Chaikin briefly attended Drake University in Iowa, and then returned to New York to begin a career in theater, studying with various acting coaches, while struggling to survive working a variety of jobs.

JBL ’ s Peter Chaikin interviewed CJ Vanston about his collaboration with Jeff Baxter on their forthcoming album, “ Skunk .”

Open Theater allowed Chaikin and his colleagues the space experiment with unconventional and organic drama techniques.

In 1969 Open Theatre performed Endgame by Samuel Beckett, with Chaikin playing the role of Hamm and Peter Maloney as Clov, at the Cite Universitaire, Paris, and in 1970 at the Grasslands Penitentiary, a fulfillment of Chaikin's desire to experiment with audiences who would be fundamentally and culturally different from cosmopolitan audiences.

His first work after closing the Open Theatre was in collaboration with the playwright Robert Montgomery: ELECTRA, a three-character version of the Electra myth with Michele Collison ( from Peter Brooks ' company ) in the title role, Paul Zimet as Orestes, and Shami Chaikin, Joe's sister, as Clytemnestra.

In 1984, a stroke suffered during his third open-heart surgery left Chaikin with partial aphasia.

Despite this barrier to communication, Chaikin continued to act, direct and to create plays in collaboration with other actors, writers, and groups including Mira Rafalowicz, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Michael Posnick and John Belluso, whose disability-themed plays were produced at the Mark Taper Forum, Trinity Rep, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Keen Company and the New York Shakespeare Festival.

appears in the video game adaption to Iron Man 2 with its agents voiced by Catherine Campion, Andrew Chaikin, Denny Delk, Eric Goldberg, Adam Harrington, and Roger L. Jackson.

In A Man on the Moon Andrew Chaikin writes that Dale Jackson of USGS was having dinner with some astronauts that night in Houston and happily proclaimed that " they did everything but fuck that rock.

For the next five years Woodruff was virtually the sole director of Shepard's work, staging the American premiere of Curse of the Starving Class at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978, the world premieres of Buried Child ( 1978 ) and True West ( 1980 ) at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and then in New York, and the touring productions of Tongues and Savage / Love, which Shepard co-authored with the performer Joseph Chaikin.

The Living Theatre was also heavily influenced by him, as was much English-language experimental theatre and performance art ; Karen Finley, Spalding Gray, Liz LeCompte, Richard Foreman, Charles Marowitz, Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin, and more all named Artaud as one of their influences.

Following Chaikin's stroke, several writers, including Jean-Claude van Itallie, Susan Yankowitz, and Sam Shepard, wrote plays specifically for Chaikin to perform and direct, most notably The War in Heaven which was directed by Steven Kent.

Chaikin directed a number of Beckett's plays, including Endgame at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Happy Days at Cherry Lane Theater.

bar: Chaikin from: 10 / 24 / 1985 till: 02 / 01 / 1986 color: Drums

In A Man on the Moon, published in 1994, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968, similar conspiracy ideas were already in circulation.

In 1977, Joseph Chaikin, a central figure in American avant-garde theatre, directed a new translation of The Dybbuk by Mira Rafalowicz, a dramaturg, yiddishist and longtime collaborator of Chaikin's at The Public Theatre.

An Open Theatre exercise by Jean-Claude van Itallie, " Interview ," became part of the play America Hurrah, and Chaikin directed the " Interview " section when the play opened at the Pocket Theatre in 1966.

Chaikin was a lifelong teacher of acting and directing, and lived most of his adult life in New York's West Village, at Westbeth Artists Community.

Chaikin performed the piece in San Diego, Atlanta, and Parma, Italy, Samuel Beckett's last poem, What Is the Word ?, was written for and dedicated to Chaikin.

It has greatly influenced other American experimental theatre companies, notably The Open Theater ( founded by former Living Theatre member Joseph Chaikin ) and Bread and Puppet Theater.

It was founded in New York City by a group of former students of acting teacher Nola Chilton, and joined shortly thereafter by director Joseph Chaikin, formerly of The Living Theatre, and Peter Feldman.

Chaikin closed the Open Theatre in 1973 because he said it was in danger of becoming an institution.

In 1977, Chaikin formed an experimental workshop company called The Winter Project, whose members included Ronnie Gilbert, Corey Fischer, Robbie McCauley, Mark Samuels, Robert Montgomery, Christopher McCann and Will Patton, as well as core members of the previous Open Theatre, among others.

Upon returning to the United States, Lee acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theaters and as a member of the Open Theatre, directed by Joseph Chaikin, from 1967 to 1973.

* P. M. Chaikin and T. C. Lubensky ( 2000 ).

Space journalist Andrew Chaikin claims that, following the death of Gus Grissom, Borman became astronaut chief Deke Slayton's choice to command the first Moon landing attempt.

In its early incarnation, Jane's Addiction went through three guitarists and featured Matt Chaikin, formerly of Kommunity FK, on drums.

After Chaikin failed to show up for several rehearsals, Farrell began seeking a new drummer.

* Chaikin, Andrew.

* Joseph Chaikin, Founder of the Open Theater, theater director, actor, author.

Chaikin went on to have a celebrated career as a theatre director until his death in 2003.

Joseph Chaikin ( September 16, 1935 – June 22, 2003 ) was an American theatre director, playwright, and pedagogue.

The youngest of five children, Chaikin was born to a poor Jewish family living in the Borough Park residential area of Brooklyn.

When asked in a 1999 interview why he was compelled to start Open Theater, Chaikin responded, " I ’ m not crazy about naturalism on stage.

The would-be assassin had his position figured pretty close.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

The orator of this period, in order to earn a reputation, had to pay close attention to the formal composition of his speech, judging how it would appear in print as well as the effect it would have on the audience that heard it.

The doctor had to bend close to hear ; ;

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

He always slept close to the wall so you had to lean to reach him.

Bobby Joe had been sitting close to her, touching her actually, and holding her hand from time to time, but it seemed at once that Howard sat much closer.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

Mrs. Borden would have had no reason to disbelieve him and he could have approached close enough to her to swing before she could cry out.

He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.

She was apparently the pioneer in her family because she had no close relatives in this country at that time.

I could get up close to him where there was traffic but had to drop far behind when there wasn't traffic.

There were tire marks where it had been, but they were overlapped by others and on the dusty floor would not be noticeable except under close scrutiny.

From behind, he had put his arms on her shoulders, turned her around, and pressed her to him, so close she couldn't breathe.

Stanley had filled out the return and because, when he was finished, it was close to the lunch hour, he had politely asked Kitti to join him, never expecting her to accept.

as halfbacks, both came close to playing football at the University of Oklahoma ( `` Sometimes in the minors '', Maris recalls, `` I wished I had gone to Oklahoma '' ).

Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

he had to find some way to close this impossible conversation.