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The Living Theatre is an American theatre company founded in 1947 and based in New York City. It is the oldest experimental theatre group in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For most of its history it was led by its founders, actress Judith Malina and painter/poet Julian Beck .
Chicago, 1992, the inaugural production of A Red Orchid Theatre, featuring Michael Shannon and Guy Van Swearingen; New York, 2009, 50th Anniversary Production at the Living Theatre, directed by Judith Malina, music director Rene McLean; Seattle, 2011, Sight by Sound productions, directed by Gavin Reub in The Little Theater
Jack Gelber (April 12, 1932 – May 9, 2003) was an American playwright best known for his 1959 drama The Connection, depicting the life of drug-addicted jazz musicians.. The first great success of the Living Theatre, the play was translated into five languages and produced in ten nati
This treatise on grammar from the 2nd century BCE provides a feasible date for the beginnings of theatre in India. [5] Since the time of Alexander the Great, the Indian subcontinent came into direct contact with Greek culture. This has led to a scholarly debate about how much influence Ancient Greek drama had upon the development of Indian ...
Early development of modern Hindi theatre can be traced to the work of Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885), a theatre actor, director, manager, and playwright based in Varanasi (Banaras), who is also the father of modern Hindi literature as in his short life of 35 years, he edited two magazines, Kavi vachan Sudha and Harishchandra chandrika, wrote numerous volumes of verse in Braj bhasa ...
The Brig is a play written by Kenneth H. Brown (1936–2022) based on his experiences as a U.S. Marine. [1] It was first performed in New York by The Living Theatre on May 13, 1963, [2] with a production filmed in 1964 by Jonas Mekas. [3]
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Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)