Paying Last Respects to the Mama of La MaMa
The news came today that Ellen Stewart has died. She was 91 and news report say that she died peacefully in her sleep. So this is less a note of mourning than one of celebration for the remarkable life she lead"and how she used it to help change theater in this country. It couldn't have been easy for a black woman to start an experimental theater company--not even in the Village and not …