Transport Group Theatre Company is a non-profit, off-Broadway theatre company in New York City that stages new works and revivals of plays and musicals, with a focus on American stories told in visually progressive way.
History
Transport Group was founded in 2001 by co-Artistic Directors Jack Cummings III and Robyn Hussa. Since 2007, Transport Group has been helmed by Cummings as Artistic Director and Lori Fineman as Executive Director. Through its first eight years, Transport Group was a resident theatre company at The Connelly Theatre; an off-Broadway venue in Manhattan's East Village. Transport Group has produced several environmental productions including the OBIE Award winning The Boys in the Band, which seated the audience in chairs around the play's living room set in a Chelsea penthouse, and the first New York revival of Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again, in which round banquet tables doubled as both the audience seating and the actors' playing space. Transport Group has also produced works at The Duke Theatre in Times Square and at The Gym at Judson in the West Village. In 2007, Transport Group received a special Drama Desk Award for its "breadth of vision and presentation of challenging productions." As of 2019, Transport Group is the winner of 5 OBIE Awards, a 2018 Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle, has been nominated for 38 Drama Desk Awards, 6 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 6 Drama League Awards, 3 Off-Broadway Alliance, 3 Lucille Lortel Awards, among others. In 2011, Transport Group's production of the Douglas Carter Beane/Lewis Flinn musical Lysistrata Jones transferred to Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award. The American Theatre Wing awarded Transport Group with a National Theatre Company Grant in 2011.
Production history
2002: Our Townby Thornton Wilder; The Connelly Theatre 2003: Requiem for William by William Inge; The Connelly Theatre 2004: First Lady Suite, words & by Michael John LaChiusa; The Connelly Theatre 2005: The Audience conceived by Jack Cummings III; The Connelly Theatre 2005: Normal, book by Yvonne Adrian, lyrics by Cheryl Stern, music by Tom Kochan; The Connelly Theatre 2006: cul-de-sac by John Cariani; The Connelly Theatre 2006: All The Way Homeby Tad Mosel; The Connelly Theatre 2007: The Dark at the Top of the Stairsby William Inge; The Connelly Theatre 2007: Crossing Brooklyn, music by Jenny Giering and Jonathan Larson, book & lyrics by Laura Harrington; The Connelly Theatre 2008: Marcy in the Galaxy, music & lyrics by Nancy Shayne, book by Michael Patrick King; The Connelly Theatre 2008: Bury the Dead by Irwin Shaw; The Connelly Theatre 2009: Being Audrey, music & lyrics by Ellen Weiss, book by James Hindman, additional book and lyrics by Cheryl Stern 2010: The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley; 37 West 26th Street, Manhattan 2010: See Rock City & Other Destinations, music by Brad Alexander, book & lyrics by Adam Mathias; The Duke on 42nd Street 2011: Hello Again, words & music by Michael John LaChiusa; 52 Mercer Street, Manhattan 2011: Lysistrata Jones, music & lyrics by Lewis Flinn, book by Douglas Carter Beane; The Gym at Judson 2011: The Patsy by Barry Conners; The Duke on 42nd Street 2011: Jonas by David Greenspan; The Duke on 42nd Street 2011: Queen of the Mist, words & musc by Michael John LaChiusa; The Gym at Judson 2012: House for Sale by Jonathan Franzen, adapted for the stage by Daniel Fish; The Duke on 42nd Street 2013: The Memory Show, book & lyrics by Sara Cooper, music by Zach Redler; The Duke on 42nd Street 2014: Almost, Maine, by John Cariani; The Gym at Judson 2014: I Remember Mama, by John Van Druten; The Gym at Judson 2015: Three Days To See: A Reawakening of Helen Keller in Her Own Words, conceived by Jack Cummings III; Theatre 79 2015: Once Upon A Mattress, book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, Marshall Barer, lyrics by Marshall Barer, music by Mary Rogers; Abrons Arts Center 2017: Picnic, by William Inge, The Gym at Judson 2017: Come Back, Little Sheba, by William Inge, The Gym at Judson 2017: Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill; starring David Greenspan; "Irondale Theatre Center" 2018: Summer and Smoke, by Tennessee Williams; Classic Stage Company 2018: Renascence, book by Dick Scanlan, music by Carmel Dean; lyrics from the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay;Abrons Arts Center 2019: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine '', by Daniel Berrigan, adapted by Jack Cummings III;Abrons Arts Center
