Fourteenth Street Theatre
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The Fourteenth Street Theatre was a New York City
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 theatre located on 14th Street just west of Sixth Avenue
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The venue opened in 1866 as the Theatre Francais. It was renamed the Lyceum in 1871. By the time J.H. Haverly took over the venue in 1879, he had renamed it "Haverly's 14th Street Theatre." By the mid-1880s, it was simply the "Fourteenth Street Theatre".

By the mid 1910s it was being used as a movie theatre, until actress Eva Le Gallienne
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 made it into the Civic Repertory Theater in 1926. She mounted a number of successful productions, but the Great Depression eventually led that venture to end by 1934.(30 May 1942). Producer of Play Found Dead in Hotel, The New York Times
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The building was demolished in 1938.
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