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1965: JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE's "War" played but one performance, for the Cino burned after its opening night. Here are GERRY RAGNI, Jerome Dempsey. and JANE LOWRY in a production at Barr-Albee-Wilder Playwrights Unit on Van Dam Street, December 22 and 23, 1963. In the Cino production, JOHN COE replaced Dempsey.

1965: JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE’s “War” played but one performance, for the Cino burned after its opening night. Here are GERRY RAGNI, Jerome Dempsey. and JANE LOWRY in a production at Barr-Albee-Wilder Playwrights Unit on Van Dam Street, December 22 and 23, 1963. In the Cino production, JOHN COE replaced Dempsey.

Immediately following "The Family Joke," LANFORD WILSON's "Ludlow Fair," a rich portrait of plain roommate JENNY VENTRISS and pretty one MARTHA GALPHIN, representing the other extreme of Cino style from KOUTOUKAS' camp: a warm, wise, sentimental "poetic realsm" as producer Richard Barr later termed it. Photo by JAMES D. GOSSAGE.
Village Voice, June 29, 1965. The Cino burned down and all seemed lost, but the Off-Off Broadway community rallied with numerous benefit shows to pay for reconstruction. In the meantime, ELLEN STEWART gave Joe her theatre to produce a number of shows in, including RUTH KRAUSE's, a review of which follows.
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