Buy this book on-line Stone, Wendell C : CAFFE CINO: THE BIRTHPLACE OF OFF-OFF-BROADWAYSouthern Illinois University, 2005 ISBN 9780809326457
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "It's Magic Time!" That colorful promise began each performance at the Caff e Cino, the storied Greenwich Village coffeehouse that fostered the gay and alternative theatre movements of the 1960s and launched the careers of suc h stage mainstays as Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Robert Heide, Harry Kouto ukas, Robert Patrick, Robert Dahdah, Helen Hanft, Al Pacino, and Bernadette Peters. As Off-Off-Broadway productions enjoy a deserved resurgence, theat re historian and actor Wendell C. Stone reopens the Cino's doors in this vi brant look at the earliest days of OOB. Rife with insider interviews and rich with evocative photographs, Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway provides the first detailed account of Joe Cino's iconic café theatre and its influence on American theatre. A hub of artistic innovation and haven for bohemians, beats, hippies, and gays, the café gave a much-sought outlet to voices otherwise shunned by mainstream entertainment. The Cino's square stage measured only eight feet, but the dynamic ideas that emerged there spawned the numerous alternative theatre spaces that owe their origins to the risky enterprise on Cornelia Street., Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Stone, Wendell C : CAFFE CINO: THE BIRTHPLACE OF OFF-OFF-BROADWAY. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, libri rari, out of print books, first editions and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |