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La MaMa. No binding. Fine. Anaïs Nin (source), Tom O'Horgan (director) [New York]: La MaMa, (ca. mid- 1960s), Vintage original 22 x 14" (56 x36 cm.) poster, unfolded, fine. Early in his career, Tom O'Horgan directed many plays for the La MaMa theater off-off Broadway. He began working there in 1964 and, by 1967, he had directed HAIR off-Broadway, which quickly moved to Broadway to great success, so we can safely date this poster from between 1964 and 1967. Victor Lipari is co-credited with O'Horgan on the poster. He was a member of the original LaMama Repertory Company and appeared regularly as an actor in their early productions. La MaMa posters of the 1960s are quite scarce.

Byrd Hoffman Foundation. No binding. Fine. Robert Wilson (director), Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars (composers) Rome: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 1984. Vintage original 33 x 24" (84 x 61 cm.) poster, unfolded, fine. Poster for the "Rome" movement of the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars and others, as performed at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in March of 1984. The CIVIL warS was originally conceived as six movements, created in six different countries, that once premiered in their countries of origin would then be joined together into a daylong opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. However, after adequate funding never surfaced for the project, the piece remained incomplete and is now known only for its five completed sections. It has never been… Read More

Byrd Hoffman Foundation. No binding. Just About Fine. Robert Wilson (director), Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars (composers) Rotterdam: Rotterdamse Schouwburg, 1983. Vintage original 23 x 16.25" (58 x 41 cm.) poster, unfolded, just about fine. Original poster for the premiere of the "Rotterdam" movement of the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars and others, as performed in Rotterdam on September 11, 1983. The CIVIL warS was originally conceived as six movements, created in six different countries, that once premiered in their countries of origin would then be joined together into a daylong opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. However, after adequate funding never surfaced for the project, the piece remained incomplete and is now known only for its… Read More

Byrd Hoffman Foundation. No binding. Just About Fine. Robert Wilson (director), Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars (composers) Schauspielhaus Köln, 19 Jan 1984. Cologne (Köln), Germany: Schauspielhaus, 1984. Vintage original 33.5 x 23" (85 x 59 cm.) poster, unfolded. Just about fine, with just the slightest hint of creasing at two extremities. Original poster for the 1984 opera directed by Robert Wilson with music by Hans Peter Kuhn, Philip Glass, David Byrne and others, as performed at the Schauspielhaus in Cologne, Germany, on January 19, 1984. Later performed again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was to this production that the Pulitzer Prize jury unanimously awarded the prize for drama for 1986, only to be overruled by the supervisory board. The CIVIL warS was originally conceived as six movements, created in six… Read More

La MaMa. No binding. Fine. Andrei Serban (director) New York: La MaMa Repertory Company, 1975. Vintage original 32 x 22" (81 x 56 cm.) theatre poster, unfolded, fine. Serban directed this daring production with THE TROJAN WOMEN and MEDEA in ancient Greek, with music by Elizabeth Swados, and the text was partially chanted or sung in Mayan, Nahuatl, Inahien and Aztec. No subtitles of any kind were used, and the audience was expected to experience this work viscerally, without being able to understand the text literally.

Lenbachhaus. No binding. Near Fine. Robert WIlson (director) Munich: Lenbachhaus, 1982. Vintage original 39.5 x 23" (101 x 59 cm.) poster, unfolded, light creasing and mild foxing to one corner, near fine. Original poster for the 1982 exhibition of drawings created by director Robert Wilson, in conjunction with his play of the same name. The exhibition took place at Lenbachhaus, in Munich, Germany, from May 19th to June 13th, 1982. Wilson typically created preliminary drawings for his theatre works, as a means toward composing a scene. These pieces would often be sold via exhibition in order to finance the ultimate production, as was the case with here.

Jack Smith. No binding. Just About Fine. Jack Smith (filmmaker) [New York]: Artists Space, [1976]. Vintage original 17 1/2 x 22" (44.5 x 56 cm.) poster, unfolded, just about fine.
Documents a Jack Smith performance, which contained a barbed criticism of filmmaker/critic Jonas Mekas. Smith played a covetous trainer parading out a film actress, played by a toy penguin, for his own financial gain -- a supposed metaphor for his relationship with Jonas Mekas.
Though both underground sensations, as the story goes, Jack Smith felt that Mekas had drummed up controversy over Smith's Flaming Creatures, profiting from control of the print.
Although unsigned, this poster was clearly created by Smith, and hence constitutes a rare example of his graphic work.

Kenneth Anger. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles, ca. 1965]. Vintage original 11 x 8 3/8" (28 x 21.5 cm.) double weight borderless photo. Diagonal crease at upper top left, overall near fine.
Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) was one of the great American underground filmmakers and one of the preeminent names both in LGBTQ film and in the history of alternative, experimental cinema. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the Magick Lantern Cycle. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle. Anger is certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, non-coded language, and several of his early films were released before the legalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in the United States.
He also focused on occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the… Read More

Kenneth Anger. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles, 1953]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, with holograph notation on verso in Anger's hand and sticker identifying this as from his archive. Light creasing, near fine.
Portrait of one of the elaborately costumed performers in the film.
Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) was one of the great American underground filmmakers and one of the preeminent names both in LGBTQ film and in the history of alternative, experimental cinema. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the Magick Lantern Cycle. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle. Anger is certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, non-coded language, and several of his early films were released before the legalization of… Read More

La Rochelle. No binding. Near Fine. Robert Wilson (director) La Rochelle, France: 1975. Vintage original 39.5 x 27" (100 x 69 cm.) poster, unfolded, with a few edge creases and short closed tears at the extremities, near fine. Original poster for the 1975 stream-of-consciousness opera directed by Robert Wilson for its debut in La Rochelle, France, in 1975. Known for his deep concern for the use of language in his work, this piece is characteristic of Wilson's explicit attention to detail. In the play, the drop behind the set is completely covered in words printed in capital letters, and the actors speak frequently in chaotic instances of phonetic wordplay.

La MaMa. No binding. Very Good. Meredith Monk (director, composer) [New York]: La MaMa, [1975-6]. Vintage original 22 x 16.75" (56 x 43 cm.) poster. Folded (as issued), with light fold wear (and slight mends on verso with archival paper), one small mend on back with clear tape. Composer, singer, director and choreographer Meredith Monk created QUARRY, an opera in three movements, as a live stage work between 1975-76 with her company The House as a mosaic of images, movement, dialogue, film, sound, light and music. A meditation on WWII and recurring cycles of intolerance, fascism and cruelty in history, QUARRY centers on a sick American child (played by Monk) whose world darkens as her illness progresses.Considered a masterwork of the 20th century, the piece is as prescient and relevant today as it was 40 years ago, with its portrayal of the deleterious effect of an autocratic society on the collective mind, body and spirit. It is at once a myth, a documentary and a memorial.

La MaMa. No binding. Fine. Adrienne Kennedy (playwright) [New York]: La MaMa Annex, [1976]. Vintage original 28.5 x 19.75" (72 x 50 cm.) theatre poster, unfolded, fine. "A Rat's Mass is a poetic, magical-realist one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy, a 20th-century African-American playwright. The play portrays the negative aspects of the black experience in the United States by depicting two African-American children longing for a white child. The play was, like many of Kennedy's plays, not aligned with the Black Arts movement, with a focus on dislocation and femaleness rather than the ideology of blackness. "Kennedy was inspired by the black experience in the United States, and A Rat's Mass, along with most of her work, deals with the dichotomy between blacks and whites in America. The struggle for power and identity is the main focus of this play,… Read More