January 15-18: A Wake for Walkerspace
SOHO REP IS NOT A BUILDING. SOHO REP HAD A BUILDING...
Presented in partnership with Under the Radar / utrfest.org
Walkerspace (1991-2024), Soho Rep’s 65-seat venue at 46 Walker Street, will be laid to rest this January 2025. An extraordinary vessel for artistic risk and invention, Walkerspace inspired generations of theater makers and lovers with bountiful (Transformative! Tantalizing! Transgressive!) experiences. It was also inaccessible, leaky, prone to electrical outages, and generally crumbling. The space’s caretaker for over 30 years, Soho Rep, invites the community to pay their respects across five days of visitation and wake services, with eulogies delivered by some of the space’s closest companions. Despite this loss of its long-time home, Soho Rep is not a building. Rather, in the words of William Burke, “Soho Rep is an act of faith in the artistic process filled with unrelenting unrealistic optimism”—an artist-centered vision of the world that carries us wherever we go. Join us for a celebration of life that only Soho Rep could throw, filled with wry wit, ridiculous raconteurs, and so much heart—come pay your respects to one of New York City’s last downtown spaces devoted to experimentation, risk, and revelation!
Read About Our New Partnership with Playwrights Horizons
Read about the new partnership in this article by Brittani Samuel.
Winter and Spring 2025 Shows Announced!
Our first production in residence at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons will be Nia Akilah Robinson’s The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar), directed by Evren Odcikin.
And in May we will be doing a co-production with Playwrights Horizons, Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill, directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury.
Shayok Misha Chowhury's Public Obscenities named Pulitzer Prize Finalist
We are thrilled to share the news that Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s Public Obscenities has been named one of three Finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Please join us in congratulating Misha, our partners at NAATCO, and the entire team of designers, actors, and crew who brought the play to life in its world premiere at Soho Rep, as well as the transfers to Woolly Mammoth and Theatre for a New Audience! It’s so exciting that Misha is being recognized in this way, and we hope it will expose even more people to this incredible bilingual play, which the Pulitzer Prize committee described as “a densely written, deeply-felt drama that examines identity, home, queerness, and language through the lens of a Bengali American reuniting with his family in India.”
Public Obscenities, and all of our work, couldn’t happen without the support of our community. More than 90% of our income at Soho Rep comes from donations. Your gifts help us produce the work you see on stage, provide living wages to artists, and keep our ticket prices at $35 or less.
