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Group Theatre (New York City)

Index Group Theatre (New York City)

The Group Theatre was a theater collective based in New York City and formed in 1931 by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg. [1]

94 relations: Actors Studio, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, An American Tragedy, Anna Sokolow, August Wilson Theatre, Awake and Sing!, Belasco Theatre, Blacklisting, Broadhurst Theatre, Brookfield Center Historic District (Brookfield, Connecticut), Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Canada Lee, Casey Jones (play), Chelsea on the Edge, Chelsea Theater Center, Cheryl Crawford, Clifford Odets, Cort Theatre, Dawn Powell, Don Richardson (director), Dutchess County, New York, Eleanor Lynn, Elia Kazan, Ellenville, New York, Ensemble cast, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Frances Farmer, Franchot Tone, Fulton Theatre, Gold Eagle Guy, Golden Boy (play), Group Theatre (London), Harold Clurman, Harold Prince, Harry Morgan, House Un-American Activities Committee, Howard Da Silva, Internet Broadway Database, Irwin Shaw, J. Edward Bromberg, Jay Adler, John Garfield, John Howard Lawson, John Randolph (actor), Johnny Johnson (musical), Konstantin Stanislavski, Kurt Weill, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Strasberg, Leif Erikson, ..., Longacre Theatre, Luther Adler, Marc Blitzstein, Mary Morris, Maxine Elliott’s Theatre, Men in White (play), Method acting, Michael Gordon (film director), Morosco Theatre, Morris Carnovsky, My Heart's in the Highlands (play), New York City, Nichols, Connecticut, Night Music (play), Night Over Taos, Paradise Lost (play), Paul Green (playwright), Paul Strand, Phoebe Brand, Pine Brook Country Club, Playwright, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Richard Rodgers Theatre, Robert Ardrey, Robert Lewis (director), Rocket to the Moon (play), Roman Bohnen, Ruth Nelson (actress), Sanford Meisner, Sidney Harmon, Sidney Kingsley, Sidney Lumet, Smithtown, New York, Stella Adler, Success Story (play), Theatre Guild, Thunder Rock (play), Till the Day I Die, Waiting for Lefty, Warrensburg, New York, Wesleyan University, Will Geer, 44th Street Theatre, 48th Street Theatre. Expand index (44 more) »

Actors Studio

The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Al Hirschfeld Theatre

The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 302 West 45th Street in midtown Manhattan.

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An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by the American writer Theodore Dreiser.

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Anna Sokolow

Anna Sokolow (February 9, 1910, Hartford, Connecticut – March 29, 2000, Manhattan, New York City) was an American dancer and choreographer.

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August Wilson Theatre

The August Wilson Theatre, located at 245 West 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, is a Broadway theatre.

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Awake and Sing!

Awake and Sing! is a drama written by American playwright Clifford Odets.

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Belasco Theatre

The Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theatre opened in 1907 at 111 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.

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Broadhurst Theatre

The Broadhurst Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 235 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

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Brookfield Center Historic District (Brookfield, Connecticut)

The Brookfield Center Historic District in Brookfield, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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Brooks Atkinson Theatre

The Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 256 West 47th Street in Manhattan.

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Canada Lee

Canada Lee (born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, March 3, 1907 – May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans.

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Casey Jones (play)

Casey Jones is a 1938 dramatic play by Robert Ardrey.

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Chelsea on the Edge

Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater (1991) is a book by Davi Napoleon about the onstage triumphs and the offstage turmoil at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn.

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Chelsea Theater Center

The Chelsea Theater Center was a not-for-profit theater company founded in 1965 by Robert Kalfin, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

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Cheryl Crawford

Cheryl Crawford (September 24, 1902 – October 7, 1986) was an American theatre producer and director.

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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Cort Theatre

The Cort Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 138 West 48th Street in the Theater District of midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American writer of novels and stories.

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Don Richardson (director)

Don Richardson (born April 30, 1918 – January 10, 1996) was an American actor, director, acting teacher, as well as an author.

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Dutchess County, New York

Dutchess County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York.

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Eleanor Lynn

Eleanor Lynn (October 29, 1916 – December 26, 1996) was an American actress who was known for both movies and theater.

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Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Ellenville, New York

Ellenville is a village in Ulster County, New York, United States.

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Ensemble cast

An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which multiple principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production.

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Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Frances Farmer

Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress and television host.

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Franchot Tone

Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968), was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Fulton Theatre

The Fulton Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 210 West 46th Street in New York that was opened in 1911.

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Gold Eagle Guy

Gold Eagle Guy is a 1934 Broadway five scene drama written by Melvin Levy, produced by the Group Theatre with D. A. Doran, Jr., staged by Lee Strasberg, choreography by Helen Tamiris with scenic design by Donald Oenslager and costume design by Kay Morrison.

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Golden Boy (play)

Golden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odets.

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Group Theatre (London)

The Group Theatre (London) was an experimental theatre company founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley.

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Harold Clurman

Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an American theatre director and drama critic, "one of the most influential in the United States".

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Harold Prince

Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century.

