NEW YORK (AP) — Woodie King Jr., an actor, director and producer who founded the New Federal Theatre to give voice and employment to Black playwrights, actors, directors, designers and young people entering the American theater, has died. He was 88. His off-Broadway theater company said King died Thursday at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City of complications from emergency heart surgery. King was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012 and received the Tony Honors