The Touring Ballerina Who Left It All To Build A Theatre In The Desert

“When Marta Becket died on Monday at 92, her only survivor was the theater, the walls and ceiling she painted depicting a colorful audience that would never leave: Renaissance royalty, nuns and monks, clowns and jousters, revelers and cherubs — and Clive Barnes, the longtime drama critic of The New York Times, a playful nod to her theatrical past.”