Soho Repertory Theatre

{{Short description|American off-Broadway theater company}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox theatre group | name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | logo = Soho REp Dot.jpg | logo_size = | logo_caption = | image = | image_size = | caption = | formed = {{Start date|1975|06|01}} | disbanded =  | genre = Avant-garde theatre<ref name="twsplaybill9900"/> | location = 416 W 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 | ArtisticDirector = | num_members = '''--Directors--''' Cynthia Flowers Caleb Hammons Eric Ting<ref name="2023dir"/>

| awards = ''Fairview'' 2019 Drama Desk nomination<ref name="twsDL77464"/> Vilcek award, 2016, Creative promise in theatre<ref name="twsVilcek42"/> ''Futurity'' 2015, Lucille Lortel award, Best musical<ref name="twsPlaybill44"/> Callaway award<ref name="twsPlaybill4233"/> ''Blasted'' 2009, Obie award<ref name="twsObieWanKenobee"/><ref name="twsObieWanKuhnowB2"/><ref name="twsBCF411"/> Drama Desk nomination<ref name="twsBCF411"/> | notable = | website = {{URL|sohorep.org/}} }}

The '''Soho Repertory Theatre''', known as '''Soho Rep''',<ref name=lowercaseh>The official website's [http://www.sohorep.org/about.html "About" page] now use "Soho", with a lowercase h, as do most articles from the [http://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+%22Soho+Rep%22 ''New York Times'']</ref> is an American off-Broadway theater company based in New York City which is notable for producing avant-garde plays by contemporary writers.<ref name="twsplaybill9900">[https://www.playbill.com/article/flying-distress-doesnt-hinder-flying-machines-distress-at-soho-rep-sept-27-30-com-98867] Lefkowitz, David. Simonson, Robert. "Flying Distress Doesn't Hinder Flying Machine's Distress at Soho Rep". ''Playbill''. September 30, 2001</ref><ref name="twsObieWanKuhnowB2"/><ref name="twsVilcek42"/><ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/an-evening-with-soho-rep-_b_857443] Sparks, Cator. "An Evening With Soho Rep. The Broadway of the Avant Garde." ''HuffPost''. May 4, 2011</ref> The company, described as a "cultural pillar", is currently located in a 65-seat theatre in the TriBeCa section of lower Manhattan.<ref name="twsTT152"/> The company, and the projects it has produced, have won multiple prizes and earned critical acclaim, including numerous Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Drama Critics' Circle Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize.<ref name="tws9900Pulitzer">The Pulitzer Prizes, [https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jackie-sibblies-drury The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama], Retrieved February 23, 2021</ref> A recent highlight was winning the Drama Desk Award for Sustained Achievement for "nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection."<ref name="tws41255"/><ref name="twsBCF411"/><ref name="twsHWR445"/>

Notable artists who have recently created work at the theater, often early in their careers, include: David Adjmi, César Alvarez, Annie Baker, Alice Birch, Christopher Chen, Jackie Sibblies Drury, debbie tucker green, Aleshea Harris, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Daniel Alexander Jones, Young Jean Lee, Richard Maxwell, Nature Theater of Oklahoma and Anne Washburn.

The ''New York Times'' has described it as a "safer home for dangerous plays".<ref name="twsNYT4844"/> Critics note the “jaw dropping premieres” and “big plays in a small room”<ref>{{cite web |title=Press & Awards |url=https://sohorep.org/about/awards-press |website=sohorep.org |access-date=1 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209075117/https://sohorep.org/about/awards-press |archive-date=February 9, 2012 |language=en}}</ref> as defining features of the theater’s programming. ''New Yorker'' theatre critic Hilton Als wrote about current director Sarah Benson:<ref name="twsNewYorker14"/> {{Quote|Under her directorship I have never seen a boring production—a very rare thing, indeed. Her deeply individual sensibility is not compromised by needs other than those of the work at hand, and it’s that freedom, structured around shows that I may not agree with but always learn from, that distinguishes the SoHo Rep... Benson has imbued each work with a tough, unsentimental core; she’s also made the plays into distinct visual works that help us see the words.}}

In 2019 the company adopted a shared leadership model.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://howlround.com/sharing-load |website=Howl Round|title=Sharing the Load |date=March 2, 2021 }}</ref> The three Directors of the theater of the company Sarah Benson, Cynthia Flowers, and Meropi Peponides led the theater until Benson and Peponides' departure in 2023.

In 2023, Caleb Hammons and Eric Ting joined Cynthia Flowers as co-directors of the theater.<ref name="2023dir"/>

The company has an annual budget of around $2 million and employs a full-time staff of seven. In 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the company put eight artists on salary for the 2020-21 season through the creation of a job creation program titled Project Number One referencing Federal Project Number One.<ref name="twsVulture513"/><ref name=twsPlaybill007766>Playbill magazine, Dan Meyer, September 24, 2020, [https://www.playbill.com/article/becca-blackwell-shayok-misha-chowdhury-jillian-walker-more-hired-to-create-new-works-at-soho-rep Becca Blackwell, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Jillian Walker, More Hired to Create New Works at SoHo Rep], Retrieved February 23, 2021</ref>

==History== [[File:Jackie Sibbles Drury (artist).jpg|thumb|right|Soho Rep is a favorite venue to launch experimental new plays. Photo: New Jersey-born playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.]] The Soho Repertory Theatre company was founded in 1975 by Jerry Engelbach and Marlene Swartz.<ref name=ReferenceC/> From June through September 1975, they remodeled a former textile factory in SoHo. They wanted the space to feel "light and informal" so the audience would feel comfortable.<ref>Two New Soho Theaters Soho News; Sep 18, 1975; New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division, "Soho Repertory Theatre Ephemera"</ref> They produced their first play, Maxwell Anderson's ''Key Largo'', on September 25. Their initial focus was on rarely seen classical plays, such as works by Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, Jean Anouilh, Michel de Ghelderode, Eugene O'Neill and Samuel Beckett.<ref name=ReferenceC/><ref name="Soho Rep 2000 pg. 20">''Soho Rep: Classics'' Backstage (Archive 1960–2000); Sep 5th, 1975; 16, 35; Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive pg. 20</ref> By 1979, the company was sometimes producing two shows per night, allowing audiences to see both plays in succession on a Saturday night.<ref name="ReferenceC">Soho Rep: Converting a ground floor fabric warehouse. Theatre Crafts; Sep 28, 1979; New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division, "Soho Repertory Theatre Ephemera"</ref> The founding duo produced more than a hundred plays until Engelbach left in 1989.<ref>[https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/The-Soho-Rep-Book-To-Be-Released-1212-20111219-page9] Author credit: BWW, Broadway World News Desk. "The Soho Rep Book To Be Released". ''Broadway World''. December 19, 2011.</ref>

Since its early days, the company's focus has shifted to contemporary avant-garde theatrical works. In 1981, after producing works from Shakespeare to Shaw, the company produced its first new play: Stephen Davis Parks' ''The Idol Makers''.<ref>Blau, Eleanor. "Weekender Guide; Friday; MISS SHANGE AT THE KITCHEN" (Web.). nytimes.com. Retrieved 2 November 2014. "The SoHo Repertory Theater at 19 Mercer Street doesn't normally stage new plays; it is known for producing rarely performed works by famous writers. However, starting tonight at 8, it will break with tradition to present the New York premiere of The Idol Makers by Stephen Davis Parks."</ref> Among the many new works presented were plays by Americans Len Jenkin and Mac Wellman.

