Off-Broadway: the prophetic theater

Stuart W. Little was born in Hartford, Connecticut on December 12, 1921. He graduated from Yale University in 1944 and during World War II, he served in the Office of Strategic Services, where one of his duties was to write psychological profiles of high-ranking Nazis. In 1946, he began his journalism career at The Herald Tribune, where he rose to show more assistant city editor before taking on the theater column. When the paper folded in 1966, he started writing books. His works include the following: The Playmakers, Off Broadway: The Prophetic Theater, and Home in Fenwick: Memoir of a Place. He also worked for NBC and edited the quarterly newsletter of the Theater Development Fund. He died of congestive heart failure on July 27, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less