Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Hollywood producer JOHN KENLEY has died, aged 103.Kenley passed away on 23 October (09) in Cleveland, after a battle with pneumonia. He began his entertainment...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
RIP John Kenley. Anorak's Man In LA remembers the cross-dressing, hermaphroditic theatre star being ignored by the big media...
tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Add the Los Angeles Times to the mainstream media outlets that leave the most colorful part of a great person’s life out of the story. The LA Times is a couple of days behind the New York Times in reporting the death at 103 of John Kenley, the Ohio summer stock theatre impresario knowon for casting television and movie stars including Burt Reynolds, Mae West, William Shatner and...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Kenley ran a summer stock theater circuit in Ohio; Brodeur was an official at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach John Kenley
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
He was "renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds."...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.
The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
One of the great Midwestern showmen is gone. John Kenley, the man who brought stars to the great state of Ohio, died October 23. At the age of 103. Kenley (riding his bike in this 1966 photo) was most famous...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Obituary: Spent seven decades in Ohio theater scene -- Legit producer John Kenley, who spent more than seven decades in the theater operating Ohio theaters that Variety called "the largest network of theaters on the straw hat circuit," died Oct. 23 in Cleveland. He was 103.
Mae West (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The showman who asked MAE WEST to come up and see him in The Buckeye State has died. • • According to Associated Press, John Kenley began acting in New York City in the 1920s — — and once served as an aide to famed producer Lee Shubert. He became a summer theater producer in 1940 in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, and worked in other eastern cities, including Washington...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
CLEVELAND -- John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Midwest theater impresario was renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.
tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
If Wikipedia and other sources are to be believed, the New York Times left some very colorful-- and essential facts out of its obituary for Midwest theatre impresario John Kenley.The Times notes that Kenley, who died October 23rd at an astonishing 103, made his name "taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae...
