The Wooster Group/New York City Players, Early Plays

If a YBCA performance is dinner, then Smart Night Out is the appetizer and the dessert. Smart Night Out is part workshop, part happy hour date, and part backstage sneak peek. This month features The Wooster Group/New York City Players production of Early Plays.

Since its inception in 1975, the Wooster Group has been celebrated as one of the most vibrant and vital voices in contemporary American theater. Known for their pioneering explorations with new technology and multidisciplinary art forms,… Show more they have left an indelible mark on contemporary performance. New York City Players, under the direction of Richard Maxwell, is a company known for its original productions rigorously stripped of theatrical artifice. The collaboration of these two companies on Early Plays created a ripple of excitement in the New York theater establishment and resulted in an Obie Award for direction for Richard Maxwell.

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