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Jan. 15, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
Lloyd Richards, the stage director who helped launch Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson into the playwriting pantheon, revolutionizing not only black theater but the entire way in which new American drama is shepherded from first draft to polished premiere, has died.
July 1, 2006
California
The preliminary hearing in a 4-year-old Costa Mesa murder opened Friday with a pathologist offering testimony that the defense said contradicts a key prosecution witness.
Aug. 1, 1987
Lloyd Richards is at a crossroads.
March 15, 1991
Politics
Sharing the stage with a cast out of history, Gov.
April 28, 1994
August Wilson is on his way to dinner.
Jan. 14, 1996
They are separated by a generation and a generous helping of social and educational differences.
Feb. 6, 1988
Soon after Lloyd Richards settled into his new jobs as Dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1979, he got a call from his old acting buddy, James Earl Jones.
April 30, 1989
Feb. 4, 1988
The case against San Francisco accountant Richard Dale Wilson, charged with the revenge killing of the man accused of murdering Wilson’s fiancee, hit rough waters Thursday when a key prosecution witness recanted his previous testimony alleging that Wilson had made death threats.
Sept. 11, 1987