Charles Hull, who co-founded Theaterworks USA, a touring theater company that has brought professional performances to tens of millions of young people across the country, died on April 14 at his home in Manhattan.
Hull, who had been an Off Broadway, summer stock and commercial actor, founded the company that became Theaterworks in 1961 with the director Jay Harnick.
Hull was the company’s managing director and Mr. Harnick its artistic director.
Hull and Mr. Harnick were staging as many as 20 made-to-move productions in nearly 500 cities a year without the fuss, or expense, of a Broadway effort.
“The term we use is cafegymatorium,” Michael Harrington, Theaterworks’ current executive director, said in a phone interview.