| Date/ Opened |
Show Name |
Details |
| There were no plays done in early January.
The theatre was closed by the police department. |
| January 30 |
HOME FREE
& NO TRESPASSING |
Playwright: Lanford Wilson |
| February 13 |
HOME COOKING |
Playwright: David Novak
Director: Donald Brooks |
| February 20 |
LITTLE MOTHER |
Playwright: Ross Alexander
Director: Ross Alexander |
| February 27 |
THE LOVERS |
|
| March 5 |
THE ALEGATION IMPROMPTU |
Playwright: Lawrence Ferlingetti & Tad
Mosel
Director: John Parkinson |
| March 12 |
|
For the week of March 12 the theatre
was closed by the fire department. The next week we tried to
re-open but this time the fire department padlocked and sealed
the front door.
This is the first time we called Cafe La MaMa: La MaMa Experimental
Theatre Club, or La MaMa E.T.C. We made it a club to avoid
harrasment by the bureau of licenses. |
| March 26 |
THE DRUNKARD (An old melodrama play) |
Playwright: William H. Smith
Director: Donald Brooks |
| April 2 |
WAITING BOY |
Playwright: Robert Sealy |
| April 16 |
ON THE BRIDGE THE VISITOR |
Company:
Nation:
Playwright: Ross Alexander
Director: Ross Alexander
Composer: |
| April 30 |
THE PRICE OF LOVE |
Playwright: Dan McRae |
| May 7 |
LITTLE MISS FRUSTRATA |
Playwright: Tom Eyen
Director: Tom Eyen
Composer: William Elliot |
| May 14 |
THE CIRCUS,
AT LIBERTY |
Playwrights: Gerald Schoenwolf & Tenessee
Williams
Directors: Donald Brooks & Danny Gershwin |
| May 28 |
THE VACATION |
Playwright: Pauline Smolin
Director: Neville Powers
Composer: Paul Knopf |
| June 4 |
SACHER-MASOCH, or THE ORPHAN CHRIST
SOPHIA |
Playwright: Daniel Mauroc & Gwen
Leen |
| June 4 |
|
On June 4, 1964, the first Coffee
House Theatre Festival was held at The Van Dam Theatre.
The plays performed were: THE RECLUSE by Paul Foster and
WHO'S AFRAID OF EDWARD ALBEE by Davis Starkweather. |
| June 11 |
THE COLLAPSE |
Playwright: Bruce Kessler
Director: I. Sheldon Aptekar
Composer: Louis Scere |
| June 18 |
THE ACTING LESSON
& THE SINGING LESSON |
Playwright: Daniel Haben Clark
Director: Ben Hammer & Anthony Bardusk |
| July 2 - July 16 |
|
On July 2, the theatre was raided and
closed down by the police department, the fire department, the
health department, and the department of licenses. It re-opened
July 16. |
| July 16 |
NEW VOICE IN POETRY (A Reading) |
Writers: John Hopper & Daniel Mauroc |
| July 23 |
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL |
Playwright: Joseph Eppert |
| July 30 |
VIRGIN MINOS CLUE |
Playwright: Jack Selby |
| August 6 |
THE WORLD'S FAIR ENOUGH |
Playwright: Dwight Marfield
Director: Randolph Carter
Composer: Ted Dennis |
| August 10 |
QUE VIVA EL PUENTE |
Company: with Bogata Troupe brought
to N.Y. by Edgar Negret
Playwright: Paul Foster
Director: Alan Robb |
| August 13 |
THE READING
& CHARACTERS IN A PLAY |
Playwright: Ross Alexander & Vern
Winkle
Director: Ross Alexander |
| August 20 |
THE FAMILY JOKE |
Playwright: David Starkweather
Director: Joseph Hamer |
| August 27 |
MY NEXT HUSBAND WILL BE A BEAUTY,
THE WHITE WHORE
& THE BIT PLAYER |
Playwright: Tom Eyen |
| September 3 |
THE FALL OUT GAME |
Playwright: Alex Kemeny
Director: Bernard Hiatt |
| September 10 |
THE YEAR OF THE CENSUS |
Playwright: John Hopper
Director: Romeo Costea |
| September 17 |
PREVARICATIONS |
Playwright: Robert Sealy
Director: Robert Sealy |
| September 20 |
INTERVIEW |
Playwright: Daniel Haben Clark
Director: Anthony Bardusk |
| September 23 |
THE FAMILY JOKE |
Playwright: David Starkweather
Director: Joseph Hamer |
| October 7 |
*TIS THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
& KINGS IX |
Playwright: Donald Brooks
Director: James Dwyer & Donald Brooks |
| October 14 |
HAPPENING AT THE CAFE |
Playwright: Ruth Landshoff Yorck
Director: Tom Eyen
German television filmed THE HAPPENING AT THE CAFE and Salvador
Dali came opening night. |
| October 21 |
THE MAIDS |
Playwright: Jean Genet
Director: Tom O'Horgan |
| October 28 |
FILLING THE HOLE
& BOOKSHELF |
Playwright: Donald Kvares
Director: Cliff Tobey & Ted Harris |
| November 4 |
BALLS |
Playwright: Paul Foster
Director: Sydney S. Walter
Composer: Gary W. Friedman |
| November 7 |
DEAR FRIENDS |
Playwright: James Wigfall & Steve
Gary
Director: James Wigfall & Steve Gary
Composer: Tom O'Horgan & Elmer Kline
Closing night of this play, Ellen Stewart told the audience to
pick up the chair they sat upon and a picture on the wall closest
to them and carry them up the avenue to 122 Second Avenue, second
floor. La MaMa was moving. The procession up the avenue with
the audience carring the furnIture is how we moved. This space
was later rented to a Puerto Rican Civil Rights group.
Cafe LaMaMa moved to 122 Second Avenue, second floor. This
space was 23' x 75' x 12' high with a construction in the middle
for door, john, the coffee bar and dressing room. The stage
was at the back end, 23' x 10'. It seated 74, but we often
squeezed in 115 people at a time. |
| November 11 |
THE WEDDING OF THE PANDA |
Playwright: David Novak
Director: Arthur Gorton |
| November 18 |
MITOMARU |
Playwright: John Renn McDonald
Director: John Renn McDonald
Composer: Michael Childs |
| November 25 |
THE AFFECTIONATE CANNIBALS: AFTER THE
BALL
& LITTLE MOTHER |
Playwright: Ross Alexander
Director: Ross Alexander |
| December 11 |
THE MAIDS |
Playwright: Jean Genet
Director: Tom O'Horgan |
| December 30 |
LITTLE MISS FRUSTRATA, OR THE DIRTY
LITTLE GIRL WITH THE PAPER ROSE STUCK IN HER HEAD IS DEMENTED |
Playwright: Tom Eyen
Director: Tom Eyen |