A West Village theatre institution is making a comeback: The Actors’ Playhouse on Seventh Avenue South has had an exteme makeover and will re-open on March 5 with the one-man show Blood Type Ragu, an exploration of the Sicilian immigrant experience written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta.
Since its founding in 1956, the theatre has hosted the likes of Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott in Cocteau’s The Eagle Has Two Heads in its inaugural year, James Earl Jones in Clandestine on the Morning Line (1961), Al Pacino The Local Stigmatic (1969), Harvey Fierstein and Matthew Broderick in Torch Song Trilogy (1982) and Eric Bogosian in his own Fun House (1983). Click here for a full archive in the Lortel Archives
With so much chilling news in the theatre world these days, it’s nice hear about a survivor, isn’t it?