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Address | 110 West 41st Street New York City United States |
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Coordinates | 40°45′16″N 73°59′07″W / 40.7543717°N 73.9853195°W |
Owner | The Shubert Organization |
Type | Broadway |
Capacity | 687 |
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Opened | September 6, 1909 |
Demolished | 1942 |
Years active | 1909–1942 |
Architect | D. G. Malcolm |
The Comedy Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 110 West 41st Street in Manhattan that opened in 1909. It presented the first Broadway appearances of Katharine Cornell and Ruth Draper, as well as Eugene O'Neill's first Broadway play. Shuttered in the wake of the Depression, it reopened in 1937 as the Mercury Theatre — the venue for Orson Welles's groundbreaking adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and other productions for the Mercury Theatre repertory company. In 1939 it began presenting classic Yiddish theatre. The building was demolished in 1942.