{"id":43972,"date":"2019-11-01T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43972"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:43:09","slug":"what-wendy-wore-ceil-chapman-at-la-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/what-wendy-wore-ceil-chapman-at-la-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Ceil Chapman at La MaMa"},"content":{"rendered":"

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club celebrated the centennial of its founder<\/a>, Ellen Stewart, at a fundraiser for its 58th season recently. Stewart was a dress designer when she started La MaMa in 1961<\/a> — no experience in theater whatsoever — but she became an icon of the performing arts in New York. I feel like there should be a dozen biographies of her available, but apparently Stewart “resisted attempts to have the story of La MaMa written until five years before her death<\/a>” in 2011, at age 91<\/a>. Ellen Stewart Presents: Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre<\/a><\/em> by Cindy Rosenthal tells the history of La MaMa through the theater’s performance posters, which is an unusual angle, but “unusual” and La MaMa are a good match.<\/p>\n

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