Mark Hall Amitin/ World of Culture for the Performing Arts, Inc. Archive 1946-2001

Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003

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Joseph Chaikin, director. From the description of Tourists & refugees no. 2: typescript, 1981. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608322 Written by director Joseph Chaikin, and others. From the description of Tourists and refugees: a collaborative theater piece: typescript, 1980. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122580878 ...

Zaloom, Paul

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Squat Theatre (Theater group)

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Squat Theatre began in 1969 as the Kassak Studio in Budapest, Hungary. Pressured by the Hungarian government because of its political and aesthetic radicalism, the group left Hunagry in 1976. Calling itself Elephant Theatre, the troupe performed in western Europe. After a year, the group emigrated to the United States where they adobted the name Squat Theatre. In 1978 Squat received an Obie Award for its original piece entitled Pig, Child, Fire. From the description of Squat Theatre ...

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Van Itallie, Jean-Claude, 1936-....

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Van Itallie is a Belgian-born American playwright and Harvard graduate (1958). From the description of Plays, [before 1969] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78544797 From the guide to the Plays, before 1969., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie was born in Brussels, Belgium on May 25, 1936. He emigrated to the United States at the age of four, grew up in Great Neck, Lon...

Stoler, Shirley

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World of Culture, Ltd.

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Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)

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The Living Theatre, founded by Judith Malina and Julian Beck in 1947, produced avant-garde plays performed in New York theaters until 1963, when they were shut down by the IRS for failing to pay taxes. After a worldwide tour, the Living Theatre settled in Berlin in 1965. The company toured the United States in 1968. After touring Brazil and Europe, the Living Theatre came back to New York in May 1989 where it has its present home. From the guide to the Living Theatre designs, 1948-19...

Lee, Franne, 1941-

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Franne Lee (born 1941) has had a distinguished and varied career as a costume and production designer for theater, film, and television, as well as a producer and visual artist. Born in the Bronx, Lee initially studied art at the University of California, Berkeley, but, while studying painting at the University of Wisconsin, she was recruited to create sets for the theater department and switched her focus to set and costume design. Her professional career began in Phila...

Universal Movement Theater Repertory.

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Le Plan K.

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Malina, Judith, 1926-....

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Judith Malina, director, producer, poet, and actress, was born in Kiel, Germany and emigrated to New York before the War. In 1948 she was married to the painter Julian Beck, and together they founded The Living Theatre. The Living Theatre had its inaugural season in 1951 at the Cherry Lane Theatre and later moved to a loft on 100th Street. The company, which was dedicated to a non-commercial theater that would be a part of the community and perform the works of contempor...

Beck, Julian, 1925-1985

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San Francisco mime troupe

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Founded in 1959, theatrical group based in San Francisco. One of the oldest surviving radical theater groups in the U.S. Extensive documentation of San Francisco Mime Troupe's activities from the first ten years in substantial portion of collection. From the description of Archives, 1961-2000. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 47926865 ...

Teatro Campesino (Organization)

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El Teatro Campesino began in 1965 with short performances in the fields of California's Central Valley for audiences of farmworkers. By 1970 the Teatro had gained an international reputation and had inspired the formation of many other Chicano/Hispanic theater companies. It is now considered the most influencial of such theater companies. From the description of Teatro Campesino archives, 1965-1988. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 213870281 ...

Amitin, Mark Hall

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Mark Hall Amitin received his doctoral degree from the Université Paris VIII in 1978. He went on to present lectures and workshops at universities in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Asia. He worked as a consultant and producer for several major theatre festivals, including the American College Theatre Festival, the Rhode Island Theatre Festival, the Festival Mondial du Théâtre in Nancy, France, and the New Theatre Festival in Baltimore. He has published articles on theatre...

Albee, Edward, 1928-....

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Playwright. Alan Schneider b. 1917, d. 1984. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Albee and Alan Schneider : oral history, [1960-1961?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147359 American author, director and producer, Edward Albee has won numerous awards for his plays. From the description of Edward Albee scripts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652505 Edward Albee, playwright. ...

Bread and Puppet Theater

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West German immigrant Peter Schumann (1934-) founded the Bread and Puppet Theater in New York in 1961. Influenced by the peace movement in New York, Schumann wrote radical anti-war plays for his puppet theater. He incorporated religion and morality into the central anti-war theme of the plays. The Bread and Puppet Theater offered bread, baked by the group, to the audience at the beginning of every performance. Schumann declared that theater was as basic to life as bread, hence the nam...

Facinelli, Peter, 1973-....

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Kipper Kids (Group of artists)

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Buscemi, Steve, 1958-

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