Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway(Limelight). Written under the auspices of The Lucille Lortel Foundation, this book is the first biography of the grande dame of avant garde theater. Lucille Lortel became a leader of a burgeoning Off Broadway movement during the 1950s and '60s and one of the few women of her generation to be a significant player in New York City theater. |
Contents
A Young Woman of the Theatre | 1 |
Breaking In | 21 |
An Unlikely Marriage | 53 |
The White Barn Theatre | 79 |
A Theatre in Greenwich Village | 113 |
The Queen of Off Broadway | 133 |
Passages | 191 |
On Her Own | 217 |
Of Renewal Honors and Gifts | 241 |
A Walk on Broadway | 277 |
On the Wings of a Dream | 305 |
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