Robert Dahdah News

Join the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project for #DamesAtHome, a virtual celebration of the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway and a haven for pioneering gay theater: the Caffe Cino.

Join the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project next Monday, May 18th, at 6:15PM for #DamesAtHome, their virtual celebration of the Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway... now featuring a special message from Broadway legend and Cino alumna Bernadette Peters!

Robert (Bob) Dahdah, a prolific writer and director who was a major contributor to the creation of Off-Off Broadway theater in the 1960s and continued writing and directing for over fifty years, died on February 6th at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, where he was under hospice care. He was 89. 

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: Take cover! DISASTER! wrecks havoc on Broadway starting tonight, PRODIGAL SON opens at MTC, Janis Joplin heads out on tour and more!

The 1966 Caffe Cino production starred a teenage Bernadette Peters in her first major New York role.

The Off-Off Broadway pioneer directed young Bernadette Peters in two of her first New York starring roles.

Just like the musical's spunky heroine, the show's original one-act version had to be discovered from humble beginnings.

Peculiar Works Project, producers of the acclaimed site-specific performance, OFF Stage: the West Village Fragments, will present 'BANG! For Your Buck'