Margaret Croyden, Longtime Theatre Critic, Dies at 92 in Englewood, NJ

Margaret Croyden

Margaret Croyden, a drama critic and author with firm knowledge of the various forms of 20th-century avant grade theater, and who wrote books about the work of Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, Died Feb. 22 at Lillian Booth Actors’ Home in Englewood, NJ, where she had resided for two weeks due to declining health. She was 92.

Born in Brooklyn and educated in New York, Ms. Croyden contributed regularly to The New York Times during the 1970s and ’80s, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, American Theater, The Nation and Theater Week. On the Internet, she wrote about theatre, music and opera in a long-running column in New York Theatre Wire, titled “Croyden’s Corner,” from 1998 to the time of her death……

As host-commentator-interviewer for over ten years on CBS TV’s Camera Three, a popular arts program, Ms. Croyden interviewed and discussed the work of Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski, Andre Gregory, Irene Worth, George C. Scott, Dustin Hoffman, Joseph Papp, Vanessa Redgrave, and Lee Strasberg among others…….

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