SoHo Playhouse

The SoHo Playhouse is an Off-Broadway theatre in Hudson Square, New York City at 15 Vandam Street in Greenwich Village.^[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 reopened in as the SoHo Playhouse in 1994 with a production of the play Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, which ran for four years.^[3]^[1] It has since served as an Off-Broadway receiving house.

References

1 2 "About the Historic SoHo Playhouse". Retrieved March 15, 2016.
↑ The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
↑ "SoHo Playhouse-Lortel Archives". Retrieved March 15, 2016.

Off-Broadway theatres

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Defunct or repurposed	Gate Theatre Gramercy Theatre Jane Street Theatre Lamb's Theatre Manhattan Ensemble Theatre New Theatre Sheridan Square Playhouse Union Square Theatre

Coordinates: 40°43′35″N 74°00′16″W / 40.726449°N 74.004359°W / 40.726449; -74.004359

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