“The myth we believed in was becoming reality,” radical activist Abbie Hoffman wrote in his 1980 autobiography, looking back on the 1969 Woodstock festival. “We were not alone. Acres of freaks. No cops. . . . The greatest musical gathering in history taught us we could be together.” Since 1989 the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company has […]
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Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins VI
Every August Rich Cotovsky–actor, director, off-Loop theater owner, and licensed pharmacist–dons a curly black wig and a shirt made from the American flag and presides over one of the city’s edgiest theater festivals as the living incarnation of Abbie Hoffman, circa 1969. For the duration of the two-and-a-half-day marathon of plays and performance art, founded […]