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JUDSON POETS THEATRE From Left: Madeline Kahn, Shannon Bolin, Ty McConnell and Gilbert Price in Promenade by Al Carmines, directed by Larry Kornfeld

THEATRE GENESIS Lee Kissman (center) in an unidentified play.

Painting of one of the most important early gay theatres (1977-2009), THEATRE RHINOCEROS’, first home at 330 Grove Street, San Francisco. It opened with LANFORD WILSON’s The Madness of Lady Bright. Shared by co-founder Lanny Baugniet.

Harvey Fierstein, THEATRE RHINOCEROS co-founders Lanny Baugniet and Allan Estes, and director J. Kevin Hanlon. “The Rhino,” as it was called, premiered Harvey’s Fugue in a Nursery.

THE W.P.A. THEATRE on the Bowery. Created by Virginia Aquino, Harry Orzello, Albert Poland, and Martin Reymert. Joseph Renard’s The Word of God. Center, Gary Swartz.

Joseph Renard’s A Boy Name Dog Left: Joseph Renard W.P.A.

Josef Bush’s Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, directed by Hugh Gittens W.P.A.

Tony Bastiano’s second, downstairs theatre, BASTIANO’S STUDIO, NYC, early 1970s–Andy Milligan’s play, Bitch, based on his “lost” movie, The Bitch. Like most Milligan productions, it has an interesting history. It first featured actress Estelle Getty, whom Andy fired for being late to a rehearsal. He changed the character’s gender and played it himself. Alas, we have no photos of him in the play, nor any of Joe Davies and Clio Young, who also appeared. We do, however, through the generosity of Gary Swartz, have this shot of Gary with the actresses (l. to r.) Emily Casanova, Sandra Kane, and Patricia Earnest (the blonde).

KING’S HEAD THEATRE PUB, London. Created by American Dan Crawford. My Play-By-Play, 1975. L. to R.: Robin Asquith, Frank Thornton, Sheila Hancock. Like so many of my plays, this one about the rivalries and jealousies that go on in the minds of actors onstage was based on things I observed at the Cino (listening to actors grumble in that tiny dressing room).

CHARLES STANLEY as LANFORD WILSON’s Lady Bright, Mercury Theatre, London, 1968, with David Groh watching. The play toured with Lanford’s Home Free with CLARIS NELSON and MICHAEL WARREN POWELL (picture HERE). Both were directed by MARSHALL W. MASON.

THE TRAVERSE THEATRE, Edinburgh, founded by American, Jim Haynes, in 1963. Right photo: Slab Boys by John Byrne, 1978.

SCHAUSPIELHAUS, Vienna, opened 1974 with Kennedy’s Children.

…and of course Circle Repertory Company