sentences:  EXIT Theatre began in 1983 when the founder and artistic director Christina Augello directed a group of retired vaudevillians and method actors in two performances of a new play in the lobby of a San Francisco residential hotel.Early plays at EXIT Theatre include "Sadie’s Turn" (the first full-length play by noted Native American poet Mary TallMountain), "Mystery of the Fourth Wall" (the West Coast premiere in 1989 of Mary Zimmerman), and "Like" (the first full production of beat poet Diane di Prima’s 35-year-old sound play).More recently, EXIT Theatre showed plays such as "Breaking Rules, Broken Hearts