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Women in theatre.

Title: Women in theatre. Ellen Stewart [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.
Publication: New York : CUNY-TV, c2005.

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1 videodisc (DVD) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Ellen Stewart, founder and artistic director of La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, talks with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Stewart discusses how she created La Mama in New York in 1961 with virtually no financial resources, establishing an environment where American writers and such as Sam Shepard, and Harvey Fierstein, and prominent directors from the international avant-garde found encouragement and a home for their work. Stewart speaks about being subject to frequent raids and arrests during her theater's early days on the grounds that she lacked a license to present entertainment; the acquisition in 1968 of her present headquarters, a dilapidated building on East Fourth St. which she renovated with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation; the "guardian angels," who helped her survive; her arrival in New York City in 1950, and one of her first jobs as an executive in the design department of Saks Fifth Avenue; the vagaries of government funding; and how she has been able to produce such a wide array of theatre on her own terms for over 43 years.

Series Statement

Women in theatre

Alternative Title

Dialogues with notable women in American theatre

Subject

Genre/Form

Television.
Talk shows.
Interviews.

Note

Credits at end of videodisc.
Program is also available at www.cuny.tv
On container: Season 3, episode 11.
"Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."

Performer (note)

Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event (note)

Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Oct. 22, 2004. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, Nov. 18, 2005.

Call Number

NCOX 2326

OCLC

187306486

Title

Women in theatre. Ellen Stewart [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

New York : CUNY-TV, c2005.

Series

Women in theatre

Performer

Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Oct. 22, 2004. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, Nov. 18, 2005.

Local Note

Gift of the League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.

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Added Author

Stewart, Ellen, 1919-2011, interviewee.

Winer, Linda, interviewer.

Robins, Isobel, producer.

Slaughter, Harriet, producer.

Mayleas, Ruth, producer.

Corwin, Betty L, producer.

Isaacson, Robert, producer.

Malone, Audra D, director.

CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.

League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.

City University of New York.

League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.

CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research Call Number

NCOX 2326

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