Wetzsteon, Ross

Ross Wetzsteon was a contributing editor at the "Village Voice" for thirty-two years. For twenty-eight years he was the chairman of the "Voice's" Obie Committee, which administered the Obie Awards, Off-Broadway theater's highest honor. He edited two drama collections, "Fool for Love and Other Plays" by Sam Shepard and "The Best of Off-Broadway, " and as a journalist and critic he wrote for many national publications, including "The New York Times, New York" magazine, and "Conde Nast Traveler." Like many of the artists who populate "Republic of Dreams, " he came from somewhere else -- in his ca...