Henry Street Playhouse

Founded as the Neighborhood Playhouse on New York City’s Lower East Side in 1915, the building was renamed the Henry Street Playhouse after the original Playhouse acting company officially disbanded in 1927. In 1948, Alwin Nikolais was appointed director of the Henry Street Playhouse, where he formed the Playhouse Dance Company, later renamed and known as the Nikolais Dance Theatre. Henry Street Settlement restored both the interior and exterior of the Playhouse in 1996 and 2015.