29th Street Rep
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The 29th Street Rep is a New York, New York-based theatrical company whose productions qualify as Off-Off-Broadway
. Founded by actors in April 1988, the 29th Street Rep has staged 78 fully staged productions through 2007. The company's motto is "29th St Rep - Where Brutal Theater Lives!"
Among the highlights of the theater's history are the appearance of actor Edward Norton
in the 1993 production of playwright Bill Nave's allegory Bible Burlesque, the 1994 New York première of Tracey Letts' Killer Joe (which was revived in 1998 at the commercial Soho Playhouse), and Tracers by John DiFusco and the ensemble, which received recognition from American Theatre Magazine as a "Top Ten Play of 1997" and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a Play. Other important productions including Christopher Durang
's Titanic/Actor's Nightmare and Beth Henley
's The Wake of Jamey Foster.
The 29th Street Rep's 2000 production of its adaptation of nine short stories from Charles Bukowski
's South of No North
(Tales of the Buried Life) was a big hit, running over 100 performances. This was followed by ts revival of Sam Shepard
's Fool for Love
enjoyed a 19-week run of 122 total performances, ranking as the company's most successful production at the box office. In 2003, the Rep's production of Charles Willeford
's High Priest of California was cited by the New York Times as one of the best Off-Broadway plays of the season.
The Lincoln Center Theater Archives has videotaped, for preservation, the 29th Street Rep's productions of Killer Joe, Pig, Bobby Supreme, Avenue A, South of No North
, High Priest of California, and Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast Revisited.
The Company closed their performance space in 2008. They continue to produce, and maintain a rehearsal space and office above their old venue.
Off-Off-Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway theatrical productions in New York City are those in theatres that are smaller than Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres. Off-Off-Broadway theaters are often defined as theaters that have fewer than 100 seats, though the term can be used for any show in the New York City area that...
. Founded by actors in April 1988, the 29th Street Rep has staged 78 fully staged productions through 2007. The company's motto is "29th St Rep - Where Brutal Theater Lives!"
Among the highlights of the theater's history are the appearance of actor Edward Norton
Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...
in the 1993 production of playwright Bill Nave's allegory Bible Burlesque, the 1994 New York première of Tracey Letts' Killer Joe (which was revived in 1998 at the commercial Soho Playhouse), and Tracers by John DiFusco and the ensemble, which received recognition from American Theatre Magazine as a "Top Ten Play of 1997" and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a Play. Other important productions including Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang
Christopher Ferdinand Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.- Life :...
's Titanic/Actor's Nightmare and Beth Henley
Beth Henley
Elizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley is an American dramatist and actress. She writes primarily about women's issues and family in the Southern United States. She is also a screenwriter who has written many film adaptations of her plays...
's The Wake of Jamey Foster.
The 29th Street Rep's 2000 production of its adaptation of nine short stories from Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
's South of No North
South of No North (book)
South of No North is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, the so-called "Poet Laureate of Skid Row", originally published in 1973 as South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press...
(Tales of the Buried Life) was a big hit, running over 100 performances. This was followed by ts revival of Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
's Fool for Love
Fool for Love (play)
Fool for Love is a play written by American playwright/actor Sam Shepard.-Plot:The "fools" in the play are battling lovers at a Mojave Desert motel. May is hiding out at said motel when an old childhood friend and old flame, Eddie. Eddie tries to convince May to come back home with him and live in...
enjoyed a 19-week run of 122 total performances, ranking as the company's most successful production at the box office. In 2003, the Rep's production of Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford
Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues , is considered one of its era's most...
's High Priest of California was cited by the New York Times as one of the best Off-Broadway plays of the season.
The Lincoln Center Theater Archives has videotaped, for preservation, the 29th Street Rep's productions of Killer Joe, Pig, Bobby Supreme, Avenue A, South of No North
South of No North (book)
South of No North is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, the so-called "Poet Laureate of Skid Row", originally published in 1973 as South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press...
, High Priest of California, and Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast Revisited.
The Company closed their performance space in 2008. They continue to produce, and maintain a rehearsal space and office above their old venue.