Excerpt from The Neighborhood Playhouse: Leaves From a Theatre Scrapbook Off-broadway could have been further off, either physi cally in miles or in atmosphere. The journey to Grand Street in the heart of the great isolated, self-contained, exotic and teeming East Side took one into a world most of us seldom visited on any other occasion and one which was, in many respects, as foreign as though it had been located on a dif ferent continent. Grand Street was an adventure in itself. I, at least, knew very little about the theatre to which I was headed beyond the fat that it was Somehow connected with the Henry Street Settlement house and that it had been founded by the two Misses Lewisohn who had inherited from their father both wealth and a philanthropic impulse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.