Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1493077767 ISBN13: 9781493077762 Release Date: June 2024 Publisher: Applause Books Length: 216 Pages Weight: 0.97 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2" Friendship. Grief. Jazz hands.In 2004, in a small, windowless theater in then-desolate Williamsburg, Brooklyn, an eccentric family of broke art-school survivors staged an experimental, four-hour adaptation of William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying inside an enormous wooden coffin that could barely fit the cast, much less an audience. The production's cast and crew--including its sweetly monomaniacal director--poured their hearts and paychecks into a messy spectacle doomed to fail by any conventional measure. It ran for only eight performances. The reviews were tepid. Fewer than one hundred people saw it. But to emotionally messy hack magazine editor John DeVore, cast at the last minute in a bit part, it was a safe space to hide out and attempt sobering up following a devasta