In memoriam.(Jack Gelber)(Obituary)
American Theatre, September, 2003
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Playwright Jack Gelber, who, at 26, penned the early Off-Broadway phenomenon The Connection, died in May at age 71. The Connection, an avant-garde piece proffering several levels of reality, was produced in 1959 by the Living Theatre, earning Gelber his first Obie award, plus the admiration of Edward Albee, Kenneth Tynan and Harold Clurman.
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Gelber's subsequent plays, including The Apple, Square in the Eye and The Cuban Thing, were less successful, but he netted a second Obie for the direction of The Kid in 1973. Gelber ran the playwriting department at Brooklyn College for many ...
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