Robert Whitehead (theatre producer) Canadian theatre producer
Robert Whitehead
Born (1916-03-03 ) March 3, 1916Died June 15, 2002(2002-06-15) (aged 86) Occupation Producer Years active 1947–2002 Spouses
Virginia Bolen
(
m. 1948; died 1965)
Children 2
Robert Whitehead (March 3, 1916 – June 15, 2002) was a Canadian theatre producer. His first production was Medea Judith Anderson and John Gielgud , and he won the Outer Critics Circle Award five times.[ 1] Drama Desk Awards, winning 4 Tony Awards and 5 Drama Desk Awards.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Life
His father owned textile mills, and his mother, Selena Mary LaBatt Whitehead, was an opera singer. (The actor Hume Cronyn was Whitehead's cousin on the LaBatt side.)
He went to Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, then worked as a commercial photographer before studying acting at the New York School of the Theatre.
He spent the Second World War years as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy .
Whitehead had a long-term association with fellow producer Roger L. Stevens. In 1964, the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre opened with Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan as its heads and Harold Clurman as literary adviser.
In 1968, Whitehead married Zoe Caldwell , who starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Pound Ridge , a mountain area in New York State , and built a house there. Caldwell, who won a Tony as Brodie, later appeared for Whitehead in a revival of Medea (with Judith Anderson as the nurse), Lillian, a one-woman show about Lillian Hellman , and Terrence McNally 's Master Class , in which she played Maria Callas .
Honours
2002 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.[ 3] [ 5]
Broadway Productions
Master Class - Nov 05, 1995 - Jun 29, 1997Broken Glass - Apr 24, 1994 - Jun 26, 1994Park Your Car in Harvard Yard - Nov 07, 1991 - Feb 22, 1992The Speed of Darkness - Feb 28, 1991 - Mar 30, 1991Artist Descending a Staircase - Nov 30, 1989 - Dec 31, 1989A Few Good Men - Nov 15, 1989 - Jan 26, 1991The Petition - Apr 24, 1986 - Jun 29, 1986Lillian - Jan 16, 1986 - Feb 23, 1986Death of a Salesman - Sep 14, 1984 - Nov 18, 1984Death of a Salesman - Mar 29, 1984 - Jul 01, 1984Medea - May 2, 1982 - Jun 27, 1982The West Side Waltz - Nov 19, 1981 - Mar 13, 1982Lunch Hour - Nov 12, 1980 - Jun 28, 1981Betrayal - Jan 05, 1980 - May 31, 1980Carmelina - Apr 08, 1979 - Apr 21, 1979Bedroom Farce - Mar 29, 1979 - Nov 24, 1979No Man's Land - Nov 09, 1976 - Dec 18, 1976A Texas Trilogy : The Oldest Living Graduate - Sep 23, 1976 - Oct 29, 1976A Texas Trilogy: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia - Sep 22, 1976 - Oct 31, 1976A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander - Sep 21, 1976 - Oct 30, 19761600 Pennsylvania Avenue - May 4, 1976 - May 8, 1976A Matter of Gravity - Feb 03, 1976 - Apr 10, 1976Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Sep 24, 1974 - Feb 08, 1975Finishing Touches - Feb 08, 1973 - Jun 30, 1973The Creation of the World and Other Business - Nov 30, 1972 - Dec 16, 1972Old Times - Nov 16, 1971 - Feb 26, 1972
Sheep on the Runway - Jan 31, 1970 - May 2, 1970The Price - Feb 07, 1968 - Feb 15, 1969The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Jan 16, 1968 - Dec 14, 1968Where's Daddy? - Mar 02, 1966 - Mar 19, 1966Tartuffe - Jan 14, 1965 - May 22, 1965Incident at Vichy - Dec 03, 1964 - May 7, 1965The Changeling - Oct 29, 1964 - Dec 23, 1964The Physicists - Oct 13, 1964 - Nov 28, 1964But For Whom Charlie - Mar 12, 1964 - Jul 02, 1964Marco Millions - Feb 20, 1964 - Jun 18, 1964Foxy - Feb 16, 1964 - Apr 18, 1964After The Fall - Jan 23, 1964 - May 29, 1965A Man for All Seasons - Nov 22, 1961 - Jun 01, 1963Midgie Purvis - Feb 01, 1961 - Feb 18, 1961The Conquering Hero - Jan 16, 1961 - Jan 21, 1961Much Ado About Nothing - Sep 17, 1959 - Nov 07, 1959The Cold Wind and the Warm - Dec 08, 1958 - Mar 21, 1959The Man in the Dog Suit - Oct 30, 1958 - Nov 29, 1958Goldilocks - Oct 11, 1958 - Feb 28, 1959A Touch of the Poet - Oct 02, 1958 - Jun 13, 1959The Visit - May 5, 1958 - Nov 29, 1958The Waltz of the Toreadors - Mar 04, 1958 - Mar 29, 1958The Day the Money Stopped - Feb 20, 1958 - Feb 22, 1958Orpheus Descending - Mar 21, 1957 - May 18, 1957A Hole in the Head - Feb 28, 1957 - Jul 13, 1957The Waltz of the Toreadors - Jan 17, 1957 - May 11, 1957The Sleeping Prince - Nov 01, 1956 - Dec 22, 1956
Major Barbara - Oct 30, 1956 - May 18, 1957Separate Tables - Oct 25, 1956 - Sep 28, 1957Tamburlaine the Great - Jan 19, 1956 - Feb 04, 1956Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure... - Oct 10, 1955 - Dec 03, 1955A View From the Bridge / A Memory of Two Mondays - Sep 29, 1955 - Feb 04, 1956The Skin of Our Teeth - Aug 17, 1955 - Sep 03, 1955Bus Stop - Mar 02, 1955 - Apr 21, 1956The Flowering Peach - Dec 28, 1954 - Apr 23, 1955Portrait of a Lady - Dec 21, 1954 - Dec 25, 1954The Confidential Clerk - Feb 11, 1954 - May 22, 1954The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker - Dec 30, 1953 - Jul 10, 1954The Emperor's Clothes - Feb 09, 1953 - Feb 21, 1953Sunday Breakfast - May 28, 1952 - Jun 08, 1952Four Saints in Three Acts - Apr 16, 1952 - Apr 27, 1952Golden Boy - Mar 12, 1952 - Apr 06, 1952Mrs. McThing - Feb 20, 1952 - Jan 10, 1953Night Music - Apr 08, 1951 - Apr 14, 1951The Member of the Wedding - Jan 05, 1950 - Mar 17, 1951Crime and Punishment - Dec 22, 1947 - Jan 24, 1948Medea - Oct 20, 1947 - May 15, 1948Heart of a City - Feb 12, 1942 - Mar 07, 1942Mr. Big - Sep 30, 1941 - Oct 04, 1941
Steel - Dec 19, 1939 - Dec 30, 1939
Cure For Matrimony - Oct 25, 1939 - Nov 25, 1939Reference:[ 2]
Awards and nominations
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