Cino Nights Recalls Rise of Downtown Happening

Written by Doug Strassler on June 26, 2012. Posted in NY Press Exclusive

This Thursday at 6pm, midtown’s Drama Book Shop will host a reading and book signing of Cino Nights: Plays from Rising Phoenix Rep, in honor of the publication of the first anthology of plays performed over the course of the last two years at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village. The event, like all
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La MaMa Throws Itself a Gala 50th Birthday and the Theater Community Helps

Written by admin on October 20, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Theater

By Wickham Boyle La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and its founder, the marvelous, mercurial Ellen Stewart—well, if you know them, they need no introduction. It’s like saying “Thomas Edison” and “electricity.” But if you don’t, here are the Cliff’s Notes. Stewart was a hopeful African-American fashion design student who came from Chicago to New York
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Unruly Memories

Written by Mark Peikert on September 24, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Theater

With its usual artful sleuthing, The Keen Company has unearthed a half-forgotten American treasure: a memory play that, in its current production at Theatre Row, makes a resounding case for its being mentioned in the same breath as The Glass Menagerie. The play is Lanford Wilson’s Lemon Sky, and the production is as close to
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