George Street Playhouse


George Street Playhouse is a theater company in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the city's Civic Square government and theater district and resident at the newly built New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. The GSP is one of the state's most prominent professional theaters, committed to the production of new and established plays.
Managing Director Edgar Herrera leads the playhouse with the Artistic Triumvirate comprising Christopher Bailey, Scott Goldman, and Laiona Michelle. George Street Playhouse presents a main stage season and provides a space for both established and emerging theater artists The playhouse has been represented by numerous productions both on and off-Broadway.
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History and venues

Founded in 1974 by Eric Krebs, the theater company was originally located in an abandoned supermarket on George Street and later moved to its current location on Livingston Avenue. In 2017, the playhouse moved to an interim location in the former Agricultural Museum on Cook Campus at Rutgers University
In the fall of 2019, George Street Playhouse moved back to the Livingston Ave location into a new mixed-use theater building, now called the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
After Eric Krebs, David Saint was the artistic director from 1997 to 2025.
The company is a member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

Notable productions

Recent productions include the world premiere of The Trial of Donna Caine by Walter Anderson, Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical, a revised version of I Love You, You're Perfect Now Change, An Act of God with Kathleen Turner, American Son by Christopher Demos-Brown, Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch, Gettin' The Band Back Together, and Joe DiPetro's Clever Little Lies. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, by David Auburn, was developed at GSP during the 1999 Next Stage Series.