The first production by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures was a musical adaptation of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles entitled Lestat which entered development in 2003 and opened in 2006.

Warner Bros. had considered creating a division to produce live stage shows after witnessing Disney's success with bringing Beauty and the Beast to Broadway.

[3] The music was written by Jim Steinman, with a book by David Ives, originally Tim Burton expressed interest in directing the Broadway show.

Warner Bros. received an offer from Linda Woolverton and Robert Jess Roth, the writer and director of the Beauty and the Beast musical.

The two of them wanted to work with songwriters Elton John and Bernie Taupin on a new musical based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles.

"When you are starting something, and you get offered the two people who had worked on Beauty and the Beast, Elton John and Bernie Taupin on their first Broadway partnership, and Anne Rice, who has extraordinary success as a novelist, as package, it was really difficult to say 'no' to that, even if I wanted to," Maday explained.

[16] The play transferred to Broadway making its American debut at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, starting previews on October 5, 2014, with the official opening September 10, 2014.

[35][36] Written by William Goldman, the writer of the 1990 film, Misery was produced in association with Castle Rock Entertainment.

[37] The show premiered at the Bucks County Playhouse, Pennsylvania for a limited time engagement on November 24, 2012, for 11 performances, and closed December 8, 2012.

[38][39][40] In March 2015 it was announced that Misery would premiere on Broadway for a limited time engagement starring Bruce Willis as writer Paul Sheldon and Laurie Metcalf as Annie Wilkes[41] at the Broadhurst Theatre beginning previews on October 22, 2015, formally opening on November 15, 2015.

[55] Based on the novel by S. E. Hinton and on its 1983 film adaptation, the show held its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in February/March 2023.

The production is directed by Danya Taymor from a libretto by Adam Rapp, with songs by Jamestown Revival and music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Justin Levine.

Due to the show's popularity, it spawned national tours annually and received its international debut in London at the Waterloo Easter Theatre on November 28, 2018.

[68] The musical opened October 14, 2018 at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., after a successful limited-time run the show closed on November 18, 2018.

Warner Bros Theatre Venture made special arrangements and licensed the rights to playwright and NAACP Award winner Je'Caryous Johnson to produce a live stage adaptation to the 1991 action-crime film New Jack City.

[70] The production opened its two-day preview on October 29-30, 2022 at the Gas South Theater in Atlanta, Georgia and is currently running in a national tour from November of 2022 into June of 2024.

[71] The stage play stars Allen Payne, who reprises his role as "Gee Money", Treach as Nino Brown, Flex Alexander as "Pookie", Big Daddy Kane as Stone and Gary Dourdan as Scotty.

In summer 2016 it was announced a second private reading was held featuring Broadway star Brian d’Arcy James[73] The musical debuted at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2018, for a limited engagement until August 19, 2018.