(David Rooney’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/26.)
Theodore Mann, a producer and director who, as a founder of the influential Circle in the Square, was a driving force in the rise of Off Broadway theater in the 1950s, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 87.
The cause was complications of pneumonia, said his son Jonathan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/theater/theodore-mann-off-broadway-producer-dies-at-87.html