After 1989, Swartz partnered with English director Julian Webber, and they worked together for the next decade until Swartz departed in 1999.<ref name="playbill.com">{{cite web|last1=Ehren|first1=Christine|title=SoHo Rep Names Daniel Aukin New Artistic Director; Announces '99 Season|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/soho-rep-names-daniel-aukin-new-artistic-director-announces-99-season-79881|website=playbill.com|date=Feb 4, 1999}}</ref> The company was run by Artistic Director Daniel Aukin from 1998 to 2006, and he produced new work by artists including Adam Bock, Young Jean Lee, Richard Maxwell, Melissa James Gibson, and María Irene Fornés.

Sarah Benson was appointed as Artistic Director in 2007. Around this time, the company transitioned from the smaller off-off-Broadway model of less than 100 seats to an off-Broadway contract, typically reserved for theatres with a 100-499 seat capacity.<ref name="query.nytimes.com">{{cite web|last1=Robertson|first1=Campbell|title=Arts, Briefly; 'Apple Tree' Is Headed For Studio 54|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E1DE1231F937A2575AC0A9609C8B63|website=The New York Times|access-date=3 November 2014|date=Sep 14, 2006}}</ref>

Benson and Flowers ran the theater together from 2012 until being joined by Producer Meropi Peponides in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://howlround.com/sharing-load|title=Sharing the Load |date=March 2, 2021 }}</ref> In the last decade the company has taken on ambitious projects often winning awards and critical acclaim.<ref name="Obies" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Brantley|first1=Ben|title=Privilege and Poison on the Upper East Side|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/theater/reviews/elective-affinities-with-zoe-caldwell-review.html|access-date=11 June 2015|agency=The New York Times|date=Dec 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Isherwood|first1=Charles|title=A Dream Is a Wish Your Id Makes|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/theater/reviews/death-of-walt-disney-at-soho-rep.html|access-date=11 June 2015|agency=The New York Times|date=May 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Brantley|first1=Ben|title=Do You Have a Mother? Then You Have Someone to Blame|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/theater/reviews/19that.html|access-date=11 June 2015|agency=The New York Times|date=May 18, 2010}}</ref> One of Benson's first plays was writer Sarah Kane’s ''Blasted''<ref name="Times Benson Blasted">{{cite news|last1=Healy|first1=Patrick|title=Audiences Gasp at Violence; Actors Must Survive It|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/theater/06blas.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&|access-date=11 June 2015|agency=The New York Times|date=Nov 5, 2008}}</ref><ref name="twsNYT9977"/><ref name="twsBRail008"/> which won the director an Obie Award.<ref name="Obies">{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/search/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015080649/http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/search|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 15, 2008|title=Search the Obies|website=villagevoice.com|access-date=14 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Orange Hat">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/theater/12theaterwebA.html?pagewanted=all|title=Broadway Bound and Also Unbound|date=Sep 12, 2010|agency=The New York Times|last1=McElroy|first1=Steven|work=The New York Times |access-date=13 November 2014}}</ref> Benson's production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's ''An Octoroon'' won an Obie for Best New American Play and transferred to Theatre for a New Audience.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brantley|first1=Ben|title=Review: 'An Octoroon,' a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/theater/review-an-octoroon-a-branden-jacobs-jenkins-comedy-about-race.html|access-date=11 June 2015|agency=The New York Times|date=Feb 26, 2015}}</ref> Taibi Magar's production of Aleshea Harris' 'Is God Is' re-opened Walkerspace in 2018 following renovations and won multiple Obie awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.obieawards.com/2018/05/2018-obies-winners-performances/|title=2018 Obies Winners and Performances |date=May 19, 2018 }}</ref> Benson directed Jackie Sibblies Drury's 'Fairview' which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and had an extended run. The company celebrates with an annual gala usually in the spring, sometimes on a rooftop.<ref name="twsPB844"/><ref name="twsTM844"/><ref name="twsNYT49449"/>

==Performance spaces== During the forty-five years of its existence, the theatre has produced in several venues in lower Manhattan, often being forced to move because of issues with rent or city building requirements, and survived from time to time with help from city authorities and supporters.<ref name="twsNYT2233"/> Its first space in 1975 on 19 Mercer Street was in a converted hat warehouse, described by the founders as a "practical adaptation of the Shakespearean playhouse laid out in a modest modern space".<ref name="ReferenceC"/><ref>Sommers, Michael ''Soho Rep has 90 Days to Seek New Space'' Backstage; Apr 13, 1984; New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division, "Soho Repertory Theatre Ephemera"</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Soho Rep on the Move... Again Backstage; Jun 28, 1985; New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division, "Soho Repertory Theatre Ephemera"</ref><ref>''Soho Rep Finds New Home Backstage''; October 26, 1984; New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division, "Soho Repertory Theatre Ephemera"</ref> In 1985, Bob Moss of Playwrights Horizons, assisted by the mayor's office and a grant from the Manhattan Borough President, helped them relocate to a 100-seat neo-classical theater attached to Bellevue Hospital.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mitgang |first1=Herbert |title=Theater: 'The Crimes of Vautrin' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/15/theater/theater-the-crimes-of-vautrin.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 3, 2014 |date=February 15, 1985}}</ref> While the theatre had a separate entrance from the psychiatric hospital, sometimes backstage their actors and writers rode the same elevator with patients, recalled playwright Mac Wellman.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Soloski |first1=Alexis |title=Obies 2009: What's Your Worst Theater Experience?|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-05–20/theater/obies–2009-what-s-your-worst-theater-experience/ |newspaper=Village Voice |access-date=November 3, 2014 |date=May 20, 2009}}{{dead link|date=October 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> After a year they moved to Greenwich Village, and stayed there until 1991,<ref>Graves, Michael Soho Rep Finds New Home in Village; Opens Season with "Two Orphans" Backstage; February 14, 1986; New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division, "Soho Repertory Theatre Ephemera"</ref> when they found their present-day space at 46 Walker Street in Tribeca. Dubbed ''Walkerspace'', the present theatre is only a few blocks from the company's original venue.<ref>[http://nystagereview.com/2018/09/12/the-naturalists-a-romantic-triangle-shoots-up-in-the-irish-countryside/] Sommers, Michael. "THE NATURALISTS: A ROMANTIC TRIANGLE SHOOTS UP IN THE IRISH COUNTRYSIDE". ''New York Stage Review''. SEPTEMBER 12, 2018</ref> The company has been at this location except for a short period for building renovations, which had been paid for with a fundraising campaign as well as help from the city's building commissioner, Rick Chandler and Julie Menin.<ref name=paulson>Paulson, Michael (April 24, 2017) [https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/theater/with-help-from-city-soho-rep-will-return-to-theater-it-vacated.html "With Help From City, Soho Rep Will Return to Theater It Vacated"] ''The New York Times''</ref><ref name="twsTT152"/> In July 2024, Soho Rep announced it would be leaving its longtime home of Walkerspace, citing rising rent costs, lack of accessibility, and the costs of persistent repairs. The company will share space with Playwrights Horizons as it considers long-term plans.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Paulson |first1=Michael |title=Two More New York Theaters to Share Space |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/theater/soho-rep-theater-real-estate.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2024 |date=29 July 2024}}</ref>

