Altrenate/Secret Stage Doors

Telling where they are would defeat the purpose of their being secret, wouldn't it?

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You mean there are actors who don't like to sign or be photographed? They don't belong on Broadway!!!!!

Send them to Corine's Corner!

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Taking the poster at his/her word that it is curiosity and that he/she is genuinely asking:

It may not be true for smaller venues, but Broadway theaters are big enough that I imagine that all of them have alternate exits, for fire code if nothing else. For example, the ways the audience uses to go in and out of the theater could be used as alternate exits. Some theaters are connected to neighboring buildings, sometimes through underground tunnels. And I imagine that Broadway theaters generally have loading docks, which would also potentially be alternate exits.

So actors have other ways of leaving, for the most part. And hopefully the audience respects their decision to leave through an alternate exit.

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When I saw Young Frankenstein, when I was at the stage door, I saw Megan Mullally literally walk out an exit about 3 doors down from the one all her fans were standing outside of.

She probably left through the house, or waited until the stage door crowd had cleared to leave the theater.

Every theater has another exit, but I wouldn't call them secret, necessarily. If you know how, you can even leave by way of a different theater than you entered in many cases.

I remember reading a year or two back on one of these boards that there was rumored to be a doorway from one of the Mamma Mia dressing rooms at the Wintergarden into an adjoining restaurant, but I never heard whether it was true. Does anyone know?