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 venue located at 407 West 43rd Street between Ninth

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, New York City

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. The building houses two auditoriums: the Upstairs theater, which seats 299, and the Downstairs theater, which features a thrust stage and has a seating capacity of 249. Formerly known as the Chelsea Theatre Center and the Westside Arts Theatre, the building was renovated in 1991.

Upstairs

Date Opened	Show Title
06/23/2011	The Voca People The Voca People The Voca People are an Israel-based ensemble performing vocal theater combining a cappella and beat box vocals to reproduce the sounds of an entire orchestra....
09/14/2008	The Marvelous Wonderettes The Marvelous Wonderettes The Marvelous Wonderettes is a musical comedy with a book by Roger Bean. It was recently played off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in New York. The show, which uses pop songs from the '50s and '60s as a vehicle to tell its story, pays homage to the high school Songleader squads of the 1950s...
08/01/1996	I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts. It is the second-longest running Off Broadway musical...
08/07/1995	The Food Chain The Food Chain The Food Chain is a London, United Kingdom-based charity working to provide food and nutritional services to people living with HIV and related illness. Formed on Christmas Day 1988, its stated aim is "to ensure that those living with HIV.....
05/28/1995	The Cryptogram The Cryptogram The Cryptogram is a 1995 play by American playwright David Mamet. The play concerns the moment when childhood is lost. The story is set in 1959 on the night before a young boy is to go on a camping trip with his father....
12/08/1994	You Should Be So Lucky You Should Be So Lucky You Should Be So Lucky! was a BBC children's television programme broadcast in 1986/87. It was hosted by Colin Bennett in the character of Vince Purity.It was a game show, during which contestants played on a giant snakes and ladders board...
08/30/1994	First Night First Night First Night is an artistic and cultural celebration on New Year's Eve, taking place from afternoon until midnight. Some cities have all their events during the celebration outside, but some cities have events that are hosted indoors by organizations in the city, such as churches and theaters...
08/09/1993	Later Life
02/23/1993	Best of Friends Best of Friends -Tasks and Treats:In the show, five friends with a strong friendship must complete a series of three unpleasant tasks in order to win a final treat The tasks include mucking out pigs, cleaning bins, picking up ice with the bare feet, getting your feet tickled without laughing or smiling and so on,...
10/09/1992	Spic-O-Rama
06/02/1992	Balancing Act
03/18/1991	And The World Goes 'Round And the World Goes 'Round And the World Goes 'Round is a musical revue showcasing the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. The revue takes its title from a tune the songwriting team wrote for Liza Minnelli to sing in the film New York, New York-Productions:...
12/04/1987	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is a two-character play by Terrence McNally.It focuses on two lonely, middle-aged people whose first date ends with them tumbling into bed. Johnny is certain he has found his soul mate in Frankie. She, on the other hand, is far more cautious and disinclined...
05/07/1987	Educating Rita Educating Rita Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University lecturer....
12/22/1982	Extremities Extremities (play) (This article is about the off-Broadway play. For the 1986 film, see Extremities (film)Extremities is a play by William Mastrosimone that was first performed off Broadway in 1982...
10/13/1981	March of the Falsettos March of the Falsettos March of the Falsettos is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by William Finn.A sequel to In Trousers, the one-acter continues the story of Marvin and his journey in search of self-understanding, inner peace, and a life with a "happily ever after" ending...
10/14/1980	Really Rosie Really Rosie Really Rosie is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. The musical is based on Sendak's books Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was Johnny, Alligators All Around , and The Sign on Rosie's Door...

Downstairs

Date Opened	Show Title
10/01/2009	Love, Loss, and What I Wore Love, Loss, and What I Wore Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women...
11/18/2008	Dust Dust Dust consists of particles in the atmosphere that arise from various sources such as soil dust lifted up by wind , volcanic eruptions, and pollution...
05/04/2007	My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy
10/21/2004	Jewtopia Jewtopia Jewtopia is a comedic play by Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson.It focuses on two friends, Chris O'Connell and Adam Lipschitz, both approaching their 30th birthdays. Gentile Chris is interested in dating Jewish women because he feels that they will make his life easier by making all of life's decisions...
03/16/2004	From Door to Door
09/04/2003	Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted Dalton Trumbo James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry...
02/11/2003	Barbara's Wedding
10/03/1999	The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the Off Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at AFRICA in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production which was produced by David Stone, Nina Essman, Dan Markley, The Araca Group, Willa Shalit, Mike Skipper...
09/11/1998	Irma Vep Irma Vep Irma Vep is a 1996 film directed by the French director Olivier Assayas, starring Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung in a story about the disasters that ensue as a middle-aged French film director attempts to remake Louis Feuillade's classic silent film serial Les vampires...
10/24/1997	Marc Salem's Mindgames
09/24/1996	Full Gallop
03/05/1996	Nixon's Nixon
09/05/1995	Too Jewish
02/10/1995	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
09/28/1993	Family Secrets
04/23/1993	Wild Men
09/08/1992	Cut the Ribbons
01/28/1992	Finkle's Follies
04/09/1991	Only the Truth is Funny
07/03/1981	What the Butler Saw What the Butler Saw (play) What the Butler Saw is a farce written by English playwright Joe Orton. It premièred at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969. It was Orton's final play and the second to be performed after his death, following Funeral Games the year before....
03/22/1976	Vanities Vanities Vanities is a comedy-drama stage production written by Jack Heifner. The story centers on the lives and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school.-Production history:Vanities had one of the longest Off-Broadway runs on record...

External links

• Official website
• Upstairs Theatre at Lortel Archive
• Downstairs Theatre at Lortel Archive