Michael Feingold: A Life in Review
In his lifelong affair with the theatre, he could be a possessive, even jealous lover, but both his intellectual acuity and his abundant humanity shone through all his writing.
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In his lifelong affair with the theatre, he could be a possessive, even jealous lover, but both his intellectual acuity and his abundant humanity shone through all his writing.
Director Clinton Turner Davis remembers Charles Fuller, the playwright known for ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ which earned the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2020 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
The writer-performer of ‘Tearsheets’ and ‘Elements of Flesh’ left behind a career in TV and film after surviving a brain tumor, turning her focus and activism to the stage.
Theatre critic for the Los Angeles Times for 22 years, and longtime leader of the O’Neill Critics Institute, Sullivan was an old school newspaperman and a tireless teacher of the craft.
The founder of Chelsea Theater Center was a force from the 1960s onward, doing plays no one else would do and encouraging similar boldness in his colleagues.
From our first meeting, he opened me up to a panorama of possibilities, not only in the theatre but in myself.
An irresistible advocate of Latine theatre artists, the founder of the Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance paved the way for so many of us, and did it with love, grit, and grace.
In both his work and his writing, the path-breaking English director challenged all of us who make theatre to consider not only how we do it but why.
Hailing from an accomplished Chicago family, she started in journalism, then went on to break barriers as an actor, playwright, and director.
The longtime artistic director of Oregon Children’s Theatre lived out his passion for supporting the development of others, both onstage and off.