==Staff== * Marlene Swartz, Co-Artistic Director (1975–1995)<ref name=ReferenceC/> * Jerry Engelbach, Co-Artistic Director (1975–1989)<ref name=ReferenceC/> * Julian Webber, Co-Artistic Director (1990–1998)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gussow |first1=Mel |title=Theater in Review |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/15/theater/theater-in-review-712192.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date= November 3, 2014 |date=Apr 15, 1992}}</ref> * Daniel Aukin, Artistic Director (1998–2006)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Copage |first1=Eric |title=New Yorkers & Co.; New Role for Small Theater Troupes: Entrepreneur |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/31/nyregion/new-yorkers-co-new-role-for-small-theater-troupes-entrepreneur.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date= November 3, 2014 |date=October 31, 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Lizzie |title=Reliving 35 Years at Soho Rep |url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304050304577378231590097136 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=November 3, 2014 |date=May 1, 2012}}</ref> * Sarah Benson, **Artistic Director (2007–2019) **Director (2019-2023)<ref name="query.nytimes.com"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Parks |first1=Brian |title=Englishwoman in New York |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-09-26/theater/englishwoman-in-new-york/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524154256/http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-09-26/theater/englishwoman-in-new-york/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 24, 2011 |newspaper=Village Voice |access-date=November 3, 2014 |date=September 26, 2006}}</ref> *Meropi Peponides **Producer (2014–2019) **Director (2019-2023) *Cynthia Flowers **Executive Director (2012–2019) **Director (2019–present) *Caleb Hammons **Producer (2011–2013) **Director (2023–present) *Eric Ting **Director (2023–present) Since 2019, Soho Rep has used a shared leadership model. {{clear}}

