Good-bye Eve
Eve Adamson, founder of Jean Cocteau Repertory and one of Off-Off Broadway’s most gifted stalwarts, passed away over the weekend. I was lucky enough to work with her at one point and witness the perfectionism that drove more than three decades of consistently brilliant and visually stunning theater. With Eve, artistry always came first. She had every opportunity to compromise in her career, and because she wouldn’t, her audiences trusted her and kept coming back. By her own admission, she wasn’t what they call “an actors’ director,” but actors trusted her too, and some of the best actors in this city devoted their lives to helping her build up a theater company that never promised them a living. Hundreds of theater artists passed through that woman’s life, and I’m confident there are many in New York and elsewhere who, like me, will be feeling surges of melancholy this week.