Broadway lyricist Betty Comden dies
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Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical "On the Town," as well as "Singin' in the Rain," considered by many to be the best movie musical ever made, has died. She was 89.
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Phyllis Cerf Wagner, a writer and actress who later published books by Dr Seuss, has died aged 90.
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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LOS ANGELES : Actor Howard Keel, a baritone who brought popular Broadway musicals to the silver screen in the 1950s and later starred in the television drama &quot;Dallas&quot; in the 1980s, died Sunday of colon cancer, US media reported.
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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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Actress Betty Hutton, who found fame in the Hollywood musical Annie Get Your Gun, dies aged 86.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for 11 musicals including "Chicago" and "Cabaret," died Saturday at his home due to a heart attack.  He also wrote the lyrics for the standard "New York, New York" in 1977, later recorded by Frank Sinatra. E...
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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Sad news arrived over the  weekend: the death on Saturday of Donfeld, one of Hollywood's  best costume designers of the recent past and one of the  industry's best friends as well.
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Famed American composer Elmer Bernstein passed away at his home in Ojai, Calif on Aug. 18, 2004, his publicist said on Thursday. The family said Mr.
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That cynical lyric from the 1968 musical Zorba sums up one side of the world view of its author, Fred Ebb, who died of a heart attack at his New York home on Saturday.
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Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical "On the Town," as well as "Singin' in the Rain," has died. She was 89.
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Award-winning US choreographer Michael Kidd, best known for his work on Broadway musicals, dies.
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Washington, Nov. 8 (NNN): Star of American musicals on stage and screen and later in hit 80s TV series Dallas, Howard Keel, has died of colon cancer aged 85.
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Teresa Brewer, one of the most popular US singers of the 1950s, dies at her home in New York.
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Writer and activist Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s greatest public intellectuals, died Tuesday in Manhattan at the age of 71. Her grave and glamorous appearance made her a popular icon of the writer as a nation&#39;s