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]
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.
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.
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.
Season | Show #1 | Show #2 | Show #3 | Show #4 | Show #5 | Show #6 | Show #7 |
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1998-1999 | After-Play | Darlene and the Guest Lecturer | Inspecting Carol | The Sea Gull | Jolson Sings Again | Collected Stories | |
1999-2000 | Do I Hear A Waltz? (Revisal) | Down the Garden Paths | Syncopation | Master Class | Loot | Ancestral Voices | |
2000-2001 | Wit | The Spitfire Grill | Human Events | Venecia | Old Times | Claudia | |
2001-2002 | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill | Talley's Folly | Waiting for Tadashi | The Sisters Rosensweig | CTRL+ALT+Delete | Public Ghosts - Private Stories | |
2002-2003 | A Night In Tunisia | Dirty Blonde | Let Me Sing | The 75th | The Vibrator | Proof | The Last Bridge |
2003-2004 | Wilderness of Mirrors | Attacks on the Heart | A Walk in the Woods | Agnes of God | Lips Together, Teeth Apart | tick, tick...BOOM! | |
2004-2005 | Hallelujah, Baby! (Revisal) | Celadine | The Winning Streak | Lend Me A Tenor | Address Unknown | The Last Five Years | |
2005-2006 | Two Lives | Inspecting Carol | Underneath The Lintel | The Pillowman | Gunmetal Blues | ||
2006-2007 | The Things You Least Expect | The Value of Names | I Am My Own Wife | Souvenir | Falsettos | ||
2007-2008 | The Sunshine Boys | Doubt | Oscar and the Pink Lady | The Scene | Roger Is Dead | ||
2008-2009 | The Toxic Avenger | The Seafarer | Sight Unseen | The Devil's Music | New Year's Eve | ||
2009-2010 | Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are | A 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 | ||
2012-2013 | One Slight Hitch | The Best of Enemies | Good People | Rich Girl | Venus in Fur | ||
2013-2014 | Gettin' The Band Back Together | Clever Little Lies | One of Your Biggest Fans | I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti | Our Town | ||
2014-2015 | Outside Mullingar | The Fabulous Liptones | The Whipping Man | Buyer & Cellar | Ernest Shackleton Loves Me | ||
2015-2016 | Murder For Two | The Second Mrs. Wilson | Nureyev's Eyes | Sex With Strangers | My Name Is Asher Lev | ||
2016-2017 | Mama'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 | ||
2018-2019 | The Trial of Donna Caine | A Doll's House Part 2 | Little Girl Blue | The Immigrant | Too Heavy for Your Pocket | ||
2019-2020 | Last Days of Summer | My Life on a Diet | Midwives | Conscience | |||
2021 (Virtual) | Bad Dates | Fully Committed | Tiny Beautiful Things | It's Only A Play | |||
2021-2022 | Dear Jack, Dear Louise | It's Only A Play | Baipas | A Walk on the Moon | |||
2022-2023 | Her Portmanteau | JOY The Musical | Clyde's | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Tales From The Guttenberg Bible | ||
2023-2024 | The Pianist | Having Our Say | Ibsen's Ghost | The Club | tick, tick...BOOM! |
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