Retro Productions

Retro Productions is a New York City based Off-Off-Broadway theater company. Its artistic director is Heather E. Cunningham, an actress and producer whose performance as Rose Walker in the Retro production An Appeal to the Woman of the House by Christie Perfetti Williams won her a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role.

Retro Productions' mission is to produce works of "Retro Theater," mainly straight plays that take place in the 20th century and is not to be confused with Gary Wright Music c/o Retroprods which is a NYC based Arts-in-Education provider responsible for "The Great American POP Show! A Lively History of Popular Song in the USA" and "Singing BOOKS! A Musical Magical Carpet Ride Through Classic Children's Literature."

The company was formed in 2005 under the original name River Heights Productions. Under this name the company produced two plays: Catholic School Girls by Casey Kurtti and Mrs. California by Doris Baizley. The production of Mrs. California was the New York City premiere.

Following the production of Mrs. California, River Heights Productions was dissolved and renamed Retro Productions.

Since then the company has become a resident theater company of the Spoon Theater and produces two shows per year at the 38th street space in Manhattan. It has also acquired twenty-one company members who regularly perform in, design, direct, and stage manage the productions. When the Spoon Theater closed, the company became "gypsies" - moving from venue to venue based on the needs of the show.

In November 2008, Retro Productions produced the first major New York City revival in over fifty years of the 1950s sex comedy The Tender Trap by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith.

In 2009 they produced the New York premiere of Holy Days by Sally Nemeth.

In May 2010 they mounted the World Premiere of Women and War by Jack Hilton Cunningham.

In 2012 their production of The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt moved to off-Broadway.

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