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Books about the origins and plays of Off-Off Broadway
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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 |
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| 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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ROBERT PATRICK'S OFF OFF 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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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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La MaMa ETC
La MaMa Experimental Theatre is a world-renowned cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. For 44 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. Over the last year, LaMaMa has created The Coffeehouse Chronicles, a series under the direction of Chris Kapp, in which artists from the early OOB movement provide insight and discuss the impact of their work on contemporary theater.
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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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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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RICHARD M. BUCK
The Small Stages that Challenged Our Concept of Legitimacy in Theater. An e-paper on the OOB movement from the Theater Library Association. The article is both very personal and very thorough in its discussion of the recent books on OOB that we recommend.
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