Stage, film and musical icon Lena Horne will officially become the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named for her when The Nederlander Organization rechristens the Brooks Atkinson Theat…
Stage, film and musical icon Lena Horne will officially become the first Black woman to have atheater named for her when The Nederlander Organization rechristens the Brooks Atkinson Theatre next month and unveils a new marquee.
The company, under the leadership of James L. Nederlander, announced the renaming date today.
The ceremony will follow through on a pledge by various Broadway theater owners in 2020, in solidarity with Black Theatre United, to honor Black theater artists by renaming at least one of their venues. Last month, the Shubert Organization officially renamed the Cort Theater the James Earl Jones Theatre; Jujamcyn Theaters had renamed its Virginia Theatre the August Wilson Theatre in 2005.
Horne, who died in 2010, was the first Black woman ever to be nominated for a Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance in 1957’swhich played at the Nederlander Theatre and included among its lead producers James M. Nederlander. Horne received a special Tony Award for the show, as well as two Grammy Awards for the cast recording.
Built in 1925 and originally named the Mansfield Theatre, the venue was used as a TV studio by CBS for a period during the 1950s, reopening to “legitimate” theater in 1960 when it was renamed for then-recently retiredtheater critic Brooks Atkinson . The upcoming renaming will leave just the Walter Kerr Theatre, owned by Jujamcyn, as the sole remaining Broadway venue named for a theater critic .
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