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Lortel, Lucille

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Lortel, Lucille (1902–98), producer. Dubbed “the Queen of Off Broadway,” Lortel presented challenging new works, as well as unusual foreign plays, at the Theatre de Lys for more than forty years. The native New Yorker studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in the 1920s then began her career as an actress. She left the theatre when she married but returned as a producer in the 1950s, first at the White Barn Theatre in Connecticut and then in Manhattan, offering such significant Off‐Broadway productions as The Threepenny Opera (1954), Dames at Sea (19), A Life in the Theatre (1977), Buried Child (1978), Getting Out (1978), and Cloud Nine (1981). The Theatre de Lys was renamed in her honor in 1981, as are the annual Lucille Lortel Awards given by the League of Off‐Broadway Theatres and Producers for outstanding work Off Broadway.

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Lortel, Lucille, see LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE.

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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lortel, Lucille." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LortelLucille.html

PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lortel, Lucille." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LortelLucille.html

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