Friday, January 27, 2023
He 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.
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He brought his adaptation of “The Grapes of Wrath” to Broadway and won Tony Awards. He also directed the long-running hit “Ragtime.”
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She had success with a play about abortion in 2001, and in 2015 wrote the libretto for the opera “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.”
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She taught for decades at the Fieldston School and founded a free summer dance program open to all students in New York.
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For decades he wrote about theater in The Village Voice, but he also was a dramaturge and a Tony-nominated translator.
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He came from a wealthy family, but he championed the ideas of the counterculture. Journalists called him “the hippie millionaire.”
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Friday, October 28, 2022
He started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well.
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She and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for “The Secret Garden.”
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Downtown, he was known for sprawling works and vivid performances, but later in his career he drew praise as an actor in mainstream productions, too.
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Playing the wooden flute and performing hoop dances, he sought to introduce audiences throughout the nation to Native American traditions.
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For two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound.
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He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, “A Soldier’s Story.”
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In 1960 she originated the lone female role in an Off Broadway show that became part of theater history thanks to a record-setting run.
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Her company, Ballet Hispánico, performed for audiences across the United States and beyond. It also trained countless dancers.
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A veteran actor, he was also a founder of Theater for the New City and Theater Three Collaborative, Manhattan groups known for experimental productions.
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His 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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He merged Eastern and Western influences in his modern dance works, and his dance center was a cultural anchor in New York’s Chinatown.
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In projects for the director David Lynch, she brought an eerie, otherworldly style to “Falling” and other songs.
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She was an institution at the American Dance Festival, and also made early television dance and exercise programs.
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She was a leading advocate of and expert on dance notation, helping to do for choreographed works what a score does for music.
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Over a long career, her pictures, whether of famed dance troupes or experimental works, reflected what one admirer called “her love affair with dance.”
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His Yale Rep and American Repertory Theater productions included early work by Cherry Jones, Mark Linn-Baker and more, and he directed starry Off Broadway shows.
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His reviews for The Chicago Tribune, and his encouragement of the drama crowd, helped make Chicago one of the country’s leading theater cities.
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Ms. Chen, who founded the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in 1988, died while swimming in Hawaii, where she was vacationing.
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Thursday, November 4, 2021
She was known for her comic work in cabarets, for her performance in the musical “Nine” on Broadway and for her role in a “Star Trek” spinoff.
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He was seen on “Quincy, M.E.” and “The Sopranos.” He also memorably played John Travolta’s father in “Saturday Night Fever.”
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For decades her performances at the Stratford Festival drew acclaim. She gave her last performance just days before her death.
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His songs from “Stop the World,” “Willy Wonka,” “Goldfinger” and other shows and movies became hits for a range of performers.
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