The Lyric Theatre opened at 213 W. 42nd Street in 1903. Architect V. Hugo Koehler designed the Lyric Theatre for producer Reginald DeKoven. It housed notables such as Fred and Adele Astaire in For Goodness Sake in 1922. Irving Berlin and George S. Kaufman collaborated with the Marx Brothers on The Cocoanuts in 1925. Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough, popular comedians, starred in a production of The Ramblers a year later. In 1996, the Canadian theatrical firm Livent signed a long-term lease for both the Apollo Theatre and the Lyric Theatre. The company combined the two theatres into the larger building that reopened as the Ford Center for the Performing Arts. It was renamed the Hilton Theatre in 2005 and the Foxwoods Theatre in 2010.