The Minutemen, a group opposed to illegal immigration and known for staging civilian patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border, gathered in Upper Senate Park.
Ms. Holland, known for staging extravagant affairs (she planned the 2006 Connecticut wedding of Bryce Dallas Howard, the daughter of the director Ron Howard), refused.
Mr. Greif is best known for staging the popular rock musical "Rent," while Ms. Reinking is primarily identified as a star of and choreographer for the works of Bob Fosse.
Peter Sellars, the avant-garde director known for staging classical plays and operas in joltingly contemporary settings, has once again aroused controversy with an unorthodox production of a canonical work.
A sunny 6-foot-1, Aitken is known for staging large-scale public "Happenings" — theatrical entertainments involving farm auctioneers, gospel singers, a drum corps, dancers, a bull-whip-snapping cowboy and food served on "sonic" tables.
Over the last 30 years Ms. Hendeles has become known for staging idiosyncratic exhibitions in her eponymous art foundation in Toronto, increasingly mixing contemporary art from her collection with other acquisitions, including vintage photographs and unusual antiques.
Desprez had a continuing poetic fascination with tombs and cemeteries and became well known for stage designs that showed them.
Burgess Meredith, in full Oliver Burgess Meredith (born November 16, 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. died September 9 , 1997 Malibu, California) American actor and director, best known for stage, television, and motion-picture character roles.
November 16, 1907 Cleveland, Ohio September 9 ,1997 Malibu, California Burgess Meredith, in full Oliver Burgess Meredith (born November 16, 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. died September 9 , 1997 Malibu, California), American actor and director, best known for stage, television, and motion-picture character roles.
As co-author of the screenplay of The Harder They Come (1972), he helped bring the music and culture of Jamaica to overseas audiences, though at home and throughout the Caribbean he was better known for stage plays such as Smile Orange, a farcical indictment of the tourism industry, and Old Story Time, a complex work exploring the predominant contradictions inherent in postcolonial societies.
To be fair, Mr. Kartheiser hasn't been known for stage work, though that's how he got his start, and not many people would mention his uptight, perpetually dissatisfied midcentury ad executive in the same breath as a Regency-era heartthrob.
