Joseph Hayes, Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Dead at 88
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Playbill - Joseph Hayes, a playwright, novelist and producer who won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Play, for his suspenseful melodrama The Desperate Hours, died Sept. 11 in St. Augustine, FL, according to The New York Times.
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Thommie Walsh, a Tony-winning choreographer who was in the original Broadway cast of "A Chorus Line," has died after a long battle with lymphoma. He was 57.
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The Irish singer and entertainer Joe Dolan, 64, dies from a suspected brain haemorrhage.
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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning  Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's  most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the  age of 89, a publicist said.
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Arthur Miller, author of several award-winning plays such as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View From the Bridge, died earlier this week due to pneumonia, cancer and heart problems. He was 89. Miller's plays have been stud...
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Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of American theater who wrote "Death of a Salesman" and was revered for works that spoke for the common man, has died. He was 89.
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Five newly discovered short plays by Tennessee Williams are shedding light on the troubled life of one of America's greatest playwrights more than 20 years after he died in a hotel room surrounded by wine bottles and pills.
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Arts & entertainment: The National Theatre's new star director, Marianne Elliott, is staging Shaw's Saint Joan. But can an 80-year-old play about a medieval warrior still speak to us, asks Lyn Gardner.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Broadway said goodbye to  the late, great Betty Comden last week in a touching way:  Everyone present let the words of the wise and witty Betty, who  died in November at 89, and her longtime writing partner Adolph  Green do all the speaking.
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Playbill - The playwright Edward Albee, actress Marian Seldes and Buddhist scholar  Robert Thurman will be among the speakers to pay tribute to the late theatre  director Lawrence Sacharow at a memorial service Sept. 14 at 3:30 PM at Fordham University's Pope Auditorium.
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Fred Ebb, the lyricist who wrote Chicago and the classic song New York, New York, dies of a heart attack.
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Arts & entertainment: Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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Janet Leigh, most notable in her role in Alfred Hitchcockâs classic horror film, âPsychoâ, died Sunday afternoon in her Beverly Hills home.
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Playbill - Jerome Chodorov, the playwright whose My Sister Eileen inspired the musical Wonderful Town, died of natural causes Sept. 12 at the age of 93.
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Novelist and gay rights activist  Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured  one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave  Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends  said on Monday.
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Playwright Neil Simon, author of  Broadway fare ranging from "Barefoot in the Park" to "Brighton  Beach Memoirs," will receive this year's Kennedy Center Mark  Twain Prize as a uniquely American humorist.