Recent News
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Lanford Wilson Honored with the 2010 NYIT Award for Artistic Achievement
September 2010
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.
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Dixon Place: A NYC Home for Experimental Theatre
Dixon Place Honored with the 2010 NYIT Foundation Stewardship Award
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.
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Shining a Light on Off-Off Broadway
November 13, 2010
The Wall Street Journal by Amy Zimmer
Filmmaker and Playwright's Documentary Is Center of Project to Bring Awareness to Often Overlooked Theater Scene
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.
