Soho Rep

Walkerspace (1991-2024), Soho Rep’s 65-seat venue at 46 Walker Street, will be laid to rest this January 2025. An extraordinary vessel for artistic risk and invention, Walkerspace inspired generations of theater makers and lovers with bountiful (Transformative! Tantalizing! Transgressive!) experiences. It was also inaccessible, leaky, prone to electrical outages, and generally crumbling. The space’s caretaker for over 30 years, Soho Rep, invites the community to pay their respects across five days of visitation and funeral services, with eulogies delivered by some of the space’s closest companions. Despite this loss of its long-time home, Soho Rep is not a building. Rather, in the words of William Burke, “Soho Rep is an act of faith in the artistic process filled with unrelenting unrealistic optimism”—an artist-centered vision of the world that carries us wherever we go. Join us for a celebration of life that only Soho Rep could throw, filled with wry wit, ridiculous raconteurs, and so much heart—come pay your respects to one of New York City’s last downtown spaces devoted to experimentation, risk, and revelation! Featured guests and event schedule to be announced.