User:Verse Theater Manhattan

Verse Theater Manhattan (VTM) is a non-profit professional theater company based in New York City. Founded and lead by Executive Director Richard Ryan, Verse Theater Company is a preeminent theater company in the English speaking world devoted exclusively to verse drama. VTM is devoted to discovering and staging the best of old and new verse drama and bringing it to the widest possible audience. VTM's mission is both practical and high-minded; producers coordinate and support the theatrical effort of poets, directors, and performers working to bring verse drama to the stage; as supporters of the New York cultural environment, they unite the city's diverse theatrical and literary community.

VTM is open to all styles, genres, and periods of verse drama. VTM seeks out contemporary and ancient texts, classics and translations. VTM is especially interested in encouraging and promoting the work of living poets striving to bring verse to the stage.