Lanford Wilson is considered one of the founders of the Off-off Broadway theater movement. Wilson began his active career as a playwright in the early 1960s at the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village, writing one-act plays such as Ludlow Fair, Home Free!, and The Madness of Lady Bright. The Madness of Lady Bright premiered at the Caffe Cino in May 1964. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Dixon Place was founded in 1986 by Ellie Covan to provide a space for literary and performing artists to create and develop new works in front of a live audience, and it remains at the heart of the New York experimental performance scene. Taking risks is crucial to the life of Dixon Place, its artists and audiences.
November 13, 2010 fromThe Wall Street Journal by Amy Zimmer
Each year, an estimated 350 Off-Off Broadway theater companies spend more than $30 million producing some 1,700 shows. Yet, when Frank Kuzler stopped to ask people on the streets of Lower Manhattan last weekend whether they had even heard of Off-Off Broadway, few had any clue.
DecadesOut, Inc., a nonprofit organization that develops and promotes programs that examine the intersection of the arts and science, has named a pair of high-visibility members to its board of directors.
Jan Rozenveld, managing director at the Ace Hotel, and Sue Torres, owner and executive chef at Sueños restaurant in Chelsea, have joined the board as the group moves into its second year. They will contribute to the direction of the organization and provide comments on new projects and programs.
"It's exciting to have input from a pair of such successful, connected New Yorkers as Jan and Sue," said Frank Kuzler, executive director, DecadesOut, based in lower Manhattan. "They provide a valuable combination of artistic sensibility and business sense, and we believe they will play an important role in shaping and building DecadesOut in the years to come."
Our friends from Decades Out, a non-profit organization focusing on the development of film and theatre projects based on socially relevant topics of a humanitarian and scientific nature are producing a reading of the plays in NYC. Each of the plays ties together science and art in new, provocative and beautiful ways. The plays are free and donations are accepted.
Decades Out is working with us and has generously offered to donate half of all proceeds from the donations for Haiti Relief.
Read more: DecadesOut Works with Beholders Group to Benefit Haiti
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