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Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, or House Committee on Un-American Activities, or HCUA) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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Howard Da Silva

Howard Da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, May 4, 1909 – February 16, 1986) was an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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J. Edward Bromberg

Joseph Edward Bromberg (born Josef Bromberger, December 25, 1903 – December 6, 1951) was a Romanian-born American character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s.

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Jay Adler

Jay Adler (September 26, 1896 – September 23, 1978) was an American actor in theater, television, and film.

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John Garfield

John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters.

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John Howard Lawson

John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 – August 11, 1977) was an American writer.

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John Randolph (actor)

Emanuel Hirsch Cohen, better known by the stage name John Randolph, (June 1, 1915 – February 24, 2004) was an American film, television and stage actor.

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Johnny Johnson (musical)

Johnny Johnson is a musical with a book and lyrics by Paul Green and music by Kurt Weill.

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Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; p; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby, December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor.

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Lee Strasberg

Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strasberg; November 17, 1901February 17, 1982) was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner.

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Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson or Leif Ericson (970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer from Iceland.

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Longacre Theatre

The Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 220 West 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

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Luther Adler

Luther Adler (May 4, 1903 – December 8, 1984) was an American actor best known for his work in theatre, but who also worked in film and television.

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Marc Blitzstein

Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist.

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Mary Morris

Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a British actress.

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Maxine Elliott’s Theatre

Maxine Elliott’s Theatre was a Broadway theater located at 109 West 39th Street in Manhattan.

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Men in White (play)

Men in White is a 1933 play written by American playwright Sidney Kingsley.

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Method acting

Method acting is a range of training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners, principally in the United States, where it is among the most popular—and controversial—approaches to acting.

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Michael Gordon (film director)

Michael Gordon (born Irving Kunin Gordon; September 6, 1909 – April 29, 1993) was an American stage actor and stage and film director.

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Morosco Theatre

The Morosco Theatre was a Broadway theatre near Times Square in New York City from 1917 to 1982.

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Morris Carnovsky

Morris Carnovsky (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1992) was an American stage and film actor.

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My Heart's in the Highlands (play)

My Heart's in the Highlands is a one act play by Armenian-American dramatist and author William Saroyan, adapted from his short story, "The Man With His Heart in the Highlands".

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nichols, Connecticut

Nichols, a historic village in southeastern Trumbull on the Gold Coast (Connecticut) of Fairfield County, was named after the family who maintained a large farm in its center for almost 300 years.

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Night Music (play)

Night Music is a 1940 play by Clifford Odets.

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Night Over Taos

Night Over Taos was a 1932 Broadway three-act drama written by Maxwell Anderson, produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Lee Strasberg.

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Paradise Lost (play)

Paradise Lost is a drama by Clifford Odets that takes place in 1932, during the Depression.

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Paul Green (playwright)

Paul Eliot Green (March 17, 1894 – May 4, 1981) was an American playwright best known for his historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Paul Strand

Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.

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Phoebe Brand

Phoebe Brand (November 27, 1907 – July 3, 2004) was an American actress.

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Pine Brook Country Club

Pine Brook Country Club began when Benjamin Plotkin purchased Pinewood Lake and the surrounding countryside on Mischa Hill in the historic village of Nichols, Connecticut.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Richard Rodgers Theatre

The Richard Rodgers Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 226 West 46th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue, in New York City.

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Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative (1966).

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Robert Lewis (director)

Robert Lewis (March 16, 1909 – November 23, 1997) was an American actor, director, teacher, author and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.

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Rocket to the Moon (play)

Rocket to the Moon is a 1938 play by the American playwright Clifford Odets.

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Roman Bohnen

Roman Aloys "Bud" Bohnen (November 24, 1901 – February 24, 1949) was an American stage and film actor.

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Ruth Nelson (actress)

Ruth Nelson (August 2, 1905 – September 12, 1992) was an American stage and film actress.

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Sanford Meisner

Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997), also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique.

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Sidney Harmon

Sidney Harmon (April 30, 1907 – February 29, 1988) was a film producer and screenwriter.

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Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley (22 October 1906 – 20 March 1995) was an American dramatist.

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Sidney Lumet

Sidney Arthur Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit.

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Smithtown, New York

Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island.

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Stella Adler

Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher.

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Success Story (play)

Success Story was a 1932 Broadway three-act drama written by John Howard Lawson, produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Lee Strasberg with Scenic design by Mordecai Gorelik.

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Theatre Guild

The Theatre Guild is a theatrical society founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner, Philip Moeller, Helen Westley and Theresa Helburn.

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Thunder Rock (play)

Thunder Rock is a 1939 play by Robert Ardrey.

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Till the Day I Die

Till the Day I Die is a 1935 Broadway seven-scene drama written by Clifford Odets, produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Cheryl Crawford.

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Waiting for Lefty

Waiting for Lefty is a 1935 play by the American playwright Clifford Odets.

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Warrensburg, New York

Warrensburg is a town in Warren County, New York, United States.

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831.

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Will Geer

Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist, known for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series The Waltons.

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44th Street Theatre

The 44th Street Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 216 West 44th Street in New York City from 1912 to 1945.

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48th Street Theatre

The 48th Street Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 157 West 48th Street in Manhattan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Theatre_(New_York_City)

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