Built and operated by The New 42nd Street and named in recognition of a generous grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Duke on 42nd Street is an intimate, flexible, 200-seat black-box theater. Since opening in 2000, the theater has been available to international and domestic nonprofit organizations to present their work. Companies that have presented at The Duke on 42nd Street include: Harkness Dance Project; The NYC Tap Festival; Rosie's Broadway Kids; Playwrights Horizons; London’s National Theatre; Theatre for a New Audience, which continues to present work on a regular basis; Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, which is in its second season, and The New 42nd Street’s “New Victory at The Duke” series. Companies presented by The New 42nd Street have included: Karole Armitage; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Naked Angels, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Steppenwolf Theater Company. The Duke on 42nd Street was built as part of the state-of-the-art New 42nd Street Studios and is located on the building's second floor at 229 West 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues.