Soho Rep provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. The organization elevates artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and society. Artistic autonomy is paramount at Soho Rep; the organization encourages an unmediated connection between artists and audiences to create a springboard for transformation and rich civic life.
Critics continue to herald Soho Rep as a go-to theater for new and original works. Time Out New York says, “Soho Rep is the best theater in NYC,” and The New York Times writes, “The downtown powerhouse… regularly outclasses the work done on many of the city’s larger stages.” Soho Rep won the “Best Theater in NYC” award for the Time Out Best of the City Awards 2021. Time Out New York wrote, “Soho Rep isn’t the last word in downtown experimental theater: Better than that, it’s often one of the first words, championing major voices at key points in their careers.”
Soho Rep has also been honored with a Drama Desk Award for Sustained Achievement. Over the last decade, Soho Rep productions have garnered 28 OBIE Awards, and numerous Drama Desk Awards, Lucille Lortel Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and other honors. Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, commissioned by Soho Rep and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s Public Obscenities, commissioned by Soho Rep and presented by Soho Rep and NAATCO National Partnership project, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the winner of four Obie Awards.
In recent years, Soho Rep has presented plays by established and emerging theater artists such as David Adjmi, Annie Baker, Alice Birch, Becca Blackwell, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Jackie Sibblies Drury, debbie tucker green, Aleshea Harris, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Hansol Jung, Daniel Alexander Jones, Sarah Kane, Raja Feather Kelly, Richard Maxwell, Julia Mounsey and Peter Mills Weiss, Young Jean Lee, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Mara Vélez Meléndez, Nia Akilah Robinson, Jordan Tannahill, Carmelita Tropicana, and Anne Washburn.
Last Updated: February 2026