Preserving Underground Performance: Expanding access to the record of 1970s-era experimental theatre

WI Center for Film and Theater Research and the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club are digitizing, preserving, and promoting video documentation of La MaMa’s 1970s stage performances. La MaMa is often cited as the originator of Manhattan’s Off-Off-Broadway theater movement and was home to queer, Black, Asian American, and Latinx theater forms, as well as experimental theater practices of various kinds. Speakers are Dr. Rachel Mattson and Jesse Hocking