Monday, September 29, 2014
As a director at Second City and Steppenwolf and a department chairman at Columbia College, Mr. Patinkin helped to develop Chicago’s robust theatrical scene.
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Ms. Goodwin became a theater producer at a time when few women were associated with finding sources of capital.
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's wryly ac…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:16PMMs. Stritch became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim’s wryly acrid musings on aging.
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Ms. Rodgers, born into American musical theater royalty, wrote the music for “Once Upon a Mattress” and the novel “Freaky Friday.”
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Mr. Vaughan, who got his start directing the first productions of the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1956, professed a loyalty to the text and an aversion to “revisionist approaches.”
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Ms. Dee, whose most famous performance was a supporting role in “A Raisin in the Sun,” was a leading advocate for civil rights, along with her husband, Ossie Davis.
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Mr. Balding staged Broadway and Off Broadway plays but may have been best known for Circus Flora, which starred an orphaned baby African elephant.
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Irrepressible and fiercely opinionated, Mr. Marowitz led an unusual theatrical life in both England and the United States as a director, playwright, teacher and critic.
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“Paul Robeson,” which starred James Earl Jones and opened on Broadway in 1978, was considered by black intellectuals to be insufficiently complex and eventually derailed the writer’s c…
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Ms. Frelich won the Tony for best actress in a play for her groundbreaking Broadway star turn in 1980 in “Children of a Lesser God.”
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Mr. Feist was a playwright and director who worked as a public-school teacher when he started the nonprofit organization.
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Mr. Lee wrote more than a dozen stage works, but his best-known play was “The First Breeze of Summer,” which was nominated for a Tony Award.
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Ms. Crouse, a force behind the creation of the 40-year-old TKTS booth, also helped revitalize the struggling Lincoln Center Theater.
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Mr. Tibbs, sentenced to death in 1974 for a murder and rape in Florida, was one of six people whose stories of wrongful conviction and near execution were told in the play “The Exonerated.…
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Mr. Cook had a conversation with a co-worker named Sam Shepard at a West Village club in 1964, and a theater career was born.
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Mr. Rogers came to fame as a versatile Shakespearean in his native England and later won a Tony award for his performance in Harold Pinter’s harrowing family drama “The Homecoming.”&nb…
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Ms. Harris had a lengthy résumé as an actress, with dozens of movie and television credits, including the 1955 film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel of brotherly rivalry, “East of …
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Mr. Bevan, who was a longtime caricaturist for the Broadway bistro, and Edmund Trzcinski were inspired by their incarceration in a Nazi camp to write a play about the search for a spy. …
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Mr. Sahlins was the last survivor of the three founders of Second City, the Chicago nightclub that nurtured generations of comedians.
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Mr. Cromer, a hoofer and comedian who was always coy about his age, was part of a team that played the black theater and nightclub circuit from the 1930s into the ’50s, including the Apoll…
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Mr. Sickinger was a director who nurtured a network of troupes and theaters that is the city’s equivalent of Off and Off Off Broadway.
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Mr. Griffiths, who played Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movies, reached a career peak as a schoolteacher in “The History Boys” on Broadway and the West End.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Mr. Neumann forged the New York experimental troupe Mabou Mines which, by 1990, had produced eight works of his friend Samuel Beckett.
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Mr. Richards won an Oscar for the film adaptation of the musical “Chicago” 27 years after he helped bring it to Broadway.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Mr. Arden, a major British playwright of the 1950s and 1960s, produced work that was politically engaged, theatrically inventive and conscience-provoking.
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Mr. Grosbard’s work was divided evenly between the theater and the movies, and though his career stretched across nearly half a century, he was highly selective in his projects.
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