Writing, Performance Art, Theatre Laura McLaws Helms Writing, Performance Art, Theatre Laura McLaws Helms

Episode 23: Penny Arcade

A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York Play-House of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol’s Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art.

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