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On March 12, 1964, Café La MaMa was officially renamed La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (La MaMa E.T.C). The "passing of the hat" ended with this transition from café to a members-only club. [5] Even operating as a club, this space was often visited by civic authorities, frequently interrupting performances.
Ellen Stewart (November 7, 1919 – January 13, 2011) [1] was an American theatre director and producer and the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. [2] During the 1950s, she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor, and Henri Bendel.
The Great Jones Repertory Company is the Repertory Company of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. The company is named after Great Jones Street, where La MaMa's rehearsal building is located. As described on their website, the company is an "intergenerational, racially and ethnically diverse ...
The Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Program is a fall semester study away program of Trinity College [1] based at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club [2] in New York City.The program is part of the Trinity College Office of Study Away, with students from various other liberal arts colleges enrolled in the program every year.
Jones joined La Mama Theatre in 1973 as a performer and administrator and acted in a number of productions. She took over from Betty Burstall [4] as artistic director in late 1976 and remained in that role until 2023. [5] [6] In 1985 in an effort to redress gender balance, she found six women directors to workshop plays, half of them by women. [4]
Stewart's enthusiasm for the theater project quickly eclipsed her own initial idea for the boutique", and La MaMa was born. [5] The theater moved around Manhattan's East Village multiple times before settling into its current space at 74A East Fourth Street in 1969.
In recent years, La Mama artists such as The Rabble, Daniel Schlusser and Nicola Gunn have gone on to perform at the Melbourne International Festival and Melbourne Theatre Company's NEON Festival of Independent Theatre. La Mama veteran Jack Charles continues to work across the country, and in 2013 La Mama regular Ben Grant was touring ...
In late 1971, Geiogamah formed a theater company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City's East Village.La MaMa was the first all-Native repertory theater company in the country and changed its name to the Native American Theatre Ensemble in 1973 because "too many non-Indians who approached us during [our] tours [and] after performances … seemed unable to understand that we ...