Former Pasadena Playhouse Executive Director Lars Hansen Dies at 60

At Pasadena Playhouse, he produced more than 150 plays and musicals, including four which moved to Broadway: Mail, Accomplice, Solitary Confinement, and Twilight of the Golds.

Hansen was also former President of Theatre League Alliance (now LA Stage Alliance); Executive Director, Office of Cultural Relations, for the University of Southern California; publisher of LA Stage Magazine; Musical Director and Executive Director of Long Beach Civic Light Opera; Executive Director for California Music Theatre in Pasadena; Business Manager for New York City's Playwrights Horizons; and Administrative Director of American Music Theatre Festival in Philadelphia, among other arts-related positions.

He is survived by his partner, Anthony John Amendola, his brother Ralph J. Hansen, his sister-in-law Rebecca Robinson, his mother-in-law Anna Amendola, his sister-in-law Dominica Lawson, brother-in-law Richard Lawson, and nephew Christopher Lawson.