by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS 2011, Gordon Davidson, who died last week at the age of 83, was six years into his retirement from his role as Founding Artisitic Director of the Mark Taper Forum, which he launched in 1967. His successor, Michael Ritchie, had dismantled the in-house writing labs for ethnic minorities and the disabled; these labs were a cornerstone of Davidson's devotion to the identity politics of the 1980…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:34PM on October 5, 2016