Playwrights Horizons
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- 1960
The Maidman Playhouse begins a six-year Off-Broadway run on the lot Playwrights Horizons now occupies
The site of today's Playwrights Horizons complex at 416 West 42nd Street was earlier occupied by a former burlesque house that operated as the Off-Broadway Maidman Playhouse from 1960 to 1966. The present theater building was later put up on the same site. This entry describes an earlier building on the lot.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2001
Playwrights Horizons holds a groundbreaking for its new theater complex
Playwrights Horizons marks the start of construction on a new five-story home at 416 West 42nd Street, on the site of its old building in Theatre Row. Invited guests include State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, whose offices are among the funders of a $32 million capital campaign. The company spends its 2001-2002 season in borrowed venues.
Source: playbill.com
- 2001
Playwrights Horizons unveils plans for the Edith K. Ehrman Building
Playwrights Horizons announces details of its new home, designed by architect Mitchell Kurtz and named for Edith K. Ehrman, whose estate gave a $10 million bequest. The plans call for a 198-seat Mainstage, up from 141 seats, and a flexible studio theater of 96 or 128 seats, behind transparent window-walls facing the street. The company expects to open the building in September 2002.
Source: playbill.com
- 2006
Grey Gardens, the musical about the Beales of East Hampton, runs at Playwrights Horizons
Grey Gardens, with a book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie, ran at Playwrights Horizons from February 10 to April 30, 2006, directed by Michael Greif. The theater's page presents Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter "Little" Edie, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in their dilapidated 28-room East Hampton mansion. The show moved to Broadway later in 2006.
Source: playwrightshorizons.org
- 2009
Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation begins a run that lasts into 2010
Annie Baker's comedy about four New Englanders joining a drama class at a community center opened at Playwrights Horizons on September 24, 2009, and ran through January 31, 2010. Sam Gold directed a cast of Reed Birney, Tracee Chimo, Peter Friedman, Deirdre O'Connell and Heidi Schreck. The theater's biography of Baker lists an Obie Award for Best New American Play for the production.
Source: playwrightshorizons.org
- 2010
Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park runs at Playwrights Horizons in early 2010
Bruce Norris's comedy, in which a white family leaves a neighborhood in 1958 and another moves in during 2008, ran at Playwrights Horizons from January 29 to March 21, 2010, directed by Pam MacKinnon. The cast included Frank Wood, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos, Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton and Christina Kirk. The theater calls the play a pitch-black comedy about gentrification.
Source: playwrightshorizons.org
- 2013
Annie Baker's The Flick debuts at Playwrights Horizons and later wins a Pulitzer
The Flick opened at Playwrights Horizons on March 12, 2013, after previews that began February 15, with Sam Gold directing. It is set in a run-down movie theater near Worcester, Massachusetts, where three ushers do the upkeep. Baker's play won the 2013 Obie Award for Playwriting and, a year later, the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
“The Flick debuted Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on March 12, 2013, after previews from February 15, 2013.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
A Strange Loop opens at Playwrights Horizons
Michael R. Jackson's musical A Strange Loop, presented in association with Page 73, opens at Playwrights Horizons on June 17, 2019, after performances begin on May 24. Larry Owens plays Usher, a Black queer writer stuck in a job he dislikes and composing a musical about his own situation. Stephen Brackett directs.
Source: playbill.com
- 2023
David Adjmi's Stereophonic, a play about a 1970s rock band in a recording studio, opens at Playwrights Horizons
Stereophonic, a play by David Adjmi with original music by Will Butler of Arcade Fire, ran at Playwrights Horizons from October 6 to December 17, 2023. Daniel Aukin directed. The play follows a rock band recording an album in a mid-1970s studio as it nears superstardom.
Source: playwrightshorizons.org
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