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THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC’s Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Ma-Yi Theater Company, which won an OBIE Award for its 1996 TNC production, FLIPZOIDS. TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company’s 1997 production of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 40 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award.
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Thu
- Sat 8pm |
May 1 - 18 |
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Mon 7:00pm |
Monday, May 12 |
Free
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Wed
- Sat 8pm |
May 14 - 18 |
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IRONDALE ENSEMBLE PROJECT in THE GREAT AMERICAN ALL-STAR TRAVELING WAR MACHINE |
Wed
- Sat 8pm |
May 16 - June 15 |
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LES:
THE 13th ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS |
Fri
6pm - 1am |
May 23 - 25 | |
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Sat 11pm |
May 31 - June 21 |
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Mon 7:30pm |
Monday, June 9 |
$5
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TNC'S AWARD-WINNING STREET THEATER COMPANY in their annual Summer Tour |
Sat
- Sun 2pm |
August 2 - September 14 |
FREE!
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ALL
PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
RESERVATIONS HELD ONLY UNTIL TEN MINUTES TO CURTAIN.
PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST TEN MINUTES EARLY.
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