Monday, March 30, 2026
She elevated supporting roles in films with insight and improvisational skill, a talent she took to Broadway as well, earning Tony nominations.
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With her frenetic energy and 4-foot-10 frame, Ms. Lee seemed destined to play a certain kind of stage character: excitable, endearing and charmingly scheming.
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Born without the use of his legs, he appeared memorably on television on "Doctor Who" and onstage as, among many other roles, Hamlet.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York's upper middle class.
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After having success as a member of the Sequence, an early female rap group, she re-emerged in the 1990s as a practitioner of sultry, laid-back R&B.
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An expert at rescuing distressed companies, he took over the struggling organization in 2000, leading it through a painful restructuring and a lengthy legal battle.
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First as a journalist and later as a professor at Yale, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging work.
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He created a vibrant space for actors and playwrights that became a seedbed for the emerging Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s.
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He was a villain in "Lethal Weapon 2," C.S. Lewis on TV in "Shadowlands" and Falstaff onstage in "Henry IV" " and had a cameo in a Pet Shop Boys video.
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Invited by George Balanchine to be the in-house orthopedic surgeon at City Ballet, he laid the groundwork for the field of dance medicine.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
He wrote not for white or middle-class audiences, but for the strivers, hustlers and quiet sufferers whose struggles he sought to capture in searing works.
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