The Off-Broadway theatre is currently operating under a rent-free model, allowing productions to use its spaces without the financial burden of rent.

Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters has revealed the lineup of productions for its fall 2024 season. 

Programming will kick off with What Doesn’t Kill You, presented by New Jersey Repertory Company in association with Vasi Laurence Productions and M. Green Productions; followed by Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, presented by Luna Stage; Thistles, presented by White Horse Theater Company in association with Anthony W. Lopez; and the return of Alexander Klaus, the One-Legged Shoemaker Man, presented by Christian Hege, Epyllionard, after performing in East to Edinburgh 2023. 

The season will continue in January with Radio Downtown: Radical ’70s Artists Live on Air, presented by The Civilians; and Pecking Order, presented by American Bard Theater Company.

59E59’s Off Broadway Resident Company Primary Stages will present The Light and The Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi), penned by Kate Hamill (Pride and Prejudice, Little Women) and directed by Jade King Carroll. The work, set at the height of the Italian Renaissance, details how painter Artemisia Gentileschi reclaimed her power to become one of the most successful artists of her time and an inspiration for women throughout the ages.