Cino Actors Elsewhere Off-Off

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Caffe Cino stars, like all Off-Off actors, played in many venues. For starters, IRVING METZMAN (The Brown Crown) donated three far-flung images of himself.

IRVING hooded at far left and EDDIE BARTON (A Letter from Colette) barechested at far right in an unidentified play at Theater for the New City. Center couple are George Bartinieff and JOYCE AARON.

Left, IRVING as the corrupt TV spokesperson Arnold Bliss in my Dynel at Norman Hartman’s Old Reliable Theatre Tavern. Right, JEANNE LANSON (The Spring Horror Show) and IRVING made their stage debuts in ROBERTA SKLAR’s production of my The Sleeping Bag with beautiful Stephanie Gordon at Tony Bastiano’s original, upstairs Playwrights Workshop. Photo: JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

NORMAN THOMAS MARSHALL as Gorilla Queen, with other cast members of the show which started at Judson Church. This is probably publicity for the Off-Broadway move.

At the Playbox Studio, BILL HAISLIP and JACQUE LYNN COLTON in JOSEF BUSH’s terrifying Evening Raga.

WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN, Joe Pichette, and NEIL FLANAGAN in Hoffman’s X’s, The Old Reliable.

DAN LEACH (right) and others torment a transvestite in GEORGE BIRMISA’s Georgie Porgie, Village Arena.

My The Haunted Host with Joseph Pichette and NEIL FLANAGAN was the first and last play to be done at the Castle Theatre, 1969.

NEIL FLANAGAN, BOB SHIELDS, MARY WORONOV, and HELEN HANFT rehearsed but did not get to open my The Sleeping Bag at Bastiano’s basement venue for his second Playwrights Workshop, 1967.

BILL HAISLIP and Barbara Bauer appeared in my The Golden Circle, the first and last play to be done at The Spring Street Players, 1972.

CHUCK GOLDEN and a beardless JOE DAVIES first and second from left top row, and a clean-cut HAAL BORSKE fifth in Laugh With Leacock at the 13th Street and East End theatres, 1962. They also played the Cino and La Mama.

DORIC WILSON’s star JANE LOWRY (standing) in an N.F. Simpson play at the Jan Hus Theatre, 1961.

MICHAEL WARREN POWELL in CLARIS NELSON’s A Road Where the Wolves Run, Circle Rep, 1972.

Many Cino People “hit The Old Reliable Theatre Tavern.” NEIL FLANAGAN and VICTOR LIPARI were John the Baptist and Bobby Dylan in my Joyce Dynel. BILL HAISLIP and Jeffrey Herman found each other in my Fog. JOHN BORSKE and WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN played in Neil’s comic-book production, Pudd’n'head Wilson.

Left: MATT BAYLOR and Rosemary King in The Naked Heart. Right: Robert Quarry is wooed by KEITH CARSEY in Splinters. Both plays at The Cooperative Theatre Club, 1967. Center: KEITH CARSEY watches GLENN DU BOSE dance in South Pacific at Kennebunkport Playhouse, Maine, 1961.

Joe Chaikin paints JOYCE AARON in SAM SHEPARD’s Fourteen Hundred Thousand at Theatre Genesis.

It seems fitting to close this page with a tribute to the actor who worked everywhere. CHARLES STANLEY was a tragedian, a comedian, a dancer, and a travesty actor–sometimes all at once–so he seemed to fit in everywhere. Above you see him at left at Theatre Genesis in his own King of the Sun, at far right at Judson Church in Black and White and Sparkle Plenty with his frequent collaborator, DEBORAH LEE, and center, that’s CHARLES’ mop of hair poking out of a gigantic cloak at Westbeth in JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE’s A Fable. CHARLES certainly did fit in everywhere. AL CARMINES asked my help informing people of CHARLES’ death. I called 30 or 40 men and women CHARLES had worked with, most of whom gasped, “He was my lover, you know.” King of the Sun photo by JAMES D. GOSSAGE.