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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...