CSC Names Longtime Home The Lynn F. Angelson Theater

Classic Stage Company (CSC; Artistic Director, John Doyle) today announces that its singular home at 136 East 13th Street will be named the Lynn F. Angelson Theater, for its most devoted supporter and long-standing Board Chair.

Of Angelson's indefatigable efforts on behalf of CSC, Artistic Director John Doyle says, "Having celebrated fifty years as a company, CSC now looks forward to a new era. As an acknowledgment of her enormous commitment and generosity, we are renaming the theater to honor our chair Lynn Angelson. Without Lynn's tenacity and fearless leadership, CSC would not be where it is today. I'm proud to have Lynn as a collaborator and thrilled to be artistic director of the company as we acknowledge her in this way."

Angelson's association with the theater began in early 2000, when she worked as an intern at CSC in connection with her arts management studies at NYU. She joined the CSC board in 2001. She has consistently drawn from her own resources, from the board, and from many others, and has enabled the extraordinary artists making work on 13th Street to rise to ever-greater heights. Angelson says, "I am moved to be honored by CSC at this watershed moment for the company, when it has just celebrated its 50th anniversary and is about to kick off a stellar season of landmark works. I share this honor with my friends, neighbors, and colleagues whose hard work and remarkable generosity over these nearly two decades has made possible the current success of CSC. I am inspired by the artistic trajectory of the company under John Doyle's remarkable leadership."

CSC opens its 51st season with John Doyle's new staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, featuring George Abud, Eddie Cooper, Elizabeth A. Davis, Raúl Esparza, Christopher Gurr, Omozé Idehenre, Mahira Kakkar, and Thom Sesma. The production runs from October 30 - December 22.

About Classic Stage Company

Classic Stage Company (CSC) is committed to reimagining classic stories for contemporary audiences. It is a home for New York's finest established and emerging artists to grapple with great works of the world's repertory that speak directly to the issues of today.

In 1967, director Christopher Martin founded CSC Repertory in a 100-seat theater at Rutgers Presbyterian Church on West 73rd Street. Following short stints in small spaces, CSC grew to the point where it needed a permanent home. In 1973, the theater moved to its present premises on 13th Street, an intimate space that was formerly an East Village carriage house.

In the 50 years since, CSC has become a leading Off-Broadway theater that is a home for new and established artists, as well as audiences seeking epic stories intimately told. Productions have been cited by all major Off-Broadway theater awards including the Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work.

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