Producers Marc Klaw and Abe Erlanger created the Klaw Theatre in 1921. The venue was located on 251 W. 45th Street and designed by architect Eugene De Rosa. The theatre housed stars Katharine Cornell and Tallulah Bankhead in the 1921 production of Nice People. George Abbott won a Pulitzer Prize for his drama, Hell-Bent fer Heaven, which premiered at the Klaw in 1923. The theatre was renamed the Avon that same year. Noel Coward’s Hay Fever received a production at the Avon. After a stint as a CBS studio, the Klaw Theatre was demolished, as the Avon, in 1954.