The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse located at 121 Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village. It was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse. The interior is largely unchanged to this day.In the early 1950s, the site was converted to an off-Broadway theater as Theater de Lys, opening on June 9, 1953 with...
Since 1955, Lucille Lortel has been New York City's most popular off-broadway playhouses. At that time, Brecht and Weill's "The Threepenny Opera" starring Lotte Lenya ran for a record seven years straight. A veritable vault of talented productions has emerged from Lucille, such as Cobb, Romeo and Juliet, Suite In Tow keys and many, many more. Over the years, the theater has also hosted benefit...