Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons is a non- profit organization with its own theater building, part of the Off-Broadway in New York City. It was launched to support contemporary American playwright, poet and composer of stage songs and stage actor. The organization promotes the training of authors and the performance of their pieces. The name is often associated with satires on New York City life.

Under the artistic direction of Tim Sanford new plays from renowned authors will be listed, in order to promote a new generation of theater actors. The junior authors are supported in every stage of their education through the following development programs: assessment of theater manuscripts and partituren, orders, readings, musical workshops, studio and main stage productions.

Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 at the Clark Center Y by Bob Moss. André Bishop worked from 1981 to 1991 as a theater director and was replaced by the television actors and producers Don Scardino, who remained until 1995. In connection with the renovation of the New York theater district, the organization was able to draw in 2002 at the 42nd Street (416 West, between 9th and 10th Av. ) And now also has its own theater building. The house was formerly the Burlesque.

Playwrights Horizons operates an acting school called Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is part of the Tisch School of the Arts. For the organization also includes a retail outlet for theater tickets ( Ticket Central), with their income, the community of the off-Broadway actor is supported.

So far, Playwrights Horizons has worked with over 350 authors and received a number of awards and honors. 2005 was the organization of Mayor Michael Bloomberg a part of the 20 - million-dollar sponsorship prize of the Carnegie Corporation.

Notable productions

  • Small Tragedy by Craig Lucas
  • Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan
  • The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin by Kirsten Childs
  • James Joyce's The Dead by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey
  • In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, and Falsettoland by William Finn
  • Betty's Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You by Christopher Durang
  • Goodnight Children Everywhere and Franny 's Way by Richard Nelson
  • The Substance of Fire by Jon Robin Baitz
  • Marvin 's Room by Scott McPherson
  • The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney
  • Floyd Collins by Adam Guettel and Tina Landau
  • Violet Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley of
  • Grey Gardens by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie
  • Assassins by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman

Four of the earlier productions also won a Pulitzer Prize: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George, Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles.

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