The story of Joe Cino’s legendary Greenwich Village coffeehouse, where Off-Off Broadway was
born in 1958. Meet the playwrights, performers, artists, and eccentrics who made Caffe Cino a
revolutionary center of downtown theater.
Halloween Show 2026
On Halloween, October 31, 2026 a ten-minute excerpt from The Joe Cino Story will be presented around
10:00 p.m. at Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave (between 9th and 10th Street),
New York, NY. The exact time will be updated here once established.
Get tickets to The Joe Cino Story
The Joe Cino Story will be presented at Theater for the New City
in 2027 on the following dates:
William Cane (Michael Christian) in Mexico, researching the Burroughs production.
William Cane is the pen name of bestselling author Michael Christian, a former trial
attorney and award-winning playwright whose work has been praised by The New York Times as rivaling
the Marx Brothers. He has directed more than a hundred stage shows, including his Off-Off Broadway
musical Meet the Real Ernest Shackleton (2004). In 2024 he directed The Beat Generation and Crazy
About You at the Producers Club in Manhattan. In 2025 and 2026 he directed his critically acclaimed
drama Sartre and Simone, about Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, at Theater for the New City.
In 2026 he wrote and directed Wilhelm Reich Unleashed. His books have been translated into
twenty languages and have sold more than a million
copies worldwide.