==Dramatic productions== {| class="wikitable" !Style="width: 10%" | Season !Style="width: 18%" | Title !Style="width: 18%" | Playwright !Style="width: 18%" | Director !Style="width: 18%" | Awards !Style ="width: 18%" | Producing Partners |- | rowspan="14" |'''1975–76''' '''(Season 1)''' ! colspan="5" |'''19 Mercer Street''' |- |''Key Largo''<ref name="Soho Rep 2000 pg. 20"/> |Maxwell Anderson |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''The Master Builder''<ref>''Two New Soho Theaters'' Soho News; Sep 18, 1975; New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division, "Soho Repertory Theatre Ephemera"</ref> |Henrik Ibsen |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''Coriolanus'' |William Shakespeare |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''The Congresswomen'' |Aristophanes, translation and music by William and Billie Snow |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''The Infernal Machine'' |Jean Cocteau |Michael Wright | | |- |''Anna Christie''<ref name=":0">Gilbert, Ruth (Mar 22, 1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=YuMCAAAAMBAJ&dq=anna+christie%2C+%22Soho+Rep%22&pg=PA16 "In and Around Town"]. ''New York''. Retrieved 17 November 2014.</ref> |Eugene O'Neill |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''Heartbreak House''<ref name=":0" /> |George Bernard Shaw |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''The Father''<ref name=":0" /> |August Strindberg, adapted by Jonathan Furst |Jonathan Furst | | |- |''Abelard and Eloise''<ref>Gilbert, Ruth (Apr 19, 1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=eOMCAAAAMBAJ&dq=New+York+Magazine%2C+%22Abelard%22%2C+Soho+Rep&pg=PA23 "In and Around Town"]. ''New York'' Retrieved 17 November 2014.</ref> |Ronald Duncan |Charles Conwell | | |- |''The Imaginary Invalid''<ref>Gilbert, Ruth (May 3, 1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=D-QCAAAAMBAJ&dq=New+York+Magazine%2C+%22imaginary+invalid%22%2C+Soho+Rep&pg=PA21 "In and Around Town"]. ''New York''. Retrieved 17 November 2014.</ref> |Molière, translation by Frances Kosbab |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''Bimbos in Paradise''<ref>Gilbert, Ruth (May 10, 1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ceMCAAAAMBAJ&dq=New+York+Magazine%2C+%22Bimbos+in+paradise%22%2C+Soho+Rep&pg=PA22 "In and Around Town"]. ''New York''. Retrieved 17 November 2014.</ref> |B. Prune |Michael Wright | | |- |''Private Lives''<ref name="In and Around Town">Gilbert, Ruth (Jun 21, 1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=BuQCAAAAMBAJ&dq=New+York+Magazine%2C+%22Private+lives%22%2C+Soho+Rep&pg=PA22 "In and Around Town"]. ''New York'' Retrieved 17 November 2014.</ref> |Noël Coward |Jack H. Cunningham | | |- |''Candida''<ref name="In and Around Town"/> |George Bernard Shaw |Jerry Engelbach | | |- | rowspan="17" |'''1976–77''' '''(Season 2)''' ! colspan="5" |Six Play Subscription Costs $12 |- |''The Birthday Party''<ref>Barry, Ann (ed.) (August 1, 1976) [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/01/archives/arts-and-leisure-guide-highlights-index-to-listings-arts-and.html?_r=0 "Arts and Leisure Guide: Off Off Broadway"] ''The New York Times''. Accessed October 6, 2014</ref> |Harold Pinter |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''Dracula''<ref name="Dracula Thrills">[http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/11/05/issue.html "Dracula Thrills"]. ''nytimes.com''. November 5, 1976. p. 46. Retrieved November 2, 2014.</ref> |Bram Stoker, adapted by Jerry Engelbach |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''Faustus X Seven'' |Based on "Doctor Faustus," by Christopher Marlowe, adapted by Jerry Engelbach |Carol Corwen and Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''The Merchant of Venice''<ref name=":0" /> |William Shakespeare |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''Billy Liar''<ref>Gilbert, Ruth (June 27, 1977) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeMCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19 "In and Around Town"] ''New York''. Retrieved 20 November 2014.</ref> |Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''Uncle Vanya''<ref name=":1"/> |Anton Chekhov, adapted by Marlene Swartz |Marlene Swartz | | |- |'' Spring's Awakening''<ref name=":1"/> |Frank Wedekind, adapted by Carol Corwen and Mary Eileen O'Donnell |Carol Corwen | | |- |''Back to Methuselah''<ref name=":1"/> |George Bernard Shaw |Stephen R. Lieb | | |- |''What the Butler Saw''<ref name="books.google.com">Gilbert, Ruth (Feb 21, 1977). [https://books.google.com/books?id=aeMCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Faustus+x+7%22&pg=PA22 "In and Around Town"]. ''New York''. Retrieved 20 November 2014.</ref> |Joe Orton |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''The Dock Brief''<ref name=":0" /> |John Mortimer |Steven Burch | | |- |''The Public Eye''<ref name=":0" /> |Peter Shaffer |Stephen R. Lieb | | |- |''Black Comedy''<ref name=":1">Martin, Raphael, ed. (2011). ''The Soho Rep Book: Thirty-Five Years of New York City's Big Small Theater''(1st ed.). New York: On Stage Press.</ref> |Peter Shaffer |Frank Cento | | |- |''Under Milk Wood''<ref name=":1" /> |Dylan Thomas |Harrison Ewing | | |- |''July 2'' and ''Thanksgiving'' |Stan Kaplan |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''Rain'' |John Colton and Clemence Randolph, based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham |Jack H. Cunningham | | |- |''Ghosts'' |Henrik Ibsen |Marlene Swartz | | |- | rowspan="16" |'''1977–78''' '''(Season 3)''' |''Misalliance'' |George Bernard Shaw |Trueman Kelley | | |- |''The Miser'' |Molière |Moshe Yassur | | |- |''Peer Gynt'' |Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Carol Corwen |Carol Corwen | | |- |''The Chairs'' |Eugène Ionesco |Jon Fraser | | |- |''Better Dead'' |Georges Feydeau, adapted by Jude Schanzer and Michael Wells |Jude Schanzer | | |- |''Cyrano DeBergerac'' |Edmond Rostand |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''Poe in Person'', one-man show |Conrad Pomerleau |Conrad Pomerleau | | |- |''Traveler Without Luggage'' |Jean Anouih |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''The Play's the Thing'' |Ferenc Molnár |Jack H. Cunningham | | |- |''Mister T'' |Michael Zettler |Stephen Zuckerman |Featuring Kathleen Turner and Jonathan Frakes | |- |''The Killing of Sister George'' |Frank Marcus |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''The Magistrate'' |Arthur Wing Pinero |Jim Milton | | |- |''The Four Little Girls'' |Pablo Picasso |Richard Gershman | | |- |''The Soho Theatre of the Air'', an evening of vintage radio plays |Conceived and Adapted by Carol Corwen |Carol Corwen | | |- |''The Real Inspector Hound'' |Tom Stoppard |Timothy Brennan | | |- |''Philadelphia, Here I Come!'' |Brian Friel |Ron Daley | | |- | rowspan="19" |'''1978–79''' '''(Season 4)''' ! colspan="5" |One Act Festival Opened Jan 5th, 1979. Cost: $10 for Festival Pass; $3 per show. |- |''Overruled!'' |George Bernard Shaw |Gene Santarelli | rowspan="8" |''Villager Downtown Theatre Award'' for a commitment to the presentation of a program of short plays | |- |''The Love of Don Perimplin and Belisa in the Garden'' |Federico García Lorca |Mary Ryder | |- |''Only 10 Minutes to Buffalo'' |Gunter Grass |Alison Mackenzie | |- |''Guernica'' |Fernando Arrabal |Mitchell Engelmeyer | |- |''Action'' |Sam Shepard |Chris Silva | |- |''Deathwatch'' |Jean Genet |Denise Merat | |- |''If You Had Three Husbands'' |Gertrude Stein, adapted by Randy Knolle |Randy Knolle | |- |''The Twelve-Pound Look'' |J. M. Barrie |Alison Mackenzie | |- |''Richard III'' |William Shakespeare |Jerry Engelbach | |- |''Miss Jairus'' |Michel DeGhelderode |Carol Corwen | |- |''Dandy Dick'' |Arthur Wing Pinero |Gene Santarelli | |- |''Inadmissible Evidence'' |John Osborne |Marlene Swartz | |- |''The Knights of the Round Table'' |Jean Cocteau |Jerry Engelbach | |- |''Amphitryon 38'' |Jean Giraudoux |Jude Schanzer | |- |''The Servant'' |Robin Maugham |Marlene Swartz | |- |''Fallen Angels'' |Noël Coward |Trueman Kelley | |- |''October 12, 410 B.C.'' (''Thesmophoriazusae'') |Aristophanes |Alison Mackenzie | |- |''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' |Rod Serling |Richard Leighton | |- | rowspan="18" |'''1979–80''' '''(Season 5)''' |''The Insect Comedy'' |Karel & Joseph Čapek |Trueman Kelley | | |- |''The Cannibals'' |George Tabori |Carol Corwen | | |- |''The Barber of Seville'' |Pierre Beaumarchais |Alison Mackenzie | | |- |''We Have Always Lived in the Castle'' |Hugh Wheeler, from the book by Shirley Jackson |Gene Santarelli | | |- |''The Silver Tassie'' |Séan O'Casey |Carey Perloff | | |- |''Twelfth Night'' |William Shakespeare |Stephen Brant | | |- |''The Second Man'' |S. N. Behrman |Jude Schanzer | | |- |''The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great'' |Henry Fielding, music by Anthony Bowles |Anthony Bowles | | |- |''Feathertop'' |From a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted by Truman Kelley |Trueman Kelley | | |- |''The Ugly Duckling'' |A. A. Milne |Trueman Kelley | | |- |''Brewsie and Willie'' |Gertrude Stein |Michael Bloom | | |- |''Homefires'' |John Guare |Michael Bloom | | |- |''Fairy Tales of New York'' |J. P. Donleavy |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''The Caretaker'' |Harold Pinter |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''The Gamblers'' |Nikolai Gogol |Penelope Hirsch | | |- |''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' |T. S. Eliot, adapted for the stage by Jonathan Foster, music by Elyse Goodwin |Jonathan Foster | | |- |''The Party'' |Sławomir Mrożek |N/A | | |- |''The Tricycle'' |Fernando Arrabal |N/A | | |- | rowspan="7" |'''1980–81''' '''(Season 6)''' |''Desire Caught by the Tail'' |Pablo Picasso |Jonathan Foster | | |- |''The Idol Makers'' |Stephen Davis Parks |Marlene Swartz |"Villager Downtown Theatre Award" for Directing | |- |''The Streets of New York'', also known as ''The Poor of New York'' |Dion Boucicault |Trueman Kelley | | |- |''Dark Ride'' |Len Jenkin |Len Jenkin | | |- |''Love in the Country'' |Book and lyrics by Michael Alfreds, music by Anthony Bowles |Anthony Bowles | | |- |''The Doctor and the Devils'' |Dylan Thomas |Carol Corwen | | |- |''Old Times'' |Harold Pinter |Jerry Engelbach | | |- | rowspan="7" |'''1981–82''' '''(Season 7)''' |''The Girl Who Ate Chicken Bones'' |Book by Stan Kaplan, music by David Hollister, lyrics by Stan Kaplan and David Hollister |Marlene Swartz | | |- | rowspan="3" |One-Act Operas: * ''The Audience'' * ''Mr. Lion'' * ''Miyako'' |Libretto by Glenn Miller, music by Royce Dembo |Scott Clugstone | | rowspan="3" |Golden Fleece Ltd. |- |Music and libretto by Linder Chlarson |Lou Rodgers | |- |Lou Rodgers |Lou Rodgers | |- |''Nathan the Wise'' |Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''Subject to Fits'' |Robert Montgomery, based on Dostoevsky's ''The Idiot'' |Barry Koron | | |- |''Barbarians'' |Barrie Keeffe |Peter Byrne |Featured Kevin Spacey | |- | rowspan="3" |'''1982–83''' '''(Season 8)''' |''Fanshen'' |David Hare |Michael Bloom | | |- |''Kid Twist'' |Len Jenkin |Tony Barsha | | |- |''Rape Upon Rape'' |Henry Fielding |Anthony Bowles | | |- | rowspan="10" |'''1983–84''' '''(Season 9)''' |''Under the Gaslight'' |Augustin Daly |Stephen Wyman | | |- |''Mandrake'' |Book and lyrics by Michael Alfreds, music by Anthony Bowles |Anthony Bowles | | |- |''Catchpenny Twist'' |Stewart Parker, music by Shaun Davey |Marlene Swartz | | |- |''The Wood Painting'' |Ingmar Bergman |Alan Wynroth | | |- |''Yes is for a Very Young Man'' |Gertrude Stein |Robert P. Barron | | |- |''The Business of Good Government'' |John Arden |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''Bertha, Queen of Norway'' |Kenneth Koch |Steven Brant | | |- |''George Washington Crosses the Delaware'' |Kenneth Koch |Steven Brant | | |- |''The Dwarfs'' |Harold Pinter |Jerry Engelbach | | |- |''Lenz'' |Mike Stott, based on a fragment by Georg Büchner |N/A | | |- | rowspan="5" |'''1984–85''' '''(Season 10)''' ! colspan="5" |Theater moves to Bellevue Hospital in January 1985 |- |''The Crimes of Vautrin'' |Nicholas Wright, based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac: ''Splendeurs et Miseresdes Courtisanes'' |Carol Corwen | | |- |''Energumen'' |Mac Wellman |Rebecca Harrison | | |- |''Almos' A Man'' |Paris Barclay, based on Richard Wright's short story, ''The Man Who Was Almost a Man'' |Tazewell Thompson | | |- |''The Winter's Tale'' |William Shakespeare |Anthony Bowles | | |- | rowspan="4" |'''1985–86''' '''(Season 11)''' ! colspan="5" |Theater moves to Greenwich House, 27 Barrow Street |- |''The Two Orphans'' |Cormon and D'Ennery (''Les deux orphelines''), original music by Marshall Coid |Julian Webber | | |- |''One Fine Day'' |Nicholas Wright |Tazewell Thompson | | |- |''The Grub Street Opera'' |Henry Fielding, new music by Anthony Bowles |Anthony Bowles | | |- | rowspan="4" |'''1986–87''' '''(Season 12)''' |''The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'' |Stephen Lowe |Julian Webber | | |- |''Sergeant Ola and his Followers'' |David Lan |Tazewell Thompson | | |- |''The Mock Doctor'' |Henry Fielding, music by Anthony Bowles |Anthony Bowles | | |- |''Eurydice'' |Henry Fielding, music by Anthony Bowles |Anthony Bowles | | |- | rowspan="3" |'''1987–88''' '''(Season 13)''' |''The Racket'' |Bartlett Cormack |Michael Bloom | | |- |''The Girl of the Golden West'' |David Belasco |Julian Webber | | |- |''A Cup of Coffee'' |Preston Sturges |Larry Carpenter | | |- | rowspan="3" |'''1988–89''' '''(Season 14)''' |''The Blitzstein Project'' |Marc Blitzstein |Carol Corwen | | |- |''The Phantom Lady'' |Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated by Edwin Honig |Julian Webber | | |- |''The Cezanne Syndrome'' |Normand Canac-Marquis, translated by Louison Denis |N/A | | |- | rowspan="2" |'''1989–90''' '''(Season 15)''' |''Limbo Tales'' |Len Jenkin |Thomas Babe | | |- |''American Bagpipes'' |Iain Heggie |Julian Webber | | |- | rowspan="5" |'''1990–91''' '''(Season 16)''' ! colspan="5" |Theater is established at 46 Walker Street Julian Webber is hired as Co-Artistic Director (with Marlene Swartz) |- |''Native Speech'' |Eric Overmyer |John Pynchon Holms | | |- |''Yokohama Duty'' |Quincy Long |Julian Webber | | |- |''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' |William Shakespeare, adapted by Mark Milbauer and David Becker |Mark Milbauer and David Becker | |Cucaracha Theatre |- |''Hanging the President'' |Michele Celeste | | | |- | rowspan="2" |'''1991–92''' '''(Season 17)''' |''7 Blowjobs'' |Mac Wellman |Jim Simpson | | |- |''Tone Clusters'' |Joyce Carol Oates |Julian Webber | | |- | rowspan="3" |'''1992–93''' '''(Season 18)''' |''Three Americanisms'' |Mac Wellman |Jim Simpson | | |- |''Cross Dressing in the Depression'' |Erin Cressida Wilson | | | |- |''Mormons in Malibu'' |Wendy Hammond | | | |- | rowspan="8" |'''1993–94''' '''(Season 19)''' |''David's Red-Haired Death'' |Sherry Kramer | | | |- |''Terminal Hip'' |Mac Wellman | | | |- |''Careless Love'' |Len Jenkin | | | |- |''Dracula'' |Mac Wellman |Julian Webber |featured Tim Blake Nelson | |- |''Hollywood Hustle'' |written and performed by Jeremiah Bosgang |Rob Greenberg | | |- |''Exchange'' |Yuri Trifonov, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn |Peter Westerhoff | | |- |''Swoop'' |Mac Wellman |Julian Webber | | |- |''Women Behind Bars'' |Tom Eyen | | | |- | rowspan="5" |'''1994–95''' '''(Season 20)''' |''The House of Yes'' |Wendy MacLeod | | | |- |''Skin'' |Naomi Iizuka | | | |- |''Frank, Frank'' | | | | |- |''Titus Andronicus'' |William Shakespeare |Lester Shane | | |- |''Measure for Measure'' |William Shakespeare |Jared Hammond | | |- | rowspan="2" |'''1995–96''' '''(Season 21)''' |''Dark Ride'' (revival of 1981 production) |Len Jenkin |Julian Webber | | |- |''Wally's Ghost'' |Ain Gordon | |''OBIE, Playwriting'' | |- | rowspan="3" |'''1997–98''' '''(Season 23)''' |''A Devil Inside'' |David Lindsay-Abaire |Julian Webber | | |- |''Fnu Lnu'' |Mac Wellman, original music by David Van Tieghem |Julian Webber | | |- |''How to Write While You Sleep''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/last-chance-to-write-while-you-sleep-in-soho-to-may-24-com-75523 |title=Last Chance To ''Write While You Sleep'' in Soho, to May 24 |last=Lefkowitz |first=David |date=22 May 1998 |website=Playbill |access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref> |Madeleine Olnek |Lisa Portes | | |- | rowspan="4" |'''1998–99''' '''(Season 24)''' |''Cowboys and Indians'' |Richard Maxwell and Jim Strahs |Richard Maxwell | | |- |''Quartet'' |Heiner Müller | | | |- |''The Escapist'' |The Flying Machine | | | |- |''Alice's Evidence'' |Ellen Beckerman | | | |- | rowspan="3" |'''1999–2000''' '''(Season 25)''' |''R&D: Research & Development'' |new work development series featuring Mac Wellman, Richard Maxwell, and Maria Shron | | | |- |''The Year of the Baby'' |Quincy Long, composed by Maury Loeb, based on a play by Stephen Foster |Daniel Aukin | | |- |''Hypatia'' |Mac Wellman |Bob McGrath | | |- | rowspan="3" |'''2000–01''' '''(Season 26)''' |''Cat's-Paw'' |Mac Wellman |Daniel Aukin | | |- |''Caveman'' |Richard Maxwell |Richard Maxwell | | |- |''Boxing 2000'' |Richard Maxwell | | | |- | rowspan="2" |'''2001–02''' '''(Season 27)''' |''[sic]'' |Melissa James Gibson |Daniel Aukin |OBIE, Playwriting OBIE, Special Citation, Direction

