Manhattan Theatre Club

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Manhattan Theatre Club (New York). Founded in 1970 by A. E. Jeffcoat, Gene Frankel, Philip Barber, and other New York East Side residents to provide an alternative to commercial theatre, it was first situated in the old Bohemian National Hall on East 73rd Street before moving to its present location at the City Center on 55th Street. Productions are mounted in the 299‐seat Stage One and the 150‐seat Stage Two, as well as at the Biltmore Theatre, the nonprofit company's new Broadway home. Lynne Meadow has been its artistic and executive director since 1972 and helped make the group one of Off Broadway's most consistently successful theatres. The repertory is almost exclusively original plays and musicals by American playwrights and New York premieres of foreign works. Among its many notable productions over the years (several of which moved to Broadway) were Ain't Misbehavin'; Ashes; Crimes of the Heart; Mass Appeal; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Sylvia; Sight Unseen; It's Only a Play; Putting It Together; The Wild Party; Class Act; Wit; Proof; and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife.

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