


Sixth Team: Shumway, Grand Ledge Mack, Howell DeVall, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix Steve Caldwell, Mackenzie Gardener, Ypsilanti. Third Team: Rick Hewlett, Plymouth Salem Jason Arnold, Niles Tim McCormick, Clarkston (NBA) Dave Elliot, Ann Arbor Pioneer Jeff McCotter, Battle Creek Lakeviewįourth Team: Wandzell, Notre Dame VanderKellen, Midland Dow Armstrong, Westland John Glenn Patterson, Ypsilanti Constant, Grand Havenįifth Team: Corley, Pontiac Central Page, Benton Harbor McQuaid, Midland Kwiecinski, Warren Cousino Tyler, Mt. Second Team: Robert Brown, Northwestern Arnold Scott, Flint Central Travis Stanley, Lansing Eastern Scott Pritchett, Bloomfield Hills Lahser Mike Gillespie, Benton Harbor They were married in 1965 at Minneapolis City Hall in a ceremony Faith later described as “a hoot” because the presiding judge recited bad poetry.Northeastern’s Mike Robinson was a Detroit Free Press second-team Class A All-State selection in 1970 before heading off to Michigan State University where he led the Big Ten in scoring in 1972 (24.7 points per game) and 1973 (25.3 ppg).įirst Team: Marlow McClain, Murray-Wright Erich Santifer, Ann Arbor Huron Tim Andree, Brother Rice James Koger, Saginaw Melvin McLaughlin, Grand Rapids Creston Coach Bob Foreback, Ovid-Elsie He ‘got it’ in terms of relationships and stuff like that.” “He also had what I would call a strong feminine side. “Dan was smart that was important,” Faith recalled in a 2015 Pioneer Press interview. Sullivan was the BNW piano player when he was noticed by Faith Rogers, an actress and scriptwriter and his future wife. When he was a writer at the Pioneer Press, he and another staffer, Irv Letofsky, helped found Dudley Riggs’ Brave New Workshop. Sulllivan attended Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., and did graduate work at the University of Minnesota. And honest and forthright,” former Detroit Free Press theater critic Lawrence DeVine wrote on Facebook.Ĭhris Jones, theater critic for New York Daily News and director of the National Critics Institute, described Sullivan as “a major force in the field” at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. “(Dan) was a friend to every good theater critic and a mentor to a lot of them on their way up.

The American Theatre Critics Association, of which he was one of the founders, conferred on him lifetime Emeritus membership, one of its highest honors. In national theater circles, Sullivan was known for his work as leader of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Paul, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 19.) I believe he was instrumental in August Wilson winning the Pulitzer Prize.” (Wilson, who wrote some of his plays in St. “He was a champion on the national level for local and regional theater.

“My dad was an agitator for the under-rated geniuses,” Kate Sullivan said. For 22 years, he was theater critic for the Los Angeles Times. Paul Pioneer Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, as well as covering off-Broadway for the New York Times. Sullivan, who was married to the novelist Faith Sullivan, was known and respected by his peers for his thoughtful approach to theater and reviewing. Dan Sullivan, a theater critic for local and national publications, died peacefully Tuesday in his Minneapolis home from the effects of dementia, according his daughter, Kate Sullivan.
