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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03PMThe work, featuring a central character who is deaf, won the Tony Award for best play in 1980 and was turned into an Oscar-winning 1986 movie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05PMAfter gaining fame as the blustery newsman Ted Baxter’s love interest, Ms. Engel went on to “Everybody Loves Raymond” and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:58PMHis DRG label specialized in the American songbook, cast albums and artists like Barbara Cook.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:27PMBefore she found fame on two long-running television series, Ms. Helmond was a well-regarded stage actress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMA founder of the Free Southern Theater in 1963, he was as eager to hear his audiences’ stories as he was to perform.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMBest known for the 1960s sitcom “The Mothers-in-Law,” she also had memorable turns in Broadway musicals and rode the nightclub circuit for years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMWhen she led the orchestra for “The Music Man” in 1960, she became the first woman to be hired as a full-time conductor for a Broadway show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMHis work in opera, theater and ballet cast aside traditional ideas of what sets should be — realistic and utilitarian — in favor of abstract designs that made a statement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMHe became a core member of the Spanish-language troupe Repertorio Español after leaving Cuba, where he had spent time in a forced-labor camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMAn “accidental actor,” he found himself on Broadway almost immediately after his career began and went on appear frequently onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMHis plays, produced frequently in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, often threw polar opposites together to explore themes both comic and serious.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMHis cartoon show, loved by the 12-and-under crowd and by many much older fans as well, spawned two movies and a Tony-nominated Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMMr. Rain was a regular on the stage at the Stratford Festival for decades, but he was perhaps best known as HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMHis achievements included helping to found the National Theater of the Deaf. The actress Marlee Matlin was one of his protégés.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMMs. Hall was a moderately successful songwriter until she and two collaborators came up with one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMHe won a Tony Award for his work in the 2009 revival of Mr. Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” his seventh and final Broadway appearance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMHe represented hundreds of shows on Broadway and off and had a long association with Joseph Papp, whom he helped battle to keep Shakespeare free.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMShe helped the famed director Peter Brook start an influential theater group in Paris and mount major productions like “The Mahabharata.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMHe also had a keen eye for undiscovered talent, helping along numerous careers as a reader of new works at the Royal Court Theater in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMIn a long career cut short by cancer, she earned three Tony nominations in just six years, for performances in “Passion,” “Ragtime” and “Kiss Me, Kate.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMHer works, drawn from her own experiences, including time in an internment camp, focused on dislocation and assimilation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMSouth African-born, Mr. Murray went to Broadway by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In a busy career, he was nominated for three Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMSouth African-born, Mr. Murray went to Broadway by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In a busy career he was nominated for three Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMBest known for a revelatory staging of “Morning’s at Seven,” he also directed Noël Coward in his final West End stage performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMMr. Glines was a producer who was committed to plays with gay themes and instrumental in bringing them into the mainstream.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMMr. Beach’s many Broadway roles also included Lumière, the genial candelabra, in the original cast of “Beauty and the Beast.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMHis works on topical subjects like the AIDS crisis and suburban sprawl were widely staged, including by Circle Repertory Company and the Bay Street Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMShe starred in the Broadway hit “Where’s Charley?” in 1948 and went on to TV fame on “The Tony Randall Show” and “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMBoth his films and his stage work angered Communist officials, but he was embraced abroad and was an inspirational figure for the Romanian New Wave.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMHis dark works avoided the stereotype of a rural Irish utopia, instead exploring subjects like the county’s famine and its history of emigration.
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