SoHo Playhouse
15 Vandam Street | Hudson Square | built 1829
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- 1962
The Village South Theatre opens at 15 Vandam Street with a musical based on Finnegans Wake
The Off-Broadway theatre at 15 Vandam Street opened in 1962 as the Village South Theatre. Its first production was The Coach with the Six Insides, a musical play by Jean Erdman drawn from the last novel of James Joyce, Finnegans Wake.
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- 1963
Edward Albee uses Virginia Woolf profits to start the Playwrights' Unit at the Village South
In 1963 Edward Albee put profits from his hit play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? into founding the Playwrights' Unit at the Village South Theatre. The group gave untested new playwrights a stage on which to premiere their work.
“Edward Albee used profits from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to establish the Playwrights' Unit at the Village South Theatre…”
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- 1970
The Village South closes after the musical Who's Happy Now? and the space hosts an acting academy
The theatre closed in 1970, with its last production the musical Who's Happy Now? by Michael Preston Barr and Dion McGregor. The space still hosted Off-Broadway shows under the plain name 15 Van Dam, and from 1970 to 1974 the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts made it its base.
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- 1994
The theatre reopens as the SoHo Playhouse with Grandma Sylvia's Funeral
In 1994 the house at 15 Vandam Street reopened as the SoHo Playhouse, staging the play Grandma Sylvia's Funeral. In recent years it has served as an incubator for intimate new works, including Ed Byrne's solo show Tragedy Plus Time and Martin Dockery's Inescapable in 2023.
“It reopened in as the SoHo Playhouse in 1994 with a production of the play Grandma Sylvia's Funeral.”
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