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New York City, New York
Historic SoHo theater that staged the 1968 world premiere of The Boys in the Band
SoHo Playhouse occupies a building on Vandam Street that dates to 1826 and has been staging theater since 1962. Its most significant LGBTQ+ moment: the 1968 workshop premiere of The Boys in the Band, the first major American play to portray gay men as full human beings — developed here at Edward Albee's Playwrights Unit before it transferred to its Off-Broadway run, overlapping with the Stonewall riots just blocks away. Albee's Playwrights Unit Workshop launched from this address in 1963, developing work by Terrence McNally and Sam Shepard. Under artistic director Darren Lee Cole since 2004, the 178-seat theater anchors the International Fringe Encore Series, importing standout work from Edinburgh and other global fringe festivals. The downstairs Huron Club is a 55-seat cabaret space with a bar. Queer-centered productions remain a regular part of the programming.
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