Alice Lewisohn Explained

Alice Lewisohn Crowley
Birth Date:1883
Death Date:1972
Spouse:Herbert E. Crowley

Alice Lewisohn (1883–1972) was the founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse with her sister Irene Lewisohn. Alice was also an actress.[1]

Biography

She was the daughter of Rosalie Jacobs and Leonard Lewisohn.[1] [2] [3] In 1905 she and her sister, Irene Lewisohn, began classes and club work at the Henry Street Settlement House in New York. They produced performances with both dance and drama. In 1915, they opened the Neighborhood Playhouse on the corner of Grand and Pitt Streets.[4] There they offered training in both dance and drama to children and teenagers. Irene was in charge of the dance training and production, with the assistance of Blanche Talmud. Alice Lewisohn was in charge of the dramatic arts.[5] In 1924 she married artist, cartoonist and designer Herbert E. Crowley.[6] Her father is of Jewish background.

She resided in Zurich, Switzerland for many years and was part of the Carl Jung inner circle,[7] along with Crowley.[8] The notion of a hermaphroditic God, drawn from Kabbalah, was suggested to Jung by Alice Lewisohn, and commented on by Jung in a dream analysis seminar.[9]

In 1927 Lewisohn closed the Neighborhood Playhouse after a dozen years of success, including landmark productions such as 1925's The Dybbuk.

After the First World War, Lewisohn settled in Zurich with her husband.[10] She died in Zurich 1972 as Alice Lewisohn Crowley.[11] [12]

Publications

Broadway

Notes and References

  1. News: Miss Alice Lewisohn is Now an Actress. Member of Well-Known Family on the Stage as Eleanora Leigh. She Denies That She Is Stage Struck, and Says Her Purpose Is to Educate Herself. . . November 14, 1906 . 2008-12-16 .
  2. News: He Succumbed to Pneumonia in London After a Three Days' Illness. Was Fifty-four Years Old. . The New York Times . March 6, 1902 . 2008-12-15 .
  3. News: Leonard Lewisohn Left $12,000,000. The New York Times . March 6, 1902 . 2008-12-15 .
  4. Web site: Historical note . 2008-12-16 . In 1914, the Lewisohns bought a lot on the corner of Grand and Pitt Streets and donated it to the Settlement as the site of a new theater that would provide better performance space and teaching facilities. The Neighborhood Playhouse opened in 1915, showing both motion pictures and theatrical performances. . . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230659/http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/nypl/mssnplay/@Generic__BookTextView/194;pt=144 . dead .
  5. Web site: Guide to the Neighborhood Playhouse. Scenarios, 1914-1931. . 2008-12-16 . .
  6. Book: Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy edited by Robert A Schanke . 2007 . SIU Press . 9780809327478 . 2013-10-19.
  7. Book: The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street By John P. Harrington . Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd) . 30 December 2007. 9780815631552 . 2013-10-19.
  8. Web site: Dan Nadel brings the secret history of comics to Cinefamily on May 30 . herocomplex.latimes.com . 2013-10-19.
  9. Web site: Routes of Wholeness: Jungian and Post-Jungian Dialogues with the Western Esoteric Tree of Life Lloyd Kenton Keane A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies University of Essex, 2007 (pp. 89) . scribd.com . 2013-10-19 . 2013-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131022185320/http://www.scribd.com/doc/38041737/Routes-of-Wholeness-Jungian-and-Post-Jungian-Dialogues-with-the-Western-Esoteric-Tree-of-Life-Lloyd-Kenton-Keane . dead .
  10. Web site: Broadway Photographs: Alice Lewisohn. broadway.cas.sc.edu . 2013-10-19.
  11. News: Miss Alice Crowley Formed Playhouse . Mrs. Alice Lewisohn Crowley, a daughter of Leonard Lewisohn, who founded a major copper mining concern with his younger brother, Adolph, died in Zurich last ... . The New York Times . January 12, 1972 . 2008-12-16 .
  12. News: Alice Lewisohn Crowley . The Board of Directors, Administrative Staff and Students of the Playhouse School of the Theatre, sadly mark; the passing of Alice Lewisohn Crowley, ... . The New York Times . January 7, 1972.

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