. . . . . . . . . . . "1054808781"^^ . . . . . . . . "POINT(-73.983413696289 40.723472595215)"^^ . . . "-73.98341369628906"^^ . . "40.72347259521484"^^ . . . . . . . . "The Metropolitan Playhouse is a resident producing theater in New York City's East Village. Founded in 1992, the theater is 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. Included among its best known revivals are Abram Hill's On Strivers Row, Owen Davis's Pulitzer Prize winning Icebound, George L. Aiken's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Jacob Gordin's The Jewish King Lear (in a translation by Ruth Gay), The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody, The Drunkard by W. H. Smith, Inheritors by Susan Glaspell, The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill, by Clyde Fitch, Metamora by John Augustus Stone, Sun-Up by , and The New York Idea by Langdon Mitchell, and numerous early one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill. The company has also staged three 'Living Newspapers' from the Federal Theater Project: Arthur Arent's Power in 2007, One-Third of a Nation in 2011, and Injunction Granted in 2015. During the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the playhouse presented weekly readings online of American plays and short stories, as well as occasional concerts and improvised performance including the work of , the , , all as a part of its Virtual Playhouse series. Metropolitan has been led by Producing Artistic Director Alex Roe since 2001."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Metropolitan Playhouse"@en . . . . "3034"^^ . . . . . . . . "40.72347222222222 -73.98341666666667" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Metropolitan Playhouse is a resident producing theater in New York City's East Village. Founded in 1992, the theater is 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. Included among its best known revivals are Abram Hill's On Strivers Row, Owen Davis's Pulitzer Prize winning Icebound, George L. Aiken's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Jacob Gordin's The Jewish King Lear (in a translation by Ruth Gay), The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody, The Drunkard by W. H. Smith, Inheritors by Susan Glaspell, The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill, by Clyde Fitch, Metamora by John Augustus Stone, Sun-Up by , and The New York Idea by Langdon Mitchell, and num"@en . . . "6512918"^^ . . .