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The Beacon Theatre is a historic theater at 2124 Broadway (at West 74th Street) on Broadway in upper Manhattan New York City. The 2894-seat three-tiered theatre was designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager as a movie palace for motion pictures and vaudeville. Today it is one of New York’s leading live music and entertainment venues and controlled by Madison Square Garden Inc.The theater was the site of the 2011 Tony Awards and 2012 Tony Awards which were broadcast on CBS.