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The Ridiculous Theatrical Company
…lead actor, would refine the Ridiculous genre over the next 20 years. Charles Ludlam Ludlam’s early plays followed the style set forth by The Play-House by being grand in scope…
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Cultural Innovation Emanates From One Sheridan Square Throughout the Decades
…the Ridiculous.” Ludlam performed and wrote for The Play-House, but following a dispute with Vaccaro, broke with the group and founded RTC. Over the next twenty years, Ludlam and RTC…
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Theaters of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…(In the early 1980s the name Sheridan Square Playhouse was dropped in favor of Circle Repertory Theatre). The company closed its doors in 1996 after 27 years. The Charles Ludlam…
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GVHD50 and Stonewall50 – LGBTQ Sites of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…or other “street stars.” Charles Ludlam, the RTC’s resident playwright, director and lead actor, would refine the Ridiculous genre over the next 20 years. Ludlam died of AIDS in 1987….
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Greenwich Village’s Own Angela Lansbury
…Ludlam. Dame Lansbury wasn’t the only notable Greenwich Villager to call 55 Morton Street home. Among others, Jane Jacobs lived here in the late 1930s and 40s, seemingly overlapping with…
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On Saving the Soul of New York City and Yourself
…Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey as a Warhol Superstar, Larry Rivers, Jack Smith, Harry Smith, Taylor Mead, HM Koutoukas, Jackie Curtis, Charles Ludlam, Kusama, Wavy Gravy and The Hog Farm….
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Theater for The New City: 2018 Village Awardee
…which then-Mayor John V. Lindsay envisioned a “new city” for all. It officially opened in March 1971. Its first two seasons included plays by Richard Foreman, Charles Ludlam, Miguel Piñero, and Jean-Claude van Itallie. TNC began…
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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho
…here are Harvey Fierstein, Charles Ludlam, Lanford Wilson, Terrence McNally, and Jean-Claude van Itallie. 13. 82 Club, 82 East 4th Street Google Street View of 82 East 4th Street From…
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The Theatrical Legacy of the 13th Street Repertory Theatre
…Chazz Palminteri, John Cazal, Charles Ludlam, Austin Pendleton, Bernard Hughes, and Richard Dreyfus, among many others. Tennessee Williams, while giving a talkback after a revival performance of his play “Outcry” at 13th…
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