The Shuberts: The Brothers Who Built Broadway
By Greg Young / The Bowery Boys
September 24, 2021
PODCAST There’s no business like show business – thanks to Lee, Sam and JJ Shubert, the Syracuse brothers who forever changed the American theatrical business in the 20th century.
Broadway is back! And the marquees of New York’s theater district are again glowing with the excitement of live entertainment.
And many of these theaters will built and operated by the Shubert Brothers, impresarios who helped shape the physical nature of the Broadway theater district itself, creating the close cluster of stages that gives Times Square its energy and glamour.