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- <text id=91TT1804>
- <title>
- Aug. 12, 1991: Died:William Ball
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 58
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- <p> DIED. William Ball, 60, award-winning director and founder of
- the American Conservatory Theater; in Los Angeles. Launched in
- 1965 in Pittsburgh and moved to San Francisco in 1967, A.C.T.
- has earned a reputation as one of the nation's most creative
- nonprofit theaters. Ball's repertory performances and advanced
- training techniques nurtured actors' flamboyance through a
- variety of physical gestures, from boisterous laughter to
- karate. Among the plays he directed were Tartuffe, Under Milk
- Wood and Tiny Alice.
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- </body></article>
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