Tuesday, June 20, 2023
An Englishman with a deep, cultured voice, he played uptight snobs in films like “Back to School” and on shows like “Friends” and “Mad About You.”
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She led a foundation that underwrote productions for numerous theater groups, as well as playwrights like Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller.
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The award-winning company he co-founded, Theaterworks USA, went on the road to introduce millions of students to professional productions of plays and musicals.
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Starting June 14, about 400 people who present proof of vaccination against the coronavirus will be allowed to attend live tapings of the show, CBS said.
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His low-budget movies, notably the cult favorite “Re-Animator,” combined grisly body horror with a mordant sense of humor.
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Concerned that female directors and playwrights were underrepresented in New York theaters, she founded Women’s Project in 1978 to cultivate their work.
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A television mainstay, he was also a playwright. His best-known play, “Norman, Is That You?,” flopped on Broadway but went on to international success.
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A Broadway jack-of-all-trades, Mr. Bramble also collaborated on the book for the 1980s blockbuster “42nd Street” and directed its Broadway revival.
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Ms. Ferreira, who kept singing well into her 90s, brought Broadway musicals to Brazil and made the music of Édith Piaf and Frank Sinatra her own.
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A Broadway stalwart (“Elephant Man,” “Wicked”), she also appeared in all three versions of “The Odd Couple” (stage, film and TV) as a giggly neighbor.
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Mr. Mandan was best known as the patriarch Chester Tate on ABC’s soap-opera satire. But he also played many other roles, including King Lear.
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Mr. Nype sang with an ebullient baritone and won Tony Awards for performing alongside Elaine Stritch in “Goldilocks” and Ethel Merman in “Call Me Madam.”
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Mr. McKay filmed the reminiscences of dozens of theater luminaries for the 2004 documentary “Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.”
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Ms. Wedgeworth’s characters were often flirtatious, maternal or a combination of both in plays like “Chapter Two” and films like “Steel Magnolias.”
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Mr. Guillaume won awards for playing a character who began as a caustic butler on one sitcom and ended up as a candidate for governor on another.
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Ms. Drummond, a regular in Broadway and off Broadway productions in the 1960s and ’70s, had roles in films like “Ghostbusters,” “Awakenings” and “Doubt.”
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Sunday, December 13, 2015
Ms. Lord played many parts in television, film and theater after her breakthrough role as the dutiful wife on the Emmy-winning sitcom, but she always struggled against being typecast.
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The composer and arranger’s tunes for “The Yearling” were covered by Barbra Streisand, Nancy Wilson and many others.
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Ms. Rea had supporting roles on popular television series like “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Grace Under Fire.”
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Mr. Wilson wrote the book and composed the score for the musical “The Boy Friend,” Julie Andrews’s Broadway debut and later a Ken Russell movie.
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Ms. Chamberlin, whose career took off when she joined Bill Cosby and Rita Moreno on the funky 1970s show, jumped from children’s television to Shakespeare.
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Mr. Martin was an artistic director of Huntington Theater Company in Boston and also brought productions to Broadway, including “The 39 Steps” and “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.…
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Mr. Gottfried was a theater reviewer for Women’s Wear Daily and The New York Post before writing influential studies of American drama and the Broadway musical.
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Saturday, January 25, 2014
Ms. Marshall also appeared in films like “The Long, Hot Summer” and was nominated for a Tony for “Goodbye, Charlie.”
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Mr. Lay’s hard-drinking, rebel persona was the inspiration for Jez Butterworth’s play “Jerusalem” and Mark Rylance’s Tony- and Olivier-winning performances.
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