Lena Horne Theatre to be unveiled on Broadway on Nov. 1

Lena Horne will make Black history again on Broadway this fall.

The trailblazing stage, screen and music star will become the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named for her when the Nederlander Organization officially renames the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Nov. 1.

The 1,069-seat venue on W. 47th St., is the current home of the Tony Award-winning musical “Six.”

The organization, which owns nine Broadway theaters, announced Wednesday it will host a formal rechristening ceremony in front of the theater that will include special performances, the new marquee unveiling and a block party with a DJ.

Built in 1925, before it was used a CBS TV studio, the venue was called the Mansfield Theatre. In 1960, it was renamed to honor Pulitzer Prize-winning theater critic Brooks Atkinson, who died in 1984.

In June, when it was first announced, James L. Nederlander said that Horne “became a part of our family over the years” and that it was his “privilege, honor, and duty to memorialize [her] for generations to come.”

Known for films such as “Stormy Weather,” “Cabin in the Sky” and “The Wiz,” Horne, who died in 2010 at age 92, was also a civil rights activist.

The former Cotton Club chorus girl was the first Black woman ever to be nominated for a Tony Award for leading actress in a musical for her performance in 1957′s “Jamaica.”

With the 1981 revue, “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music,” the Brooklyn native was the recipient of a Special Tony Award and two Grammy Awards. Nederlander’s father was one of the lead producers of the acclaimed one-woman show, which played at the family’s namesake theatre for a year-long run before airing nationally on PBS years later.

Horne’s other Broadway credits included “Dance With Your Gods,” “Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1939,” and “Tony & Lena Sing.”

The theater’s name change follows a pledge made to Black Theater United by Broadway’s three major landlords, who each agreed to rename at least one of its theaters for a Black entertainment luminary.

The Shubert Organization unveiled the James Earl Jones Theatre (previously the Cort Theatre) on Sept. 12. The Jujamcyn Theaters had already renamed the Virginia Theatre for the late, Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson in 2005.