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Neighborhood Playhouse
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York). Built on Grand Street in 1915 by Alice and Irene Lewisohn, it housed an amateur repertory company until 1920, when the ensemble turned professional. The new troupe offered plays by Shaw, O'Neill, and other contemporary dramatists, as well as a series of popular revues known as The Grand Street Follies. The company was disbanded in 1927. The surviving corporation occasionally mounted plays in later years. However, the most important offshoot of the company was the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, founded in 1928 by the Lewisohns and Rita Wallach Morgenthau. The professional training program continues today. From 1935 to 1990 its most important faculty member was Sanford MEISNER (1905–97) who taught his Meisner Technique of acting based on Stanislavsky's ideas. Meisner was an original member of the Group Theatre who acted in or directed some of that company's early successes. He later performed with the Theatre Guild before taking up teaching and freelance directing.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Neighborhood Playhouse." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Neighborhood Playhouse." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-NeighborhoodPlayhouse.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Neighborhood Playhouse." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-NeighborhoodPlayhouse.html |
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Neighborhood Playhouse
Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, on Grand Street, on the Lower East Side. This was built and endowed by Alice and Irene Lewisohn, who designed, choreographed, and directed most of the productions seen there. It opened in 1915 with a dance-drama entitled Jephthah's Daughter, and before it closed in 1927 with the fifth annual edition of the revue Grand Street Follies it had staged many productions, including plays by Dunsany, Chekhov, Sholem Asch, Yeats, and Shaw, and the first dramatic rendering of Browning's Pippa Passes (1917). Among later productions were a number of new dance-dramas and ballets and such varied plays as Galsworthy's The Mob, Granville-Barker's The Madras House, O'Neill's The First Man, Sheridan's The Critic, the Hindu drama The Little Clay Cart, and Ansky's The Dybbuk. After the theatre closed, a school of acting under the same name opened on East 54th Street.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Neighborhood Playhouse." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Neighborhood Playhouse." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-NeighborhoodPlayhouse.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Neighborhood Playhouse." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-NeighborhoodPlayhouse.html |
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