Ellen Stewart Presents: Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre

Notes

Rrelates the history of La MaMa through its performance posters, capturing the irreverence and the aesthetic of La MaMa over five decades.

Artist / Author Cindy Rosenthal
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
ISBN 978-0472117420
Reference P3611
Date 2017
Type Publication

Keywords

Andrei Serban Angels of Swedenborg avant-garde black experimental Great Jones Repertory Company history La Mama Medea New York New York times Off-Off Broadway race Richard Schechner Sam Shepard Tadeuz Kantor theatre Tom O'Horgan USA women

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