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Living Theater by Jack Gelber
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George Maciunas active as "father of soho"...defying Robert Moses and with Jane Jacobs defeating the planned downtown expressway...
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Judson Poets Theatre and New York Poets Theatre -- a "formal theatre movment" anti-realist, etc.
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1st in a basement on East 9th, then at an old flower shop on 2nd Ave; then another 2nd floor space on 2nd Ave (and renamed La Mama ETC); then, finally, E. 4th in 1969.
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had been programming arts since late 50s with Al Carmines, et al
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1962 opened in midtown; 1968 moved to Union Square; 1984 moved to a flat irons office building
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199-seat proscenium house...like a step between OOB and Off-Broadway...didn't work for the more experimental of the Caffee Cino crowd.
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Lucinda Childs, Aileen Pasloff, Al Carmines, Yvonne Rainer...
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Also: Sam Shepherd's first two plays Cowboys and Rock Garden
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at Caffe Cino...1st openly queer work (?); one person pyschodrama monologue; ran for 200 perf; convinced Cino to focius on new (small-cast) plays.
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1965 - John Vacarro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous with plays by Ronald Tavel
1967 - The Ridiculous Theatrical Company dir. by Charles Ludlum
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near Union Square; Closed in 1974; a lot of glam but also big artist hangout. Max's 2 with much more punk opened in Chelsea in 1975
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as Audobon Ballroom
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Hailing itself as a "universal and international" exposition, the fair's theme was "Peace Through Understanding", dedicated to "Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe"; although American corporations dominated the exposition as exhibitors.
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Viet Rock - Open Theatre's last La Mama show dir. by Megan Terry, successful but then bombed off-bway. First piece to be entirely created through the workshop/ensembel process. (early artistic response to the war.) American Hurrah much more successful -- a vanity piece by Van Italie which was playtext driven but BASED on some of Chaikin's exercises. Three short one acts, one of which chaikin directed. Where American Hurrah was taugh, scripted and professional; Viet Rock was loose, ironic, et
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Signalled the beginning of the end...
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mostly Robert Patrick, but some other Cino Alum. Stopped its probramming in 1971 because of unsustainabliity. In Alphabet City...a long way from the village.
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text by Van Itallie but created collectively
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opened by Cine Vets right after the Caffe closed...much more career-minded.
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Constructed to include audience participation; a series of 8 rites, rooted in anarchist principles. In the "rite of Universal Intercourse" audienc members "made love, not war"...disrobing in an onstage writhing mass. The show climaxed with audience and performers going outside to retake the streets (if the perf. got that far).
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dir. Schechner; ends w/ orgy based on Euripides The Bacchae
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Due in some part to cabaret license being enforced by councilman Ed Koch
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opens on back of Cino Closing; more career minded...Michael Smith, Doric Wilson, Marshall Mason (dir) wanted to create a stable ensembel of actors and playwrights with sustatinability in mind.
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out of the ashes of the Playwrights Unit
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It was founded in Greenwich Village in 1971 by Steina and Woody Vasulka, taking its name from the original location, the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center, where artists working mostly in video showed their work. Although first intended as a location for the exhibition of video art, but expanded its mission to include other forms of art, both plastic and performance. In 1974, relocated to the corner of Wooster and Broome Streets, then moved to Chelsea in 1987.
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w/ Raymond Andrews
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closes in 2006...now formed a music festival
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Mayor during the near Bankruptcy
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Fire at abandoned elementary school in Harlem; nadir of NY's economic woes, and broadcast on CBS Sports during Yankees Game.
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Begin with mostly choral and litirugic music but move quickly into avant-rock...Bread and Puppet (1985); Cale and Cage's Songs for Drella (1989); Jeff Buckley's Greetings from Tim Buckley (1991); Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy (1992); much music and puppetry; closed in 2000 at the church.
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IN LES...defeated by coalition of social justice advocacy groups.
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moved to E. 4th location in 1984; started as 11 day women's theater festival in 1980...Holly Hughes, Split Britches, etc.
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Next Wave Series started in 1981 with Trischa Brown, Laura Dean, Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass peformances; Laurie Anderson's United States Part I-IV; expands to festival in 83 W/ Lee Beuer's The Gospel at Colonus, then Pina Bausch and Einstein on the Beach in 1984; 1986 - The Civil Wars (Wilson); 1987 - The Mahabharata (Brook); 1996 7 Streams of the River Ota (Lepage); William Forsyth (1998);
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Set in VA Mental War during Vietnam
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2245 (515 in 2011)
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2nd Ave Deli Ownder
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Michael Counts is an artist and entrepreneur who has been a pioneer in alternative theatre, art and entertainment for more than a decade. As co-founder and artistic director of Gale Gates et al he was instrumental in the development of DUMBO, Brooklyn and served as primary architect of the creative identity of this now vibrant cultural district.
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Cab Calloway + Bollywood + 50s love story; move away from sheer physical comedy to more emotional work)
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To You The Birdie (2002); Jennie Richie (2003)...deeper commitment to inter-disciplinary theatre works, in addition to staged concerts and the puppetry program.
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btw 300,000 and 400,000 participants
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Wooster Group in residence...?
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