>1969: Dark Shadows' Quentin was shocked to see Laura.
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1983: Kristian Alfonso debuted as Hope on Days of our Lives.
2009: Guiding Light's Olivia poured her heart out at Gus's grave.
2011: ABC canceled All My Children and One Life to Live."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
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1939: On Backstage Wife, Mary went to a portrait sitting at Ken Page's studio. Ken's sister Sandra arrived while Mary was in the dressing room very upset with Ken because he did not want her to see Mary's friend,...
- 4/14/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Playwright/actor Sam Shepard is to be honoured with the first Ellen Stewart Award in New York.
Shepard will pick up the honour at the La MaMa 50 Gala at the Ellen Stewart Theatre in October.
Stewart, the founder and artistic director of La MaMa, died in January.
The award will be handed out annually to an artist who "embodies the courage and pioneering spirit that Ms. Stewart encouraged at La MaMa, an artist who carries on her ideal of challenging conventional theatrical boundaries and expanding our understanding of human potential."
Black Hawk Down star Shepard has staged numerous productions at La MaMa.
Shepard will pick up the honour at the La MaMa 50 Gala at the Ellen Stewart Theatre in October.
Stewart, the founder and artistic director of La MaMa, died in January.
The award will be handed out annually to an artist who "embodies the courage and pioneering spirit that Ms. Stewart encouraged at La MaMa, an artist who carries on her ideal of challenging conventional theatrical boundaries and expanding our understanding of human potential."
Black Hawk Down star Shepard has staged numerous productions at La MaMa.
- 9/6/2011
- WENN
Energetic founder of the pioneering experimental theatre club La MaMa
The major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, specifically a small group of off-off-Broadway and Greenwich Village cafe theatres where Ellen Stewart, who has died aged 91, reigned supreme as the founder and artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Although never renowned as an actor or director herself (she took to directing in later life), Stewart generated creative energy and excitement in others, incontrovertible proof that theatre can only thrive given the right circumstances or opportunities.
She considered her artists as her family and, in the earliest days, kept them in clothes from her work as a designer. Many actors slept in her apartment or in the theatre itself. In British terms, she was the Lower East Side's Lilian Baylis, with elements of Sybil Thorndike and Thelma Holt.
The major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, specifically a small group of off-off-Broadway and Greenwich Village cafe theatres where Ellen Stewart, who has died aged 91, reigned supreme as the founder and artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Although never renowned as an actor or director herself (she took to directing in later life), Stewart generated creative energy and excitement in others, incontrovertible proof that theatre can only thrive given the right circumstances or opportunities.
She considered her artists as her family and, in the earliest days, kept them in clothes from her work as a designer. Many actors slept in her apartment or in the theatre itself. In British terms, she was the Lower East Side's Lilian Baylis, with elements of Sybil Thorndike and Thelma Holt.
- 1/27/2011
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
New York theatre icon Ellen Stewart has died, aged 91.
Stewart, who founded the award-winning LAMAMa Experimental Theater Club, died of natural causes on Thursday.
Founded in 1961, the theatre gave early opportunities to acting greats such as Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
During her 50 years as a director and producer of LAMAMa, Stewart collaborated with other artists including Sam Shepard, Bette Midler, Tom O'Horgan and more.
And she was the first off-Broadway producer to be inducted into the Broadway Theatre Hall of Fame in 1993.
Stewart is survived by her adopted son, Duk Hyung Yoo, and eight grandchildren.
Stewart, who founded the award-winning LAMAMa Experimental Theater Club, died of natural causes on Thursday.
Founded in 1961, the theatre gave early opportunities to acting greats such as Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
During her 50 years as a director and producer of LAMAMa, Stewart collaborated with other artists including Sam Shepard, Bette Midler, Tom O'Horgan and more.
And she was the first off-Broadway producer to be inducted into the Broadway Theatre Hall of Fame in 1993.
Stewart is survived by her adopted son, Duk Hyung Yoo, and eight grandchildren.
- 1/14/2011
- WENN
Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and one of the pioneers of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died on Jan. 12. She was 91.Stewart nurtured the careers of many influential theater figures, often giving them their first exposure, including directors Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, Tom O'Horgan, and Joseph Chaikin; actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein; playwrights Sam Shepard, Charles Ludlam, Adrienne Kennedy, Taylor Mac, Lanford Wilson, and Israel Horovitz; composers Philip Glass, Elizabeth Swados, Meredith Monk, and Stephen Schwartz; and theater troupes Mabou Mines and the Talking Band. She also introduced American audiences to such European directors as Jerzy Grotowski and Andrei Serban.Stewart came to New York in the 1950s to become a fashion designer and founded La MaMa in 1961. More than 2,000 productions later, the theater, which is located at 74A E. Fourth St. in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, is still going strong. During the theater's infancy, Stewart funded it with her earnings from dress designing.
- 1/13/2011
- backstage.com
La MaMa Moves!, which is dancing into its fifth year has a dance card that is the envy of the ball. It's filled with names such as Sara Rudner, Rashaun Mitchell, John Kelly, Ellen Fisher, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, John Scott, Jennifer Monson, and Doug Elkins--in all, over 75 different performers, many of whom are appearing at La MaMa for the first time, and some of whom will be crossing the pond just for a chance to dance on one of its venerable stages. Dedicated to the 90Th birthday year of Ellen Stewart, the founder and artistic director of La MaMa, the 2010 festival extends from June 4-20.
- 6/20/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
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