{"id":57904,"date":"2020-11-13T02:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=57904"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:22:56","slug":"israel-horovitz-playwright-who-was-accused-of-sexual-assault-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israel-horovitz-playwright-who-was-accused-of-sexual-assault-dies-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Horovitz, playwright who was accused of sexual assault, dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Israel Horovitz, a famed playwright who later in life was accused of sexual assault, has died of cancer, according to The New York Times. He was 81.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57951\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Israel_Horovitz.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57951\" class=\"wp-image-57951 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Israel_Horovitz-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57951\" class=\"wp-image-57951 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Israel_Horovitz-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-57951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel Horovitz (Screenshot via YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Horovitz wrote more than 70 plays and was the founding artistic director of Gloucester Stage in Massachusetts. Among his best-known plays were \u201cLine,\u201d \u201cPark Your Car in Harvard Yard,\u201d \u201cThe Primary English Class,\u201d \u201cThe Widow\u2019s Blind Date\u201d and \u201cThe Indian Wants the Bronx.\u201d He also wrote screenplays, including the 2014 film \u201cMy Old Lady,\u201d which starred Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith.<\/p>\n<p>A 2017 article in The Times detailed the accusations of nine women, including actresses who had worked with him, claiming they were sexually assaulted Horovitz. One accused the writer of rape.<\/p>\n<p>The Gloucester Stage cut ties with him after the allegations came to light.&nbsp;At the time, Horovitz claimed to have had&nbsp;\u201ca different memory of some of these events\u201d but apologized in a statement to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Among Horovitz\u2019s six children is Adam Horovitz, who was a member of the Beastie Boys.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israel%20Horovitz%2C%20playwright%20who%20was%20accused%20of%20sexual%20assault%2C%20dies%20at%2081\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7122],"tags":[10996,8790,8795,8788,9556,10997],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57953,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57904\/revisions\/57953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}