Lucille Lortel (The Queen of Off Broadway)

Lucille Lortel. (The Queen of Off Broadway). Limelight. Hardcover. 376 pages. Limelight Editions #0879103027. Published by Limelight Editions.

Written under the auspices of The Lucille Lortel Foundation, this book is the first biography of the grande dame of avant garde theater. Lucille Lortel became a leader of a burgeoning Off Broadway movement during the 1950s and 60s and one of the few women of her generation to be a significant player in New York City theater.