On this tenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater companies, as well as theater service, advocacy and educational organizations.
Below, an alphabetical list of more than 100 New York theaters and theater companies, with links to their home page or donate page. But first a shorter list of theater charitable, service, advocacy and educational organizations based in New York. Yes, theaters have started to reopen, and some were helped by the Shuttered Venues Operating Grant; individuals were helped by the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. But the first is no longer accepting applications, and the second has ended. Many theaters, and theater workers, continue to struggle.
I’ve put an asterisk next to those organizations that Charity Navigator has given its highest ratings for accountability, transparency, financial health and impact and results. (It need be said that some theaters and theater organizations are too new, or too small, to have been rated: “The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.”) Feel free to look up the individual charities on the Charity Navigator site.
Theater Service/Education/Advocacy Organizations
*The Actors Fund For Everyone in Entertainment
*Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York
*American Theatre Wing, creators of the Tonys
The Arthur Miller Foundation – bringing quality theater and film education to New York City public school students
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Educational Theatre Foundation
The Lilly Awards – developing and celebrating women artists
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
Sing for Your Seniors performing for seniors at hospitals and care facilities
Story Pirates turning kids’ original stories into wild sketch comedy musicals
Theatre Communications Group, NY , NY-based national organization of American theaters, publishers of dramatic literature and American Theatre Magazine
TDF, TKTS ticket booths, plus accessibility services.
New York Theaters
(If any worthies are missing, please provide the name and link in the Comments sections)
Abingdon Theatre Company
Abrons Arts Center
Access Theater
Adjusted Realists
AENY – Spanish Artists in New York
All For One Theater
Americana Absurdum
Aquila Theatre Company
Ars Nova
Art for Progress
Astoria Performing Arts Center
Athena Theatre Company
Atticist
Keen Company
La MaMa ETC
Lesser America
*Lincoln Center Theater
Locked In The Attic Productions
*Manhattan Theatre Club
Ma-Yi Theater Company
MCC Theater
Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble
Metropolitan Playhouse
*Mint Theater Company
National Black Theatre
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
Negro Ensemble Company
New Federal Theatre
New Light Theater Project
New Ohio Theater
*The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival
NewYorkRep
*New York Theatre Workshop
Page 73 Productions
Paradise Factory Theater
Penguin Repertory Theatre
Players Theatre
Pregones + Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
Primary Stages
Project Y Theatre Company
Q Theatricals
Random Access Theatre
Red Bull Theater
Repertorio Español
Roundabout Theatre Company
