Moving On In Many Ways

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You can see lovely EDITH LAURIE’s photo with actress CLARA HOOVER in Ms. Laurie’s 1964 Cino show, The War Against Women, in the right picture in the third row on this PAGE. It seems Ms. Laurie did not live long after that, for in 1966 her parents dedicated the Edith Laurie Experimental Theater in her memory at Brandeis, where this portrait hangs.Painting: Aaron Berkman.

AIDS Quilt panels for KENNY BURGESS, BILL HAISLIP, and CHARLES LOUBIER.

Cino People MICHAEL SMITH (author.director) and DONALD L. BROOKS (scenic designing) did a play, Trouble, at Theater for the New City in — THE CINO THEATER!!!! See more stills and read the play HERE.

1982–TOM EYEN accepts a Tony for “Best Book of a Musical” for “Dreamgirls.”

2005 introduced the Cino Award from New York Innovative Theatre Awards.
ROBERT HEIDE presents the first one to, appropriately, DORIC WILSON.

The Vampire Cowboys Troupe won the CINO FELLOWSHIP from Innovative Theatre for 2006

Santa Barbara 2007. MICHAEL SMITH’s son Alfred with Laurel Lyle in Michael’s play, Bad Dog, and Susan Keller in Michael’s 1966 Cino play, More, More, I Want More, script >HERE.

Above, a plaque recently mounted on the building at 31 Cornelia Street. Unveiling and celebration photos HERE.

May 25, 2007: DONNA FORBES/DESETTA and DAVID CHRISTMAS of the Caffe Cino Dames at Sea (1966) introduce BOB DAHDAH (right), who directed it, honored as “The Father of Off-Off Broadway,” at Peculiar Works Project’s A Bang for Your Buck! reception and gala show.

July 8, 2007, NYC: TV show “In the Life” stages a Cino reunion at the Po Restaurant on the former Cino site. a: LANFORD WILSON, b: ROBERT PATRICK, c: BOB HEIDE, d: DORIC WILSON, e: WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN, f: MARSHALL W. MASON, g: CLARIS NELSON, h: JOHN GILMAN. See the show HERE. ,

Clockwise from top left: GLENN DUBOSE, LARRY LOONIN, PAUL FOSTER, and DANIEL HABEN CLARK are among the many people already interviewed by director/producer Mark Waren for his projected Cino documentary, Do What You Have To Do. See slideshow HERE.

Moving on, Indeed. Unidentifiable Off-Off and other mourners at a wake for H.M. KOUTOUKAS at Judson Church, March 2010. See DONALD L. BROOKS’ brief VIDEO of the wake.

2010 La Mama. From right to left BOB DAHDAH, playwright Barbara Kahn, DORIC WILSON, BOB HEIDE, WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN, and two young gay producers at a showing of my DVD lecture on “Caffe Cino: Birthplace of Gay Theatre.”

MATT BAYLOR’s favorite things displayed after his death at Marie’s Crisis, and a tag on his favorite bar stool. Matt performed there as a glitter character called “Flash” for many years. Photos from PETER RATRAY.

Photo by MARI-CLAIRE CHARBA of TOM O’HORGAN’s favorite Union Square people-watching bench.
TOM’S MEMORIAL BENCH LOCATION: UNION SQUARE PARK….(WHICH COVERS WEST 14TH TO 17TH STREET). THE BENCH IS LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE PARK NEAR THE 16TH STREET ENTRANCE
Click on the above^ image of the bench to see a weird playlet about this bench. Click HERE to see Tom on this bench.

SEE Marshall and Danny’s Civil Wedding Video HERE.

LISA BETH TALBOT of “Herrengasse” and “Sometime Jam Today” ended her own life in the 1990s.

MICHAEL SMITH’s memoir of his friend and lover, JOHN P. DODD