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Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater in New York City that supports and produces new work by American playwrights, composers, and lyricists. Learn about its history, programs, awards, and notable productions, such as A Strange Loop, The Flick, and Sunday in the Park with George.
Playwrights Horizons is a theater company and school that develops and produces new work by contemporary American playwrights. Learn about their mission, programs, commitment to anti-racism, and history of innovation and excellence.
Check out our record-breaking last season. A season featuring a Tony Award-winning rock epic, a blockbuster ball-busting musical, three genre-defying solo performances, and a deliciously surreal slice of theater. View Now.
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In order to ensure the health and safety of its artists, audiences, and staff, Playwrights Horizons (as of July 14, 2021): Has installed MERV-13 HVAC filters that meet the CDC's guidance May require proof of vaccination and/or recent negative PCR test for entry May also require masks, contact tracing surveys, assigned entry times, temperature check...
Flex Passes (customizable bundle, starting at $200 for 4 tickets) and Memberships ($50 to join, $25 preview tickets with discounts thereafter) are on sale today. Tickets for What to Send Up When It Goes Down must be purchased separately, and package holders receive discounted rates. Patron packages start at $1,800. All packages and tickets can be p...
Written by Aleshea Harris Directed by Whitney White Mainstage Theater September 24 - October 17, 2021 What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a play, a ritual, and a home-going celebration that bears witness to the physical and spiritual deaths of Black people as a result of racist violence. Setting out to disrupt the pervasiveness of anti-Blackness a...
Written by Sylvia Khoury Directed by Tyne Rafaeli Produced in Association with Williamstown Theatre Festival Peter Jay Sharp Theater November 17 - December 23, 2021 New York Premiere Taroon once served as an interpreter for the US military in Afghanistan. Now the Americans - and their promises of safety - have withdrawn, and he spends his days in h...
Written by Dave Harris Directed by Taylor Reynolds Mainstage Theater January 12 - February 20, 2022 World Premiere Tambo and Bones are two characters trapped in a minstrel show. It's mad hard to feel like a real person when you're trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get bank, get even. A rags-to-riches hip-hop journey, Tambo & B...
Written by Sanaz Toossi Directed by Gaye TaylorUpchurch Peter Jay Sharp Theater April 13 - May 22, 2022 World Premiere It's 1978 and protests are breaking out all across Iran, encroaching on this suburb where a tight-knit circle of friends plan weddings, trade dirty jokes, and struggle to uphold a sense of normalcy. But as the revolution escalates,...
Written by Will Arbery Directed by Sam Gold Mainstage Theater June 2 - July 10, 2022 World Premiere In Corsicana, a small city in Texas, a woman with Down syndrome named Ginny and her half-brother Christopher are unmoored in the wake of their mother's death. Their close family friend, Justice, introduces them to a local artist named Lot, a recluse ...
Playwrights Horizons announces its return to in-person performance with five new plays by Aleshea Harris, Sylvia Khoury, Dave Harris, Sanaz Toossi, and Will Arbery. The season also includes digital and public art initiatives, a fiction podcast, and a literary magazine.
May 15, 2024 · The Playwrights Horizons 2024-25 season is set, featuring premieres from Francesca D’Uva, Ryan J. Haddad, Jordan Harrison, Gabriel Kahane, Sarah Mantell and more.
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Watch trailers, interviews, behind-the-scenes, and live streams of Playwrights Horizons, a writer's theater dedicated to contemporary American playwrights and composers. Explore the 2023-24 season line-up, featuring six daring new works on a scale that’s both intimate and epic.
