Eva Le Gallienne
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Eva Le Gallienne was an English-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author. A Broadway star by age 21, in 1926 she left Broadway behind to found the Civic Repertory Theatr
c. 1923–1928
Eva Le Gallienne, c. 1920s
Le Gallienne, 1916 or later (by Genthe)
Le Gallienne with cat, 1937 (Genthe)
Margaret Webster
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Margaret Webster was an American-British theater actress, producer and director. Critic George Jean Nathan described her as "the best director of the plays of Shakespeare that we have."
Eva Le Gallienne
…rather than simply hiring any actors who were out of work. In the late 1930s, Le Gallienne became involved in a relationship with theater director Margaret Webster. She, Webster, and producer Cheryl Crawford co-founded the American Repertory Theater, which operated from 1946 to 1948. (It bore no relation to the…
Scene from Margaret Webster's Broadway production of Othello (1943) with Uta Hagen as Desdemona, Webster as Emilia, and Jack Manning as Roderigo