A favorite of actors like Maggie Smith, he produced dozens of plays, including "The Audience," about Queen Elizabeth II, which was made into the Netflix show "The Crown."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PM[SHARE]Entranced by traditional Balinese puppet theater, he developed a modern, multicultural version that he performed around the world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AM[SHARE]In a distinguished career in classical and contemporary plays, she drew acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for her dramatic portrayal of the French singer Édith Piaf.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]A Disney fan who once "flew" off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PM[SHARE]She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PM[SHARE]He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of "Company," "Titanic" and "Six Degrees of Separation" and numerous film and TV appearances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM[SHARE]She won the award for her performance as Linda Loman in a 1999 Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" and played the matriarch Kate Jerome in two Neil Simon comedies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PM[SHARE]She also had leading roles in "Doctor Dolittle" with Rex Harrison, "Walk, Don't Run" with Cary Grant and "The Molly Maguires" with Sean Connery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PM[SHARE]He staged a revival of "The Crucible" in a Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1958, helped run Circle in the Square and oversaw the operations of Jujamcyn Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]He is believed to have been the first Asian to dance with New York City Ballet when he was cast in George Balanchine's production of "The Nutcracker."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM[SHARE]He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he also starred in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PM[SHARE]As a young immigrant from the Philippines, he had roles on Broadway in "The King and I" and "Flower Drum Song." He was later a familiar face on TV.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:10AM[SHARE]Like Nichols and May before them, Monteith and Rand had their own Broadway show. Unlike Nichols and May, they faded from view after they broke up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PM[SHARE]After more than 40 years as a stage and television actor, he broke through in "Heisenberg" as a butcher who has a romance with a much younger woman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PM[SHARE]An operatic soprano, she had high-profile roles on film and stage in the 1950s. But after that, she mostly spent her career away from the limelight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PM[SHARE]She originated roles in four of his Broadway musicals between 1959 and 1987, and won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in "Sweeney Todd."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PM[SHARE]The show, with music by Marvin Laird, portrayed a schoolgirl's murderous theatrical ambition. Paley also performed in the parody dance group Les Ballets Trockadero.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:08PM[SHARE]He directed the playwright's "The House of Blue Leaves," and they helped turn "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" into a hit musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PM[SHARE]He was a regular at the mountain resorts where many comedians honed their acts, then had a star turn in the long-running revue "Catskills on Broadway."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PM[SHARE]South Coast Repertory, which he founded with a partner, was a major force in Southern California theater. He directed more than 100 of its productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PM[SHARE]He conducted Broadway shows and worked with Bernadette Peters. But he was probably best known for writing the music for the darkly comic "Ruthless!"
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02AM[SHARE]She was honored on Broadway for roles in "Pal Joey" and "No, No, Nanette" and then turned to TV, where she won three Daytime Emmys for her work on "Ryan's Hope."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]He left a career in tech and found success as a producer, winning four Tonys. His mission: staging productions about underrepresented communities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AM[SHARE]She was a successful designer. But she was probably best known for being duped in a scheme that inspired the play "Six Degrees of Separation."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PM[SHARE]He won awards for his roles in "Sophisticated Ladies," "The Tap Dance Kid" and "Miss Saigon" " the most ever in the category of best featured actor in a musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM[SHARE]She wrote about the leading figures in ballet and modern dance for more than 40 years. One of her books was about the brash choreographer Mark Morris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:44PM[SHARE]Before the fall of apartheid, his plays, which also included "Woza Albert!" and "Asinamali," challenged the South African government's racial policies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM[SHARE]After an acting career that included playing the Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph in a TV movie, she became known as a director for her work at regional theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]Soon after appearing in the original Broadway production of "Fiddler on the Roof," she began a new career as a prominent casting director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PM[SHARE]In his 25-year tenure at Actors' Equity, he helped build Equity Fights AIDS and challenged the casting of the top roles in the hit musical "Miss Saigon."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:19PM[SHARE]He wrote several musicals without attracting much notice. Then he struck Broadway gold with "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder."
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