St. Mark's Playhouse at 133 Second Avenue in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City, was an Off-Off-Broadway theater notable for presenting the Negro Ensemble Company's production of The First Breeze of Summer[1][2] by Leslie Lee,[3] which premiered on March 2, 1975, before transferring to Broadway on June 10, where it played through July 20, 1975.[4] St. Mark's Playhouse also showed French playwright Jean Genet's first American performance of his play The Blacks.
The theatre was founded by Lynn Michaels and Harry Baum.[5]
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