Squat Theatre Digital Archives

The Squat Theatre Digital Archive collects all materials relevant to Squat Theatre,
an avantgarde theatre company active in New York between 1977 and 1985.
Their three major plays were staged in the storefront of the house where they lived
and won several prizes in New York and abroad, including the Obie Award in 1980
for Best New American play for Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free.

The theatre’s home on West 23rd Street also became known under the name of
Squat Theatre’s Jazz, Blues and Rock Club between 1979 and 1981, and by the movie
house they ran in the early 1980s.
This website archives photos, texts, catalogues, programs, playbills, postcards,
invitations, correspondence, scripts, music, video and film clips, production stills
relavant to Squat Theatre, including concert tickets, movie flyers, ads, and other
production ephemera – including your artifacts, personal recollections and memories
about plays or concerts at Squat Theatre.

(Please hit the “contact us” button to send us your comments, and material for the
archive.) The ever increasing list of publications is part of the extensive bibliography.

In recent years new exhibitions reframed the history of Squat Theatre, presented
photo collections about plays and members of the group, or included archival material
from Squat Theatre’s plays and concerts.

You can navigate this internet archive by entering the main sections of the collection
or you can use this page or the sidebar as a guide if you prefer to wander around
through random entry points of interest.