Max Woodward, Kennedy Center theater executive who began career as an usher, dies at 76
From usher, Mr. Woodward slowly advanced through the accounting department to managing the Eisenhower Theatre and eventually overseeing the Opera House, the Terrace Theatre and the Concert Hall.The Washington Post that he would most miss working on new theatrical ventures, including the 2002 Sondheim Celebration as well as revivals of Sondheim’s “Follies” and the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty-Terrence McNally “Ragtime” .
Max Arthur Woodward was born in Masontown, Pa., south of Pittsburgh, on June 20, 1946. After graduating from high school in 1964, he worked as an FBI file clerk and served in the Army in Frankfurt, Germany, before settling in Washington in 1967 after his discharge. He was an usher at the National Theatre before the Kennedy Center. He traced his interest in the theater to his childhood fascination with “The Ed Sullivan Show” on television.
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