María Irene Fornés, an acclaimed avant-garde playwright and director who lent her talents to numerous works produced off-Broadway, died on October 30 at the Amsterdam Nursing Home in New York City, according to The New York Times. Fornés had long been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She was 88. Fornés was born on May 14, 1930, in Havana, Cuba. She first earned acclaim on the New Y…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:04PM on October 31, 2018