Caffe Cino
by Wendell C Stone

Caffe Cino

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Synopsis

“It’s Magic Time!” That colorful promise began each performance at the Caffe Cino, the storied Greenwich Village coffeehouse that fostered the gay and alternative theatre movements of the 1960s and launched the careers of such stage mainstays as Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Robert Heide, Harry Koutoukas, Robert Patrick, Robert Dahdah, Helen Hanft, Al Pacino, and Bernadette Peters.

As Off-Off-Broadway productions enjoy a deserved resurgence, theatre historian and actor Wendell C. Stone reopens the Cino’s doors in this vibrant look at the earliest days of OOB.

Rife with insider interviews and rich with evocative photographs, Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway provides the first detailed account of Joe Cino’s iconic café theatre and its influence on American theatre.

A hub of artistic innovation and haven for bohemians, beats, hippies, and gays, the café gave a much-sought outlet to voices otherwise shunned by mainstream entertainment.

The Cino’s square stage measured only eight feet, but the dynamic ideas that emerged there spawned the numerous alternative theatre spaces that owe their origins to the risky enterprise on Cornelia Street.

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Publication

Year Published
2005
ISBN 10
0809326450
ISBN 13
9780809326457
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1st
Print Length
264 pages
Place Published
Carbondale
Language
English
LCCN
2004027788
LCC
PN2277.N5 S76 2005
DCC
792/.09747/10904
Print
Caffe Cino is a play written by and published by University of California in Carbondale, 2005. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780809326457 and an ISBN-10 of 0809326450.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle.

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