The Bijou Theatre was a former Broadway theater in New York City that opened in 1917 and was demolished in 1982. It was built by the Shubert family in 1917 at 209 West 45th Street, and was the smallest of the houses they operated with a capacity of 603. Although it did not keep the planned name of the Theatre Francais, it retained its French decor. It was one of three theaters that hosted the premiere season of the musical Fancy Free—but primarily it presented plays by many writers, including Sacha Guitry, John Galsworthy, A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Leslie Howard, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Luigi Pirandello, Graham Greene, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan, and Seán O'Casey.