Frank Day Tuttle, a theatrical and radio producer and director, purchased, renovated, and converted the Bohemian Club into the East 74th Street Theater.

[7] Among the other plays presented at the theater were The Crystal Heart (1960; with Mildred Dunnock, and Virginia Vestoff in her first professional appearance, with top seats selling for $4.96 ($51.08 in current dollar terms),[11] George Gershwin's Oh, Kay!

(1960; with Linda Lavin, Penny Fuller, and Marti Stevens, and with high school student Daniel Lewis working a follow spot in the lighting), The Shoemaker and the Peddler (1960), One Way Pendulum by N. F. Simpson (1961), Hotel Passionato (1965), The Bernard Shaw Story (1965-66), Jean Erdman's The Coach with the Six Insides (1967), Stephen D. (1967; with Roy Scheider), and The Victims (1968).

[12][13][14][15][16][17] In the fall of 1965, Jack Moore and Jeff Duncan formed the Dance Theater Workshop, and produced a series of Monday evening concerts at the theater.

[18][19] In 1966, the theater hosted a subscription series devoted to modern and ethnic dance.