Off-Off Broadway Theaters – East Village Building Blocks

Guided Tour : Off-Off Broadway Theaters

The East Village has been fertile ground for theatrical innovation since the beginning of the 20th century. Off-Off Broadway productions began in the East Village as an anti-commercial and experimental or avant-garde movement of drama and theatre. Today the neighborhood continues to grow as an incubator for theatrical innovators and iconoclasts. This tour of current and former theatres gives a comprehensive view of the theatrical homes of the experimental movement.

93 Avenue B; 601 East 6th Street

Block 389, Lot 1

residential/commercial, tenement, theater

66 Second Avenue

Block 445, Lot 7

Classical Revival, David M. Oltarsh & H. Craig Severance, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, Institutional, Jewish Rialto, punk, theater

219 Second Avenue

Block 469, Lot 34

Italianate, Patrich McComich, residential/commercial, row house, theater

126 Second Avenue

Block 449, Lot 5

Austro-Hungarian Republic League, Georgian Palladian, Gerard Stuyvesant, Jewish Rialto, Liberty Cycle Club, Moving Picture Theatre, New York Chess Club, Off-Broadway, Orpheum Theater, residential

80 St. Mark’s Place; 78-80 St. Mark’s Place

Block 449, Lot 28

Alexandra Kollontai, Five Spot, Jazz Gallery, Joe and Iggy Termini, Leon Trotsky, music venue, Nikolai Bukharin, Novy Mir, residential, theater, Theater 80 St. Marks, Theatre 80, William Bollman

181-189 Second Avenue; 183-189 Second Avenue

Block 467, Lot 31

David Wojnarowicz, Harrison Wideman, Individual Landmark, Institutional, Interior Landmark, Jackie Curtis, Jewish Rialto, LGBTQ, Louis Jaffe, Maurice Schwartz, Moorish Revival, Peter Hujar, Slugger Ann, Yiddish Art Theater

206 East 11th Street; 206-208 East 11th Street

Block 466, Lot 12

155 First Avenue; 155-157 First Avenue; 230-240 East 10th Street

Block 451, Lot 7502

Department of Markets, Fiorello LaGuardia, First Avenue Retail Market, Italian American, Jerry J. Rosengarten, Lewis & Churchill, Little Italy, marketplace, Michael Waldman, New Theater Building, Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron, The Theater for the New City, Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, Works Progress Administration, WPA

64-74 Avenue B; 544-548 East 5th Street

Block 400, Lot 31

Cabrini Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, Loew's Avenue B Theatre, Marcus Loew, Natoma Amusement Co., Thomas W. Lamb

74 East 4th Street

Block 459, Lot 23

African American History, August H. Blankenstein, Carl Bergmann, Carl Fischer, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, George Matzka, German Renaissance Revival, Individual Landmark, Institutional, Kurtzer & Rohl, La Mama Theater, LGBTQ, New York City Landmark, New York Philharmonic, Theodore Thomas, Walter Damrosch

66-68 East 4th Street; 15-17 East 3rd Street

Block 459, Lot 19

ABC Stage City, Abraham Goldfaden, Albian Place, Alexander Berkman, Alla Nazimova, Anson G. Phelps, Biltmore Studios, Boris Thomashefsky, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, Elisha Peck, Emma Goldman, Ethel Barrymore, Federal, Film Project, Flemish bond, Greek Revival, Hanay Geiogamah, Henry Miller, Institutional, Jewish Rialto, Kinkel &Klemt, La MaMa, LGBTQ, Lyceum Hall, Manhattan Lyceum Hall, Manhattan Plaza, Margaret Anglin, Millennium Film Workshop, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Native American Theater Ensemble, New York Turn Verein, Orlenev Lyceum, Pavel Orlenoff, residential, row house, rowhouse, Stanislavsky Method, theater, Turn Hall, Turn Halle, Yiddish

62 East 4th Street; 11 East 3rd Street

Block 459, Lot 17

Andy Warhol, commercial/industrial, Duo Theater, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, Fourth Arts Block (FAB), Jewish Rialto, Jim Carroll, LGBTQ, Max Schroff, Queen Anne, Victor Eckstein

84 East 10th Street

Block 555, Lot 21

10th Street, art, gallery, neo-Grec, New York Poets Theatre, Off-Bowery, residential, Samuel Secor, theater, Tribal Arts Gallery

105 Second Avenue

Block 462, Lot 29

African American History, Black Panthers, Commodore Theater, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, Fillmore East, Jewish Rialto, Leroi Jones, LGBTQ, music venue, The Saint, theater, Village Theater

4 St. Mark’s Place

Block 463, Lot 11

Alexander Hamilton, Bridge Theater, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Hamilton-Holly House, Individual Landmark, Limbo, punk, residential, row house, Tempo Playhouse, Thomas E. Davis, Trash & Vaudeville

83 East 4th Street

Block 460, Lot 45

Atelier East, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, Eva Gabor, Fourth Street Theatre, rowhouse, St. Mark's

100 Third Avenue

Block 558, Lot 30

Bijou Theater, Comet Theater, Ebenezer Pray, Industrial, Jewel Theatre, Lyric Theatre, music venue

134 East 13th Street, 134-136 East 13th Street

Block 558, Lot 24

Classic Stage Company, George Law, Lithography, Off-Broadway, piano, R. Teller, residential

79 East 4th Street; 79-81 East 4th Street

Block 460, Lot 46

Bruce Mailman, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, Herman Kron, Industrial, Institutional, Mitchell Kurtz, New York Theatre Workshop, Truck and Warehouse Theatre, Washton Realty Corp.

319 Bowery

Block 457, Lot 8

Amato Opera Company, Arts, Julius Boekell & Son

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