OHIO THEATRE HISTORY

"If you check the credits of most of the major downtown theater troupes or performers of the last decade or so, you are likely to see the Ohio Theatre."
-New York Times

The Ohio Theatre is one of downtown's oldest theatres. With its high ceilings, hardwood floors, industrial nooks and crannies, and its landmark loading dock doors, the Ohio Theatre is one of the last of the great converted factory spaces in lower Manhattan.

Founded in 1984, back when Soho was considered a scary neighborhood (scary now for different reasons!), the Ohio Theatre is haunted with the benign spirits of New York theatre history , (including the early works of Tony Kushner, Anne Bogart, and Maria Irene Fornes). Today, the Ohio Theatre is widely recognized as an indispensable pillar of the downtown theatre scene, both a launching pad and a place to land for this generation's most talented theatre artists.

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Some of the companies we've hosted at the Ohio Theatre:

Adobe Theatre co.
Arden Party
Barrow Group
Big Action Theatre
C.I.T.I. (Anne Bogard)
Clancy Productions
Clubbed Thumb
Creation Production Co.
Deep Ellum Theatre Co.
Doug Varone and Dancers
Dixon Place
Drama Dept.
Elevator Repair Service
Flying Machine
Foundry Theatre
International WOW
Jane Comfort and Company
Les Freres Corbusiers
Ma-Yi Theatre Company
NaCL
New Georges
Ping Chong and Company
Pig Iron
Ripe Time (Rachel Dickstein)
Rude Mechanicals ( Austin )
Sabooge Theatre
Salt Theatre
Soho Think Tank
Sponsored by Nobody
Synapse Productions
Target Margin Theater
The Riot Group
The Talking Band
The TEAM
Tiny Mythic
Trav S.D.
T.W.E.E.D.
Undermain Theatre ( Dallas )
Witness Relocation Company