The Columbus Theatre was a theatre located at 114 E. 125th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue.
[2] The Columbus Theatre originally sat 1,649 people and was a major venue for musical theatre, vaudeville, and minstrel shows in Upper Manhattan.
[1] The theatre also occasionally served as an opera house, and sometimes presented plays ranging from classic works by William Shakespeare to new plays written by Americans.
It was later re-titled Keith & Proctor's 125th Street Theatre about a year later when Proctor formed a partnership with Benjamin Franklin Keith.
It was purchased by RKO sometime in the 1930s, and operated as a move theatre entitled RKO Proctor's 125th Street Theatre until it closed in 1957.