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ANTA Washington Square Theatre

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Off Broadway Closed 1964–1965 on this page7 productions

The ANTA Washington Square Theatre was a theatre located on 40 West Fourth Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It was run by the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) and initial home to the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center from early 1964 to the completion of the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1965. The theatre, not to be confused with the ANTA Theatre (later August Wilson Theatre) on 52nd Street, was located away from the mainstream Broadway district. Closed in 1968, it used a thrust stage tilted toward the audience, with the audience sitting on three sides of it. It did not employ the use of a curtain. Robert Whitehead founded ANTA to create "a national theatre a…

Longest runs hereby performances

1965 Man of La Mancha November 22, 1965 · Albert Marre 2,328 perf.
1964 After The Fall January 23, 1964 · Elia Kazan 208 perf.
1964 Incident at Vichy December 3, 1964 · Hugh Southern 99 perf.
1965 Tartuffe January 14, 1965 · William Ball 74 perf.
1964 Marco Millions February 20, 1964 · José Quintero 49 perf.
1964 But For Whom Charlie March 12, 1964 · Elia Kazan 47 perf.
1964 The Changeling October 29, 1964 · Elia Kazan 32 perf.

Everything that played here7 productions

1964 After The Fall January 23, 1964 · Original 208 perf.
1964 But For Whom Charlie March 12, 1964 · Original 47 perf.
1964 Incident at Vichy December 3, 1964 · Original 99 perf.
1964 Marco Millions February 20, 1964 · Revival 49 perf.
1964 The Changeling October 29, 1964 · Original 32 perf.
1965 Man of La Mancha November 22, 1965 · Original 2,328 perf.
1965 Tartuffe January 14, 1965 · Original 74 perf.

In the literature1 passages

  • Faye Dunaway and Jason Robards, Jr., in the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center production of But for Whom Charlie. New York, ANTA Washington Square Theatre, 1964. [Photograph by Martha Swope]McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C)

What this page does not know

  • What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it: concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
  • How many seats.
  • Who built it.
  • Any photograph of the building.

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