OFF Project: 3 BIG Weekends in a Row
March 17, 2007 at 3pm

Pecular Works at LaMaMa's Coffeehouse Chronicles

Ralph, Catherine and Barry have been invited by LaMaMa curator Chris Kapp to talk about our last two seasons exploring the birth of Off-Off Broadway 50 years ago. Come out and join us for an afternoon in which we'll discuss the genesis of this tribute to our artistic forebears, invite oral histories from the audience, and present a teaser of the upcoming East Village Fragments.

See the entire schedule for Coffeehouse Chronicles on LaMaMa's website.

March 25, 2007 at noon

EVocative

New readings of East Village plays that helped shape the neighborhood culture for a generation

Tom Murrin’s Cock-Strong (1969) directed by Tim Cusack

PLUS: a discussion with plawright Tom Murrin

Charles Ludlam’s Conquest of the Universe (or When Queens Collide) (1967) directed by Gabriel Shanks

The Ohio 6th Floor
64 Wooster Street
(between Spring & Broome)
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Free admission, plus complimentary snacks and cocktails

Clockwise from top: Charles Ludlam as Bluebeard; the company of the Play-house of the Ridiculous; Bouwerie Lane Theater, where the Ridiculous Theatrical Company staged When Queens Collide; The Cast of When Queens Collide; John Vacarro in Shower, Play-house of the Ridiculous 1965; Ruby Lynn Reyner and Jackie Curtis both appeared in Cock-Strong; The Silver Apples, musicians in Cock-Strong

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 7pm

The Women of OFF II

A second reading series featuring plays by two of the first ladies of downtown theater

Julie Bovasso’s The Moon Dreamers (1969)

Ruth Landshoff Yorck’s Lullaby for a Dying Man (1966)

The Players Loft
115 MacDougal (at Minetta Lane, Studio 3D)
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Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 1pm

Plays in Cafes: Cafe LaMaMa

A second reading series featuring plays from the longest-running Off-Off Broadway venue

Paul Foster’s Tom Paine (1967)

Jean Claude Van Itallie’s America Hurrah (1966)

Dixon Place
258 Bowery (below Houston)
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The OFF Project is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane through the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; and with private funds from the Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Nancy Quinn Fund.