Ars Nova Partners with Greenwich House

The Greenwich House Theater at 27 Barrow Street has been home to many historic productions since the building was erected in 1917. The Sanctuary Theater moved into the space after theater director and educator Helen Murphy passed away in the 1970s. The group included Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. The theater hosted Soho Rep briefly, and then The Drama Dept. in the 1990s, where they produced many of Douglas Carter Beane’s first plays.

Barrow St. Theater began in the theater in 2003, producing such notable and award-winning plays as Nina Raine’s Tribes, the revival of Our Town both directed by David Cromer, No Child… by Nilaja Sun, and Bug by Tracy Letts (starring Michael Shannon).

Since 2019, Greenwich House partners with Ars Nova, a theater company that welcomes emerging artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, and serves as a creative home and laboratory for meeting collaborators, testing ideas, developing new work, and launching unique voices and careers.