Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway

Lucille Lortel was an actress, a producer, a determined negotiator, a patron of the arts, and a women who know just how to cultivate friends win over reviewers, persuade producers, and charm publicists. Lucille was legendary for her ability to work a room and was an acknowledged master at self-promotion, knowing how to develop her name and reputation within and throughout the avant garde theater community. Lucille Lortel: The Queen Of Off Broadway by author, editor, and theater critic Alexis Green is the definitive and enthusiastically recommended biography of a definitive lady that draws upon her immediate family and friends, as well as the playwrights, actors, producers, and directors who engaged in her productions throughout her illustrious and influential theatrical career.