Name Theodore Mann Role Theatre Producer | Books Journeys in the night | |
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Died February 24, 2012, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Spouse Patricia Brooks (m. 1953–1993) Children Andrew Mann, Jonathan Mann Awards Tony Award for Best Play, Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence, Special 20 Year Obie Award Similar People Eugene O'Neill, Jose Quintero, Patricia Brooks, Jason Wingreen, Margo Sappington | ||
Theater talk producer theodore mann and nytimes patrick healy
Theodore Mann, birth name Goldman, (May 13, 1924 – February 24, 2012) was an American theatre producer and director and the Artistic Director of the Circle in the Square Theatre School.
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- Theater talk producer theodore mann and nytimes patrick healy
- Producer theodore mann nytimes patrick healy
- Career
- Notable Broadway productions
- Notable off Broadway productions
- References
Mann co-founded Circle in the Square Theatre, widely regarded as the birth of the off-Broadway theatre movement, with Jose Quintero in 1951. Ten years later, he established the Circle in the Square Theatre School to provide training for aspiring actors. It presently offers a two-year program including courses in scene study, text analysis, speech, dance, and singing technique.
Producer theodore mann nytimes patrick healy
Career
Mann produced and/or directed more than two hundred productions starring such luminaries as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Geraldine Page, Colleen Dewhurst, James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline, Maureen Stapleton, Rip Torn, George C. Scott, and Jane Alexander. In addition to his Broadway and off-Broadway credits, he directed The Turn of the Screw for the New York City Opera, La Boheme for the Juilliard School, and The Night of the Iguana for Moscow's Maly Theater.
Mann received a Tony Award, as producer of the 1957 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. He was nominated for twelve additional Tonys and seven Drama Desk Awards.
In 1976, the Circle in the Square Theatre received a Special Tony Award acknowledging twenty-five continuous years of quality productions.
Mann received the 1999 Tao House Award from the Eugene O'Neill Foundation for his distinguished career in theatre and for his dedication to the works of O'Neill.
In November 2007 Applause Books published Mann's Memoir, Journeys In The Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle In The Square, which tells the story of his remarkable partnership with Jose Quintero and the rise of the Circle in the Square Theatre from Off-Broadway to Broadway.
In 1953 he married soprano Patricia Brooks. They had a son Andrew in 1958 and another Jonathan in 1961. She died in 1993.
In 2009, Ted Mann was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Mann died February 24, 2012, following a brief illness. He was 87.