While accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Obies last night, Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz described how an apartment fire helped him create the nonprofit Theatre for a New Audience.

Thank you to Michael Feingold and the OBIE Committee….Over four decades ago, when I was an out of work actor, on a very hot and humid New York summer’s day,  while waiting for that big break to come,  I decided to engage in a little D.I.Y. and  polyurethane the wooden floor of my studio apartment. Continue Reading