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It’s a birthday play reading! Celebrate Cornelia Street Café’s former next-door neighbor, Caffe Cino, on the anniversary of its founder Joe Cino's birth

Plays in Cafés
Part I: Celebrating Plays from Caffe Cino

Sunday, November 20, 2005, 5:30 pm

5:30 Robert Patrick's The Haunted Host (1964), directed by Gabriel Shanks

6:30 Robert Heide's Moon (1967), directed by Ralph Lewis

7:00 Doric Wilson's And He Made a Her (1961), directed by Bryn Manion

And a special post-reading talk with artists from the Caffe Cino!

Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, NYC map
Limited Seating: Reservations Encouraged
212-989-9319

Cover $6 (includes one house drink)

Ciockwise from top: Caffe Cino, 31 Cornelia Street (1965), Robert Patrick's The Haunted Host, Playwright Doric Wilson, Robert Heide's Moon, Joe Cino
(photos above from
Robert Patrick's Caffe Cino History website)


January 2006

Alternative Adaptations:
Plays from literary sources

Among the plays under consideration:

H.M. Koutoukas' Medea in the Laundromat (1965)

The Performance Group's Dionysus in 69 (1968)

Judith Malina and Julian Beck's Frankenstein (1968)

Al Carmines' and Gertrude Stein's What Happened (1963)

Jefferson Market Library
Sixth Avenue at West 10th Street map


February 2006

Plays in Cafés, Part II:
Celebrating works from Café LaMama

Among the plays under consideration:

Paul Foster's Balls (1964)

Tom Eyen's Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down (1965)

Rochelle Owens' Futz (1967)

David Starkweather's You May Go Home Again (1965)

Leonard Melfi's Birdbath (1966)

Lanford Wilson's Home Free (1964)

Jeff Weiss' That's How the Rent Gets Paid (1966)

Location TBA


March 2006

The Women of OFF
Presented with New Georges

Among the plays under consideration:

Ilsa Gilbert's Circus (1967)

Claris Nelson's The Rue Garden (1962)

Ruth Krauss' 38 Haikus (1964)

Diane di Prima's Murder Cake (1963)

Adrienne Kennedy's A Rat's Mass (1969)

Maria Irene Fornes' Promenade (1965)

Julie Bovasso's Gloria and Esperanza (1969)

New Georges' The Room
580 Eighth Avenue, Suite 326, at West 36th Street map


April 2006

Plays of Protest

Among the plays under consideration:

Megan Terry's Viet Rock (1966)

Maria Irene Fornes' A Vietnamese Wedding (1967)

Walter Hadler's The Water Works at Lincoln (1969)

Sam Shepard's Forensic and the Navigators (1967)

Kenneth Brown's The Brig (1963)

Grant Duay's Fruit Salad (1967)

Location TBA


May 2006

Outside Underground

Plays currently scheduled:

Sam Shepard's Icarus's Mother (1965)

Ruth Krauss' A Beautiful Day (1963)

John Guare's The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year (1966)

Jean-Claude van Itallie and The Open Theater's The Serpent (1968)

Jefferson Market Garden
Greenwich Avenue below West 10th Street beside the Jefferson Market Library map


June 2006

American Myth

Among the plays under consideration:

Joel Oppenheimer's The Great American Desert (1961)

Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah (1965)

Sam Shepard's Cowboys (1964)

Rosalyn Drexler's Home Movies (1964)

Location TBA


June 2006

Rites and Rituals:
Ensemble-generated works

Among the plays under consideration:

Susan Yankowitz and The Open Theater's Terminal (1969-70)

Murray Mednick and Tony Barsha's The Hawk (1967)

Leon Katz's Dracula: Sabbat (1970)

Judith Malina's Paradise Now (1968)

Location TBA

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The OFF Project is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Nancy Quinn Fund.