Fourteenth Street Theatre

The Fourteenth Street Theatre was a New York City theatre located at 107 West 14th Street just west of Sixth Avenue.

[1] It was designed by Alexander Saeltzer and opened in 1866 as the Theatre Français, as a home for French language dramas and opera.

By the mid-1880s, it had become simply the Fourteenth Street Theatre.

[3] By the mid-1910s, it was being used as a movie theatre, until actress Eva Le Gallienne made it the home of her stage company and renamed it to Civic Repertory Theatre in 1926.

She mounted 34 successful productions at the theatre,[4] but the Great Depression ended that venture in 1934.

The theatre in 1936 with fire escapes added, photographed by Berenice Abbott