The American Legacy
Metropolitan Playhouse
The American Legacy

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17th Season ~ Work
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Please check back soon for updates on our Main Stage Productions
and Family Fare shows for Season Seventeen


Fall 2008

Alphabet
City V
August 13 - 24
Begun in 2004, the Alphabet City Project creates new solo-performances based on first person interviews with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and neighbors of the Lower East Side.  9 actors portray 9 residents in three different shows...

AEA Approval Pending

September 26 -
October 26


Main Stage Prodution One: TBA


October 4,5,11,12
Family Fare Show One: TBA


November 14 - December 14
Main Stage Prodution Two: TBA


Its a
Wonderful Life

December 20


Our annual Act Along Christmas special


January 2009 - Literary Moralist


Melvillapalooza
January 12- 25

In January, Metropolitan celebrates our literary heritage with Melvillapalooza--A festival of new works by many companies, all inspired by the life and writing of Herman Melville.
AEA Approval Pending

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Spring 2009


January 31 - Feburary 15
Family Fare Show Two: TBA


Febuary 27 -
March 29

Main Stage Prodution Three: TBA


April 17 -
May 17

Main Stage Prodution Four: TBA


May 2,3,9,10
Family Fare Show Three: TBA
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East Village Chronicles Vol. 6
June 4 - 21
The sixth annual series of new works is solicited from up-and-coming New York playwrights inspired by the neighborhood’s history and culture.  This year, the theater premieres plays that celebrate and expose important venues in the East Village—from corners to shops; apartments to bars: places that make the neighborhood what it has been and will be.
AEA Approval Pending



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Now in its Seventeenth Season, Metropolitan Playhouse is devoted to the exploring and enriching America's theatrical legacy and the discovery of that tradition's place in world theater. Metropolitan focuses on three types of production: forgotten American masterpieces like Inheritors, The Scarecrow, The Melting Pot, and past seasons'
Metamora, The City, Fashion, Sun-Up, The Faith Healer, The Woman, The Easiest Way, Whatever Happened to Jones, and The Streets of New York; new plays based on America's history and literature, such as the East Village Chronicles, Salem, The O. Henry Conspiracy, Washington Irving's Sketchbook, and History Lessons; and works from around the world that put these American works in context, such as Arden of Faversham, Bacchus, Oedipus Rex and Dom Juan.