by David Neumann |Sarah Benson |OBIE, Performance (Chris Myers)<ref name="twsNYT9900"/><ref name="twsObieWanKenobee"/> OBIE, Best New American Play<ref name="twsPlaybill4231"/> |John Adrian Selzer |- | rowspan="3" |'''2014–15''' '''(Season 40)''' |''generations'' |debbie tucker green |Leah C. Gardiner | |The Play Company, John Adrian Selzer |- |''Winners and Losers'' |created and performed by Marcus Youssef and James Long |Chris Abraham | | |- |''10 out of 12'' |Anne Washburn |Les Waters | |John Adrian Selzer |- | rowspan="2" |'''2015–16''' '''(Season 41)''' |''FUTURITY'' |lyrics and book by César Alvarez, music by César Alvarez with The Lisps |Sarah Benson |Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical<ref name="twsNYT0088"/><ref name="twsPlaybill44"/><ref name="twsPlaybill4233"/> |Carole Shorenstein Hays, Ars Nova |- |''Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.'' |Alice Birch |Lileana Blain-Cruz | |John Adrian Selzer |- | rowspan="4" |'''2016–17''' '''(Season 42)''' |''Duat'' |Daniel Alexander Jones, with new music by Samora Pinderhughes, Bobby Halvorson, and Jomama Jones |Will Davis | | |- |[untitled new play] |Jackie Sibblies Drury |Sarah Benson | | |- |''In The Blood'' |Suzan-Lori Parks |Sarah Benson | |<ref name="twsPlaybill4231"/><ref name="twsNYT88776"/> |- |''Samara'' |Richard Maxwell, with original music by Steve Earle |Sarah Benson |<ref name="twsPlaybill4231"/> |John Adrian Selzer |- | rowspan="3" |'''2017–18''' '''(Season 43)''' | ''Is God Is'' | Aleshea Harris | Taibi Magar | American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Award 2016 | |- | [studio] | Alice Birch, Narcissister, Carmelita Tropicana and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Kate Tarker, Becca Blackwell | | | |- | ''Fairview'' | Jackie Sibblies Drury | Sarah Benson |Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2019; Drama Desk nomination<ref name="twsPulitzer2019"/><ref name="twsNYT4332"/><ref name="twsDL77464"/><ref name="twsBW88898"/><ref name="twsPB2233"/> |- | rowspan="2" |'''2018–19''' '''(Season 44)''' | ''Thunderbodies'' | Kate Tarker | Lileana Blain-Cruz | | |- | ''Passage'' | Christopher Chen | Saheem Ali | | |- | rowspan="1" |'''2019–20''' '''(Season 45)''' | ''for all the women who thought they were Mad'' | Zawe Ashton | Whitney White | | |- | rowspan="3" |'''2021–22''' '''(Season 46)''' | ''while you were partying'' | Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss | | | |- | ''Wolf Play'' | Hansol Jung | Dustin Wills | | |- | ''Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members'' | Mara Vélez Meléndez | David Mendizábal | | |- | rowspan="3" |'''2022–23''' '''(Season 47)''' | ''Montag'' | Kate Tarker, with original music by Daniel Schlossberg | Dustin Wills | | |- |''Public Obscenities'' |Shayok Misha Chowdhury |Shayok Misha Chowdhury |Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama | |- |''The Whitney Album'' |Jillian Walker |Jenny Koons | | |- | rowspan="2" |'''2023-2024''' |''Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month'' |Becca Blackwell & Amanda Duarte |Jess Barbagallo | | |- |''The Fires'' |Raja Feather Kelly |Raja Feather Kelly | | |- | rowspan="4" |'''2024-2025''' |''Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!'' |Alina Troyano & Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |Eric Ting | | |- |''SOHO REP IS NOT A BUILDING. SOHO REP HAD A BUILDING…'' |Various writers including David Adjmi, Fred Basch, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Kate Tarker, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Young Jean Lee, Amanda Spooner, Louisa Thompson, and Peter Mills Weiss | | | |- |''The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)'' |Nia Akilah Robinson |Evren Odcikin | | |- |''Prince Faggot'' |Jordan Tannahill |Shayok Misha Chowdhury | | |}

