Lucille Lortel The Queen of off Broadway

Name: Lucille Lortel The Queen of off Broadway
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ISBN: 9780879103026

ISBN-10: 0879103027

ISBN-13: 9780879103026

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alexis Greene

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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.

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Alexis Greene, of New York City, is an author, editor, theater critic, and dramaturg, with a special interest in theater and women's history.

Since 1986 confirmed New York theatergoers have been aware of the Lucille Lortel Awards, which are presented annually to honor the best play and the best musical of the Off Broadway season. After pursuing an acting career, which she later decided was not the career through which she could best express her talents and needs, she married and became a producer and a theater owner first, of the White Barn in Westport, CT, and later Off Broadway of the Theatre de Lys. There, combining her intuitive knowledge of theater, her taste for the off-beat, her charm and her risk-taking fearlessness, she became a leader of a burgeoning Off Broadway movement during the 1950s and '60s and one of the few…