Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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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Mr. Murrin, a playwright and avant-garde impresario who became known as the Alien Comic, was apt to put on performances almost anywhere.
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Mr. Williamson was a Scottish-born actor whose large, renegade talent made him a controversial Hamlet, an eccentric Macbeth, an angry, high-strung Vanya and, on the screen, a cocaine-sniffin…
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Mr. Duell’s understated comic flare enlivened Broadway shows (“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”), television series (“Police Squad!) and Hollywood films (One Flew Over…
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In her Broadway debut, in “Stick Fly,” Condola Rashad is demonstrating gifts that go far beyond her experience or her famous name.
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Mr. Deiber was an actor and director with the Comédie-Française for nearly three decades who brought his dramatic expertise to a second career as an opera director.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Mr. Woldin also traveled with the Ink Spots and Lionel Hampton, and played in the “Hello, Dolly!” orchestra on Broadway.
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Mr. Hastings’s best-known work, “Tom and Viv,” about the first marriage of T. S. Eliot, created a cultural brouhaha.
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Mr. Hastings’s best-known work, “Tom and Viv,” about the first marriage of T. S. Eliot, created a cultural brouhaha.
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Ms. Delaney, whose play “A Taste of Honey” found success in the West End and on Broadway, was just 19 when the work was first performed.
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Mr. Neville may be best known in the United States as the title character in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.”
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Mr. Neville may be best known in the United States as the title character in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.”
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Ms. Cohn, a theater scholar and drama professor, became the playwright Samuel Beckett’s friend as well as a leading authority on his work.
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The Romanian-born Mr. Ciulei was best known in the United States for leading the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and for productions at Arena Stage in Washington.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Mr. Rose, the producer of shows like “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Purlie Victorious,” advanced the cause of black playwrights and actors and helped widen the scope of American theater.
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Ms. Thompson portrayed archetypal mothers, from the loving family caretaker to the brutalizing harridan and mythical adulteress.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Ms. Stenborg’s myriad roles on Broadway ranged from the loopy Sarita Myrtle in Noël Coward’s “Waiting in the Wings” to Rebecca Nurse in “The Crucible.”
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A man who writes about death for a living stepped into a stage coffin for a role in “Play Dead,” an Off Broadway show.
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Ms. Stoddard, after a long career onstage and in television roles, brought the works of Noël Coward, James Thurber and Harold Pinter to Broadway.
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Mr. McLure, who was best known for plays like “Lone Star” and “Pvt. Wars,” had a following in the West and in regional theaters.
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Mr. Langham led a formidable roster of leading men and women through the rigors of Shakespeare, Shaw, Molière, Chekhov and others.
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Mr. Linney roved along many intellectual paths, refashioning classical works for modern times and adapting contemporary novels for the stage.
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Ms. Stevenson, who appeared in a handful of movies and television shows, spent most of her career on the stage.
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