Another off-Broadway theater is shutting down. The Promenade Theatre will shutter on Sunday along with its current tenant, Tryst, according to The New York Times.
Ben Sprecher of the Sprecher Organization, which owns and operates the theater, announced that the venue would soon be renovated and converted into something other than a theater. He would not disclose what the space will be used for in the future, but stated he will remain part-owner.
The Promenade, located at 2162 Broadway, is one of off-Broadway's larger houses, seating 399. It opened in 1969 with the musical Promenade. Its subsequent tenants include A Dream Out of Time, Long Day's Journey Into Night, P.S. Your Cat is Dead, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, Preppries, Hey, Ma…. Kaye Ballard, Pacific Overtures, In Trousers, A Lie of the Mind, The Common Pursuit, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, The Lisbon Traviata, Making Movies, Catch Me if I Fall, Breaking Legs, Wrong Turn at Lungfish, Three Tall Women, Word of Mouth, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, Bermuda Avenue Triangle, Two Pianos Four Hands, Power Plays, Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, High Infidelity, The Unexpected Man, Madame Melville, The Shape of Things, Mr. Goldwyn, My Old Lady, Tea at Five, The Thing About Men, Address Unknown, Trying, Woman Before a Glass, In The Wings and Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver. Tryst, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Amelia Campbell, opened there on April 6 and will close Sunday, June 11 after 17 previews and 77 regular performances.
In recent weeks it has been announced that both Playhouse 91 and The Lamb's Theater will soon be no more. It remains to be seen what the news about the Promenade means for the McGinn/Cazale Theater, located above the Promenade. The McGinn/Cazale shares an entryway with the Promenade. The McGinn/Cazale is currently occupied by the Second Stage Theater production of Anton Dudley's Getting Home running through July 1 and is also scheduled to house Second Stage's mounting of Rajiv Joseph's All This Intimacy running July 17 through August 12.
