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Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame, recognizing his many years of cabaret performances.
Apr 17, 2024 · Eric Bentley (born September 14, 1916, Bolton, Lancashire, England—died August 5, 2020, New York, New York, U.S.) was a British-born American critic, translator, and stage director responsible for introducing the works of many European playwrights to the United States and known for his original, literate reviews of theatre and critical works on drama.
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Aug 5, 2020 · Eric Russell Bentley was born Sept. 14, 1916, in Bolton, a northern industrial town in Lancashire, England, to Fred and Laura Bentley. His father was a respected local businessman. His mother had ...
Charles McNulty is the theater critic of the Los Angeles Times. He received his doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the Yale School of Drama. Critic and translator Eric Bentley ...
Sep 17, 2020 · Thu 17 Sep 2020 12.38 EDT. Last modified on Tue 10 Nov 2020 13.13 EST. The first half of the life of Eric Bentley, who has died aged 103, constituted a classic success story for a migrant to the ...
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Aug 18, 2020 · August 18, 2020 · 7 min read. Eric Bentley (Northwestern University Press ) Broadway is dark these days, but the lights of theaters around the world should be dimmed in honor of author, critic, translator and playwright Eric Bentley, who died this month at his home in New York at the age of 103. Bentley’s legacy in the theater as a ...
Don Rubin* Eric Bentley. Photo: Northwestern University Press Eric Bentley—one of the world’s great theatre thinkers—was the first person to be honored by the International Association of Theatre Critics with its Thalia Prize in 2006 for “Contributions to Theatre.” Bentley died this past September (2020), just short of his 104th birthday.
