Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
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The Magic Theatre was founded in 1967 in Berkeley, Calif., with a production of Eugene Ionesco's, The Lesson, by a group of University of California, Berkeley graduate students, headed by John Lion, who had an interest in the newly emerging, avant-garde European playwrights, including Ionesco, Genet, and Beckett. They had no intention of starting a theatre, but with the success of The Lesson, the company moved into the Steppenwolf Bar on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, and began producing plays as the Magic Theatre, a name adopted from Hesse's novel, Steppenwolf.
From the description of Magic Theatre records, 1967-2000. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214973585
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creatorOf | Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA). Magic Theatre records, 1967-2000. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
referencedIn | Sterling Houston Papers MS 218., 1926-2006, 1973-2006 | The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries . Special Collections |
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associatedWith | Houston, Sterling, 1945- |
associatedWith | Lion, John. |
associatedWith | McClure, Michael. |
associatedWith | Online Archive of California. |
associatedWith | Shepard, Sam, 1943- |
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