Research Catalog

Title

Return to the Caffe Cino / edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Moving Finger Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Susoyev, Steve.
• Birimisa, George.

Description

483 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm

Subject

• Caffe Cino
• Off Off-Broadway theater > History > 20th century
• American drama > 20th century
• American drama
• Intellectual life
• Off Off-Broadway theater
• Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
• New York (State) > New York > Greenwich Village

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "This collection includes two dozen plays introduced at the Cino, memoirs of off-off-Broadway legends, and historic reviews and photographs"--Dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Awards (note)

• Lambda Literary Award, 2008

Contents

• Essays, memoirs and interviews. Magic time / Steve Susoyev ; Making amends / George Birimisa ; The accidental theatre / Wendell C. Stone ; To conquer Broadway / Marshall W. Mason ; Eden / Edward Albee ; To thine own self be true : a conversation with Helen Hanft ; For the audience : a conversation with Tom O'Horgan ; Letter from the Rev. Al Carmines ; I was reborn on Cornelia Street / William H. Hoffman ; Anger management, Cino style / Lucy Silvay ; Joe's gift to the world / Magie Dominic ; Joe Cino's kaleidoscopic stewpot / Dan Leach ; Cino people / Robert Patrick ; Running the balls / Michael Warren Powell ; On aggression / Ronald Tavel ; Succeed or fail without recrimination / Jennie Ventriss ; Cino cuisino / Walter Michael Harris ; This is crazy / Larry Loonin ; Play it for the walls / Crystal Field ; About Johnny Dodd / Michael Smith ; About Michael Smith / Larry Loonin ; The hymn of the evening / Sandra Bigtree ; The playwright was royalty / Bob Shields ; A kid at the Cino : a distant, distinct memory / Perry Brass ; The spring gala 1966, or The horror show / Genji (formerly John) Schmeder ; Young and in love with theatre / Mari-Claire Charba ; The point of acting / Claris Nelson ; Who is this guy Cino? / Jerry Cunliffe ; Gebondoretta / Glenn DuBose ; So, who's afraid of David Starkweather? / Richard Smithies ; A place to say something / Phoebe Wray ; A recollection / David Christmas ; Tribal renaissance / Francis Medicine Story Talbot ; Tom Eyen, the beginning, by his brother / Richard Eyen ; Greenwich Village : the glory days / Robert Heide ; Magic, mystery and madness from San Francisco to the Caffe Cino / John Gilman ; Thank god I'm a pisces / Robert Dahdah
• The plays. A funny walk home / Jeff Weiss ; How "host" happened / Robert Patrick ; The haunted host / Robert Patrick ; Dames at sea / George Haimsohn, Robin Miller, Jim Wise ; Excerpt from Fag hag : an annotation upon William M. Hoffman's Good night, I love you / Lucy Silvay ; Good night, I love you / William M. Hoffman ; Daddy Violet / George Birimisa ; Vinyl / Ronald Tavel ; The clown "a fantasy" / Claris Nelson ; The singing lesson / Daniel Haben Clark ; Who killed my bald sister Sophie? Or: Thank god for small favors! / Tom Eyen ; Sex is between two people / Lanford Wilson ; Hurrah for the bridge = Que viva el puente / Paul Foster ; Medea of the laundromat or The stars may understand / H.M. Koutoukas ; The bed / Robert Heide ; Moon / Robert Heide ; Monuments / Diane di Prima ; Vorspiel nach Marienstein / Michael Smith ; I like it / Michael Smith ; The brown crown / Haal Borske ; Icarus's mother / Sam Shepard ; Now she dances! / Doric Wilson.

Call Number

MWED (New York) 15-1057

ISBN

• 0977421406
• 9780977421404
• 9780977421411 (hbk.)
• 0977421414

OCLC

123453482

Title

Return to the Caffe Cino / edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa.

Imprint

San Francisco, Calif. : Moving Finger Press, 2007.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Awards

Lambda Literary Award, 2008

Added Author

Susoyev, Steve.

Birimisa, George.

Research Call Number

MWED (New York) 15-1057