Ellen Stewart, Founder of Influential Off-Off-Broadway Theater La MaMa, Dies at Age 91
Ellen Stewart, who nurtured several generations of writers, and directors from around the world at the off-off-Broadway theater La MaMa E.T.C., died on January 13 at Beth Israel Hospital after an extended heart-related illness. She was 91. Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, on November 7, 1919, Stewart began her career as a fashion designer before opening a basement coffeehouse in the East Village in 1961. Dubbed Caf&…