Adrian Hall
Adrian Hall is a noted director and manager. A native of Van, Texas, he studied at Texas State Teachers' College, the Pasadena Playhouse, and with Lee Strasberg. After staging plays Off-Broadway and a... Read more
Adrian Hall is a noted director and manager. A native of Van, Texas, he studied at Texas State Teachers' College, the Pasadena Playhouse, and with Lee Strasberg. After staging plays Off-Broadway and at regional theatres, he helped found in 1964 the Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence. In 1983, he assumed double duty by also taking over the directorship of the Dallas Theatre Center. Hall's choice of plays and his mountings have often been controversial, using space in unconventional ways and employing cross-gender and cross-racial casting. He has worked independently with various major regional troupes. Among his notable New York productions are ORPHEUS DESCENDING (1959), THE GRASS HARP (1966), WILSON IN THE PROMISED LAND (1970), THE HOTHOUSE (1982), AS YOU LIKE IT (1992), TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (1994), ON THE WATERFRONT (1995), and KING LEAR (1996).