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<ref name="twsNewYorker14">{{cite magazine | author= Hilton Als | date= October 13, 2013 | magazine= The New Yorker | url= https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/true-grit-2 | title= True Grit: The unsentimental vision of SoHo Rep's director. | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...After emigrating to the States, in 2002, she got her master’s degree in directing from Brooklyn College’s stellar theatre program... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsPulitzer2019">{{cite web | author= Staff writers | date= 2019 | publisher= Pulitzer | url= https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jackie-sibblies-drury | title= The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama -- Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury: A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors' community to face deep-seated prejudices. | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Jackie Sibblies Drury and director Sarah Benson show us that nothing’s funnier than “family drama.”... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT49449">{{cite web | author= Ben Brantley | date= June 17, 2018 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/theater/review-theater-as-sabotage-in-the-dazzling-fairview.html | title= Review: Theater as Sabotage in the Dazzling 'Fairview' | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...“Fairview,” which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in drama... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT9900">{{cite web | author= Ben Brantley | date= May 4, 2014 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/theater/an-octoroon-a-slave-era-tale-at-soho-rep.html | title= Theater Review: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...The Octoroon ... Ms. Benson and their highly resourceful design team use pretty much every weapon in the arsenals of both theatrical demolition and good old, crowd-tickling showbiz..... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsObieWanKenobee">{{cite web | author= Staff writers | date= 2014 | publisher= Obie Awards | url= https://www.obieawards.com/events/2010s/year-14/ | title= Best New American Play (Tie) An Octoroon | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Octoroon .... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT0088">{{cite web | author= Charles Isherwood | date= October 20, 2015 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/theater/review-futurity-in-a-civil-war-setting-wishes-for-todays-technology.html | title= Review: 'Futurity,' in a Civil War Setting, Wishes for Today's Technology | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... “Futurity,” an odd and often beguiling show written by César Alvarez. ......Directed by Sarah Benson, artistic director of Soho Rep, .... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsPlaybill44">{{cite web | author= Playbill Staff | date= May 1, 2016 | publisher= Playbill magazine | url= https://www.playbill.com/article/futurity-and-guards-at-the-taj-earn-top-lucille-lortel-awards | title= FUTURITY, Guards at the Taj and Robber Bridegroom Earn Top Lucille Lortel Awards: The awards celebrate the best of Off-Broadway. Read the full list of winners here. | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...FUTURITY, an avant garde musical ... was named Best Musical ... 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring outstanding achievement Off-Broadway.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT1155">{{cite web | author= Ben Brantley | date= October 9, 2008 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/theater/reviews/10blas.html | title= Theater Review 'Blasted': Humanity Gets Only a Bit Part | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...“Blasted.” Plays don’t come any darker or harsher than the astounding drama ... By Sarah Kane ... directed by Sarah Benson... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsObieWanKuhnowB2">{{cite web | author= Brian Parks | date= May 18, 2009 | publisher= Obie Awards | url= https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/05/18/the-2009-village-voice-obie-award-winners-announced/ | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170722203152/https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/05/18/the-2009-village-voice-obie-award-winners-announced/ | url-status= dead | archive-date= July 22, 2017 | title= The 2009 Village Voice Obie Award Winners Announced | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Special citations: Sarah Benson (director) and Louisa Thompson (set designer), BLASTED (Soho Rep)... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsVulture421">{{cite web | author= Scott Brown | date= December 2, 2011 | publisher= Vulture magazine | url= https://www.vulture.com/2011/12/theater-review-elective-affinities-zoe-caldwell.html | title= Theater Review: Elective Affinities Is an Unsparing Night With the One Percent | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...David Adjmi’s fast, fanged one-act Elective Affinities — a nocturne for diva, sculpture, piano and townhouse — doesn’t trip itself up with nuance... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT4332">{{cite web | author= Alexis Soloski | date= January 30, 2019 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/theater/skittles-musical-super-bowl-michael-c-hall.html | title= Who Needs a Super Bowl Ad? Skittles Ups the Ante With a Broadway Musical | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... the director Sarah Benson, an artist best known for defiantly noncommercial work like “Blasted” and “Fairview.” ... found the strangeness of the piece ... “genuinely creatively exciting.” ... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsPlaybill4231">{{cite web | author= Mervyn Rothstein | date= May 16, 2019 | publisher= Playbill magazine | url= https://www.playbill.com/article/stage-directions-soho-reps-sarah-benson-reveals-fairview-secrets-why-her-actors-dont-wear-characters-as-masks-and-more | title=Stage Directions: Soho Rep.'s Sarah Benson Reveals Fairview Secrets, Why Her Actors Don't Wear Characters As Masks, and More: The Fairview director uncovers how Act 2 of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play was made, her directing philosophy, and more. | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Sarah Benson ... The dramaturgical work really lives in the design process for me....We tend to stage really, really fast. I learn by seeing scenes on their feet.... }}</ref>

