Claire Shulman Playhouse

• Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project (World Premiere, 2012)
  May 9, 2012 - May 20, 2012
• The Prince and the Pauper (Staged Reading, 1997)
  November 28, 1997 - no date entered yet
• The Prince and the Pauper (Reading, 1997)
  November 28, 1997 - December 1, 1997
• Marry Me a Little (Queens Theatre in the Park Production, 1997)
  October 15, 1997 - October 26, 1997
• She Loves Me (New York Revival, 1980)
  November 19, 1980 - November 30, 1980
• Company (New York Revival, 1980)
  March 12, 1980 - March 30, 1980
• Oh, Coward! (Off-Off Broadway Revival, 1979)
  October 13, 1979 - no date entered yet
• Babes in Arms (Queens County Revival, 1976)
  September 25, 1976 - October 10, 1976
• The Lieutenant (World Premiere, 1974)
  September 18, 1974 - no date entered yet
• The Amorous Flea (Off-Broadway Revival, 1974)
  June 25, 1974 - July 21, 1974

Built: 1964
Venue Status: year not entered yet
Demolished: year not entered yet
Seating Capacity: 464

Location Info

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, near Shea Stadium
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• Queens Theatre in the Park (unknown)
• Main Stage Theatre (unknown)
• Claire Shulman Playhouse (2002)
• Queens Playhouse (1972)
• Theatre in the Park (date not entered yet)
• Playwrights Horizons Theatre-in-the-Park (date not entered yet)
• Queens Festival Theatre (date not entered yet)

The building was originally built as the New York State Pavilion for the New York World's Fair, which opened in 1964 and came back for a second year in 1965. It re-opened as a theatre on October 25, 1972, with a production of Pygmalion, directed by Paul Shyre and starring Margaret Linn, Stephen D. Newman, Tom Clancy, Francis Bethencourt, Edith Meiser, Paddy Croft and Noel Craig. That production was followed by the New York premiere of the stage version of Twelve Angry Man, again with a cast of strong actors, this time directed by Martin Fried. But the theatre was not a success, and operations shut down a couple of years later, amid accusations of financial mismanagement. In the late 1970s it was taken over by Playwrights Horizon, which used it a second stage, trying to build a second audience in Queens. Productions were not generally shared between the Manhattan theatre of Playwrights Horizons and the Queens Theatre, although at least a few plays that had premiered at Playwrights Horizons in Manhattan were later revived in Queens.
The theatre underwent a $4 million renovation in 2003.