341 stories by "Neil Genzlinger"
For two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound.
He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, "A Soldier's Story."
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.
Her company, Ballet Hispánico, performed for audiences across the United States and beyond. It also trained countless dancers.
A veteran actor, he was also a founder of Theater for the New City and Theater Three Collaborative, Manhattan groups known for experimental productions.
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.
He collaborated on operas with Jack Beeson and Ned Rorem and published numerous poetry books. Late in life, he was victimized by theft.
He merged Eastern and Western influences in his modern dance works, and his dance center was a cultural anchor in New York's Chinatown.
In projects for the director David Lynch, she brought an eerie, otherworldly style to "Falling" and other songs.
She was an institution at the American Dance Festival, and also made early television dance and exercise programs.
She was a leading advocate of and expert on dance notation, helping to do for choreographed works what a score does for music.
Over a long career, her pictures, whether of famed dance troupes or experimental works, reflected what one admirer called "her love affair with dance."
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.
His reviews for The Chicago Tribune, and his encouragement of the drama crowd, helped make Chicago one of the country's leading theater cities.
Ms. Chen, who founded the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in 1988, died while swimming in Hawaii, where she was vacationing.
His plays tended to parody American institutions. His food writing tended to be full of humor.
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.
He was seen on "Quincy, M.E." and "The Sopranos." He also memorably played John Travolta's father in "Saturday Night Fever."
For decades her performances at the Stratford Festival drew acclaim. She gave her last performance just days before her death.
His songs from "Stop the World," "Willy Wonka," "Goldfinger" and other shows and movies became hits for a range of performers.
He directed works by Sam Shepard, Amiri Baraka and others at La MaMa and similar theaters known for experimentation.
He was a central figure in the experimental theater movement for decades. His best-known work, a trilogy of one-acts, opened in 1966 and ran for more than 630 performances.
A popular comic in the Catskills' heyday as a resort area, he brought borscht belt humor to audiences all over the country, including on Broadway.
His productions, vivid and fanciful, played all over the world, including at Lincoln Center.
Ms. McCauley often put race at the center of plays and other works that sought to alter perspectives and foster dialogue.
