16 stories by "Penelope Green"
An experimental theater veteran, he collected the ephemera of his friends and colleagues. As they began to die, he made shrines honoring them.
A playwright and screenwriter, she adapted a book about domestic abuse for NBC, bringing a taboo subject into the national conversation.
She was an aspiring actor when she was cast in an Andy Warhol film called "Tub Girls." But she was best known for the beloved Off Center Theater.
She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
He appeared memorably in "American Buffalo" and in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross," but gave up a career on Broadway for one in Chicago.
In New York and later in Los Angeles, he challenged notions of what dance is and isn't with choreography built around stripped-down movement.
Of South Asian descent, he was discriminated against as "colored" in South Africa, but he flourished in London as a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
He played a prankster and adoring father in "Toni Erdmann," the Oscar-nominated 2016 comedy that made him an international star, but he had long been a celebrity at home.
He got his start at Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. His first of many, many plays, performed there in 1964, is a milestone of gay theater.
Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street " which helped inspire the musical "Wonderful Town" " is being demolished.
Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street " which helped inspire the musical "Wonderful Town" " is being demolished.
Inspired by double Dutch jump rope moves she saw growing up in Brooklyn, she developed an influential dance technique based on archetypes found in African art.
Mr. York, a former child prodigy who was raised on jazz and choral music, wrote scores that matched Mr. Taylor's eclectic choreography.
In 1941 she studied at George Balanchine's fledgling dance academy. She was not destined to be a ballerina, but she dedicated her life to Balanchine's legacy.
As a founder of the venerable Manhattan company Repertorio Español, Mr. Buch reimagined works both classic and contemporary.
Embedding the audience in a living room was crucial to the play "Elective Affinities," but finding one was a challenge.
