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
Martin Sherman career, earning him a second Tony nomination. He has had a number of plays on the West End, including "Messiah" (1982) with Maureen Lipman, "A Madhouse In Goa" (1989) with Vanessa Redgrave and Rupert Graves, "When She Danced" (1991) with Vanessa Redgrave, Oleg Menshikov and Frances De La Tour and "Onassis" (2010) with Robert Lindsay. His play "Some Sunny Day" premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in 1996, with Rupert Everett and Corin Redgrave. He found success in the genre of one-woman plays with "Rose," which was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play when it premiered in