Along with the 100-seat theater now nearing completion on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center and the 299-seat Theatre for a New Audience under construction within Brooklyn's BAM Cultural District both designed by New York architect Hugh Hardy it is also a gain for New York's theater scene, particularly that segment devoted to the city's teeming population of newcomers, strivers and on-the-verge or comeback talents.

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