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Caffe Cino benefit
- Title
- Caffe Cino benefit [program].
- Publication
- New York : The Writer's Stage, 1965.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll+ Caffe C56 1965 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Description
- 12 p. ; ill.; 28 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Cafe Cino benefit
- Subjects
- Note
- Performance March 15, 1965.
- Front wrapper illustrated by "Ansel."
- Writer's Stage Theatre location, 82 East 4th Street, on front of depicted coffee cup.
- A benefit performance for Cino's coffee house, which had been damaged in a fire earlier that year. Plays to be performed include "Or Harry Can Dance," by Lanford Wilson, and plays by "house authors" H. M. Koutoukas, Paul Foster, David Starkweather, et al. Origins of Off-Off Broadway are generally credited to the productions at Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, which was also a venue for gay theater. Caffe Cino opened in 1958, and became the performing, improvising home of playwrights Wilson, Sam Shepard, John Guare, Marshall W. Mason, et al., and of actors Al Pacino, Bernadette Peters, Harvey Keitel et al.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Binding (note)
- Staple bound paper wrappers with illustration of double-headed phoenix, each face wearing, respectively, mask of tragedy and comedy, the body comprised of stage curtains and dining utensils, rising from flames in a cup of coffee.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Caffe C56 1965
- OCLC
- 855221659
- Title
- Caffe Cino benefit [program].
- Imprint
- New York : The Writer's Stage, 1965.
- Binding
- Staple bound paper wrappers with illustration of double-headed phoenix, each face wearing, respectively, mask of tragedy and comedy, the body comprised of stage curtains and dining utensils, rising from flames in a cup of coffee.
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission in holding division.
- Local Note
- Berg Collection copy with a page of "Additional Notes" laid-in.
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- Cover Title
- Cafe Cino benefit
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll+ Caffe C56 1965