Mark Plesent News Today

With two decades at the Off-Broadway theatre company, Monarque will be heading to the West Coast.

(© Roger Belknap) Mark Plesent, the longtime producing artistic director of off-Broadways Working Theatre, died February 19 following a four-year battle with cancer. He was 60. Born in New York, and a graduate of Brown University, Plesent joined Working Theatre as an intern in 1989 and climbing up the ladder, quickly becoming managing director. He served as development director of Lar Lubovitch Dance Company from 1992-96 before returning to Working Theatre as producing director, working alongs...