York Theatre
York Theatre is an off-Broadway theatre company based on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Established in 1969, York Theatre is dedicated to the production of new musicals and concert productions of forgotten musicals from the past. Each season consists of three or four mainstage productions, six or more concert presentations and dozens of developmental readings. It has had several transfers of its work to larger off-Broadway theatres and to Broadway. The company was awarded a special Drama Desk Award in 1996 to its artistic director Janet Hayes Walker and in 2006 for its "vital contributions to theater by developing and presenting new musicals".[1] The York also received a Special Achievement Outer Critics Circle Award for 50 years of producing new and classic musicals. After Walker's death in 1997, the company has been run by James Morgan.
| Address | Theatre at St. Jeans, 150 E. 76th St. New York City United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°45′32″N 73°58′14″W |
| Type | Off-Broadway |
| Capacity | 161 Seats |
| Opened | 1969 |
| Years active | 54 years |
| Website | |
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From 1993 to 2020, the company performed at St. Peter's Church in the Citigroup Center at 619 Lexington Avenue at the corner of East 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan.[2]
The York Theatre moved to The Theatre at St. Jeans (150 East 76th Street & Lexington Avenue) after a January 2021 water main break flooded their home at Saint Peter's Church.[3]
Oscar Hammerstein Award
The Oscar Hammerstein Award named in honor of American lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein was created in 1988 by Janet Hayes Walker, the founding artistic director of the York Theatre Company, and is presented with the endorsement of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and the Hammerstein family. The Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala is the major annual fundraising event of the York Theatre.
York Theatre Company presentations
(Selective)[4]
(* indicates The York productions that have had commercial transfers)
- The Golden Apple
- The Grass Harp
- On the 20th Century
- A Doll's Life
- Lost in the Stars
- Carnival!
- Merrily We Roll Along
Recent Mainstage productions include:
- Enter Laughing: The Musical
- Midnight at The Never Get
- Unexpected Joy
- Desperate Measures*
- Marry Harry (by Biello & Martin)
- A Taste of Things to Come
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Rothschild & Sons
- Cagney*
- Texas in Paris
- Inventing Mary Martin
- Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter
- Storyville
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- Closer Than Ever (won Best Musical Revival, Off-Broadway Alliance Award)
- Ionescapade
- The Road to Qatar!
- Falling for Eve
- Yank!
- Blind Lemon Blues
- Enter Laughing
- Asylum
- Thrill Me
- Souvenir*
- The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)*
- Jolson & Company*
- Sweeney Todd*
- Pacific Overtures*
- Anything Can Happen in the Theatre - The Musical World of Maury Yeston
- Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation
- Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood (2021)
- Penelope, or How The Odyssey Was Really Written
- Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood (2022)
- Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road (Coming November 2022)
References
- Simonson, Robert (May 21, 2006). "The 2006 Drama Desk Awards, Honoring New York Theatre, to Be Handed Out May 21". Playbill. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
- "York Theatre Company at St. Peter's Church | Citigroup Center, 619 Lexington Ave downstairs". Time Out New York. 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- "York Theatre Company Vows To Return Despite Pandemic And Water Main Break Flooding Its Performance Space". CBS New York. January 13, 2021. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- York Theatre – Mission & History