Lucille Lortel Theatre

Lucille Lortel Theatre

Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse located at 121 Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.

The venue was built in 1953 as Theater de Lys and housed a revival of the "Threepenny Opera", which opened on March 101954. In 1955, financier Louis Schweitzer acquired the building as an anniversary present for his wife, actress-producer Lucille Lortel. In 1981, it was renamed the Lucille Lortel Theatre in her honor.

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