Zakes Mokae, a South African actor who specialized in the anti-apartheid plays of Athol Fugard, died on September 11 in Las Vegas from complications after a stroke. According to The New York Times, Mokae had also been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. He was 75 and lived in Las Vegas and Cape Town.

Mokae won a featured ...

Patrick Swayze, who got his start on Broadway and went on to headline iconic Hollywood movies like Dirty Dancing and Ghost died on September 14 after a public battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," Swayze’s ...

Tony-winning writer Larry Gelbart died of cancer on September 11, 2009 at the age of 81. He is best known for creating the legendary TV sitcom M*A*S*H and for his Tony-winning contributions to the musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and City of Angels.

Gelbart got his start as a comedy writer ...

Longtime Variety columnist and entertainment writer Army Archerd died after a long battle with mesothelioma on September 8, 2009. He was 87.

"[Archerd] was known for being fair, quoting people accurately and being generally upbeat—which, in the latter part of the 20th century, became increasingly rare for an entertainment reporter," Variety editor Timothy Gray said in the periodical's ...

Budd Schulberg, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront and author of the novel and musical book for What Makes Sammy Run?, died on August 5 of natural causes at his home in Westhampton Beach, NY. He was 95.

As a writer, Schulberg excelled in almost every medium: plays, novels, short stories, screenplays and nonfiction. The onetime Communist Party member ...

Broadway and film veteran Harve Presnell died on June 30 at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA. He was 75 and reportedly suffered from pancreatic cancer.

Born on September 14, 1933, in Modesto, California, George Harvey Presnell entered the University of Southern California on a sports scholarship but switched to music when the department head heard his ...

Actor T. Scott Cunningham, a founding member of Drama Dept. and The Vineyard Community of Artists, died on June 20 at NYU Medical Center in New York City, according to the Vineyard’s spokesperson Sam Rudy. The cause of death was complications due to pneumonia and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Cunningham was 47 years old.

An off-Broadway stalwart with an ...