Program for two plays produced during the 1959-60 season at the Living Theatre. "Tonight We Improvise" directed by Julian Beck with the assistance from the living theatre company including Jackson MacLow ; and "The Connection," by Jack Gelber, directed by Judith Malina, designed by Julian Beck, lighting by Nikola Cernovich, and music by Freddie Redd. ... [details]
Program for three plays produced during the 1959-60 season at the Living Theatre. "The Theatre of Chance I : The Marrying Maiden," by Jackson MacLow, directed by Judith Malina, designed by Julian Beck, lighting by Nikola Cernovich, and music by John Cage with the assistance of Richard Maxfield ; "The Theatre of Chance II : Women of Trachis," by Sophocles, a version by Ezra Pound, directed and designed by Julian Beck, music by Lucia Dlugoszewski, lighting by Nikola Cernovich, film by Willard Maas and Marie Menken ; and "The Connection," by Jack Gelber, directed by Judith Malina, designed by Julian Beck, lighting by Nikola Cernovich, and music by Freddie Redd. ... [details]
Program for two plays produced during the 1959 season at the Living Theatre. "The Cave at Machpelah" by Paul Goodman, directed and designed by Julian Beck with dances by Merce Cunningham ; and "Many Loves" by William Carlos Williams, directed and designed by Julian Beck. ... [details]
Flyer / announcement published in conjunction with a series of performances held August 8, [1960]. Featuring readings of new plays by Diane Di Prima, Frank O'Hara, and Stephen De Naut; and music, dance and theatre events by George Brecht, Nicola Cernovich, David Gordon, John Herbert McDowell, and James Waring. ... [details]
Flyer / announcement published in conjunction with "a fun show for children" held April 18, 19, 22, and 23, [1960]. Performers included Aileen Armstrong, Sudie Bond, Shirley Kaplan, and Judith Martin. ... [details]
Program for three plays produced during the 1951-1952 season at the Living Theatre. "Desire (Trapped by the Tail)" by Pablo Picasso, directed by Judith Malina, settings and costumes by Julian Beck, choreography by Jim Smith, music by Lucille Dlugoszewski, lighting by Steven Meyer and Jack Ferris, cast includes John Ashbery and Frank O'hara in the rolls of The Two Bow-Wows and The Curtains. ... [details]
Oversized flyer / handbill published in conjunction with three performances by David Tudor at The Living Theatre held on March 28 featuring compositions by Sylvano Bussotti, Cornelius Cardew, Franco Evangelisti, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Bo Nilsson, Kurt Schwertsik, and Karlheinz Stockhausen; April 4 featuring compositions by John Cage and Christian Wolff; and April 11 featuring compositions by David Behrman, Cornelius Cardew, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Henri Pousseur, Stockausen, and La Monte Young (performed with assistance of Cage and Ichiyanagi). ... [details]
A single-sided handbill / flyer for Cage's first reading of "Silence" with text reading :
The Living Theatre and Wesleyan University Press present
"Where Are We Going?
And What Are We Doing?"
4 lectures given simultaneously
JOHN CAGE
celebrating the publication of his book of essays,
"Silence"
November 6, 1961
9 : 00 P.
...
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A history of the The Living Theatre, written in [1960]. [details]