Foxwoods Theatre

Lyric Theatre

Apollo Theatre, Lyric Theatre (predecessors) Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Hilton Theatre, Foxwoods Theatre
43rd Street entrance
Address	214 West 43rd Street, New York City, NY United States
Owner	City and State of New York
Operator	Ambassador Theatre Group
Type	Broadway theatre
Capacity	approx. 1,938
Production	Paramour
Construction
Opened	January 18, 1998
Rebuilt	1998
Years active	1998–Present
Architect	Richard Blinder Peter Kofman
Tenants
New 42nd Street

Coordinates: 40°45′24″N 73°59′16″W / 40.75667°N 73.98778°W / 40.75667; -73.98778

The Lyric Theatre (previously known as the Foxwoods Theatre, the Hilton Theatre and the Ford Center for the Performing Arts) is a Broadway theatre located at 214 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The venue has a seating capacity of 1,930 making it the second largest house on Broadway (the Gershwin Theatre is just slightly larger).

The theatre was built in 1996–97 on the site of the former Apollo and Lyric Theatres. The Lyric was built in 1903 and hosted Shakespeare plays and such notable new shows as Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen, until it was converted to a movie theatre in 1934. The Apollo, constructed in 1920 by the Selwyn Brothers to a design by Eugene De Rosa, housed the Gershwin musicals Strike Up the Band and George White's Scandals, among other works, but was also turned into a film venue by the early 1930s. A brief return to use as a legitimate theatre in the late 1970s proved unsuccessful, and the venue ended its existence as a nightclub.