Mark Taper Forum The auditorium was renamed the Amelia Taper Auditorium after a $2 million gift from the S. Mark Taper Foundation. The Taper has presented innovative plays since its 1967-opening of "The Devils" from playwright John Whiting about the sexual fantasies of a 17th-century priest and a sexually repressed nun. The play received a great deal of protest from local religious leaders and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although the production continued. The production of such plays as "Murderous Angels", "The Dream on Monkey Mountain", "Children of a Lesser God", "Savages", "The Shadow Box", "The Kentucky Cycle" and "Angels in
Lynn Redgrave with her sister Vanessa in "Three Sisters" in London, and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as "Shine" (1996) and "Gods and Monsters" (1998) for which she received another Academy Award nomination. Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Grammy, Emmy, Oscar and Tony) without winning any of them. Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, to actors Sir Michael Redgrave