Soho Repertory Theatre, Theatre company in Lower Manhattan, US.
Soho Repertory Theatre is a theatre company and performance space located on Walker Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan. The venue holds around 70 seats arranged in a single room where the stage configuration can shift depending on each production.
The company was founded in 1975 by Jerry Engelbach and Marlene Swartz and began its life in a converted textile factory in SoHo. Over the following decades it shifted its focus toward new writing and experimental work by living playwrights.
Soho Rep, as it is commonly known, tends to present work by playwrights who are still building their careers, giving them a real stage in New York City. Many productions first seen here have gone on to be picked up and performed by other theatres across the country.
Because seating is limited to around 70 people, it is worth booking in advance, especially for weekend shows. The venue is close to several subway lines and easy to reach on foot from the center of TriBeCa.
The company is run jointly by three co-artistic directors, which is rare in American theatre. This means no single point of view dominates the programming, and the season tends to reflect a genuinely open range of choices.
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