“The net result is a society of winners as whiners, where people who are not only doing fine but doing much better relative to the median than they were a generation ago nonetheless feel left behind.”
Tag: 01.14.11
Ellen Stewart, 91, Founder of La MaMa and Off-Off-Broadway Titan
Originally a dress designer, Stewart – as an African-American woman in the early 1960s, no less – created and ran for five decades an experimental theater center that became as influential as Joe Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival. Harvey Fierstein, one person on an astonishing list of La MaMa alumni, has said, “Eighty percent of what is now considered the American theater originated at La MaMa.”