BY PENELOPE GREEN NEW YORK TIMES Robert Patrick, a wildly prolific playwright who rendered gay (and straight) life with caustic wit, an open heart and fizzy camp, and whose 1964 play, "The Haunted Host," became a touchstone of early gay theater, died April 23 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85. ... read full story
"We wrote for each other, and it turned out there was an audience that, without knowing it, had been dying for personal, political, philosophical theater. And a few years after the Cino began doing original plays, there were over 300 off-off Broadway theaters."