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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:31PMFirst as a journalist and later as a professor at Yale, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMHe created a vibrant space for actors and playwrights that became a seedbed for the emerging Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMHe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMInvited by George Balanchine to be the in-house orthopedic surgeon at City Ballet, he laid the groundwork for the field of dance medicine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:38PMIn his essays and plays, he provided a framework that linked playwrights like August Wilson to African rituals and mythologies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMHe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMShe taught Barbra Streisand, Penélope Cruz and countless other performers how to sound like someone else.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMShe became a muse among the Hollywood avant-garde, appearing in movies, music videos and photographs. She died of Covid-19.
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