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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 .
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)
Judith Malina (June 4, 1926 – April 10, 2015) was a German-born American actress, director and writer. With her husband Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 1960s.
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
The Theatre of Living Arts (known commonly as the TLA) is a concert venue that is located on South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The venue, which opened in 1988, dates back to the early 1900s as a nickelodeon .
From left, Joseph P. Bickerton, Jr. (theatre producer), Elmer Rice (playwright) and Carl Laemmle Jr. (Universal producer) sign a contract for the film version of Counsellor at Law After writing four more plays of no special distinction, Rice startled audiences in 1923 with his next contribution to the theatre, the boldly expressionistic The ...
Beginning in 1962, Vogt performed with the experimental Living Theatre in Europe. During the organizations’ period in New York in the late 1960s, she acted in multiple productions directed by Julian Beck and Judith Malina including Frankenstein (1968), Paradise Now (1968), Mysteries and Other Pieces (1968) and Bertold Brecht ’s Antigone ...