page_title: Olympic Theatre, New York
section_title: Third Olympic Theatre (1856–1880)
hierarchical_section_title: Olympic Theatre, New York / Third Olympic Theatre (1856–1880)
caption_attribution_description: English: Olympic Theatre — 622 Broadway, New York City; managed by George L. Fox in 1866 More information
context_page_description: The Olympic Theatre was the name given to five former 19th and early 20th-century theatres on Broadway in Manhattan and in Brooklyn, New York.
context_section_description: The third Olympic Theatre was located on 622 Broadway, near Houston Street in New York. It was built in 1856 to a design by architect John M. Trimble as Laura Keene's Theatre under the management of Laura Keene, a popular actress of the time. Keene had lost her lease on the Metropolitan Hall (Tripler Hall), and she relocated her Varieties to this theatre. The stage manager in the 1860s was Harry Eytinge. Many of Keene's productions had music by Thomas Baker and starred Joseph Jefferson.
  Under Keene's management, the theatre saw a number of notable premieres including Our American Cousin in 1858 by English playwright Tom Taylor when the title character was played by Jefferson with Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary. Keene was acting in the play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on 14 April 1865 when United States President Abraham Lincoln, in the audience, was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Other works to receive their premieres here included the melodrama The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault (1860) and the long-running musical The Seven Sisters (1860–1861). In The Colleen Bawn, Keene played Anne Chute with Boucicault playing Myles na Coppaleen.
  After Keene left in 1863 the theatre was renamed the Olympic and was managed by a number of actresses, including Mrs. John Wood (c. 1866). The theatre closed in 1880 and was demolished in the same year.
caption: This Olympic Theatre opened in 1856 as Laura Keene’s New Theatre
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