Mint Theater Company

Mint Theater Company
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Resident Company at Theatre Row
Address412 West 42nd Street
New York City
United States
TypeOff-Broadway
Website
minttheater.org

Mint Theater Company was founded in 1992 in New York City. Their mission is to find, produce, and advocate for "worthwhile plays from the past that have been lost or forgotten".[1][2] They have been instrumental in restoring the theatrical legacy of several playwrights notably; Teresa Deevy,[3][4] Rachel Crothers,[5] and Miles Malleson.[6] In addition to producing less produced or forgotten works by noted playwrights such as A. A. Milne,[7] Lillian Hellman,[8] and J. M. Barrie,[9] they have also produced frequently ignored theatrical works by noted authors such as Ernest Hemingway,[10] D. H. Lawrence,[11] and Leo Tolstoy.[11]

New York Times critic Ben Brantley credited Mint Theater Company as a "resurrectionist extraordinaire of forgotten plays".[12] pointing to the company as a torchbearer "devoted to overlooked plays of other times."[13]

History

The Mint Theater Company was founded in 1992 by Kelly Morgan.[14] The mission was further solidified when Jonathan Bank took over as artistic director in 1995, deciding to focus on lost, neglected, or forgotten plays.[15][16] This focus came from his interest in narrative driven plays that audiences didn't already know. The company's full commitment to neglected works came as audience interest in seeing recovered plays increased, eventually prompting the company to re-establish their mission and change their slogan to "Lost Plays Found Here."[17]

They have done significant work to revive the works of several playwrights who had fallen into obscurity. Their on-going Teresa Deevy Project works to rediscover, produce, and publish works of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy,[18] who despite early success and several productions at the Dublin Abbey Theatre during her lifetime has been largely neglected and her work forgotten.[19][4][20] The Mint Theater has produced four plays and published two anthologies of Deevy's work.[21]

The theater's revival of Rachel Crothers' Susan and God in 2006 was the first New York City revival since 1943.[22] Crothers' work had rarely been seen since her death in 1953.[5] The theater also revived her Pulitzer Prize nominated play, A Little Journey in 2011.[5]

They have also revived or sometimes premiered neglected works by famous authors.[11] In 2008 they produced Hemingway's The Fifth Column,[23] using the original text,[10] the first professional production to do so as the 1940 Broadway production used an adapted script by Benjamin Glazer which Hemingway ultimately did not approve.[24][25] They have produced both of D. H. Lawrence's plays, The Daughter-in-Law in 2003[26] and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd in 2009.[27]

In addition to citations for individual productions, the company has received several awards. In 2001 they received an Obie Grant.[28][29] In 2002 they were awarded a Drama Desk Special Award for "unearthing, presenting and preserving forgotten plays of merit".[30] In 2010 they were awarded The Theatre Museum's Theatre History Preservation Award.[31]

Notable productions

The Daughter-in-Law, Soldier's Wife, The Return of the Prodigal, So Help Me God!, A Little Journey, London Wall, Fashions For Men, Women Without Men, Hindle Wakes, and Garside's Career were all nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.[45][46][40]

