For the first five years (1940-1945) ANT was housed in the basement of the 135th Street Branch Library of the New York Public Library, known as the ???Harlem Library Little Theatre.??? According to historian Ethel Pitts, this space was especially renovated for the group with ???new lights, new seats, a larger foyer, storage room, work space and dressing rooms.??? In 1945, ANT was forced to move to