Skidmore College

Skidmore College at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; chartered and opened 1911 as Skidmore School of Arts (for women) through a gift from Lucy Skidmore Scribner; chartered as a college 1922. In 1972 the school was opened to male students.

Salmagundi, quarterly little magazine, founded in 1965, since 1969 sponsored by Skidmore College. Concentrating on the humanities and social sciences, it is essentially a literary journal with one issue a year devoted to a single subject, e.g. “Contemporary Poetry in America,” “Saul Bellow.”

Wooster Group, The (New York). A small artists' collective that explores alternative, experimental theatrical byways, its genesis was the Performance Group, founded in 1967 by Richard Schechner. A splinter group, working with Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte, began operating in 1975, and this offshoot has been known as the Wooster Group since 1980. It often performs in a flexible 150‐seat space called the Performing Garage. Among its productions have been Sakonnet Point, Point Judith, LSD (Just the High Points), and Brace Up!, as well as such unusual revivals as The Hairy Ape performed as a circus in the crumbling Selwyn Theatre and The Emperor Jones with a white woman playing the black Brutus Jones. The ensemble has toured extensively and is also involved with film and video. Elizabeth LeCOMPTE (b. 1944) was born in New Jersey and studied art at Skidmore College before beginning her theatre career as an actress. As a co‐founder of the Wooster Group, she began writing as well as directing avant‐garde pieces that grew out of improvisations with actors. Her notable works include the trilogy Three Places in Rhode Island (1978); L.SD (1984); a deconstruction of Arthur Miller's The Crucible; and Brace Up! (1991 and 2003), a vaudeville version of The Three Sisters.