Introducing Our Public Art Series: A Note from Adam Greenfield

A theater is a building, a stage, an action, an expression, and a community. In March, 2020, Playwrights Horizons was forced to close access to the inside of this building, but in every other aspect our theater is very much open and alive. 

Through a series of rotating public art installations that will occupy our storefront at least through June, we aim to extend to our city street what theater, what all art, does best: to disrupt routine traffic; to imagine alternate realities and offer new perspectives; to make the world a little less knowable. In this piece, Jilly Ballistic, “New York City's most well-known unknown street and subway artist,” frames the crisis that’s ravaging our nation daily with shocking, undeniable lucidity.

This public art initiative launches Playwrights Horizons’ Lighthouse Project. Named for its reliable guidance through dark and stormy times, this eclectic series of performances, installations, and events hopes to stretch the definition of playwriting and how we use our space.

Let’s stay safe. Let’s wear masks. And when the coast is clear, let's close this social distance between us.