Ulu Grosbard, a Tony-nominated director who was equally accomplished in theater and film, passed away in Manhattan some time around March 19. He was 83 years old.

Grosbard was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1929. He was named Israel, but was nicknamed Ulu by his older brother Jack. When World War II consumed Europe, Ulu and his family fled to ...

Oscar and Grammy Award-winning composer Robert Sherman passed away on March 5 in London at the age of 86. His death was announced by his son Jeff via Facebook. 

Along with his brother Richard, Robert Sherman wrote some of Disney’s best known songs such as “It’s a Small World (After All)” as well as music for the films ...

David “Davy” Jones, who went from Tony-nominated teen actor to pop icon as a member of the Monkees, died in his sleep of a heart attack on February 29 in Stuart, Florida. He was 66 and lived in Stuart and Beavertown, PA.

Born in Manchester, England, on December 30, 1945, Jones began acting as a teenager in the TV soap ...

Dick Anthony Williams, who earned Tony nominations for his roles in Black Picture Show and What the Wine-Sellers Buy, died February 16 in Los Angeles. He was 77 years-old.

Born in Chicago on August 9, 1934, Williams had polio as a child and took up acting in college. He made his Broadway debut in Ain’t Supposed to Die a ...

Howard Kissel, who served as chief theater critic for the New York Daily News for 20 years, died on February 24 at his home in Manhattan. The 69-year-old writer had been suffering from complications from an April 2010 liver transplant. Broadway theaters will dim their lights in his honor for one minute on February 28 at 7PM. 

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Theodore Mann, co-founder and Artistic Director of Circle in the Square, passed away on February 24. He was 87 years old. Broadway theaters will dim their lights on at 8PM on February 24 in his honor for one minute.

Mann has produced and/or directed more than 250 productions including Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra, The ...

Influential actor of the stage and screen Ben Gazzara, a veteran of the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway and more than 55 films, passed away from pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan on February 3, according to The New York Times. He was 81 years old.

Gazzara was born on August 28, 1930 ...

Actress and operatic soprano Patricia Neway, who won a Tony Award for creating the role of Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music on Broadway, died of natural causes in Corinth, Vermont on January 24. She was 92 years old.

Born in Brooklyn in 1919, Neway earned a degree in mathematics from Staten Island’s Notre Dame College before going ...

Two-time Tony-nominated designer Eiko Ishioka, who recently served as costume designer for Broadway’s Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark and the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony, passed away from pancreatic cancer on January 26, according to The New York Times. She was 73 years old.

Ishioka was born on July 12, 1938 in Tokyo. She attended the Tokyo National University, graduating ...

Revered British actor and two-time Tony nominee Nicol Williamson passed away from esophageal cancer on December 16 in Amsterdam. He was 75 years old.

Born in 1936 in Hamilton, Scotland, Williamson was considered by some critics to be among the finest actors of his generation in the late 1960s and '70s, along with contemporaries like Albert Finney and Richard Burton ...