33 Wooster Street (SoHo) New York City United States
Owner
The Performance Group (1968-1980), The Wooster Group (since 1980)
Type
Off-Off-Broadway
Capacity
60
Opened
1968
The Performing Garage is an Off-Off-Broadway theater in SoHo, New York City. Established in 1968,[1] it is the permanent home of the experimental theater company originally named The Performance Group (under Richard Schechner) that morphed in 1980 into The Wooster Group[2] (under Elizabeth LeCompte), and their primary performance venue.
Since 1978, it also hosts their annual "Visiting Artist Series" or "Emerging Artist Series". Located at 33 Wooster Street, it seats approximately 60.[3] Actors such as Willem Dafoe debuted in earnest here[4] and regularly come back.[5]
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^"The Performing Garage". Retrieved February 19, 2012.
^Dafoe was a member of Theatre X for some years, then moved to New York in 1977 and joined the Performing Garage in late 1977 or early 1978 (see Wooster, "Production History") "during the making of Nayatt School""THE WOOSTER GROUP - History and Mission". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2009-03-09. (1978), one of the plays of the emerging Wooster Group (of which he was in 1980 a founding member).
^For instance, Dafoe played at the Garage in LSD, Just the High Points, The Road to Immortality, North Atlantic,[1][permanent dead link], up to 2001 in To You, the Birdie!! (Phèdre)[2]"The Wooster Group (Earlier)". Archived from the original on 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2009-03-09..
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