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Maurice Edwards, Busy Figure in Theater and Music, Dies at 97
He was involved with the Brooklyn Philharmonic for many years and performed both on Broadway and off. He died of the novel coronavirus.
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Maurice Edwards, whose long and varied résumé included directing operas and stage plays, acting in numerous Off Broadway productions and a few on Broadway, helping to found experimental theater troupes, and managing the Brooklyn Philharmonic, died on Sept. 23 in Englewood, N.J. He was 97.
His executor, James Waller, said the cause was the novel coronavirus. Mr. Edwards’s nephew and closest living relative, Allen Markson, said Mr. Edwards had moved to the Actors Fund Home in Englewood from a nursing home in Queens five days before his death.
Mr. Edwards was a man of many interests and seemed to find ways to indulge them all. In 1968 he was a founder of the Cubiculo on the West Side of Manhattan, a seat-of-the-pants theater operation that presented plays, poetry readings, films and lots of dance.
“To its growing, usually youthful, public — which often spills out of the 60‐ to 75‐chair seating area — the Cubiculo is unique,” The New York Times wrote of the group in 1970, when Mr. Edwards was program coordinator.
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