The Fourteenth Street Theatre was a theatre located at 107 West 14th Street just west of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.Berg, J.C. (9 January 2011). , nycvintageimages.com
History It was designed by Alexander Saeltzer and opened in 1866 as the Theatre Français, as a home for French language dramas and opera.Fisher, Hames and Londré, Felicia Hardison. "Modernism" in The A to Z of American Theater Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. . pp.180–81
The theatre was renamed the Lyceum in 1871. In 1879, it was taken over by producer J.H. Haverly, who renamed it Haverly's 14th Street Theatre. By the mid-1880s, it had become simply the Fourteenth Street Theatre.Steinberg, Mollie B. The history of the Fourteenth street theatre (1931)
By the mid-1910s, it was being used as a movie theatre. Actress Eva Le Gallienne made it the home of her stage company, renaming it the Civic Repertory Theatre in 1926. She conducted acting classes and mounted 34 successful productions at the theatre,Brockett, Oscar G. History of the Theatre, Second Edition. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 1974. p. 553. but the Great Depression ended that venture in 1934.(30 May 1942). Producer of Play Found Dead in Hotel , The New York Times
The building was demolished in 1938.Cooper, Lee E. (1 April 1938). Old Fourteenth St. Theatre to Pass Into Hands of Wreckers on Monday , The New York Times(3 September 2011). The Lost 1866 Theatre Francais -- 107 West 14th Street , Daytonian In Manhattan
Selected productions
14th Street Theatre Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer (1881) Evangeline! (1885–1886) (252 perf.) The Still Alarm (1887) The Old Homestead (1887, by George W. Ryer and Denman Thompson) (155 perf.) A Romance of Athlone (1889, 1890, by Chauncey Olcott) Blue Jeans (1890) Mavourneen (1891) Palmer Cox's Brownies (1894, by Palmer Cox and Malcolm Douglas) (98 perf.) The Errand Boy (1904)
Civic Repertory Theatre Alice in Wonderland (1932–33, adapted by Eva Le Gallienne) (127 perf.) Peace on Earth (1933–34, by George Sklar and Albert Maltz) (126 perf.) Waiting for Lefty (1935, by Clifford Odets) Let Freedom Ring (1935–36) (108 perf.)
References Notes
Bibliography Brockett, Oscar G. History of the Theatre, Second Edition. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 1974.
External links Listing on the Internet Broadway Database Civic Repertory Theatre Records. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.