Bernard Gersten, a pioneering force in New York City’s nonprofit theater movement, died today at his home in Manhattan of pancreatic cancer. He was 97. His death was announced by daughter Jen…
His death was announced by daughter Jenny Gersten.mourns our cherished Bernard Gersten who died this morning peacefully in his sleep at the astounding age of 97,” the theater company said in a statement.
Gersten worked alongside Joseph Papp in establishing both the Public Theater in the East Village and the New York Shakespeare Festival, housed at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, into signature New York City cultural touchstones. He followed that work in 1985 with nearly 30 years as executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater, a tenure that saw the nonprofit company emerge as one of the nation’s premiere producers of theater.
Hair, A Chorus Line, Streamers, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf,, among numerous others. Shakespeare in the Park, under the aegis of the Public Theater, would provide early career spotlights for generations of rising talent, including Raul Julia, Meryl Streep and James Earl Jones.
Gersten and Papp ended their partnership in 1978 in a very public disagreement over Papp’s decision not to produce Michael Bennett’sIn a show of loyalty to Bennett, Gersten himself co-producedGersten’s tenure at Lincoln Center Theater restored the producer to his previous high-profile success, though, with nearly three decades of ground-breaking plays, musicals and revivals: John Guare’s
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