Fifth Avenue townhouse transforms into makeshift theater

A new play based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s third novel, “Elective Affinities,” and starring Tony Award-winning actress Zoe Caldwell, is showing in An Elegant Manhattan Townhouse On Fifth Avenue, the New York Times reported. The Soho Rep theater, normally headquartered at 64 Walker Street in Soho, had a reasonably difficult time finding the 19th century, brick-and-limestone-clad townhouse, for which theater-goers only receive the address after they reserve tickets. “We naïvely thought someone would want to rent their Upper East Side townhouse to us,” said Daniel Talbott, one of the producers of the play, which is about members of a vanishing social class. One broker was so confused she finally said, “It would be great if you could get a real theater” (italics not added). The address was divulged in the Times. The show, which runs till Dec. 18, is sold out. [NYT]

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