Tuesday, October 10, 2023

What's going on at Connelly Theater Upstairs, the former home of the Metropolitan Playhouse

The Metropolitan Playhouse suspended production for the foreseeable future and left its home of 31 seasons this past summer at the Cornelia Connelly Center on Fourth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. 

That 51-seat black box space is now part of the adjacent Connelly Theater and going as Connelly Theater Upstairs. Gabe Mollica's "Solo: A Show About Friendship" opens there tonight. 

About the production: 
Gabe dives deep into what it means to have friends in your 30s, his special relationship with Stephen Sondheim, working at a summer camp for children with chronic illnesses, and what happens when you break up with your best friend. 
Find tickets here. 

Meanwhile, also starting tonight, "Salesman之死" at the Connelly Theater ...
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 10, 2023 at 10:58 AM

    I stayed in this building the first time I came to NYC - in an old nun’s sweet - there was a bowling alley in the basement.

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  2. Perfume junkieOctober 10, 2023 at 3:33 PM

    I live across the street and for the life of me, I can't understand why they're painting over that beautiful and historic stone work with cheap white paint. It looks gaudy and not in keeping with the history of the building. I wish they would rethink that decision.

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  3. ev9October 10, 2023 at 7:16 PM

    Yes! Glad to see that space remain a theater but to paint over that beautiful stonework is a travesty. The building has a long interesting history going back to the 19th century -- as a Catholic school, orphanage, and so on --and the bright white paint they've splattered onto the ground floor stonework and the doors mars the whole building, one of the loveliest in the neighborhood. Please put it back how it was, Connolly! Your theater will look better and so will the street.

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