Playwrights Horizons, Mainstage Theatre

• A Strange Loop (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2019)
  May 24, 2019 - July 7, 2019
• Fly By Night (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2014)
  May 16, 2014 - June 29, 2014
• Far From Heaven (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2013)
  June 2, 2013 - July 7, 2013
• Sense & Sensibility (Reading, 2011)
  June 23, 2011 - June 23, 2011
• The Burnt Part Boys (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2010)
  May 25, 2010 - June 13, 2010
• Saved! (World Premiere, 2008)
  June 3, 2008 - June 22, 2008
• Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2006)
  December 5, 2006 - December 17, 2006
• Grey Gardens (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2006)
  March 7, 2006 - April 9, 2006
• My Life With Albertine (Original Off-Broadway Production, 2003)
  March 13, 2003 - March 30, 2003
• Floyd Collins (Reunion Concert, 2003)
  January 23, 2003 - January 26, 2003
• Assassins (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1991)
  January 27, 1991 - February 16, 1991
• Falsettoland (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1990)
  June 28, 1990 - September 12, 1990
• Once on This Island (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1990)
  April 6, 1990 - no date entered yet
• Assassins (Staged Reading, 1989)
  December 18, 1989 - December 19, 1989
• Lucky Stiff (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1988)
  April 26, 1988 - no date entered yet
• Three Postcards (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1987)
  May 14, 1987 - May 31, 1987
• Black Sea Follies (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1986)
  December 16, 1986 - January 11, 1987
• Into the Woods (Playwrights Horizons Reading, 1986)
  June 9, 1986 - June 9, 1986
• Paradise! (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1985)
  September 28, 1985 - October 14, 1985
• Sunday in the Park With George (Workshop, 1983)
  July 6, 1983 - July 31, 1983
• America Kicks Up Its Heels (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1983)
  February 9, 1983 - no date entered yet
• Herringbone (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1982)
  June 16, 1982 - no date entered yet
• March of the Falsettos (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1981)
  May 20, 1981 - September 27, 1981
• In Trousers (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1979)
  February 21, 1979 - March 18, 1979
• In Trousers (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1979)
  February 21, 1979 - March 18, 1979
• Mademoiselle Colombe (Showcase, 1977)
  February 7, 1977 - no date entered yet

Built: 2001
Venue Status: Still open
Seating Capacity: 198

Location Info

416 W. 42nd Street
New York, NY Find on Google

• Playwrights Horizons, Mainstage Theatre (2003-01)

The building at 416 West 42nd Street is formally named the Edith K. Ehrman Building in honor of a former Playwrights Horizons board member and recognition of a $10 million gift from her estate. However in popular usage the building is called Playwrights Horizons, synonymous with the non-profit theatre company that owns it.

Playwrights Horizons has been a resident of this block of 42nd Street since January 1975 and has owned this plot of land since September 1987. After serving as the company's home for 25 years, the previous building on the site was demolished in September 2001.

The current Playwrights Horizons facility was built for $27 million, part of a $32 million endowment and capital campaign. The building was designed by architect Mitchell Kurtz. Groundbreaking was October 2001 and the project completed in 2003.

The Mainstage Theater on the 2nd and 3rd floor is a replacement for the previous Anne G. Wilder Theater, recreating the size and feel of that former venue but expanding the seating capacity and backstage support area, including an orchestra pit and full-stage trap space.

The inaugural event in the Mainstage Theater was a reunion concert of Falsettos the weekend of 2003-01-09 while construction continued elsewhere in the building. An Artist Open House was held on 2003-01-27 and the first full prodction was My Life with Albertine.

Playwrights Horizons also houses the Ticket Central box office on the 1st floor, servicing multiple theatre companies, and the 5th & 6th floor 128-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The company's administrative offices on the 4th floor serve as a sound barrier between the two theaters.