Merle Debuskey, a longtime theater press agent and one of the most significant players in providing free Shakespeare in the Park for generations of grateful New Yorkers, died Tuesday at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 95. “Merle Debuskey was one of the first champions of the New York Shakespeare Festival and what would become The Public Theater,” the Public Theater said in a statemen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AM on September 28, 2018