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Jan 1, 2004 · Joe Chaikin's Life in the Theatre: Directed by Dee Henoch. With Edward Albee, John Belluso, Joseph Chaikin, Shami Chaikin. About the life of Joe Chaikin, actor/director who was instrumental in the development of American experimental theater.
- Dee Henoch
- 2004-01-01
- Documentary
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In the Winter Project, Chaikin proposed and participated in explorations of the boundary between life and death, the actor as storyteller, listening, found dialogue and more. His production of The Dybbuk at the Public Theater in 1977-78 was, to some extent, influenced by some of these researches.
Joseph Chaikin (born Sept. 16, 1935, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died June 22, 2003, New York, N.Y.) was an American stage director, actor, and writer. He was a member of the Living Theatre before founding the Open Theatre (1963), which became an influential force in experimental theatre.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 27, 2003 · Joseph Chaikin, a leader of the experimental theater movement of the 1960s and ‘70s whose work as an actor and director and as the founder of New York’s Open Theater group earned him...
Jul 8, 2003 · Joe Chaikin, who died in his sleep on Sunday, June 22, was for four decades as significant a figure as the American theater has yet produced. Actor, director, writer, and founder of the Open...
Mar 8, 2013 · At the time of this interview, Joseph Chaikin, renowned actor and theater director, was directing a revival of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven. Chaikin is best known as the founder of Open Theater, one of the most influential experimental theater groups in the United States.
Joe Chaikin, who founded the influential Open Theater in the 1960s, has written three other plays with Sam Shepard in addition to When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable). They are Tongues , Savage/Love , and The War in Heaven: An Angel's Monologue .
