Westside Theatre

A vast variety of historic, successful productions have been presented on these stages, including CAGNEY; TURN ME LOOSE; THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY; SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF; OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES; MY NAME IS ASHER LEV; LOVE LOSS AND WHAT I WORE; I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE (a record-breaking twelve-year run); TRUMBO; THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES; NIXON’S NIXON; FULL GALLOP; THE FOOD CHAIN; THE CRYPTOGRAM; SPIC-O-RAMA; and the inaugural productions, AND THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND: THE SONGS OF KANDER AND EBB. The Westside Theatre produced the Off-Broadway production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, which ran for two and a half years at the Jane Street Theatre (Westside’s downtown sister theatre), garnered the Outer Critics Circle award for Outstanding Off-Broadway musical of 1998, along with two OBIE awards. The Westside Theatre also produced TRUMBO: RED WHITE AND BLACKLISTED, featuring a rotation of actors in the role of Dalton Trumbo, including Nathan Lane, Ed Harris, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Robbins, Chris Cooper, Alec Baldwin, and Brian Dennehy. Other New York producing credits: Gretchen Law’s TURN ME LOOSE, John Leguizamo’s SPIC-O-RAMA, Doug McGrath’s POLITICAL ANIMAL, and the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of FEELING ELECTRIC, which later evolved into the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical NEXT TO NORMAL.