Vineyard Theatre

Off-Broadway theatre company

40°44′05″N 73°59′20″W / 40.734844°N 73.988789°W / 40.734844; -73.988789OwnerVineyard Theatre and Workshop Center Inc.TypeOff-BroadwayCapacity132Opened1981; 43 years ago (1981)Websitewww.vineyardtheatre.org

The Vineyard Theatre is an Off-Broadway non-profit theatre company, located at 108 East 15th Street in Manhattan, New York City, near Union Square. Its first production was in 1981. It is best known for its productions of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q,^[1] Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive, and Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell's Obie Award-winning musical called [title of show]. The Vineyard states that its goal is "to give daring artists a safe space to create exhilarating, original theatre."^[2]

The company is the recipient of special Obie, Drama Desk, and Lucille Lortel Awards for sustained excellence, and the 1998 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant.

Notable productions include Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls,^[3] Craig Lucas's The Dying Gaul, Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live, Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination, Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley, and the Laura Nyro musical Eli's Comin.

References

^ Brantley, Ben (October 21, 2009). "Pulling Heartstrings, Racy Puppets Return". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
^ "Who We Are". Vineyard Theatre.org. Retrieved August 2023.
^ Shewey, Don (September 7, 1997). "Out of Obscurity and Unpredictability, a Steady Diet of Hits". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 29, 2023.

East Side of Manhattan (14th–34th Streets, east of Fifth Ave)

Manhattan, New York City

Buildings

14th–23rd Sts	15 Union Square West 18 Gramercy Park 44 Union Square 91-93 Fifth Avenue 121 East 22nd 889 Broadway 935–939 Broadway Bank of the Metropolis Century Building Church Missions House Consolidated Edison Building Decker Building Everett Building Flatiron Building Lincoln Building Madison Square Park Tower One Madison Samuel J. Tilden House Scheffel Hall Scribner Building Society for the Lying-In Hospital Spingler Building Stuyvesant Apartments The St. George Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site United Charities Building Zeckendorf Towers
23rd–34th Sts	2 Park Avenue 3 Park Avenue 4 Park Avenue 29 East 32nd Street 69th Regiment Armory 203 East 29th Street 277 Fifth Avenue Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State Carmel Place CBS 30th Street Studio Chester A. Arthur Home Demarest Building Emmet Building The Grand Madison Kips Bay Towers Madison Belmont Building Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower Metropolitan Life North Building New York Life Building New York Merchandise Mart New York School of Applied Design for Women United States Post Office Waterside Plaza
Former	Jerome Mansion Madison Square Presbyterian Church (1854) Madison Square Presbyterian Church (1906) St. Leo Church

Culture

Shops, restaurants, nightlife	15 East ABC Kitchen Atomix Casa Mono The Clocktower Eleven Madison Park Jua Laut Old Town Bar and Restaurant Pete's Tavern Rezdôra Second Avenue Deli Union Square Cafe Upland The Water Club Wolfgang's Steakhouse
Theaters, galleries, art venues	Daryl Roth Theatre Fotografiska New York Gramercy Theatre Holographic Studios Irving Plaza Peoples Improv Theater Swann Galleries Vineyard Theatre
Hotels	George Washington Hotel Gramercy Park Hotel Hotel Deauville Hotel Giraffe Hotel Kenmore Hall Hotel Le Marquis James New York – NoMad Martha Washington Hotel The Roger Hotel W New York Union Square
Clubs	Colony Club National Arts Club The Players
Former	Benno The Coffee Shop Con Edison Energy Museum The Cutting Room Devi Fleur de Sel Jazz Standard Juni Veritas

Green spaces
Asser Levy Recreation Center Bellevue South Park Gramercy Park Stuyvesant Cove Park Stuyvesant Square Vincent F. Albano Jr. Playground

Education

Primary and secondary education	47 The American Sign Language and English Secondary School Aaron School Baruch College Campus High School British International School of New York The Clinton School The École Friends Seminary Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School Manhattan Trade School for Girls] PS 116 Salk School of Science School of the Future United Nations International School Washington Irving Campus
Higher education	Baruch College William and Anita Newman Library High School for Health Professions and Human Services Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing New York University College of Dentistry Norman Thomas High School

Religion
Calvary Church Chapel of Free Grace Church of the Epiphany Church of Our Lady of the Scapular of Mount Carmel Church of Our Lady of the Scapular–St. Stephen Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El First Zen Institute of America Madison Avenue Baptist Church St. George's Episcopal Church St. Sebastian Church

Religion

Calvary Church
Chapel of Free Grace
Church of the Epiphany
Church of Our Lady of the Scapular of Mount Carmel
Church of Our Lady of the Scapular–St. Stephen
Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal
Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El
First Zen Institute of America
Madison Avenue Baptist Church
St. George's Episcopal Church
St. Sebastian Church

Health
Bellevue Hospital New York Eye and Ear Infirmary NYU Langone Medical Center Enid A. Haupt Glass Garden Hassenfeld Children's Hospital New York University Grossman School of Medicine Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

Transportation

Subway stations	First Avenue Third Avenue 14th Street–Union Square 23rd Street (Broadway) 23rd Street (Park Avenue South) 28th Street 33rd Street
Other transport	East 34th Street Ferry Landing East 34th Street Heliport New York Skyports Seaplane Base
Streets	Avenue C FDR Drive Lexington Avenue Park Avenue South First Avenue Second Avenue Third Avenue 14th Street 23rd Street 34th Street

Related topics
East 17th Street/Irving Place Historic District Gramercy Park Kips Bay Stuyvesant Square Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village

See also: Manhattan Community Board 6

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