McCullers Community Turned Theatre

The February House 

"The House in Brooklyn is a symbol for me...it's a risk, it's a gamble with myself and other."

In 1940 George Davis, the fiction editor at Harper's Bazaar, founded an artist colony called the February House. The house got its name from the birthdays of two of its most famous inhabitants, Carson McCullers, and Wynsten Hughs Auden. The house was a semi-dilapidated Victorian in Brooklyn New York. However, it housed many famous artist of the day. Davis' idea was to found a place where creative people could thrive with one another. Carson McCullers was one of these thriving artists. 

February House The Musical

"Bringing together some of the greatest and most colorful minds of a generation (W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee) George Davis tries to create his own utopia in a small house in Brooklyn in the 1940s.  The artists discover new ideas exploding at every turn as they find love, friendship and their own artistic voices in a time of war.  Written by up-and-coming composer Gabriel Kahane, the exciting score mixes elements of classical operetta, jazz, and musical comedy with modern folk-pop"