Triangle Theater Company records

The Triangle Theater Company was founded in 1979 by David M. Hough. Named for the pink triangles used to mark gay men in Nazi concentration camps, Triangle Theater sought to provide a supportive environment in which gay men and women could work in theater. During each season, Triangle Theater staged multiple productions and held staged readings of scripts. When Triangle Theater incorporated in September 1981, Hough was its Artistic Director and President of the Board; he stepped down as president in June 1983 and as artistic director in 1987, but he remained a member of the Board. Hough was replaced as Artistic Director by Steve O'Donnell, who in 1993 was replaced by Kate Caffrey; O'Donnell returned to the post in 1994. Triangle Theater's first production, "3 in a Single Key," presented three one-act plays during Lesbian / Gay Pride 1980. For its second season, Triangle became a company-in-residence at the Theatre Factory, a theater space for small companies, founded by Hough and others; the Theatre Factory closed in 1981, forcing Triangle to perform in multiple venues as the company searched for another home. In September 1985, Triangle Theater reached an agreement with the H.E.R.E. Local 26 Union to use the theater space in the union's building, a former film screening room. Triangle staged its productions in this theater, the Paramount Penthouse Theater in Boston's South End, until 1996. Unable to locate a new theater to stage their productions, the Triangle Theater Company closed in 1996.