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George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center

George Street Playhouse is a theater company in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the city's Civic Square government and theater district and resident at the newly built New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. [1] The GSP is one of the state's most prominent professional theaters, committed to the production of new and established plays. [2] [3]

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Artistic Director David Saint and Managing Director Edgar Herrera lead the playhouse. George Street Playhouse presents a main stage season and provides a space for both established and emerging theater artists. Founded in 1974 by Eric Krebs, the playhouse has been represented by numerous productions both on and off-Broadway. In addition to its mainstage season, GSP's Touring Theatre features issue-oriented productions that tour more than 250 schools in the tri-state area, and are seen by more than 30,000 students annually.

George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ in 2011 GeorgeStreetPlayhouse.jpg
George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ in 2011

History and venues

The theater company was originally located in an abandoned supermarket on George Street and later moved to its current location on Livingston Avenue. [4] In 2017, the playhouse moved to an interim location in the former Agricultural Museum on Cook Campus at Rutgers University [5] In the fall of 2019, George Street Playhouse moved back to the Livingston Ave location into a new mixed-use theater building, now called the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

It is a member company of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

Notable productions

Recent productions include the world premiere of The Trial of Donna Caine by Walter Anderson, Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical, a revised version of I Love You, You're Perfect Now Change, An Act of God with Kathleen Turner, American Son by Christopher Demos-Brown, Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch, Gettin' The Band Back Together , and Joe DiPetro's Clever Little Lies. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, by David Auburn, was developed at GSP during the 1999 Next Stage Series.

Seasons (1998 - Present)

SeasonShow #1Show #2Show #3Show #4Show #5Show #6Show #7
1998-1999After-PlayDarlene and the Guest Lecturer Inspecting Carol The Sea Gull Jolson Sings AgainCollected Stories
1999-2000 Do I Hear A Waltz? (Revisal)Down the Garden PathsSyncopation Master Class LootAncestral Voices
2000-2001 Wit The Spitfire Grill Human EventsVeneciaOld TimesClaudia
2001-2002 Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill Talley's Folly Waiting for Tadashi The Sisters Rosensweig CTRL+ALT+DeletePublic Ghosts - Private Stories
2002-2003A Night In Tunisia Dirty Blonde Let Me SingThe 75thThe Vibrator Proof The Last Bridge
2003-2004Wilderness of MirrorsAttacks on the HeartA Walk in the Woods Agnes of God Lips Together, Teeth Apart tick, tick...BOOM!
2004-2005 Hallelujah, Baby! (Revisal)CeladineThe Winning Streak Lend Me A Tenor Address Unknown The Last Five Years
2005-2006Two LivesInspecting CarolUnderneath The Lintel The Pillowman Gunmetal Blues
2006-2007The Things You Least ExpectThe Value of Names I Am My Own Wife Souvenir Falsettos
2007-2008 The Sunshine Boys Doubt Oscar and the Pink LadyThe SceneRoger Is Dead
2008-2009 The Toxic Avenger The Seafarer Sight Unseen The Devil's MusicNew Year's Eve
2009-2010Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You AreA Moon to Dance By Calvin Berger Sylvia Creating Claire
2010-2011 Circle Mirror Transformation [title of show] The Subject Was Roses A Fox on the Fairway God of Carnage
2011-2012 It Shoulda Been You The Nutcracker and I Red Twelve Angry Men The 39 Steps
2012-2013One Slight HitchThe Best of Enemies Good People Rich Girl Venus in Fur
2013-2014 Gettin' The Band Back Together Clever Little LiesOne of Your Biggest FansI Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti Our Town
2014-2015 Outside Mullingar The Fabulous LiptonesThe Whipping Man Buyer & Cellar Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
2015-2016 Murder For Two The Second Mrs. WilsonNureyev's EyesSex With StrangersMy Name Is Asher Lev
2016-2017Mama's Boy Daddy Long Legs American Son Bad Jews Curvy Widow
2017-2018 I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change An Act of God American Hero Trying The Nerd
2018-2019The Trial of Donna Caine A Doll's House Part 2 Little Girl BlueThe ImmigrantToo Heavy for Your Pocket
2019-2020 Last Days of Summer My Life on a DietMidwivesConscience
2021 (Virtual)Bad Dates Fully Committed Tiny Beautiful Things It's Only A Play
2021-2022Dear Jack, Dear LouiseIt's Only A PlayBaipasA Walk on the Moon
2022-2023Her Portmanteau JOY The Musical Clyde's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Tales From The Guttenberg Bible
2023-2024The Pianist Having Our Say Ibsen's GhostThe Clubtick, tick...BOOM!

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References

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  5. Keller, Ilana (May 8, 2017). "George Street announces 2017–18 season in new digs" . Asbury Park Press . Archived from the original on June 6, 2021.
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