SoHo Playhouse
The SoHo Playhouse is an Off-Broadway theatre at 15 Vandam Street in the Hudson Square area of Manhattan. The theatre opened in 1962 as the Village South Theatre with the original production of Jean Erdman's musical play ''The Coach with the Six Insides'' which was based upon James Joyce's last novel ''Finnegans Wake''. The following year Edward Albee used profits from ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' to establish the Playwrights' Unit at the Village South Theatre; an organization which provided a platform for untested new playwrights to premiere their works. The theatre closed in 1970, with its last production being Michael Preston Barr and Dion McGregor's musical ''Who's Happy Now?''. It did still house plays for various off-Broadway productions under the simple name of 15 Van Dam. The theatre was home to the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts from 1970 until 1974. It reopened in as the SoHo Playhouse in 1994 with a production of the play ''Grandma Sylvia's Funeral.'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Job (play)
''Job'' is a play written by Max Wolf Friedlich. The original production started on September 6, 2023, at the Soho Playhouse in New York City. The play revolves around a young woman Jane ( Sydney Lemmon) with her therapist Loyd (Peter Friedman). It was announced that the play would transfer to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre from July 15 through October 27. On June 27, it was announced that Devonte Hynes would compose original music for the Broadway transfer. Plot A young woman, Jane, points a gun at Loyd, her therapist, and then puts the gun down in a panic. Afterwards, their discussion becomes a therapy session, where the two explore their conflicts, themselves, and the forces that bind them together. It is revealed throughout the play that Jane has recently taken a forced leave of absence from her job as a content moderator following a public mental breakdown. The breakdown was caused by a recent encounter that Jane had with her friend Sid from college, who had previous ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1970 Disestablishments In New York (state)
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Theatres Completed In 1962
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1962 Establishments In New York City
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Off-Broadway Theaters
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100. An "off-Broadway production" is a production of a play, musical, or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Some shows that premiere off-Broadway are subsequently produced on Broadway. History The term originally referred to any venue, and its productions, on a street intersecting Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District, the hub of the American theatre industry. It later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in Manhattan with a seating capacity of at least 100, but not more than 499, or a production that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Previously, regardless of the size ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Florencia Iriondo
Florencia Iriondo is an Argentinian-American playwright, composer, actor, singer, and showrunner. She is best known for her Off-Broadway musical, ''South,'' which won the 2023 Pipeline Arts Foundation Award for New Musical Theatre. Iriondo wrote the book, music, and lyrics, and she also stars in the one-woman show. Iriondo was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She currently lives and works in the East Village of New York City, where she has resided since 2013. She has also lived in New Zealand and Ireland. Career Iriondo worked at LinkedIn for many years, where she was the company's first showrunner and founder of original video. While working at LinkedIn, she would write and perform music and theater in her spare time. She began her first show, ''South'', in 2014 when she wrote the opening song, "Vengo del Sur," at a teal upright piano in her East Village apartment. She left LinkedIn in 2022 to pursue musical theater and her show, ''South'', full time. As a writer a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ed Byrne (comedian)
Edward Cathal Byrne (born 16 April 1972) is an Irish actor and comedian. He has presented the British television shows ''Just for Laughs (British TV series), Just for Laughs'' and ''Uncut! Best Unseen Ads'', has been a guest on numerous television panel games and has appeared on a number of television cooking shows. Early life Byrne was born on 16 April 1972 in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in nearby Swords, County Dublin, Swords. His father was a sheet metal worker who became a supervisor, and his mother was a radiographer and lectured in radiography. Career Stand-up comedy Deciding to study horticulture at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, he was made entertainments convener at the Students' Union in his second year of study. Byrne also volunteered at the Student Association Welfare Office in his first year. Byrne started a comedy night called ''International Comedy Cellar, The Comedy Cellar'' in the basement of the 13th Note public house on Glassford Street, Glasgow. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sydney Lemmon
Sydney Noël Lemmon (born August 10, 1990) is an American actress. She studied acting at Yale University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She is known for her roles on stage and screen. She made her acting debut as an understudy the Beau Willimon play ''The Parisian Woman'' (2018). She has earned acclaim for her leading role in the Max Wolf Friedlich thriller play ''Job'' both off-Broadway in 2023 and on Broadway in 2024. She starred as Ana Helstrom in the Hulu series '' Helstrom''. She is also known for her recurring roles in the AMC horror series ''Fear the Walking Dead'' (2019-2021) and the HBO series ''Succession'' (2019–2023). She has acted in films such as ''Velvet Buzzsaw'' (2019), and ''Tár'' (2021). Early life and education She received an MFA from Yale University in 2017, where she was the recipient of the Julie Harris Scholarship. Lemmon received her BFA from Boston University in 2012 and also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peter Friedman
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, film, and television actor. He made his Broadway debut in the Eugene O'Neill play '' The Great God Brown'' in 1972. His other Broadway credits include roles in ''The Rules of the Game'' (1974), '' Piaf'' (1981), ''The Heidi Chronicles'' (1989), and '' Twelve Angry Men'' (2004). He earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his role as Tateh in ''Ragtime'' (1998). Friedman gained prominence for his role as Frank Vernon in the HBO drama series ''Succession'' (2018–2023) for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award. His other television credits include '' The Affair'' (2015), '' The Path'' (2016–2018), and '' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'' (2023). He is also known for his film roles in ''Safe'' (1995), '' The Savages'' (2007), ''I'm Not There'' (2007), ''Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''Side Effects'' (2013), and '' She Said'' (2022). Early life and education Born in New York City on April 24, 1949. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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15 Van Dam
The SoHo Playhouse is an Off-Broadway theatre at 15 Vandam Street in the Hudson Square area of Manhattan. The theatre opened in 1962 as the Village South Theatre with the original production of Jean Erdman's musical play ''The Coach with the Six Insides'' which was based upon James Joyce's last novel ''Finnegans Wake''. The following year Edward Albee used profits from ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' to establish the Playwrights' Unit at the Village South Theatre; an organization which provided a platform for untested new playwrights to premiere their works. The theatre closed in 1970, with its last production being Michael Preston Barr and Dion McGregor's musical ''Who's Happy Now?''. It did still house plays for various off-Broadway productions under the simple name of 15 Van Dam. The theatre was home to the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts from 1970 until 1974. It reopened in as the SoHo Playhouse in 1994 with a production of the play ''Grandma Sylvia's Funeral.'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |