![]() When he was a writer at the Pioneer Press, he and another staffer, Irv Letofsky, helped found Dudley Riggs’ Brave New Workshop. Sulllivan attended Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., and did graduate work at the University of Minnesota. And honest and forthright,” former Detroit Free Press theater critic Lawrence DeVine wrote on Facebook.Ĭhris Jones, theater critic for New York Daily News and director of the National Critics Institute, described Sullivan as “a major force in the field” at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. “(Dan) was a friend to every good theater critic and a mentor to a lot of them on their way up. The American Theatre Critics Association, of which he was one of the founders, conferred on him lifetime Emeritus membership, one of its highest honors. In national theater circles, Sullivan was known for his work as leader of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Paul, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 19.) ![]() I believe he was instrumental in August Wilson winning the Pulitzer Prize.” (Wilson, who wrote some of his plays in St. “He was a champion on the national level for local and regional theater. “My dad was an agitator for the under-rated geniuses,” Kate Sullivan said. For 22 years, he was theater critic for the Los Angeles Times. Paul Pioneer Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, as well as covering off-Broadway for the New York Times. ![]() Sullivan, who was married to the novelist Faith Sullivan, was known and respected by his peers for his thoughtful approach to theater and reviewing. Dan Sullivan, a theater critic for local and national publications, died peacefully Tuesday in his Minneapolis home from the effects of dementia, according his daughter, Kate Sullivan.
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