Thursday, October 8, 2020
He was involved with the Brooklyn Philharmonic for many years and performed both on Broadway and off. He died of the novel coronavirus.
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A versatile writer and actor as well as a director, he was also Littlechap in a film version of “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.”
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His 1966 feature, “Closely Watched Trains,” won an Academy Award and was part of a burst of creativity in Czech filmmaking.
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
His experimental works, staged by the Playhouse of the Ridiculous and other groups, challenged audiences and sometimes baffled them.
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Saturday, June 27, 2020
She performed some of the most powerful songs in that show, which ran for more than four years in Greenwich Village and became a theater staple.
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Her methods went beyond mere diction and emphasized getting the whole body (and inner self) involved in speaking the words.
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He built a luxury catalog business, then sold it and used the proceeds to mount the Tony-winning hit musical “Crazy for You.”
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He took part in the storied San Francisco reading where Allen Ginsberg unveiled a version of “Howl.” He went on to have his own moments of fame and notoriety.
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The musical about the founding fathers, his Broadway directorial debut, scored three Tonys. He was also a mainstay of the Williamstown Theater Festival.
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She burst onto the scene with an Oscar-nominated performance in the 1960 film “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” and went on to a long career in film, on television and on the stage.
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At the American Place Theater, he championed new works. In his acting classes, he nurtured countless future stars. His death was related to the coronavirus.
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Among his credits were Broadway shows, operas and the original production of “Hair.” He also influenced numerous actors’ careers as an educator.
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Though known from his TV role, he did much of his work on the stage, starting as an original Acting Company member.
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Mr. McNally, who died of coronavirus complications, introduced audiences to characters and situations that most mainstream theater had previously shunted into comic asides.
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A scholar and historian, he amassed an invaluable trove of interviews and other material with his wife, the filmmaker Camille Billops.
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Friday, February 28, 2020
He provided the administrative know-how that got the theater troupe off the ground in 1967. That he was white drew some criticism.
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Her signature performances included the title role in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Maria Callas in “Master Class.”
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Friday, February 7, 2020
In a wide-ranging career, he was also the voice of Mark Twain for a Ken Burns film and of an “Outer Limits” reboot.
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Saturday, January 25, 2020
In an era when big-budget theater was an increasingly corporate affair, Ms. Lion was a proudly independent producer.
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His Broadway work won him four Tony Awards. A different audience knew another of his designs: the Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership.
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His family perished in the Holocaust. He survived and came to the United States, where he worked with Ben Gazzara, George Peppard, Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller.
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He won theater’s top prize for his performance in “The Invention of Love,” one of numerous Broadway roles.
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Friday, December 6, 2019
In addition to his acclaimed turn as Roy Cohn on Broadway, he was known for his work in “Norma Rae,” “Slaughterhouse-Five” and other films.
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He directed numerous productions of Wilson plays, including two on Broadway, but some of his best work was done in regional theaters.
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His “Same Time, Next Year” ran for years on Broadway, was made into a movie and is often described as one of the most-produced plays in the world.
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