Venues Inspired By The Cino

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LA MAMA, TOSOS II, and THE GLINES HERE and HERE.

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THE OLD RELIABLE THEATRE TAVERN was where the most Cino People moved. Above, my Joyce Dynel shows the freedom an Off-Off  theatre took for granted by 1969.  Six people played Christ, including Joe Pichette crucified on a bodybuilder, and Old Reliable Theatre Tavern founder Kenny Hill at the Last Supper.  Our stage was the Tavern’s tables, and Jerusalem was the Lower East Side. Jeanine O’Reilly, above as Salome to Neil Flanagan’s John the Baptist, said “The theatre is just two doors past the burning car,” and “The reason we get such big audiences is, people are afraid to come to the neighborhood alone.”

Smitty (J. Smith) behind the counter at his L.A. DEJA VU coffeehouse theatre, with the stage set for Ross McLean’s Nelson 76, which much predated “The Simpsons.”

Nelson 76: 4th cast member from the left is Ned Van Zandt.

From “December Wedge” at the Deja Vu, 1978. Dave Nicholson, author Ross MacLean,, Deborah Klose

William Houck’s Birds of Prey opened my Heterosexual Series at Smitty’s next-door FIFTH ESTATE. Merrill Harris’ BAR DYKES and Carol Nelson’s POM-POM made a rich and controversial double bill. Photos: Sarah Smiley

Ken Livingstone’s GALIMAUFRY Theatre, Vancouver, Wayne Robson, Elizabeth Murphy, semi-nude in my Camera Obscura. Scandal, top left, this PAGE. 2001 performance of “Camera Obscura” HERE.

Carol Nelson “Marilyn Monroe,” comforted by Irma St. Paule “Georgia O’Keeffe” in my The Beaux Arts Ball. N.Y.’s THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY.

Ann Sachs settles the unsettling west in my Mirage at Antoni Bastiano’s THE PLAYWRIGHTS WORKSHOP CLUB, New York, directed by Ted Mornel, photo by James D. Gossage.

I’m sitting between Ron Hitchcock and Daryl Hale with the company at their AT THE DRAMA SHELTER theatre in Chicago. Daryl was Joe Cino’s friend in New York.

THE DRAMA SHELTER theatre in Chicago poster for my Judas.

Steve Schemmel (in green shirt), brought me and Quentin Crisp to Phoenix.

Steve (center) starred as “Pontius Pilate” in my Judas at his JANUS THEATRE (left, David Weiss; right, unidentified player).

Andrea Fine, Yvonne Bryceland (South Africa’s finest actress) and me in THE SPACE/DIE RUIMTE in Capetown. Photo by her husband/partner Brian Astbury.

THE SPACE/DIE RUIMTE in Capetown poster for my Kennedy’s Children.

At NORMAN HARTMAN’s OLD RELIABLE THEATRE TAVERN. Connie Clark and Joe Pichette in William M. Hoffman’s comic revue, Uptight.

At NORMAN HARTMAN’s OLD RELIABLE THEATRE TAVERN. Lamar Alford and Barbara Montgomery in Neil Flanagan’s comic-book production, Puddnhead Wilson.

Unidentified and Denny Leone in my A Bad Place to Get Your Head, DOVE COMPANY, NYC.

Lynn Oliver sprawls before 1st man Lou Trapani, 3rd man Ron Carrier, 4th man Andy Milligan, 6th man Gary Swartz who shared this photo, 7th Ned Van Zandt, 8th Harry Orzello in Joe Renard’s World War Zero at Andy’s TROUPE THEATRE.

Tyrone Clark and Aaron Mason, shall we say, confront? in my Untied States at Denver’s CHANGING SCENE.

MICHAEL SMITH’s production of WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN’S XXXXXX at Denver’s Changing Scene Theatre.

My Blue Is For Boys played four Cino-inspred venues. Here’s the cast of the fourth production at Elaine Gold’s CORNER LOFT in New York, 1986.