fonda, John Hodiak, and Lloyd Nolan;[173][174] it opened in 1954 and had 405 performances.

[175] The following year, the Plymouth hosted the revue 3 for Tonight with Gower and Marge Champion, Harry Belafonte, and Hiram Sherman,[176][177] The comedy Janus also opened in 1955, with Margaret Sullavan and Claude Dauphin.

[185][186] Afterward, the comedy The Marriage-Go-Round with Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Julie Newmar, and Edmon Ryan opened at the theater in 1958;[187][188] it ran for two years.

[196] The Neil Simon comedy The Odd Couple premiered at the Plymouth with Walter Matthau and Art Carney in 1965,[187][203] staying for over a year before it transferred.

[204][205] Simon's next show at the theater, The Star-Spangled Girl with Richard Benjamin, Anthony Perkins, and Connie Stevens, opened at the end of 1966,[187][206] running until August 1967.

[216] The Jean Kerr play Finishing Touches opened in February 1973, featuring Barbara Bel Geddes and James Woods,[217][218] and ran for 164 performances over the next five months.

[233] Later that year, catwalks were installed within the theater to accommodate the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,[234] which ran for three months.

[238][243][244] In 1984, the Plymouth hosted the play The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, featuring Christine Baranski, Glenn Close, and Jeremy Irons;[240][245] it ran for 566 performances over the next year and a half.

[262][263] Next, Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles moved to the Plymouth from the off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons theater in March 1989,[264] staying for a year and a half.

[265] The Plymouth hosted a short run of The Big Love with Tracey Ullman in 1991,[266][267] followed the same year by the Brian Friel drama Dancing at Lughnasa,[268] the latter of which had 421 performances.

[274] The Stephen Sondheim musical Passion opened at the Plymouth in 1994,[275][276] followed by Brian Friel's Translations in 1995[277][278] and the Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance in 1996.

[283] The Plymouth's first new production of the 2000s was a revival of the Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne musical Bells Are Ringing, which opened in April 2001 with Faith Prince;[284][285] it ran for two months.

[296][297] 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 Plymouth.

[309] The first two shows at the renamed theater were not successful;[288][26] Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life opened in late 2005 and ran for two months,[310] while The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial flopped after two weeks in May 2006.

[27] They included A Behanding in Spokane and A Life in the Theatre in 2010; The Motherfucker with the Hat and Bonnie & Clyde in 2011; The Best Man and Glengarry Glen Ross in 2012; and Orphans in 2013.