He was especially acclaimed for his performances at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. As his voice developed, he once said, so did his view of how and why to deploy it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMHe clanged coconuts in the Monty Python stage musical in 2005; seven years later, he won a Tony for “Nice Work if You Can Get It.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMShe worked on “Sweeney Todd” and “Candide” and also on the early seasons of “Saturday Night Live,” contributing to the look of the Blues Brothers and the Killer Bees.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:37PMShe mixed insight and absurdity in a vast body of work that also included “Painting Churches” and “Pride’s Crossing,” both of which were Pulitzer finalists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:25PMShe had success on Broadway in “110 in the Shade” and other shows, but a later generation knew her from a sitcom.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AMHe wrote the book and lyrics to a little show that opened in 1960 in Greenwich Village and became “the longest-running musical in the universe.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PMHe is credited with stabilizing that venerable British troupe while energizing it with ambitious projects including “Matilda the Musical.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:07PMAfter putting her career on hold to raise children, she won the part of the madam in “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” — and then a statuette hailing her performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19PMHis play “Do Lord Remember Me,” constructed from interviews with formerly enslaved people in the 1930s, was first staged in 1978 and has been revived multiple times since.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMThe theatrical games and performance techniques Mr. Johnstone developed became a familiar part of the acting arsenal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMHe befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris and witnessed his headline-making defection at the height of the Cold War.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PMAs founding artistic director, he made Trinity Rep in Rhode Island a leader in theatrical innovation. He then made his mark in Dallas as well.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMHe won Tony Awards for “Wicked” and other shows while also overseeing the sets for the late-night franchise’s fast-paced sketch comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMHe took over the Ridiculous Theatrical Company after the death of his partner, Charles Ludlam, in 1987. His specialty was playing women, but his range was wide.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:56AMHe brought his adaptation of “The Grapes of Wrath” to Broadway and won Tony Awards. He also directed the long-running hit “Ragtime.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:17PMShe had success with a play about abortion in 2001, and in 2015 wrote the libretto for the opera “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMShe taught for decades at the Fieldston School and founded a free summer dance program open to all students in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMFor decades he wrote about theater in The Village Voice, but he also was a dramaturge and a Tony-nominated translator.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMHe came from a wealthy family, but he championed the ideas of the counterculture. Journalists called him “the hippie millionaire.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMHis one-man Off Broadway show, “Everything’s Fine,” directed by John Lithgow, had opened just weeks ago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMHe started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMShe and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for “The Secret Garden.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:43PMDowntown, he was known for sprawling works and vivid performances, but later in his career he drew praise as an actor in mainstream productions, too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PMPlaying the wooden flute and performing hoop dances, he sought to introduce audiences throughout the nation to Native American traditions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PMFor two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:43PMHe was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, “A Soldier’s Story.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMIn 1960 she originated the lone female role in an Off Broadway show that became part of theater history thanks to a record-setting run.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:43PMHer company, Ballet Hispánico, performed for audiences across the United States and beyond. It also trained countless dancers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:46PMA veteran actor, he was also a founder of Theater for the New City and Theater Three Collaborative, Manhattan groups known for experimental productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMHis well-honed comic timing, and the mimicry skills he had developed in nightclubs, served him well on one of the sillier sitcoms of the 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMHe collaborated on operas with Jack Beeson and Ned Rorem and published numerous poetry books. Late in life, he was victimized by theft.
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