Awards and nominations

Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2001 Obie Grant Body of work Mint Theater Company Won [47]
Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2002 Drama Desk Special Award Body of work Mint Theater Company Won [48]
2004 Outstanding Revival of a Play The Daughter-in-Law Mint Theater Company Nominated [49]
2004 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play The Daughter-in-Law Mikel Sarah Lambert Nominated [49]
2005 Outstanding Actress in a Play Echoes of War Frances Sternhagen Nominated [50]
2006 Outstanding Revival of a Play Soldier's Wife Mint Theater Company Nominated [51]
2006 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Soldier's Wife Judith Hawking Nominated [51]
2006 Outstanding Set Design Walking Down Broadway Roger Hanna Nominated [51]
2008 Outstanding Revival of a Play The Return of the Prodigal Mint Theater Company Nominated [52]
2008 Outstanding Set Design The Return of the Prodigal Clint Ramos Nominated [52]
2010 Outstanding Revival of a Play So Help Me God! Mint Theater Company Nominated [53]
2010 Outstanding Director of a Play So Help Me God! Jonathan Bank Nominated [53]
2010 Outstanding Actress in a Play So Help Me God! Kristen Johnston Nominated [53]
2010 Outstanding Costume Design So Help Me God! Clint Ramos Nominated [53]
2012 Outstanding Revival of a Play A Little Journey Mint Theater Company Nominated [54]
2012 Outstanding Set Design A Little Journey Roger Hanna Nominated [54]
2014 Outstanding Revival of a Play London Wall Mint Theater Company Nominated [55]
2014 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play London Wall Julia Coffey Nominated [55]
2015 Outstanding Revival of a Play Fashions For Men Mint Theater Company Nominated [56]
2015 Outstanding Set Design Fashions For Men Daniel Zimmerman Nominated [56]
2015 Outstanding Actress in a Play The Fatal Weakness Kristin Griffith Nominated [56]
2015 Outstanding Costume Design The Fatal Weakness Andrea Varga Nominated [56]
2015 Outstanding Projection Design Donogoo Roger Hanna Nominated [56]
2016 Outstanding Revival of a Play Women Without Men Mint Theater Company Nominated [57]
2016 Outstanding Director of a Play Women Without Men Jenn Thompson Nominated [57]
2016 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Women Without Men Kellie Overbey Nominated [57]
2016 Outstanding Costume Design Women Without Men Martha Hally Nominated [57]
2016 Outstanding Wig and Hair Design Women Without Men Robert-Charles Vallance Nominated [57]
2018 Outstanding Revival of a Play Hindle Wakes Mint Theater Company Nominated [58]
2023 Outstanding Set Design Chains John McDermott Nominated [59]
2025 Outstanding Revival of a Play Gareside's Career Mint Theater Company Nominated [60]
Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2015 Outstanding Revival of a Play Fashions For Men Mint Theater Company Nominated [61]
2023 Outstanding Off-Broadway Play Becomes a Woman Mint Theater Company Nominated [62]
2023 Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play Becomes a Woman Emma Pfitzer Price Nominated [62]
Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2009 Outstanding Revival of a Play The Glass Cage Mint Theater Company Nominated [63]
2009 Outstanding Scenic Design The Glass Cage Roger Hanna Won [63]
2009 Outstanding Sound Design The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd Jane Shaw Nominated [63]
2010 Outstanding Costume Design So Help Me God! Clint Ramos Won [64]
2014 Outstanding Revival of a Play London Wall Mint Theater Company Nominated [65]
2015 Outstanding Revival of a Play Fashions For Men Mint Theater Company Nominated [66]
2016 Outstanding Revival of a Play Women Without Men Mint Theater Company Nominated [67]
2016 Outstanding Costume Design Women Without Men Martha Hally Nominated [67]
Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2009 Distinguished Performance The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd Julia Coffey Nominated [68]
Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2023 Outstanding Debut Becomes a Woman Emma Pfitzer Price Won [69]

Off Broadway Alliance Awards

Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2015 Best Revival of a Play Fashions For Men Mint Theater Company Nominated [70]
2016 Best Revival of a Play Women Without Men Mint Theater Company Nominated [71]
2018 Best Revival of a Play Hindle Wakes Mint Theater Company Nominated [72]
2019 Best Revival of a Play Conflict Mint Theater Company Nominated [73]
2019 Best Revival of a Play Days to Come Mint Theater Company Nominated [73]
2022 Best Revival of a Play The Daughter-in-Law Mint Theater Company Nominated [74]
2023 Best Revival of a Play The Rat Trap Mint Theater Company Nominated [75]
Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2007 Costume Design The Madras House Clint Ramos Won [76]
2009 Scenic Design The Glass Cage Roger Hanna Nominated [77]
2010 Costume Design So Help Me God! Clint Ramos Nominated [78]
2011 Costume Design Wife to James Whelan Martha Hally Nominated [79]
2011 Scenic Design What the Public Wants Roger Hanna Nominated [79]
2012 Scenic Design A Little Journey Roger Hanna Nominated [80]
2014 Lighting Design London Wall Nicole Pearce Nominated [81]
2014 Costume Design London Wall Martha Hally Nominated [81]
2015 Notable Affects Donogoo Roger Hanna & Price Johnston Nominated [82]
2015 Scenic Design The Fatal Weakness Vicky Davis Nominated [82]
2015 Costume Design The Fatal Weakness Andrea Varga Nominated [82]
2015 Lighting Design The Fatal Weakness' Christian DeAngelis Nominated [82]
2016 Scenic Design The New Morality Steven C. Kemp Nominated [83]
2016 Costume Design Women Without Men Martha Hally Nominated [83]
Year Category Nominated work Recipient Result Ref.
2011 Best Production Temporal Powers Mint Theater Company Nominated [84]
2011 Best Director Temporal Powers Jonathan Bank Nominated [84]
2011 Best Actor Temporal Powers Aidan Redmond Nominated [84]
2011 Best Design Temporal Powers Vicky Davis Nominated [84]

