May 5, 2008 email from the Living Theatre:

“Dear Friends:

“Hanon Reznikov, Judith Malina’s husband and the co-director of The Living Theatre since Julian Beck’s death in 1985, passed away last night. He suffered a stroke a little more than two weeks ago, followed this week by pneumonia.

“To send cards or notes of condolence to Judith, please email to
contact at livingtheatre dot org”

The Living Theatre’s Mission
To call into question
who we are to each other in the social environment of the theater,
to undo the knots
that lead to misery,
to spread ourselves
across the public’s table
like platters at a banquet,
to set ourselves in motion
like a vortex that pulls the
spectator into action,
to fire the body’s secret engines,
to pass through the prism
and come out a rainbow,
to insist that what happens in the jails matters,
to cry “Not in my name!”
at the hour of execution,
to move from the theater to the street and from the street to the theater.
This is what The Living Theatre does today.
It is what it has always done