Off-Off-Broadway explosion

About this book

"In The Off-Off-Broadway Explosion, David Crespy offers the first-ever narrative account of the important movement that started in 1960s New York and eventually spread across America. Here are colorful backstage stories and profiles of the Greenwich Village visionaries who showcased experimental work not welcome on the commercial stage, including the wildly eccentric Cino and Al Carmines, the radical minister of Judson Memorial Church whose Judson Poets Theater was known for the avant-garde musicals conceived by the pastor himself." "Here, too, are intimate accounts and new interviews with the Beat Generation playwrights who transformed theater, including Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Amiri Baraka, Jean-Claude van Italie. Finally, in a special chapter titled "Your Own Off-Off-Broadway," here is advice for how today's playwrights can give voice to their own work and find progressive audiences to appreciate it."--Jacket.