The American Theater Company

Photo from The Stick Wife by Angie Hartwell

The American Theater Company was founded by Howard and a group of Vassar College students in 1990. It was a renegade troupe devoted to a roll-up-your-sleeves, brutally realistic aesthetic, and presented its productions in unconventional spaces.

The group was active in Poughkeepsie, NY from 1990-1993, and in New York City from 1997-98. 

Production history:

  • The Iceman Cometh (1990)

  • The Stick Wife (1990)

  • Of Mice and Men (1991)

  • the great god brown (1991)

  • The Ghost Sonata (1992)

  • The Zoo Story (1992)

  • Waiting For Lefty (1992)

  • The Rope Dancers (1993)

  • On The L (1997)

  • The Dog (1998)

  • Street Scene (1998)