Photos: Gordon Davidson: A life in theater

As founder of the Mark Taper Forum, Gordon Davidson, shown at the site in 2002, showcased new work by Anna Deveare Smith and Tony Kushner, among others. He died Sunday at age 83.

(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Oct. 3, 2016 6:49 PM PT

Sign language interpreter Gary Charm, from left, director Gordon Davidson and actors John Rubinstein and Phyllis Frelich during rehearsal for “Children of a Lesser God” in 1979.

(Jay Thompson / Mark Taper Forum)