Lyceum Theatre

Midtown


Dating back to 1903, this beaux-arts veteran, sporting a rather grand neoclassical limestone facade with Corinthian columns, is Broadway's oldest continually operating theater, spared the fate of being turned – horrors! – into a movie house like many of its peers. It even retains its original name.


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