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OFF Stage: Links
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Books about the origins and plays of Off-Off Broadway
Purchase these books through Amazon and PWP gets a percentage of the profits!
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| Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement by Stephen J. Bottoms |
Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway by Wendell C. Stone |
Return to the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev & George Birimisa |
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| The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage by John Tytell |
Off-Off-Broadway Explosion: How Provocative Playwrights of the 1960's Ignited a New American Theater by David A. Crespy |
The Off, Off Broadway Book: The Plays, People, Theatre by Albert Poland and Bruce Mailman |
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NYTHEATRECAST
The voice of nytheatre.com, this site offers news, commentary, and highlights of the indie theatre scene in New York City. Each episode features lively conversation with actors, playwrights, directors, and other artists as they talk about the innovative and cutting-edge work they are creating. In episode #35, OFF Stage director Tim Cusack interviews PWP's Catherine and Barry about the event. And in this podcast Martin Denton, Michael Criscuolo, Mark Blankenship, and Mario Fratti pick West Village Fragments as one the best performances in 2006! In episode #125, off-off-Broadway pioneering playwrights William M. Hoffman, Paul Foster, Ilsa Gilbert, and moderator Tim Cusack discuss their work, their history, and Peculiar Works "East Village Fragments." |
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Peculiar Works Project is proud to have been selected by WNYC New York Public Radio (93.9 FM and AM 820) to be featured in June 2007 in their *STAR* Initiative, which encourages the efforts by small, non-profit arts organizations. As a vital part of the New York cultural community, WNYC believes in and supports the work being done by these arts organizations throughout the Metropolitan area. We hope that you'll tune in to WNYC or listen to them online. |
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| Middle Collegiate Church is a celebrating, culturally diverse, inclusive and growing community of faith where all persons are welcomed just as they are as they come through the door. For OS:EVF, they have been an invaluable resource: we quite literally could not have done the event without their help and support! |
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La MaMa Experimental Theater Club is a world-renowned cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. For over 45 years La MaMa has passionately pursued its original mission to develop, nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance work by artists of all nations and cultures; they believe that in order to flourish, art needs the company of colleagues, the spirit of collaboration, the comfort of continuation, a public forum in which to be evaluated and fiscal support. La MaMa generously allowed us to stage our finale, from Megan Terry and Marianne De Pury's Viet Rock, in the lobby of the Annex on East 4th Street, and gave us suport and guidance throughout the East Village Fragments process.
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| In addition to being one of the oldest congregations in NYC, St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery has a long history of social and artistic service to the East Village community. We're grateful to them for welcoming us and for the help they were able to offer us on the East Village Fragments. |
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ROBERT PATRICK'S OFF OFFÂ BROADWAY WEBSITE
Perhaps best known as the author of Kennedy's Children and dozens of other plays and screenplays, Robert has spent the last few years tracking down photos from the time period. In the beginning, most of his photos are of the people and plays at the Caffe Cino, but the site is also constantly expanding and there are now pictures from all of the principal venues.
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DORIC WILSON
One of the first playwrights to have an original play presented at the Caffe Cino (1961's And He Made a Her), Doric's site relates his personal experiences at the Cino. It also includes digital versions of his plays that may be downloaded... but don't be surprised if you receive a very warm, personal note from Doric within minutes of downloading!
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WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN
William M. Hoffman is the author of the Broadway play As Is, which earned him a Drama Desk Award in 1986, an Obie, as well as Tony and Pulitzer nominations for best play. Conversations with William M. Hoffman is CUNY-TV 's television series of discussions with major theatre and musical figures of our times. In addition to the schedule for upcoming interviews, this site contains streaming video of his 2-part interview with four OOB legends: playwrights Doric Wilson and Robert Heide, and actors Helen Hanft and John Gilman.
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MICHAEL SMITH
In addition to being a first-rate director, playwright and lighting designer from the earliest days of OOB through to today, Michael was an invaluable promoter and chronicler of the movement through his reviews and articles for The Village Voice from 1957 to 1974, and through his early anthologies of the influential plays from OOB.
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TOSOS II
Playwright Doric Wilson and directors Mark Finley and Barry Childs' revival of the first professional gay theatre company in NYC: 1974's The Other Side of Silence, or TOSOS for short. TOSOS Il is dedicated to an honest and open exploration of the life experience and cultural sensibility of our community and to preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive. We were fortunate to have been invited to partcipate in their recent revival of Lanford Wilson's landmark play, The Madness of Lady Bright, and will be collaborating with them and Aisling Arts later this year to present another OOB classic: Doric Wilson's And He Made a Her.
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