Venues closed due to conditions related to the COVID-19 crisis:
The Secret
Shetler Studios
The Secret Theatre
The Artist Co-op
Simple Studios
Champion Studios
Montgomery Gardens
Avenue C Studios
The Playroom Theater
UCB
Chelsea Studios
The Pit
RIOULT Dance Center
Big Irv’s
Closed arts venues since 2009:
The loss of independent performing venues since the financial crisis began in late 2008 was one of the motivating factors that spurred the creation of the League of Independent Theater. The names of historic gathering venues on this list remind us why this activism is vital and necessary; spaces like the Living Theater and the Ohio Theater are vital to enabling the independent theater of tomorrow.
Are you a venue at risk of joining this list? Please contact us; and be aware of the Independent Theater Fund Emergency Assistance Program.
The following is a list of the independent theater, music, and dance performance spaces known to have vanished in the period of current crisis. This is likely an incomplete list.
285 Kent - 11211
29th Street Theatre - 10001
3rd Ward - 11237
78th Street Theatre Lab – 10024
92YTribeca - 10013
Actors Playhouse – 10014
Amato Opera Theatre - 10003
b.pm. - 11211
Bowerie Lane Theatre – 10002
Brooklyn Rod & Gun - 11211
Center Stage – 10010
Chelsea Repertory Company – 10011
Collapsible Hole - 11201
Collective Unconscious - 10002
Common Basis Theatre - 10036
Creative Place Theatre - 10036
Culture Project – 10012
Dance New Amsterdam - 10007
Death By Audio - 11211
Douglas Fairbanks Theatre – 10036
Douglass Street Music Collective - 11217
Emerging Artists Theatre – 10036
Exit Art - 10018
Flatiron Theatre – 10011
Galapagos Arts Space - 11201
Gene Frankel Underground – 10012
Glasslands - 11211
Greenwich Street Theatre – 10014
Goodbye Blue Monday - 11221
Grove Street Playhouse - 10014
Hinton Battle Dance Laboratory - 10036
House of Candles – 10002
Incubator Arts Project - 10003
Intar Theatre on 53rd Street – 10019
Interart Theater - 10019
Location One - 10013
John Houseman Theatre - 10036
Jose Quintero – 10036
Joyce Theater - 10012
The Living Theatre – 10001
The Living Room – 10002
Magic Futurebox - 11232
Manhattan Theatre Source - 10011
Michael Weller Theatre - 10036
Nat Horne Theatre - 10036
Oasis Theatre - 10019
Ohio Theatre -10012
Pelican Theatre - 10036
Perry Street Theatre - 10012
The Piano Store – 10002
The Pink Pony – 10002
Red Room - 10003
Provincetown Playhouse - 10012
Sanford Meisner Theatre - 10011
Show World Theatre - 10036
The Spoon Theatre – 10018
Stage Left Studio - 10001
Studio Dante - 10001
Sullivan Street Playhouse - 10012
The Tank on 42nd Street - 10036
Theatorium - 10002
Theatre 5 - 10036
Theatre Studio - 10036
Theatre1010 - 10028
Todo Con Nada - 10002
Two Moon Art House and Café - 11215
Trilogy Theatre - 10036
Variety Arts Theater - 10003
Village Gate Theatre - 10012
Vital Children's Theatre on 42nd Street - 10036
Where Eagles Dare – 10018
Zebulon - 11211
Zipper Factory - 10018
[1] List of lost / closed Off-Off-Broadway Spaces. New York Innovative Theatre Awards, Inc. http://www.nyitawards.com/news/newsitem.asp?storyid=78
[2] Closed Venues. JACK Arts. http://www.jackny.org/closedvenues.html