<ref name="tws41255">59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, [https://sohorep.org/soho-rep-at-the-drama-desks Soho Rep. at The 2014 Drama Desks], Retrieved February 23, 2021</ref>

<ref name="twsVilcek42">{{cite web | author= Staff writers | date= 2016 | publisher= Vilcek Foundation | url= https://vilcek.org/prizes/prize-recipients/sarah-benson/ | title= Sarah Benson: 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... Artistic director, Soho Rep.... Theater; directing; avant-garde ... Sarah Benson grew up in a small village in England ... Like her father, Benson is a resourceful builder, and the American theatre is benefitting from her skilled craft.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT9977">{{cite web | author= Patrick Healy | date= November 5, 2008 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/theater/06blas.html | title= Audiences Gasp at Violence; Actors Must Survive It | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Sarah Benson at Soho Rep, where she has directed Sarah Kane’s “Blasted” ...No one was more disturbed by “Blasted” than its director, Sarah Benson, and the three cast members, yet they have found inventive ways to cope with the nightly torture sessions.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsBCF411">{{cite web | author= Staff writer | date= 2021 | publisher= Brooklyn College Foundation | url= http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/support/foundation/about/board/sarah-benson.php | title= Sarah Benson M.F.A. '04: Artistic Director, Soho Rep. | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Sarah Benson has been the Artistic Director of Soho Rep. since 2007....received a Drama Desk nomination and an OBIE award for Sarah Kane’s Blasted.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsGothamist11">{{cite web | author= John Del Signore | date= November 7, 2008 | publisher= Gothamist magazine | url= https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/artistic-director-sarah-benson-emblastedem-at-soho-rep | title= Artistic Director Sarah Benson, Blasted at Soho Rep | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... Benson's flawless production succeeds in rendering's Kane's bitter world view with stunning clarity and courage.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsHWR445">{{cite web | author= Bess Rowen | date= 30 June 2013 | publisher= Howlround | url= https://howlround.com/interview-sarah-benson-bess-rowen | title= Interview with Sarah Benson by Bess Rowen | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Sarah Benson...During her time at Soho Rep, the theatre’s work has been recognized with seven OBIE awards, four Drama Desk nominations and The New York Times Outstanding Playwriting Award..... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsVulture513">{{cite web | author= Helen Shaw | date= September 25, 2020 | publisher= Vulture magazine | url= https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/soho-rep-job-program-salary.html | title= At Soho Rep, a Revolutionary Idea: Put the Creative People on Salary | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... Benson and the theater’s other directors, Cynthia Flowers and Meropi Peponides ... they offered a cohort of directors, actors, designers, and playwrights a job: a true living wage ($1,250 a week) and health insurance.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT4844">{{cite web | author= Alexis Soloski | date= January 31, 2018 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/theater/soho-rep-sarah-benson-is-god-is.html | title= A Safer Home for Dangerous Plays | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... Soho Rep, a downtown company with audacious taste in plays ... 46 Walker Street, which it had rented for 25 years. A round of lease negotiations had revealed building regulations at variance with the company’s use of the space.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsBRail008">{{cite web | author= Caridad Svich | date= October 2008 | publisher= Brooklyn Rail | url= https://brooklynrail.org/2008/10/theater/getting-blaster-sarah-benson-with-caridad-svich | title= Getting Blasted: Sarah Benson with Caridad Svich | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...It’s been thirteen years since Sarah Kane’s Blasted premiered...I sat down with Sarah Benson in September over tea in Soho .... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT2233">{{cite web | author= Michael Paulson | date= April 24, 2017 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/theater/with-help-from-city-soho-rep-will-return-to-theater-it-vacated.html | title= With Help From City, Soho Rep Will Return to Theater It Vacated | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Seven months after abruptly abandoning its longtime TriBeCa home, a small but prestigious Off Broadway theater said on Monday that it was moving back.... together they resolved the compliance issues ... Sarah Benson ... said she was relieved by the turnabout. }}</ref>

