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She worked in plays written by Noël Coward, Wendy Wasserstein, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and Jon Robin Baitz.
The British stage veteran acted for Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She returned to acting after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in 2000.
'Water for Elephants,' 'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Death Becomes Her' are on the 2026-27 Nederlander schedule as well.
The petite actress and dancer collaborated often with Jerome Robbins, coached Sally Field and John Malkovich and consulted on films including 'The Last of the Mohicans.'
A veteran of soap operas and regional theater, he never got to step in for the star on Broadway. "If I ever tried to take his place, they would eat me for lunch!"
The theater veteran also starred for Neil Simon in 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Broadway Bound' and earned raves for 'Morning's at Seven' and 'Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You.'
Calling his autobiographical play "a mission," the 'Band's Visit' actor hopes audiences will see themselves in it.
His Broadway credits included 'Hurlyburly,' 'The Iceman Cometh,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Goodbye Girl,' 'Otherwise Engaged' and 'Heartbreak House.'
The production, created specifically for grand opera houses, has its West Coast premiere Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: "Restoring the original scale and glory to certain p…
He wrote musicals about the pioneering filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and worked for The STAGE Network, Audible Inc. and Black Broadway Men United.
The 'Lion King' and 'Black Panther' actor wrote two searing protest plays about apartheid in the 1970s with his inspirational friend, who died this month.
He guided productions of 'Love Letters' and 'Sylvia' and ran the defunct Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills with his late wife, Tony winner Joan Stein.Â
Adrian Bailey, the singer, actor and dancer whose long career in Broadway musicals ended when he fell through a trap door and suffered serious injuries before a production of The Little Merm…
Adam Epstein, who won a Tony Award for producing Hairspray before he was 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible and adaptations of The Wedding…
Rochelle Oliver, who starred on Broadway in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and taught acting at New York's respected HB Studio since t…
Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of famed actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell, has died…
Mitch Douglas, a literary agent represented the likes of Tennessee Williams, Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, Lanford Wilson and Howard Koch, has died. Douglas died Nov. 5 of metastatic brain c…
He produced such risky efforts as 'Annie' and 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and his Nederlander Organization owns several Broadway theaters as well as the Pantages in Hollywood.read more
He served as an artistic member of New York's Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit and directed many plays at the Taper in L.A.read more
Lin-Manuel Miranda's red-hot musical will debut at the Pantages Theatre in August 2017.read more
Also a dancer, the Broadway veteran appeared in the original 'Funny Girl,' 'The Wiz' and 'Ain't Misbehavin'.'read more
A veteran of the London and Broadway stage, he abruptly left 'The Visit' in late May. The actor also was known for playing stuffy Englishman Robin Colcord on 'Cheers.'read more
Lesser's first love was the stage, and he appeared to critical acclaim in the past few years at Los Angeles' A Noise Within, one of the nation's leading classical repertory theater companies…
The veteran character actor with a flair for German-type accents also starred as the Nazi playwright in "The Producers."
Peggy Rea, a veteran TV actress who played Brett Butler's mother-in-law on the ABC sitcom Grace Under Fire, died Feb. 5 of congestive heart failure at her home in Toluca Lake, Calif. She was…
