The Columbia Theatre was an American burlesque theater on Seventh Avenue at the north end of Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

With loss of audiences to cinema and stock burlesque, the owners began to offer slightly more risqué material from 1925.

What would be called the "Home of Burlesque De Luxe" was built on the northeast corner of Seventh Avenue and 47th Street in Manhattan.

[1] A photograph from May 1909 before construction began shows the site was occupied by typical four- and five-story brownstone buildings.

[11] The theater's managers, Cliff Gordon and Robert North, decided to put on an adaptation of The Merry Whirl for the summer of 1911.

Alexander's Ragtime Band by Irving Berlin, sung by James C. Morton and Frank F. Moore, was the hit song of the show.

[13] Joe E. Brown, a comedian, was playing in the Columbia Theatre in 1918 when he was spotted by Henry Cort and offered a part in the successful Broadway show Listen, Lester.

[15] In 1920 James E. Cooper produced Folly Town, a burlesque show that was one of the first racially integrated productions in New York.

[16] A clean burlesque, it featured the colored Tennessee Ten with Florence Mills and the comedians Bert Lahr and Jack Haley.

[8] In June 1920 the Burlesque Club held its annual benefit at the Columbia Theatre, again featuring the Tennessee Ten.

[19] Will Rogers performed at the theater in the Red Pepper Review, a tribute to the Columbia Burlesque Circuit, on January 8, 1925.

[20] An African-American troupe opened at the Columbia in July 1925, including a jazz band featuring the clarinetist Sidney Bechet.

[23] In the 1925 season Columbia's president, Sam A. Scribner, authorized the removal of tights and display of tableaux of bare-breasted women.