Publications

Mint Theater Company has published six anthologies from the works of authors that they have produced.

References

  1. ↑ "About | Mint Theater Company". minttheater.org. July 21, 1990.
  2. ↑ Cohen, Alix (February 10, 2016). "The Mint Theater: Visionary Resurrection of Forgotten Plays". Woman Around Town.
  3. ↑ Zinoman, Jason (August 4, 2010). "An Irishwoman Back From Obscurity". The New York Times.
  4. 1 2 Blaney, Retta (October 1, 2010). "Lost works return to stage". National Catholic Reporter.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 BWW News Desk. "Mint Theater's A Little Journey Closes 7/17". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Teachout, Terry (April 8, 2021). "Yours Unfaithfully Review: Three's Trouble". The Wall Street Journal.
  7. ↑ Hampton, Wilborn (May 19, 2004). "Theater Notebook; Two Comedies From Milne, Before He Dreamed of Pooh". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Teachout, Terry (January 7, 2021). "Opinion | Days to Come Review: A Hellman Rarity of Uncommon Merit". The Wall Street Journal.
  9. ↑ Gelder, Lawrence Van (May 8, 1995). "In Performance; Theater". The New York Times.
  10. 1 2 3 Kale, Verna (2008). "The Fifth Column: A Play by Ernest Hemingway (review)". The Hemingway Review. 27 (2): 131–134. doi:10.1353/hem.0.0010. ISSN 1548-4815. S2CID 161589660.
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  13. ↑ Brantley, Ben (November 3, 2020). "A 'Wicked' Challenge and Other Tough Questions for Ben Brantley". The New York Times.
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  16. ↑ Kelly, Jim (September 30, 2014). "The Mint Theater Is Bringing Back Long-Forgotten Plays". Vanity Fair.
  17. 1 2 Halvorsen, Caitlyn (March 18, 2019). "Have You Met Miss Baker? Mint Theater Would Like You To". AMERICAN THEATRE.
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  38. ↑ Clement, Olivia (2017). "Mint Theater to Stage Rare Revival of Hindle Wakes". Playbill.
  39. ↑ Cowan, Alison Leigh (December 1, 2009). "Waiting 80 Years, Diva Takes a Bow". The New York Times.
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  44. ↑ Hampton, Wilborn (March 28, 2008). "Who Does This Playwright Think He Is? Hemingway?". The New York Times.
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  86. ↑ Milne, A.A.; Wharton, Edith; Fitch, Clyde; Glaspell, Susan; Gale, Zona; Wolfe, Thomas; Reissa, Eleanor; Sowerby, Githa; Bank, Jonathan; Mahoney, Jeni (2002). Worthy But Neglected Plays of the Mint Theater Company (1 ed.). New York: Granville Press. p. 352. ISBN 978-0971826205. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  87. ↑ Schnitzler, Arthur; Bank, Jonathan; Schnitzler, Peter (2005). Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed. New York: Granville Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0971826212. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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  89. ↑ Hankin, St. John; Bank, Jonathan (2007). St. John Hankin Reclaimed (1 ed.). New York: Granville Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0971826236. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  90. ↑ Deevy, Teresa; Bank, Jonathan; Morash, Christopher; Harrington, John P. (2011). Teresa Deevy Reclaimed Volume One (1 ed.). New York: Mint Theater Company. p. 158. ISBN 978-0971826243. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
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