THEATER
FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural
center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community
service. One of New York's most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC
produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which
are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of
the last quarter century have found TNC's Resident Theater Program
instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman,
Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero and
Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC
also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who
have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented
by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater,
the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Ma-Yi Theater Company, which won
an OBIE Award for its 1996 TNC production, FLIPZOIDS. TNC
also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company's 1997 production
of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in
America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature.
TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists
from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City
by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community
into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals.
TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 40 OBIE
Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the
only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award.
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