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Caffe Cino benefit

Title
Caffe Cino benefit [program].
Publication
New York : The Writer's Stage, 1965.

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TextPermit needed Berg Coll+ Caffe C56 1965Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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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
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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
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