Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company
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Address336 West 20th Street
Manhattan, New York City
United States
Coordinates40°44′38″N 74°00′07″W / 40.743912°N 74.001819°W / 40.743912; -74.001819
TypeOff-Broadway
Capacity199 – Linda Gross Theater
99 – Stage 2
Opened1985
Website
atlantictheater.org

Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway non-profit theater.[1] The company was founded in 1985 by David Mamet, William H. Macy, and 30 of their acting students from New York University, inspired by the historical examples of the Group Theatre and Stanislavski.

The company operates two theaters in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. There is the 199-seat mainstage Linda Gross Theater, which is located at 336 West 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, in the parish hall of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, built in 1854 and renovated in 2012.[2][3] Additionally, the 99-seat black-box theater, Stage 2, is located at 330 West 16th Street, also between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, in the former Port Authority building. Stage 2, which opened in June 2006, is the home of Atlantic’s development program for new plays, which encompasses the commissioning of new works, readings, workshops, and fully staged productions.[4]

  1. ^ "About Us". Atlantic Theater Company. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  2. ^ Healy, Patrick (July 12, 2010). "Atlantic Theater Company Announces New Season". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  3. ^ Fullerton, Krissie (October 2, 2012). "Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Raúl Esparza, Richard Kind and More Celebrate Reopening of Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater". Playbill. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  4. ^ Robertson, Campbell (August 16, 2006). "The Atlantic Theater Company Trades One Coveted Chelsea Space for Another". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2010.