Lee Breuer, a cofounder of New York’s groundbreaking experimental theater company Mabou Mines and writer of Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize finalist The Gospel at Colonus, died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 83.
His death was announced by Mabou Mines. A cause was not specified, but the company noted that Breuer died peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones.
A seminal figure in American avant-garde theater, Breuer, along with composer Philip Glass, director JoAnne Akalaitis, and actors Ruth Maleczech and David Warrilow, cofounded Mabou Mines in 1970. The theater company, named after the town in Nova Scotia where Glass and Akalaitis had a home, would become a force in New York’s downtown experimental arts scene that continues to this day.
The company’s best-known work, The Gospel at Colonus, was a gospel music adaptation of Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus at Colonus set in a Black Pentecostal church.
His death was announced by Mabou Mines. A cause was not specified, but the company noted that Breuer died peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones.
A seminal figure in American avant-garde theater, Breuer, along with composer Philip Glass, director JoAnne Akalaitis, and actors Ruth Maleczech and David Warrilow, cofounded Mabou Mines in 1970. The theater company, named after the town in Nova Scotia where Glass and Akalaitis had a home, would become a force in New York’s downtown experimental arts scene that continues to this day.
The company’s best-known work, The Gospel at Colonus, was a gospel music adaptation of Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus at Colonus set in a Black Pentecostal church.
- 1/4/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Sex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, will make its New York City debut directed by renowned director Lee Breuer, in his first collaboration with a living American playwright. The play stars Tony Award nominee Paul Kandel The Who's Tommy, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, David-Julian Melendez User 927 and Romeo amp Juliet at Here, Obie Award winner Maude Mitchell Mabou Mines Dollhouse, The Laramie Project, Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran Oresteia, Flipzoids, Jessica Weinstein Mabou Mines DollHouse, The Best, and Wendy vanden Heuvel The Barbie Project, Resurrection Blues. Music for the play will be composed by Eve Beglarian Mabou Mines DollHouse, Animal Magnetism.The show plays tonight, December 1st through December 11th, at Here Arts Center 145 Sixth Avenue, NYC.
- 12/1/2011
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
t was announced today that Sex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, will make its New York City debut directed by renowned director Lee Breuer, in his first collaboration with a living American playwright. The play stars Tony Award nominee Paul Kandel The Who's Tommy, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, David-Julian Melendez User 927 and Romeo amp Juliet at Here, Obie Award winner Maude Mitchell Mabou Mines Dollhouse, The Laramie Project, Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran Oresteia, Flipzoids, Jessica Weinstein Mabou Mines DollHouse, The Best, and Wendy vanden Heuvel The Barbie Project, Resurrection Blues. Music for the play will be composed by Eve Beglarian Mabou Mines DollHouse, Animal Magnetism.
- 11/16/2011
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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