Theater director Martin Benson, who co-established the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory and served as its founding artistic director for 46 years, has died. He was 87. The theater’s ...

Martin Benson — who with friends and fellow lovers of the stage developed South Coast Repertory from a single summertime performance to an award-winning theater company and who directed 119 ...

Martin Benson, right, with actor Adam Haas Hunter, during a rehearsal of "The Whipping Man" (2014) Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Martin Benson, the co-founder and longtime ...

By Richard Sandomir Martin Benson, a founder and longtime artistic director of South Coast Repertory, a nationally renowned regional theater in Southern California that won a Tony Award in 1988 ...

Martin Benson, the co-founder and longtime artistic director of the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory regional theater in Costa Mesa, California, died November 30 of a probable heart attack ...