[
Atkinson Theatre NYC 2007.jpg|thumb|Brooks Atkinson Theatre showing [[A Moon for the Misbegotten], 2007]]
The
Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a
Broadway theater located at 256 West 47th Street in
Manhattan.
Designed by
architect Herbert J. Krapp, it was constructed as the
Mansfield Theatre by the Chanin brothers in 1926. After 1933, the theatre fell into relative disuse until 1945, when
Michael Myerberg bought it and leased it to
CBS for television productions. Known as CBS Studio 59, the theater played host to the long-running game show
What's My Line?.
In 1960, it was renamed after the former
New York Times theater critic,
Brooks Atkinson, and returned to legitimate use.