Broadway Lights to Dim in Memory of Elizabeth Taylor

The lights of Broadway’s theaters will dim for exactly one minute at 8PM on March 25 in honor of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died on March 23 at the age of 79.

In her 70-year career, Taylor starred in more than 50 films, including Giant and Cleopatra, as well as the film versions of Tennessee Williams’ plays Suddenly Last Summer and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She won Oscars for her roles in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8. Taylor made her Broadway debut as Regina Giddens in a 1981 revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, for which she earned a Best Actress Tony Award nomination. Taylor's other Broadway credits include Private Lives (opposite ex-husband Richard Burton) and The Corn Is Green.

"With her remarkable talent and extraordinary beauty, Elizabeth Taylor lit up the Broadway stage the same way she lit up the silver screen,” Paul Libin, Chairman of the Broadway League and Executive Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters, said in a statement. “Off stage, her tireless commitment to fighting AIDS as a co-founder of amfAR and founder of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation added yet another meaningful role to the story of her life. Our thoughts go out to her friends, family, and fans...all of those who loved her."

The two-time Oscar-winner is survived by four children and 10 grandchildren.