Theater for the New City

Theater for the New City (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit Off-Off-Broadway community cultural center founded in 1971, located in the East Village of Manhattan. It is one of New York City's most prolific theatrical organizations, producing 30–40 premieres of new American plays per year across four theater spaces in a 30,000-square-foot former WPA building. TNC is known for its radical political programming, community festivals (including the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts and Village Halloween Costume Ball), and a free Annual Summer Street Theater tour performed across all five boroughs. Its productions and resident theater program have garnered a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 43 OBIE Awards, and alumni include Tim Robbins, Adrien Brody, Sam Shepard, and Vin Diesel.