The Circle Repertory Company, originally named the Circle Theater Company, was a theatre company in New York City that ran from 1969 to 1996. It was founded on July 14, 1969, in Manhattan, in a second floor loft at Broadway and 83rd Street by director Marshall W. Mason, playwright Lanford Wilson, director Rob Thirkield, and actress Tanya Berezin, all of whom were veterans of the Caffe Cino. The plan was to establish a pool of artists — actors, directors, playwrights and designers — who would work together in the creation of plays.[1] In 1974, The New York Times critic Mel Gussow acclaimed Circle Rep as the "chief provider of new American plays."[2]
Marshall W. Mason was succeeded as Artistic Director (1969–1987) by co-founder Tanya Berezin (1987–1995). In 1995, Austin Pendleton succeeded her, with actress Lynn Thigpen as associate artistic director and Milan Stitt as executive director and Edward M. Hausle as artistic director of the Circle Rep Lab.
Originating in the 1960s, a time when many experimental theaters arose, this company outlasted many others.[3] The Company moved their home to the Sheridan Square Playhouse at 99 Seventh Avenue South[4] in the early 1970s and performed there through 1994.[5] (In the early 1980s the name Sheridan Square Playhouse was dropped in favor of Circle Repertory Theatre.) The company closed its doors in 1996 after 27 years.[6]
^Ryzuk, Mary (1989). The Circle Repertory Company: The First Fifteen Years. Iowa State Press. ISBN 9780813800295.
^Gussow, Mel (May 12, 1974). "Suddenly, Real Plays About Real People". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
^Mason, Marshall (April 13, 2018). The Transcendent Years: Circle Rep Theater & the 60s. Goodreads Press. ISBN 978-1632920539.
^"Theaters of the Greenwich Village Historic District". Off the Grid. Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
^Weber, Bruce (October 10, 1994). "Circle Repertory Enters Upon Adulthood". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
^Lefkowitz, David (October 8, 1996). "NY's Circle Rep, Home of Lanford Wilson, Closes After 27 Years". Playbill.
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