tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post98644624268649739..comments2024-03-23T10:31:52.756-04:00Comments on Rick On Theater: Greenwich Village Theater in the 1960s (Part 1)Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-23648096084516147322023-09-17T17:00:30.070-04:002023-09-17T17:00:30.070-04:00Anon.:
That's easy: I've never even heard...Anon.:<br /><br />That's easy: I've never even heard of Mannhardt or her foundation. Neither came up in my research, so they didn't get a mention. I'm not omniscient. <br /><br />Sorry.<br /><br />~Rick Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-70604071697890776672023-09-16T10:39:30.789-04:002023-09-16T10:39:30.789-04:00Fascinating information, but why no info about Ren...Fascinating information, but why no info about Renata Mannhardt, good friend of Ingrid Bergman, and founder of the Mannhardt Theater Foundation, OOB, with the Frenchman John Chace as original director, until he and Mannhardt had a bitter breakup in 1969 or 1970?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-70133530644751334782023-05-04T15:03:17.193-04:002023-05-04T15:03:17.193-04:00On 4 May 2023, the New York Times published the ob...On 4 May 2023, the New York Times published the obituary of playwright Robert Patrick, who died at 85 on 23 April in Los Angeles, where he had been living since the 1990s.<br /><br />The cause of the prolific dramatist's death was given by the paper as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.<br /><br />The Times characterized Patrick as "a wildly prolific playwright who rendered gay (and straight) life with caustic wit, an open heart and fizzy camp."<br /><br />In its beginning, Patrick's theater career was "intertwined with that of Caffe Cino, the West Village coffee shop that was the accidental birthplace of Off Off Broadway theater," wrote Penelope Green.<br /><br />(See my posts on the early Greenwich Village theater scene, 12 and 15 Dec. 2011, and the Caffe Cino, 11 and 14 Sept. 2018.)<br /><br />~RickRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-72099103655367074552015-03-14T17:22:26.900-04:002015-03-14T17:22:26.900-04:00Thanks, Ms. Dominic. (Sorry it's too late to ...Thanks, Ms. Dominic. (Sorry it's too late to attend, though.)<br /><br />(This is a link to a release about an NYU Fales Library lecture by Ms. Dominic, "Off-Off Broadway’s Origins at Caffé Cino," last Wednesday, 11 March.)<br /><br />~RickRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-12286566913996813672015-03-14T15:52:41.198-04:002015-03-14T15:52:41.198-04:00http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/20...http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/02/18/off-off-broadways-origins-at-caff-cino-lecture-at-nyu-fales-library-march-11th-630p.html<br />Magie Dominichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13470003543484803059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-80598661724475113932013-10-22T14:47:43.486-04:002013-10-22T14:47:43.486-04:00On 19 Oct. 2013, the website Broadwayworld.com pos...On 19 Oct. 2013, the website Broadwayworld.com posted the obituary of Ralph Cook, founder of Theatre Genesis, one of the progenitors of Off-Off-Broadway. Cook died on 23 September at the age of 85.<br /><br />"Ralph Cook, Founder of Theater Genesis, a Father of Off-Off Broadway, Dies at 85"<br /><br />"The New York Times writes that Ralph Cook, founder of Theater Genesis and one of the pioneers of the off-off Broadway movement, died on September 23, 2013 of Alzheimer's disease. He was 85.<br /><br />"'Here, now, in Lower Manhattan, the phenomenon is taking place; the beginning, the genesis of a cultural revolution,' Cook wrote in the early '60s, talking about the artists and work that surrounded him.<br /><br />"Theater Genesis launched in 1964 with two one-act plays -- Cowboys and The Rock Garden -- both by a then-unknown, 20-year-old Sam Shepard. The theater began at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, and alongside Caffe Cino, Judson Poets Theater, La MaMa and more, it helped create the foundation of what we know today as the off-off Broadway scene.<br /><br />"After Sam Shepard, Theater Genesis fostered writers such as Leonard Melfi, Murray Mednick and Tony Barsha. After Cook left in 1969, playwrights ran Theater Genesis until 1978, when the theater at St. Marks began hosting the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Incubator Arts Project now creates in the space.<br /><br />"Cook is survived by his wife, Patricia Larsen, his two sons, Randall and Paul, and seven grandchildren."<br /><br />A fuller account of Cook's life and achievements appears in the New York Times obituary, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/theater/ralph-cook-a-pioneer-of-off-off-broadway-dies-at-85.html.<br /><br />~RickRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.com