Programs

  • Program 1 [2018]

    The 2017/18 season featured four mainstage productions: Scott Carters THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS AND COUNT LEO TOLSTOY:DISCORD, Kate Hamills adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, James Invernes A WALK WITH MR. HEIFETZ, and Sharon Washingtons FEEDING THE DRAGON. This season also marked the 22nd year of The Dorothy Streslin New American Writers Group, bringing together eight emerging writers to created new works for the stage. The plays received first public readings of their plays at the annual Fresh Ink Reading Series in May 2018. Primary Stages hosted a total of 15 readings and 11 workshops in 2017/2018, which were held at our studios and at the Cherry Lane Theatre. In 2018, we also welcomed Sharon Washington as our first ever Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2017 – Jun 30, 2018
    Source
    990
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    $1.9M

  • Program 2 [2018]

    Primary Stages continues to gain recognition as a center for theater arts education through our Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) and our MFA partnership with Fordham University, training a new generation of playwrights and other theater artists. This year we served over 530 students through classes and workshops taught by a faculty of working theater professionals and provided performance opportunities through our Drills and Detention series. Five years ago, we launched the Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting. Through this program we offer emerging writers the opportunity to develop and produce their work in a rigorous university setting while fostering professional relationships with Primary Stages. The 2017/18 program culminated in full productions of each student's work with the support of a professional director. Primary Stages also continued to offer a competitive paid internship program based in the tradition of theater apprenticeship. In 2017/18, Primary Stages worked with 19 interns hailing from varied education institutions including CUNY schools, Fordham University, Columbia University Teachers College, Boston University, and more. During 2017/18, we also continued to provide Teenwrights, a free after-school playwriting program for public school students, at four high schools across New York City.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2017 – Jun 30, 2018
    Source
    990
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    $516.5K

  • Resident Off-Broadway Theater Productions

    In the 2022/23 Season, Primary Stages returned as the Resident Off-Broadway Theater Company at 59E59 Theaters and produced 3 plays: ON THAT DAY IN AMSTERDAM by Clarence Coo, PEERLESS by Jiehae Park, and YES, I CAN SAY THAT! by Judy Gold. We also supported 6 emerging writers in our Dorothy Streslin New American Writers Group, women and non-binary writers in our Echoes Writers Group, and 4 early-career playwrights through our Creative Access Program partnerships with the Latinx Playwrights Circle, National Black Theater, National Queer Theater, and Pan Asian Repertory Theater. We served 275 heater artists at all career levels through classes and workshops at the Einhorn School for Performing Arts taught by working theater artists. We also served over 1,000 NYC public school students through our Free Student Matinees.
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    Dates
    Jul 1, 2022 – Jun 30, 2023
    Source
    990
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    $2M