Vineyard Theatre

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The Vineyard Theatre is a non-profit, Off-Broadway theatre located in New York City. It is best known for its productions of the Tony award-winning musical Avenue Q, Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive and Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell's Obie award-winning musical title of show.

Other notable productions include Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, Becky Mode's Fully Committed, Craig Lucas's The Dying Gaul, Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live, Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination, Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley, the Laura Nyro musical Eli's Comin.

The Vineyard describes itself as "dedicated to new work, bold programming and the support of artists."^[1]

The company is the recipient of special OBIE, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence. It celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007.

The Vineyard is also home to the Vineyard Community of Artists, an alliance of playwrights, composers, actors, designers, and directors that provides artists with a broad range of opportunities to develop their work, strike new collaborations, and participate in the ongoing life of the theatre. It sponsors panel discussions, guest speakers, informal readings of works-in-progress and full readings of new plays.

[edit] About the Vineyard Theatre

Address: 108 East 15th Street New York, NY 10003

Neighborhood: Union Square

Location: South side of East 15th Street, between Union Square East & Irving Place.

Directions: Closest subway: 4, 5, 6 to Union Square-14th Street. Walk north on Union Square East to East 15th Street, then east to the theatre.

Seating Capacity: 120

Stage Type: Proscenium

Building Description: Office/residential building

Accessibility Info: Restrooms are located down one flight from the theatre. The lobby is located on the street level. The entrance to the building is street level. The theatre is located down one flight of stairs. Air Conditioned