Mission
Our mission is to nurture living playwrights and artists expressing contemporary identity.
In this venture, we intend to revive NoHo as a cauldron of LGBTQI art and ideas by producing new works.
Gene Frankel’s 1961 production of Jean Genet’s The Blacks, A Clown Story exemplified the vitality and influence a small theater can have. This grassroots phenomenon altered the course of Off- & Off-Off Broadway theatre and shaped their destinies, winning one of the first Obie Awards for play writing and eventually becoming the longest running Off-Broadway show in history, launching the careers of James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett JR., and a number of other enduring influential American actors in the process.
In this venture, we intend to revive NoHo as a cauldron of LGBTQI art and ideas by producing new works.
Gene Frankel’s 1961 production of Jean Genet’s The Blacks, A Clown Story exemplified the vitality and influence a small theater can have. This grassroots phenomenon altered the course of Off- & Off-Off Broadway theatre and shaped their destinies, winning one of the first Obie Awards for play writing and eventually becoming the longest running Off-Broadway show in history, launching the careers of James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett JR., and a number of other enduring influential American actors in the process.
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"24 Bond Arts Center"
and mail to:
Gail Thacker
Artistic Director
24 Bond Arts Center
Director of
The Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street/Lafeyette
NYC 10012
Artistic Director
24 Bond Arts Center
Director of
The Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street/Lafeyette
NYC 10012