Metropolitan Playhouse

The Metropolitan Playhouse was a resident producing theater in New York City founded in 1992 by Parsifal's Productions, Inc. Originally producing in the auditorium of The High School for Graphic Communication Arts on W. 49th Street, the theater relocated to East Fourth Street in Manhattan's East Village in 1997 where it presented plays through June 2023. Devoted to presenting plays that explore American culture and history, including seldom-produced, "lost" American plays and new plays about or derived from American history and literature, its best known revivals included three Eulalie Spence one-acts (The Starter, Hot Stuff, and The Hunch), Thunder Rock (play) and Shadow of Heroes by Robert Ardrey, On Strivers Row and Walk Hard (play) by Abram Hill, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Icebound and The Detour by Owen Davis, George L. Aiken's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Jacob Gordin's The Jewish King Lear (in a translation by Ruth Gay), the world premiere of Neith Boyce's adaptation of H. G. Wells's The Sea Lady, The Faith Healer and The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody, The Drunkard by W. H. Smith, Inheritors and the Pulitzer Prize winning Alison's House by co-founder of The Provincetown_Playhouse Susan Glaspell, The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill, The City by Clyde Fitch, Metamora by John Augustus Stone, Sun-Up by Lula Vollmer, and The New York Idea by Langdon Mitchell, and

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