Classic Stage Company

Classic Stage Company
Address	136 East 13th Street; Manhattan, New York City; United States
Coordinates	40°43′58″N 73°59′18″W / 40.732781°N 73.988309°W
Type	Off-Broadway
Capacity	199
Opened	1967
Website
	www.classicstage.org

Classic Stage Company, or CSC, is a classical Off-Broadway theater company. Founded in 1967, Classic Stage Company is one of Off-Broadway's oldest theater companies.

CSC is led by Producing Artistic Director Jill Rafson.

Fourth Avenues in the East Village near Union Square, Manhattan

, New York City.

CSC's productions have been cited repeatedly by the major Off-Broadway theater awards:

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work.^[2]

Productions

Recent productions include:

Shakespeare's Hamlet with Peter Sarsgaard, The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Bebe Neuwirth, and Richard III, Richard II, and Hamlet with Michael Cumpsty

.

Prominent artists who have worked at Classic Stage Company include F. Murray Abraham, Wes Bentley, Zoe Caldwell, Kathleen Chalfant, Alan Cumming, Peter Dinklage, Mamie Gummer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Bill Irwin, Cherry Jones, Ron Leibman, Taylor Mac, Camryn Manheim, Frances McDormand, Kate Mulgrew, Bebe Neuwirth, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jim Parsons, Mandy Patinkin, Christina Ricci, Joely Richardson, Juliet Rylance, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, Taylor Schilling, Tony Shalhoub, Mira Sorvino, Jean Stapleton, David Strathairn, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jason Sudeikis, John Douglas Thompson, Uma Thurman, Stanley Tucci, and John Turturro.

Artistic directors

Christopher Martin (1967–1984)
Craig Kinzer (1984-1986)
Carey Perloff (1987–1992)
David Esbjornson (1992–1998)
Barry Edelstein (1998–2003)
Brian Kulick (2003–2016)
John Doyle (2016–2022)
Jill Rafson (2022-)

Awards

Classic Stage Company has won awards for many of its productions.^[3]

Village Award from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (2002)^[4]

References

^ "Theater Listings: Off Broadway: Hamlet". New York. 5 October 1987. p. 132. Retrieved 20 April 2018. Presented by Musical Theaterworks at the Abbey Theatre, 136 East 13th Street
^ "Mission." Classic Stage Company. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^ "Awards Archived 2016-02-04 at the Wayback Machine." Classic Stage Company. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^ "Past Village Award Winners". GVSHP.org. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

External links

[1] "Theater Listings: Off Broadway: Hamlet". New York. 5 October 1987. p. 132. Retrieved 20 April 2018. Presented by Musical Theaterworks at the Abbey Theatre, 136 East 13th Street

[2] "Mission." Classic Stage Company. Retrieved 2016-01-24.

[3] "Awards Archived 2016-02-04 at the Wayback Machine." Classic Stage Company. Retrieved 2016-01-24.

[4] "Past Village Award Winners". GVSHP.org. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

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