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Charles Ludlam

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Charles Braun Ludlam (April 12, 1943 – May 28, 1987) was an American actor, director, and playwright. [1]

77 relations: American Theater Hall of Fame, August Strindberg, Black-Eyed Susan (actress), Bomb (magazine), Brendan Gill, Carnegie Mellon University, Coming out, Connecticut College, Cross-dressing, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Die Fledermaus, Dramaturge, Edgar Lee Masters, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, Eugene O'Neill, Federico García Lorca, Floral Park, New York, Ford Foundation, Forever, Lulu (1987 film), Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, Gothic fiction, Greenlawn, New York, Gustave Flaubert, H. G. Wells, Hamlet, Hans Werner Henze, Harborfields High School, Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, HIV/AIDS, Hofstra University, Huntington, New York, Johann Strauss II, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Kan Kikuchi, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Lola Pashalinski, Macrobiotic diet, Maria Callas, Mario Montez, Mel Shapiro, Miami Vice, Molière, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City, New York State Council on the Arts, New York University, Northport, New York, Obie Award, ..., Pastiche, Pittsburgh, Pneumocystis pneumonia, Reader's theatre, Regional theater in the United States, Richard Wagner, Rockefeller Foundation, Ronald Tavel, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, Salammbô, Santa Fe Opera, Satyricon, She Must Be Seeing Things, Spoon River Anthology, Stage Blood, Summer stock theatre, Tales from the Darkside, The Big Easy (film), The English Cat, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Theatre of the Ridiculous, United States, Vent Haven Museum, West Village, William Shakespeare, Yale University. Expand index (27 more) »

American Theater Hall of Fame

The American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City was founded in 1972.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

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Black-Eyed Susan (actress)

Black-Eyed Susan (born Susan Carlson) is an American actor based in New York City.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb is a quarterly magazine edited by artists and writers.

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Brendan Gill

Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1997) wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.

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Connecticut College

Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut.

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Cross-dressing

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing items of clothing and other accoutrements commonly associated with the opposite sex within a particular society.

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Der Ring des Nibelungen

(The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.

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Die Fledermaus

(The Flittermouse or The Bat, sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by and Richard Genée.

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Dramaturge

A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company that researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work.

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Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.

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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic.

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Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

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Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

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Floral Park, New York

Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island.

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Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is a New York-headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.

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Forever, Lulu (1987 film)

Forever, Lulu is a 1987 comedy-mystery film starring Hanna Schygulla, Deborah Harry and Alec Baldwin, in his film debut.

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Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

Fort Mitchell is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Greenlawn, New York

Greenlawn is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.

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Harborfields High School

Harborfields High School is a four-year secondary school located in Greenlawn, New York, United States.

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Hofstra University

Hofstra University is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian university in Hempstead, New York.

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Huntington, New York

The Town of Huntington is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (Sohn), Johann Baptist Strauss, son of Johann Strauss I, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922.

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Kan Kikuchi

, known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (La MaMa E.T.C.) is an off-off Broadway theatre founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, African-American theatre director, producer, and fashion designer.

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman or The Middle-Class Aristocrat or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet—a play intermingled with music, dance and singing—written by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors.

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Lola Pashalinski

Lola Pashalinski is an American theatre artist known for her work as a founding member of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company.

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Macrobiotic diet

A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics) is a fad diet fixed on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism.

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Maria Callas

Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI (Μαρία Κάλλας; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was a New York-born Greek soprano, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

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Mario Montez

René Rivera, (July 20, 1935 – September 26, 2013), known professionally as Mario Montez, was one of the Warhol superstars, appearing in thirteen of Andy Warhol's underground films from 1964 to 1966.

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Mel Shapiro

Mel Shapiro is an American theatre director and writer, college professor, and author.

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York State Council on the Arts

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Northport, New York

Northport is a historic maritime village in the Town of Huntington on Long Island, New York.

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Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City.

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Pastiche

A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pneumocystis pneumonia

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a form of pneumonia that is caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii.

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Reader's theatre

Reader's theatre or Reader's theater is a style of theater in which the actors do not memorize their lines.

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Regional theater in the United States

A regional theatre, or resident theatre, in the United States is a professional or semi-professional theatre company that produces its own seasons.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Ronald Tavel

Ronald Tavel (May 17, 1936 – March 23, 2009) was an American screenwriter, director, novelist, poet and actor, best known for his work with Andy Warhol and The Factory.

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Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center

Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (Saint Vincent's, or SVCMC) was a healthcare system, anchored by its flagship hospital, St.

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Salammbô

Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert.

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Santa Fe Opera

Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company, located north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Satyricon

The Satyricon, or Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius.

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She Must Be Seeing Things

She Must Be Seeing Things is a 1987 lesbian feminist film directed by Sheila McLaughlin and starring Lois Weaver and Sheila Dabney.

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Spoon River Anthology

Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town, Lewistown, Illinois.

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Stage Blood

Stage Blood is a comedy by Charles Ludlam, a spoof in which events taking place in the life of a third-rate theater company, touring Shakespeare's Hamlet, loosely mirror the plot of Hamlet itself.

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Summer stock theatre

In American theater, summer stock theatre is a theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer.

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Tales from the Darkside

Tales from the Darkside is an American anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero; it debuted in 1983.

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The Big Easy (film)

The Big Easy is a 1986 American crime comedy-drama directed by Jim McBride and written by Daniel Petrie Jr. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, and Ned Beatty.

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The English Cat

The English Cat (in German, Die englische Katze) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond, based on Les peines de coeur d'une chatte anglaise (The heartbreak of an English cat) by Honoré de Balzac.

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The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells.

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The Mystery of Irma Vep

The Mystery of Irma Vep is a play in three acts by Charles Ludlam.

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Theatre of the Ridiculous

Theatre of the Ridiculous is a theatrical genre that began in New York City in the 1960sBottoms, Stephen J. Chapter 11: "The Play-House of the Ridiculous: Beyond Absurdity".

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vent Haven Museum

Vent Haven Museum is the world's only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia.

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West Village

The West Village is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, largely thought to constitute the western (or northwestern) portion of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ludlam

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