<ref name="twsNYT88776">{{cite web | author= Ben Brantley | date= September 17, 2017 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/theater/review-in-the-blood-suzan-lori-parks.html | title= Review: 'In the Blood' and the Singular Talent of Suzan-Lori Parks | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... Directed with finely measured restraint and a dangerously relaxing sense of humor by Sarah Benson.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsDL77464">{{cite web | author= Greg Evans | date= April 17, 2019 | publisher= Deadline magazine | url= https://deadline.com/2019/04/broadway-drama-league-awards-bryan-cranston-adam-driver-jeff-daniels-laurie-metcalf-1202597430/ | title= Bryan Cranston, Adam Driver, Jeff Daniels & Laurie Metcalf Among Broadway's Drama League Award Nominees – Complete List: OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY (list of nominees) | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...Fairview ... Written by Jackie Sibblies Drury ... Directed by Sarah Benson ... Soho Rep... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsBW88898">{{cite web | author= Andy Lefkowitz | date= June 2, 2019 | publisher= Broadway.com | url= https://www.broadway.com/buzz/195973/the-prom-the-ferryman-more-win-2019-drama-desk-awards/ | title= The Prom, The Ferryman & More Win 2019 Drama Desk Awards | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...A full list of winners can be found below, in bold and preceded by an asterisk... Outstanding Director of a Play ... Sarah Benson, Fairview ... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsPB2233">{{cite web | author= Andrew Gans | date= May 20, 2016 | publisher= Playbill | url= https://www.playbill.com/article/zachary-levi-and-megan-hilty-host-the-82nd-annual-drama-league-awards | title= Zachary Levi and Megan Hilty Host 82nd Annual Drama League Awards Today | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=...OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY ... 10 Out Of 12 ... By Anne Washburn ... Directed by Les Waters ... Soho Rep ... Sarah Benson, Artistic Director; Cynthia Flowers, Executive Director... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsPlaybill4233">{{cite web | author= Robert Viagas | date= October 25, 2016 | publisher= Playbill magazine | url= https://www.playbill.com/article/joe-a-callaway-award-winners-announced | title= Joe A. Callaway Award Winners Announced | access-date= February 21, 2021 | quote=... Joe A. Callaway Awards for direction and choreography Off-Broadway ... This year’s awards (for work in the 2015-2016 season) were presented to Sarah Benson for her direction of Futurity, produced by Soho Rep and Ars Nova... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsTT152">{{cite web | author= CARL GLASSMAN | date= February 7, 2018 | publisher= Tribeca Tribune | url= http://tribecatrib.com/content/after-long-shutdown-tribecas-soho-rep-celebrates-reopening-night | title= After Long Shutdown, Tribeca's Soho Rep Celebrates with a Reopening Night | access-date= March 6, 2021 | quote=... Soho Rep creative director Sarah Benson and theater supporters celebrate the newly legalized space, made possible by a revised certificate of occupancy and $300,000 in added safety measures.... Soho Rep filled its 73 seats Monday night, not for a performance but a celebration. ... Soho Rep, a cultural pillar in Tribeca for 25 years, would be dark no more... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsPB844">{{cite web | author= Marc J. Franklin | date= April 10, 2019 | publisher= Playbill magazine | url= https://www.playbill.com/article/go-inside-soho-reps-2019-spring-fete | title= Go Inside Soho Rep's 2019 Spring Fête | access-date= March 6, 2021 | quote=... Off-Broadway theatre company celebrated its annual gala, hosted by Fairview’s MaYaa Boateng, at Tribeca Rooftop April 8.... }}</ref>

<ref name="twsTM844">{{cite web | author= Bethany Rickwald | date= April 12, 2017 | publisher= Theater Mania magazine | url= https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/sarsgaard-mol-and-more-soho-rep-spring-gala_80692.html | title= Peter Sarsgaard, Gretchen Mol, and More Set for Soho Rep.'s Spring 2017 Gala: Actress Gloria Reuben and actor, director, and writer Tim Blake Nelson will host the event. | access-date= March 6, 2021 | quote=... Soho Rep.'s spring gala is set to take place April 24 at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. The event will honor director Leah C. Gardiner, playwright Melissa James Gibson, and scenic designer Louisa Thomspon.... }}</ref>

<ref name="2023dir">{{cite web | author= Sarah Bahr | date= July 27, 2023 | publisher= New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/theater/soho-rep-eric-ting-caleb-hammons.html | title= At Soho Rep, Eric Ting and Caleb Hammons to Join Leadership Team | access-date= August 4, 2024 | quote=...Following the departures of Sarah Benson and Meropi Peponides, the two will join Cynthia Flowers as the company continues its shared leadership model..... }}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category|Soho Repertory Theatre}} * [http://www.sohorep.org/ SohoRep.org Official website] * [http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=theater&id=96 SoHo Repertory Theater] at Internet Off-Broadway Database * [http://nyc-arts.org/organizations/1727/SoHo-Repertory-Theater SoHo Repertory] on NYC-Arts.org

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