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As a press agent, he had his first big hit with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” In dog competitions, his first big hit was a dachshund named Virginia.
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She ran the famous New York comedy club with her husband for years as they launched the careers of many comic stars.
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A litigator for 44 years, he was also a novelist; a writer, director and producer of plays and films; and helped establish the independent publishing house Soho Press.
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She was a familiar, sometimes meddling, presence on a hit ’90s sitcom about a pair of newlyweds. Earlier she won acclaim as Wallis Simpson, who inspired a king to abdicate.
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As a spirited impresario of public relations, he promoted entertainers, films and the “I Love New York” tourism campaign.
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He more or less stumbled into a career as an actor, but it proved to be a long and prolific one, on film, on television and especially on the stage.
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Curious about creativity, she chronicled the lives of Agnes de Mille, Jacqueline du Pré, Samuel Goldwyn and Stan Kenton.
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As chairman of New York’s preservation commission, he also oversaw the preservation of St. Bartholomew’s Church, the Coney Island Cyclone and Ladies’ Mile.
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He was chairman of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a benefactor of St. Ann’s Warehouse. He and his wife also helped create a center for women’s history.
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A struggling performer herself, she began publishing The Players’ Guide, a compendium of names, photographs, credits and phone numbers, in 1944.
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She married the composer Frank Loesser and stopped performing after starring in his “Most Happy Fella.” Resuming her career after he died, she emphasized his music.
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With little formal training, he made his debut on Broadway when he was 19 and became a prolific presence on TV and in concert halls around the world.
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As a tormented young gay man aspiring to be a Broadway dancer, he delivered a wrenching monologue. But his career soon took a downturn.
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A third-generation real estate owner and manager, he was instrumental in a public-private partnership in Queens that spurred filmmaking in New York.
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A coal miner’s son, he had a long theater, film and TV career, but he was best known as the rebellious antihero in John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger.”
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Ms. Sawyer performed in vaudeville and acted on stages and screens for more than eight decades. “Just keep me workin’,” she said.
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Mr. Martin developed a knack for discovering new talent and for redeeming scripts that fellow producers had rejected as potential flops.
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Ms. Lyng not only inspired the show and starred in its original cast; she also invested her comic talent and meager financial resources in it.
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Mr. Hoffman began his career as a book editor and also wrote the groundbreaking libretto for John Corigliano’s opera “The Ghosts of Versailles.”
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Mr. Ninagawa fused Kabuki with Western realism to mount original versions of Greek and Shakespearean tragedies in Japan, Europe and the United States.
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Ms. Kauders was about 60 when she resolutely began auditioning for the career she had coveted since second grade.
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A Canadian who originated the Broadway role of Abigail in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” she also starred in stage and film versions of Tennessee Williams plays.
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Mr. Anderson performed on radio as a teenager with Orson Welles’s Mercury Theater and appeared on Broadway, in films and on television.
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The history of a dramatic phenomenon that acculturated immigrant Jews and propelled some to national fame.
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Attending “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,” a writer is surprised to learn that his account of World War II spying helped inspire the play.
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Mr. Margulies, a versatile character actor, performed in scores of supporting stage, film and television roles.
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Ms. Elliott won a Tony for best featured actress in a musical (and a Drama Desk Award) in 1973 for playing a Swedish countess in the original production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little N…
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Father Curry, who was born without a right forearm, embraced stagecraft as his vehicle to overcome what others viewed as a handicap.
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Mr. Prideaux wrote television movies that starred Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor and a play for which Julie Harris won a Tony for best actress.
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Mr. Becker, a culturally minded businessman, acquired Janus Films in 1965 with a partner, and they vastly expanded its library and broadened its distribution.
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