February 2, 2001

Theater Director Forced Out by Louisiana State U.; Top Choice for Yale Drama Dean Doesn't Want Job

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN and KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge rang down the curtain on the artistic director of a university-affiliated theater company after his colleagues on the campus complained that he ran the company like a fief, free from any meaningful accountability or evaluation.

Barry Kyle, an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, in London, and who founded Swine Palace Productions at L.S.U. in 1992, retains his tenured professorship in L.S.U.'s theater department. But in