OFF Project: 3 BIG Events in 1 Week

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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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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Clockwise from top: Julie Bovasso and Jason Robards, with Obie presenter Shelley Winters, receive the first Obie Awards for Acting,1956 (photo: Fred W. McDarrah); Ruth Landshoff Yorck (circa 1930); Julie Bovasso (1991); Ruth Landshoff Yorck (1965; from Robert Patrick's Caffe Cino website).

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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Photos from top left: a Robert Wilson mask from America Hurrah: Motel; playwright Paul Foster, acting at the Caffe Cino; LaMaMa Troupe, 1967; the cast of America Hurrah: Interview; Ellen Stewart; poster for America Hurrah; the cast of Tom Paine: Monica Haufrecht, Mitchell McGuire, Adriana Hines, Spalding Gray, Lucy Silvay, Barbara Press and Rob Thirkield, center

AS ALWAYS ....
Free admission to all OFF readings,
plus complimentary snacks and cocktails
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.