Get tickets to The Joe Cino Story

The Joe Cino Story (the full two-hour play) will probably be presented at Theater for the New City in 2027 on the following dates:

Opening night: To be announced
Performance 2: To be announced
Performance 3: To be announced
Performance 4: To be announced
Performance 5: To be announced
Performance 6: To be announced
Performance 7: To be announced
Closing night: To be announced

You may email mike@newluxtheater.com with any ticket questions. Tickets may be purchased through the Joe Cino ticketing page to be announced.

Cast and Crew

Cast:

Joe Cino - Uni Coglioni
Police Officer - Josh Shellman
Andy Warhol - Scott Bausemer
Sam Shephard - Fraser Dickson
Johnny Dodd, lighting designer
Tom Eyen, a temperamental playwright
Michael Smith, Village Voice critic
Johnny Torrey, electrician
Robert Patrick

Helen Hanft, an ambitious actress - Carolina Kohn
Edie Sedgwick - Cam Reid
Ellen Stewart
Bernadette Peters - Taylor Hartman
Donna Peters - Amelie Dunda
Professor Helen Clark - Tiffany Browne-Tavarez
Vicky, a college student - Ashley Brooke Cohen
Café Patrons: Sophia Fellner-Dublin, Jing Wang
Regina David

Production Crew:

Leadership:
- Director: William Cane
- Stage Manager: Alan Smithee
- Assistant Stage Manager: Alice Smithee
Design Team:
- Wardrobe Designer: Tingyu Hu
- Lighting and Sound Designer: Jim DeLois
Consultants and Specialists:
- Historical Consultant: John Gilman
- Production Consultant: Nicki Cochrane

The set features a made-to-scale replica of Caffe Cino.

Copy of the Script

The Joe Cino Story. Download the PDF (0.7 MB)

About the Author

William Cane, the pen name of Michael Christian

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.

The Joe Cino Story

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Plot Summary

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