Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway

by Alexis Greene and Alexis Greene

Written under the auspices of The Lucille Lortel Foundation, this book is the first biography of the grande dame of avant garde theater. Lucille Lortel became a leader of a burgeoning Off Broadway movement during the 1950s and '60s and one of the few women of her generation to be a significant player in New York City theater.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879103027
• ISBN13: 9780879103026
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Limelight
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Definitive and enthusiastically recommended biography

Lucille Lortel was an actress, a producer, a determined negotiator, a patron of the arts, and a women who know just how to cultivate friends win over reviewers, persuade producers, and charm publicists. Lucille was legendary for her ability to work a room and was an acknowledged master at self-promotion, knowing how to develop her name and reputation within and throughout the avant garde theater community. Lucille Lortel: The Queen Of Off Broadway by author, editor, and theater critic Alexis Green is the definitive and enthusiastically recommended biography of a definitive lady that draws upon her immediate family and friends, as well as the playwrights, actors, producers, and directors who engaged in her productions throughout her illustrious and influential theatrical career.