Introduction: City in crisis, performance in Crisis
Planned shrinkage and the new theater : Ellen Stewart, La Mama e.t.c., and Julie Bovasso
TKTS and "lost audience" anxiety : fiscal crisis Times Square
Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps and the "inevitability of interdependency"
The theater of poverty : Everyman in Coney Island
How the public became a public : Joseph Papp's Civic Building
The Brooklyn syndrome : BAM and outer-borough arts
Conclusion. the myth of self-sufficiency.