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He was an unknown playwright in his 20s when his comic drama about a priest and a seminarian drew raves off and on Broadway. It was turned into a movie.
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He was a favorite of Luis Buñuel and other top filmmakers. He also had a fruitful collaboration with the stage director Peter Brook.
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His collaborations with Michael Bennett included “A Chorus Line.” He later worked on “Miss Saigon” and other hits.
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Mr. Horovitz found success Off Broadway, working with actors who later became household names. But his career was tarnished when women came forward to describe a pattern of sexual misconduct…
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The theater she founded, the 13th Street Repertory Company, has been an eclectic presence on the New York scene for almost half a century.
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The actor appeared in numerous productions of Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle plays, including four on Broadway.
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He was involved with the Brooklyn Philharmonic for many years and performed both on Broadway and off. He died of the novel coronavirus.
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A versatile writer and actor as well as a director, he was also Littlechap in a film version of “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.”
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His 1966 feature, “Closely Watched Trains,” won an Academy Award and was part of a burst of creativity in Czech filmmaking.
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His experimental works, staged by the Playhouse of the Ridiculous and other groups, challenged audiences and sometimes baffled them.
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She specialized in supporting roles, including an attention-getting recurring character in “The Big C.”
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She performed some of the most powerful songs in that show, which ran for more than four years in Greenwich Village and became a theater staple.
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Her methods went beyond mere diction and emphasized getting the whole body (and inner self) involved in speaking the words.
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He built a luxury catalog business, then sold it and used the proceeds to mount the Tony-winning hit musical “Crazy for You.”
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He took part in the storied San Francisco reading where Allen Ginsberg unveiled a version of “Howl.” He went on to have his own moments of fame and notoriety.
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The musical about the founding fathers, his Broadway directorial debut, scored three Tonys. He was also a mainstay of the Williamstown Theater Festival.
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She burst onto the scene with an Oscar-nominated performance in the 1960 film “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” and went on to a long career in film, on television and on the stage.
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At the American Place Theater, he championed new works. In his acting classes, he nurtured countless future stars. His death was related to the coronavirus.
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Among his credits were Broadway shows, operas and the original production of “Hair.” He also influenced numerous actors’ careers as an educator.
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Though known from his TV role, he did much of his work on the stage, starting as an original Acting Company member.
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Mr. McNally, who died of coronavirus complications, introduced audiences to characters and situations that most mainstream theater had previously shunted into comic asides.
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A scholar and historian, he amassed an invaluable trove of interviews and other material with his wife, the filmmaker Camille Billops.
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He provided the administrative know-how that got the theater troupe off the ground in 1967. That he was white drew some criticism.
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Her signature performances included the title role in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Maria Callas in “Master Class.”
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In a wide-ranging career, he was also the voice of Mark Twain for a Ken Burns film and of an “Outer Limits” reboot.
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