Chapter Titles
1 Wherein Robert Kalfin uses his salary to pay for Chelsea's first off-Broadway contract production in order to attract media attention and funding and thereby loses his partners and his space.
2 How Chelsea finds an ideal, inexpensive space in a major cultural institution which rarely attracts Manhattan audiences and where agents don't send performers to audition.
3 Wherein Chelsea's empathic Caucasian director discovers exciting black plays and gives militant performers a forum for their views, and how this results in a major triumph for the young theater—an international tour which the actors abandon in Zurich.
4 In which Chelsea mounts three major productions, moves two shows off-Broadway for unlimited runs, is featured on the front page of the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times and can't get funding to finish the season. Again.
5 How Chelsea soars on borrowed wings.
6 Wherein Chelsea creates a Manhattan annex to house Brooklyn successes. How it opens shows, books shows, and rents spaces to other producers at the Westside Theater while continuing to move Brooklyn productions to inappropriate, overpriced rental houses.
7 In which commercial interests rally for art while artists sabotage a revolutionary production. Chelsea wins major awards for best off-Broadway and best Broadway show of the season but doesn't make any money. Audiences, theater artists, and critics take note, while funding sources make note of the growing deficit.
8 How Kalfin defends art from an experimental playwright, a Tony-nominated actress, a Hollywood star, his partners, his board, and a tribe of Indians. While backstage tensions grow, Macheath hangs.
9 Wherein Chelsea condemns the prince and aborts the family, parts three and four.
10 How a monster loses its heads.
11 Wherein we continue Chelsea, the story of a house.
12 How Chelsea cancels a season in order to pay its debts and cannot secure subsequent funding because it has not been producing plays. Our story reaches a happy end, of course.
Read more about this topic: Chelsea On The Edge: The Adventures Of An American Theater
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