The misfits: recollecting the cockeyed passion of 1960s Off-Off Broadway history.(Book Review)

PLAYING UNDERGROUND: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE 1960S OFF-OFF-BROADWAY MOVEMENT by Stephen J. Bottoms, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. 401 pages, $35 paper. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OFF-OFF BROADWAY EXPLOSION: HOW PROVOCATIVE PLAYWRIGHTS OF THE 1960S IGNITED A NEW AMERICAN THEATER by David A.

Crespy, with a foreword by Edward Albee, Back Stage Books, New York City. 192 pages, $19.95 paper. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT WAS OFF-OFF BROADWAY? The fable goes something like this. There was a time, somewhere between Jack ...

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