Confessions and Conversations September 22, 2012

Playwright/performer Jean-Claude van Itallie serves tea, along with ample doses of gossip, song-and-dance and homespun tales about queens, lovers, a grab bag of rotten political apples, the wild times in the '60s Off-Off-Broadway in NYC and his friend, mentor and "mama" Ellen Stewart, La MaMa's late founder and longtime artistic director.