Feingold, Michael
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Name (Latin)
Feingold, Michael
Date of birth
1945-05-05
Date of death
2022-11-21
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Theater
Occupation
Lyricists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- New York times, 2 Dec. 2022:in an obituary on page A20 (Michael Feingold, born on May 5, 1945 in Chicago [Ill.], died Nov. 21 [2022] in Manhattan, aged 77; his learned writing about the theater was a fixture of The Village Voice for decades, and who was also a dramaturge, a translator and a Tony-award nominated lyracist and adapter; Mr. Feingold was not a critic who would just sit and snipe. He was active in creating for the theater himself; wrote for The Voice from 1971 to 2013, in 1983 he was named its chief drama critic)
- Weill, K. Happy end, 1980 (a.e.)t.p. (Amer. adaptation and lyrics by Michael Feingold)
- Phone call to Barron's, 7/27/84(Michael Feingold; also author of William Shakespeare's Hamlet)
- Contemporary authors on Infotrac, Mar. 15, 2007(Michael Feingold; b. May 5, 1945, Chicago, Ill.)
Wikipedia description:
Michael E. Feingold (May 5, 1945 – November 21, 2022) was an American critic, translator, lyricist, playwright and dramaturg. He was the lead theater critic of The Village Voice from 1982 to 2013, for which he was twice named a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism finalist, and was a two-time recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He was a judge for the Obie Awards for 31 years, and the chairman for nine years. For his work as the translator and adapter of the book and lyrics of the Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Bertolt Brecht musical Happy End, he was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1977.
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