Playwrights Horizons should be a compulsory stop for everyone who loves the theatre. You actually feel you are a member of the cast. Writing is superb! Production outstanding! Set design unbelievable! Great actors! Phenomenal seats no matter where ..............
Playwrights Horizon offers really fantastic authors & contemporary themes, generally edgy comedy or intense drama. Occasionally the theater spaces in the complex also host plays that are not part of Playwrights Horizon season & I have never gone wrong with anything in that space.
Amazing theater, great space, and fantastic work. One of the best in NYC.
Stage Managed a Showcase here. Lovely staff and beautiful venue.
Incredible production value and opportunity to see new works.
I accidentally came into this theater looking for the nondescript one next door, the first time. I was a little disappointed I was in the wrong place. Playwrights Horizons is exactly what I expect a modern theater to look like.
I didn't take pictures of the lobby, silly me, but it's quite nice. The second floor is a half floor so you're basically in a cathedral of a theater. There's concessions center rear and seating along the left.
The restrooms are downstairs and just how I like them. Like the ones in the airport where you don't have to touch a door on your way out.
There's a freight sized elevator so it's ADA accessible.
I was seated in Row E Seat 5. From the seating chart you can see that I will be extremely biased about the leg room. God bless Row E! I didn't even need to get up for the Intermission!
The seats are nicely padded and roomy.
The sound was very good. The "I'm not sure if the actors are miked or not" good.
The staging was well done though the foreshortening may have made the stage look smaller than it is. I'd need to see a different production in order to tell.
Right now "Indian Summer" is playing. I'd be remiss if I didn't write a review of it. It was very funny, yet with a melancholy ending. Good stuff.
I really hope I'm able to see another play here in the future. It's a lovely space.
Off Broadway playhouse/venue which always has interesting, provocative productions. Some are slightly rough productions by aspiring playwrights, many are finely polished, pretty much all are worthy of viewing. Much less expensive than Broadway show and generally much more engaging.
keeps on sending you unsolicited mails. Would never buy a ticket again.
Cool small facility, very welcoming with comfortable seating
Amazing productions. Incredible supportive environment for new works.
The theater is wonderful with a beautiful clean auditorium. Excellent sound, lighting and comfortable seating. The only problem was the rude box office phone operator!
These guys focus on working with playwrights to develop new plays. Terrific theatre company.
Really great off broadway venue with some really great shows. Helpful staff and in a great location not too far from Times Sq at all.
Thought-provoking plays, not the usual Broadway mindless stuff.
Great Theater- just saw "If Pretty Hurts, Ugly must be a Mutherf*&#er! It was HILARIOUS!!!
Playwrights Horizons is one of the most innovative producers in New York-- it's worth seeing most everything they put onstage here. They're doing exciting, cutting-edge work every season.
The place was very nice and cozy. Very friendly staff and watched a great show called Mankind. Snack bar and drinks was a big plus!!!
First let me start off by saying that I REALLY enjoyed the play "Booty Candy". It was funny as well as eye-opening. I absolutely loved the message!!
I did however have an issue with the house manager who worked on Saturday Night 10/5. The show was to start at 8pm, sometimes that doesn't always happen and that's fine. At 8:05pm myself and another friend got up to make a quick run to the restroom. Before leaving, we asked the two ushers at the door if we had enough time to run to the restroom, they said yes and we headed down the stairs. 5 minutes later when we returned, the house manager was standing upstairs and told us that we could not enter the theater because the play had already started and suggested that we wait downstairs and watch the play on the screen until scene change. I informed her of what the ushers had told us, and she replied, "yeah, you didn't have time to go to the restroom". By this time, my friend (who caught the elevator from the restroom floor) was up the stairs where there were chairs. As I walk up to her, the house manager comes speeding behind me up the stairs and stands in front of the door as if I'm going to barge into the theater. She proceeds to tell us that she saw us walking to the restroom and attempted to get our attention. I do not believe that because the lobby was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. The only people there were myself and my friend, so her attempt to get our attention was a complete Lie. We then asked her at what time do they usually stop people from going to the restroom and she stated 8:05, then said the time varies and sometimes it's 8:10, which basically meant that she did not know. We also asked how long until scene change and said she had NO IDEA. I asked for an approximate time and she stated that she did not know. This was NOT opening night, the play has been showing since August but she wanted us to believe that she had no idea what time scene change occurs. She further insulted us when a group of about 10 people walked in and were escorted up the stairs, she went got them and escorted them INTO the theater on the other side....IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHOW, not during scene change. So my friend and I, walked in at our own will and sat in empty chairs to not disturb anyone. A few minutes later, we saw more people coming in, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHOW and was seating in the overflow sections so they could not disturb anyone but still see the show. I wondered to myself, if she had just brought us up the stairs in those seats to begin with, everything would've been fine.
She, the house manager, did not know at the time but I was there with a party of more than 15 people who all came to support our friend that was in the show. She didn't offer any smiles until she saw the amount of people we were with $$$$$$$$$$.
Absolutely LOVED LOVED LOVED the play but the manager working that night was a HORRIBLE host.
Consistently produces many of America's best new plays. Both of the theaters have excellent sight lines basically anywhere you sit.
I love going to Playwrights Horizons. I've seen so many great productions there in the past few years. They produce some daring work.
Great theatre, good work and easy walk from Subway .
Consistently presenting good new work by American playwrights.
Always educational, always rewarding - thanks for showcasing American playwrights.
I have long been a subscriber to the entire season of Playwrights Horizon and it always provides well produced and provocative plays. It is "a playwrights" theater company. Tonight's play by Craig Lucas, I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU was super.
One of the best theater venues of New York. Excellence personified!
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