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American Globe Theatre (AGT) was established in 1989 and is now the longest-running classical theater in Midtown Manhattan. It presents innovative productions of classical plays. In addition to a wide variety of Shakespeare's plays, company productions have included Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Chekhov's The Seagull and Three Sisters, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Moliere's Tartuffe and Sophocles'Antigone.

The company works with the First Folio technique, an historically-based method of language and staging that originated among Shakespeare's own company of players.

The company is committed to reinvigorating performance in American theater with this technique and to handing down this legacy to a new generation of artists and students. Through its Shakespeare for Schools (SFS) program, the company brings the Bard's work to more than 7,000 young people annually.

The American Globe Theatre is located on the third floor of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, a national historic landmark building. Constructed in 1894-95 after a design by the architectural firm of Napoleon Le Brun & Sons, with sculpture by J. Massey Rhind, the church is the first in the world to be erected upon a concealed steal frame.

• Landmark Status: The group is located in St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square, a historic landmark building
• Directions: Subway: B, D, F, M to 47th-50th Streets - Rockefeller Center

• Box Office: (212) 869-9809. Box office at 145 West 46th Street opens two hours before a performance.
• Disability Access: Not wheelchair accessible; theater is on third floor and requires walking three flights of stairs.
• Disability Assistance: Large print programs are available.