48 stories by "Margalit Fox"
An English actor whose regal bearing and imposing voice gave life to Shakespearean kings, Mr. Howard was a mainstay of the Royal Shakespeare Company for decades.
Mr. Brown wrote industrial musicals for American corporations, which were meant to rally employees, and used some of his earnings to support Harper Lee while she wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird…
Mr. Baraka's work was widely anthologized, and he was also long famous as a political firebrand, with critical opinion divided in every arena.
Mr. Bruckner, who was a longtime editor for The New York Times Book Review, landed on Nixon's enemies list over his syndicated columns for The Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Mrozek's plays were periodically banned in Poland for ridiculing the postwar Eastern bloc's political and social climate. He had plays produced in cities worldwide, including New York.&n…
Mr. Springer went from owning a laundromat to producing nearly a dozen shows on Broadway.
Ms. Stuart had a recurring role on the soap opera "The Edge of Night" and starred in two nonfiction books by the writer Helene Hanff.
Ms. Rame often collaborated with her husband, the playwright Dario Fo, and it was difficult to tease out who had written what.
Ms. Carroll, an Irish actress known for her stage, film and television appearances in the United States, was a founder of the Irish Players repertory company in New York. &n…
Mr. Mattox, known for his "catlike agility" in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," was also a pioneer of the art of jazz dancing.
Mr. Adler co-wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway hits "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees."
Ms. Neway, who won a Tony for "The Sound of Music," was also heroine of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "The Consul."
Eiko Ishioka, a designer who brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film and theater, album covers, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy and a string…
Ms. Ishioka, who won a 1992 Academy Award in costume design for "Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,'" came to be known as one of Japan's, then the world's, foremost art directors.
Price Berkley, the founder, editor and longtime publisher of Theatrical Index, the weekly trade publication that for nearly half a century has been consulted by anyone wanting to produce, fi…
Mr. Wood was a Tony Award-winning British stage actor known for his agile interpretations of playwrights from Shakespeare to Stoppard.
Mr. Aldredge was seen in everything from Sondheim to "The Sopranos" in his five decades of acting on the stage and screen.
Mr. Roselli, a crooner from Hoboken, N.J., who was often overshadowed by Frank Sinatra, sang standards to adoring crowds for decades.
Ms. Fellows worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields and Gene Autry.
Mr. Tozzi spent two decades with the Metropolitan Opera and also appeared on film, television and Broadway.
Mr. Lessac's method, which he taught up to age 101, combined voice and movement in an almost spiritual mix.
Mr. Wilson's work " earthy, realist, greatly admired, widely performed " centered on the sheer ordinariness of marginality.
Ms. York was an Academy Award-nominated actress known for her portrayals of exquisite, often fragile young women in British and American films of the 1960s and '70s.
