August 28, 1992 • Page Image 69
…I PROFILE Chelsea on the Edge hen the Chelsea Theater in Brooklyn, N.Y., folded 11111 in 1987, Davi Napoleon was in the midst of writing a book about it. She had spent endless hours interviewing some 200 people, observing behind the scenes and sitting in on rehearsals. The closing did not prevent her from going forward with the book. She merely shifted her focus from Chelsea's pro- duction history to the rise and fall of an innovative Ameri-...…

















































