Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Adrian Bailey, the singer, actor and dancer whose long career in Broadway musicals ended when he fell through a trap door and suffered serious injuries before a production of The Little Merm…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:25PMThursday, August 15, 2024
Adam Epstein, who won a Tony Award for producing Hairspray before he was 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible and adaptations of The Wedding…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:19AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
Rochelle Oliver, who starred on Broadway in Lillian Hellman’s Toys in the Attic and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and taught acting at New York’s respected HB Studio…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:26PMSaturday, May 4, 2024
Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of famed actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell, has died…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:13PMFriday, November 20, 2020
Mitch Douglas, a literary agent represented the likes of Tennessee Williams, Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, Lanford Wilson and Howard Koch, has died. Douglas died Nov. 5 of metastatic brain c…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:21AMTuesday, July 26, 2016
He produced such risky efforts as 'Annie' and 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and his Nederlander Organization owns several Broadway theaters as well as the Pantages in Hollywood.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:47PMMonday, February 1, 2016
He served as an artistic member of New York’s Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit and directed many plays at the Taper in L.A.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:51PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s red-hot musical will debut at the Pantages Theatre in August 2017.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Also a dancer, the Broadway veteran appeared in the original 'Funny Girl,' 'The Wiz' and 'Ain't Misbehavin'.'read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:52PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
A veteran of the London and Broadway stage, he abruptly left 'The Visit' in late May. The actor also was known for playing stuffy Englishman Robin Colcord on 'Cheers.'read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:26AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Peggy Rea, a veteran TV actress who played Brett Butler's mother-in-law on the ABC sitcom Grace Under Fire, died Feb. 5 of congestive heart failure at her home in Toluca Lake, Calif. She was…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PMThe veteran character actor with a flair for German-type accents also starred as the Nazi playwright in "The Producers."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMLesser's first love was the stage, and he appeared to critical acclaim in the past few years at Los Angeles' A Noise Within, one of the nation's leading classical repertory theater companies…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:58PMThursday, July 17, 2014
The four-time Tony nominee and three-time Emmy winner died Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:07PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
A veteran of the London and Los Angeles scene, he mounted plays all around the world and wrote “Sherlock’s Last Case,” which bowed on Broadway in 1987.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:21PMFriday, April 11, 2014
The deaf actress won a Tony Award for her leading role in the 1980 Broadway play. Marlee Matlin earned an Oscar for playing the part in the film version.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:53PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
The veteran comic actress played Agnes Gooch in the original stage musical, then returned for the film version opposite Lucille Ball.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:05PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Haddon went on the road in the national touring companies of Tea and Sympathy with Maria Riva and The Warm Peninsula, which starred Julie Harris and Larry Hagman and opened on Broadway in 19…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:58AMMonday, May 6, 2013
A regular on Broadway for more than decade starting in the 1940s, Gibson received a Tony Award nomination in 1957 for best featured actress in a musical for her work in Happy Hunting opposit…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:35AMSunday, February 24, 2013
He teamed with Vera-Ellen in the Bing Crosby classic, with Cyd Charisse in "Meet Me in Las Vegas" and with Tybee Arfa in nightclubs and on television.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:39PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Ned Wertimer, a prolific character actor who was perhaps best known for playing Ralph the Doorman for 11 seasons on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons, has died. He was 89.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:20AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Elaine Stewart, an alluring leading lady of the 1950s who went on to serve as a co-hostess of two hit game shows in the '70s, died Monday at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 81.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:55AMTuesday, May 24, 2011
Avery made her Broadway debut in the 1937 production of Orchids Preferred. After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she played one of the featured ingenues in the 1940 st…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:47AM 
