Collective: Unconscious Forced To Close

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Collective: Unconscious, the Lower Manhattan group dedicated to experimental and alternative theater, will be forced to close for good at the end of this month when its current lease ends. According to the collective’s publicist, plumbing problems in the building are already making it a difficult space to use, and are forcing most of the venue’s events for this month’s Undergroundzero Festival to find new locations.

The group already survived one move, in 2004, when high rents forced it out of its Ludlow Street space onto Church Street. Since 1995, the venue has supported dozens of productions, including the Lower East Side Film Festival, and provided a forum for many of Lower Manhattan’s emerging artists.


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