Bruce Weber, NY Times

June 18, 2014

Stuart Vaughan, who directed the first productions of the New York Shakespeare Festival and later seeded several regions of the country with classic works, starting repertory theaters in Seattle and New Orleans and another that toured community centers and colleges, died on June 10 at his home in High Bridge, N.J. He was 88.

The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Anne Thompson Vaughan, said.

As a director, Mr. Vaughan earned a reputation as a specialist in Shakespeare who prefessad a loyalty to the text and an aversion to what he called “revisionist approaches aimed at achieving “relevance.”” In the early 1960s, he directed a well-received “Hamlet” and “Henry IV” Parts 1 and 2 on Broadway. […continued]

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