John Doyle Named New Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company
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Tony Award winner John Doyle will take the reins of the off-Broadway mainstay Classic Stage Company when current artistic director Brian Kulick steps down following the 2015-16 season.
Kulick has led Classic Stage Company for 12 seasons and will direct two of this season's productions, Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Tonya Pinkins, and Nathan the Wise, starring F. Murray Abraham. Kulick is departing to devote time to his "independent directing, work at Columbia University, and ever-patient family," he said in a statement.
Doyle joined the Classic Stage staff in 2013 as associate director. In that time, he has directed acclaimed revivals of Stephen Sondheim's Passion and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro. He won a Tony for his stripped-down Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, and will bring his lauded London revival of The Color Purple to Broadway this fall, in a production starring Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson, and Danielle Brooks.
Doyle is Classic Stage Company's seventh artistic director in its nearly 50-year history.
