59E59 Theaters

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4-story modernist theater building originally completed in 1938. The building was donated in 2002 to the Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation, who owns and operates the Drama Desk Award winning 59E59 Theaters -- the number one Off-Broadway destination in New York City. It was gut-renovated into a theater complex in 2004 to a design by Leo Modrcin. The theater complex has three stages and a bar on the mezzanine level. The three theaters seat 199, 99, and 50 viewers, respectively.

The facade on 59th Street is clad in glass with thin vertical steel ribs spaced randomly. There are grey concrete end piers, and a glass door at the west end. To the right of it, a grey concrete area at the ground floor slopes up from the sidewalk, to a pair of metal stage doors at the east end.

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