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SoHo Playhouse
SoHo Playhouse
Address15 Vandam Street
Manhattan, New York City
United States
Type Off-Broadway
Capacity 178
Website
www.sohoplayhouse.com

The SoHo Playhouse is an Off-Broadway theatre at 15 Vandam Street in the Hudson Square area of Manhattan. [1]

The theatre opened in 1962 as the Village South Theatre with the original production of Jean Erdman's musical play The Coach with the Six Insides which was based upon James Joyce's last novel Finnegans Wake . The following year Edward Albee used profits from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to establish the Playwrights' Unit at the Village South Theatre; an organization which provided a platform for untested new playwrights to premiere their works. [2] The theatre closed in 1970, with its last production being Michael Preston Barr and Dion McGregor's musical Who's Happy Now?. It did still house plays for various off-Broadway productions under the simple name of 15 Van Dam. [3] The theatre was home to the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts from 1970 until 1974.

It reopened in as the SoHo Playhouse in 1994 with a production of the play Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, which ran for four years. [4] [1] It has since served as an Off-Broadway receiving house.

In recent years, Soho Playhouse serves to incubate and produce intimate new works. In 2023, this included the psychological thriller, Job, featuring Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon; [5] Ed Byrne's comedic solo show titled Tragedy Plus Time, [6] and Florencia Iriondo's one-woman folk-pop musical, South. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "About the Historic SoHo Playhouse" . Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  2. The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
  3. "Greenwich Village: Birthplace of Modern American Drama part 4 in a series". 19 August 2016.
  4. "SoHo Playhouse-Lortel Archives" . Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  5. "Succession Stars Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon to Star in Job Off-Broadway - TheaterMania.com". 2023-08-07. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  6. Rabinowitz, Chloe. "Ed Byrne's TRAGEDY PLUS TIME To Make U.S. Premiere At Soho Playhouse". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  7. Masseron, Meg (September 20, 2023). "New Musical South Begins Run at SoHo Playhouse September 20".

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