At its space in the East Village, the Theater for the New City houses four individual theaters: the Joyce and Seward Johnson Theater, the Cino Theater, the Community Space Theater and the Cabaret Theater. It produces 30 to 40 premieres of new American plays per year; at least 10 of these are by emerging and young playwrights.
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Fri, May 18, 2012 – Sun, June 10, 2012 Playwright Leslie Lee transforms the setting of "Playing With Fire," one of Strindberg's rare comedies, from a Swedish summer house in 1893 to a summer cottage of the black social elite in Oak Ridge, a neighborhood of Martha's Vineyard, in 1926.
Please check full listing for event date and times This electrifying drama, set in Chicago during the Harlem Renaissance, explores the blues, what it means to be an artist, and race relations in America.